Nina Ducker's porcelain and stoneware ceramics are inspired by nature.
Marian Duckworth Harbord was born in Looe. In 1911 the family were living in Coalbrookedale, Shropshire. At one point in her career, she worked in the Catskill Mountains in the USA.
In 1939 Marian and her mother were living in 'Pounds Cross' just outside Polperro. Three of her artworks were included in the Polperro Art Society's 1939 show. In the same year her portrait of a child 'Joan' was shown at the Royal Academy, and she achieved further success there in 1941 with a portrait, 'Mary'. Her portrait of Herbert Morris was received with considerable acclaim.
In June 1941 she left Cornwall to work in the NAAFI. After her mother's death in 1945 she moved to London.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of the University College Falmouth.
Born at Leamington Spa, the son of a clock maker, Duggins arrived in St Ives 1904 to study under Julius OLSSON and Algernon Mayow TALMAGE. He combined painting with a photography business in the Midlands, and he exhibited from The Grove Studio, Leamington whilst painting intermittently at St Ives and Brixham throughout the 1930s.
He illustrated George Morley's Sweet Arden (1908) and Mary Dormer Harris's Unknown Warwickshire (1924).
A painting of Newquay Harbour is part of the art collection at Newquay Hospital.
Emma Dunbar graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking from West Surrey College of Art & Design in 1984. Since then she has worked fulltime as an artist, exhibiting throughout the UK. She is a regular exhibitor at Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance and Beside the Wave in Falmouth.
Married to the artist John McKirdy DUNCAN, Ann was living in London in 1930 when she had her first success at the RA. Two years later she and her husband had a joint show at the Fine Art Society in which she showed thirty works.
By 1933 they had moved to Mousehole in Cornwall, and it is probable at this juncture that she studied further under Stanhope FORBES (this remained her sending-in address until at least 1937). She was a painter of figures, landscape and still life.
After beginning his career as a copyist and engraver in the Havell studios, London, he set up his own engraving business working mainly on sporting and shipping subjects. Wood notes that most of his later marine works (paintings) were coastal and port subjects, as his knowledge of the sea was not great enough to paint marine subjects. He also painted landscapes and animals.
His titles include a hand-coloured restrike etching of Falmouth.
Wood records this artist as a Scot, who studied in London, Antwerp and Dusseldorf, and exhibited at the RA from 1893. He was the husband of the artist Ann DUNCAN. In 1932 Duncan and his wife had a joint show at the Fine Art Society.
By 1933 they had both moved to Mousehole, Cornwall. In 1937 at NAG he exhibited China Clay Mine, Jericho.
Mary Duncan was born in Bromley, Kent. She studied at both the Slade and in Paris. Before coming to Paul (nr Penzance) in 1925, she had lived in Dublin (1910) and in Bushey, Herts (1922). She exhibited widely and primarily at the RHA where she showed more than 65 works.
She began to exhibit at NAG in December 1925, and continued sporadically to do so. Her final home from 1936 was in Mousehole where she remained until she died. In 1937 at NAG, her offerings were A Calm Day near Land's End and Rocks at Pedn-Men-Dhu.
Celia Duncan followed a career in science for thirty years, owing to family pressure, but returned to painting in the 2000s. She uses acrylics to portray fishing villages and boats in a quirky style.
Mark Dunford was born in Dorset. He studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design from 1980 to 1982, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art until 1987. In 2001 he was elected a member of the London Group. He moved to Cornwall in 2005.
Dunford is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula. His work has also been shown in the Netherlands and in Italy.
Illustrator of Cornish subjects, including Monumental Brasses of Cornwall, which included sixty-two illustrative plates with descriptive, genealogical & heraldic notes (1882). No further information currently available.
Daisy Dunlop is a jeweller who specialises in cast pieces and works from her studio in Hayle. She combines intricate castings with beaten silver sheet to create subtle, contoured pieces of jewellery filled with diffuse light.
Mac Dunlop is a visual artist, writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who lives in Falmouth. In 2007 he founded 'The Poetry Point', a 'writing hub' which encourages regional writers and artists to explore their inspirations and creativity across different media and art forms. He collaborates with Dr Annie Lovejoy on 'Caravanserai', an ongoing arts and literature project on the Roseland peninsula. Dunlop also works under the pen name MacD as a satirist and cartoonist with the lampooning e-zine Politoons.co.uk.
A portrait of Charles Barham, Mayor (1859) by this artist, is in the collection of Truro City Council.
Jill Dunn is a printmaker and part-time Italian teacher living in Penryn. In early 2021 she started printmaking in a full-time capacity under the name 'Riverbird'. She says: 'A lifelong fascination with water, trees and birds lies at the heart of my work.'
George Dunn and his son Horatio were local people who both in turn became general labourers at the Leach Pottery. George, an ex-miner and fisherman, offered his services to Bernard LEACH and Shoji HAMADA as a general helper when they were building the interior of the Pottery. Whybrow comments that he soon found himself sawing 200 tons of wood bought from the Great Western Railway for the kiln. For twenty-eight years he remained at the Pottery, working as needed on shelving, pottery benches and anything else required.
In 1937 for almost another twenty years, Horatio Dunn took over and became the essential assistant. Valerie BOND, is quoted: 'If it had not been for their hard work with the clay, there would have been no pots. Horatio's sense of humour kept us all going on difficult days, and we all owed a great deal to him. He also packed the pots for sending away - a very responsible job.'
Whilst neither of these men were potters themselves, they are included here as part of the teams which created the great tradition of pottery making in West Cornwall.
Sarah Dunstan was born in Helston. She studied at Falmouth School of Art from 1987 to 1989, subsequently gaining a BA (Hons) in 3D Design Ceramics in 1992 from Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. She works from the Gaolyard Studios in St Ives.
Dunstan has undertaken visiting lectureships at Falmouth University and Cornwall College. She has given demonstrations of her work in Denmark and Sweden. In 2008 she was the winner of the Cornwall Crafts Award.
Her work can be seen at Trelowarren, near Helston, and Trelissick Gallery, near Truro, and St Ives Ceramics. She has exhibited further afield in Bath, Wareham and beyond.
Born Charles Durdin Kelly in Plymouth on 16 February, 1850, he came with his mother and sister to Newlyn in 1877 as the tenants of Pembroke Lodge, where he remained until 1882.
Charles Durdin and Henry MARTIN were the only two artists recorded as living in Newlyn at the time of the 1881 Census. Bednar has been unable to locate the registration of C Durdin's death, under either name, in the Indexes of Deaths in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. He is known to have painted a Newlyn title in 1879. By 1892 he listed an address in Tipperary, Ireland for sending-in to the RHA.
Ken is a former Naval Officer and now a well known author and artist living at St Breward, Bodmin, Cornwall with his wife Brenda. His career began in the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman early in World War II and he gained a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shortly after.
Following the war, he spent 5 years demolishing wrecks around the coast of the British Isles before being transferred to the Royal Navy and holding his own command. On retiring from the Navy in 1954 he embarked on a four year cruise in his 14 ton yacht "Thyra"
In 1958 he took up journalism, becoming known for his informative 'Boat Test Reports' in the national newspapers and yachting magazines. A sailor of quite unusual experience, one of his varied exploits was to sail with his wife (1971-2) a 18ft 6in open boat, a Drascombe Lugger named Lugworm from Greece to Cornwall.
His book titles are numerous and illustrated with his own art work. Yet another creative experience occurred In 1978 when he spent 6 months cycling along the length and breadth of Morocco, crossing the Lesser and High Atlas Mountains in midwinter, ending up for two months dug into a sand dune on a lonely part of the African coast, before cycling back to Cornwall via Portugal.
Taking kindly to solitude, Ken and Brenda live in Cornwall high on Bodmin Moor where, to use his own words"... one retains that sense of being at sea even while on land, for here too one lives with the wind and the sky!" he is still remarkably active and productive, almost all of his time spent creating art work for which he holds regular exhibitions.
The friend who alerted the CAI to Ken's artistic endeavors comments: 'The seascapes and skies he creates are a remarkable testament to his intimate understanding of the forces of nature and how nature interacts with the land, sea and sky, in particular to man's presence in nature's realm. He is a truly inspirational artist with a gift to be able to capture the stunning beauty and wildness all nature in all her guises. I have a work specially commissioned for me by my family. It's one of my favourite art works and I look at it every day. It never ceases to amaze me how well the subject matter has been captured as a moment in time that appears timeless.' That is indeed a fine testament to an artist.
We are sad to announce the death of Ken Duxbury, who passed away on 11 August 2016.
Ted Dyer was born in Bristol in 1940. His younger years were spent in Devon and Somerset but he moved to Cornwall with his family in 1972. A landscape painter with a career spanning 60 years, he is described as 'the Cornish Impressionist'. His works are highly collectable. He is represented by the John Dyer Gallery.
Although Garfield Dyer was born at Redruth, Cornwall he grew up and lived at Camborne throughout his life. By profession a hairdresser, he studied art at Camborne and later the Redruth School of Art under the tutelage of Arthur Creed HAMBLY from the 1930s to the 1950s. At Redruth he was a contemporary of Sven BERLIN.
During WWII he sketched in Egypt and Ceylon. Working almost exclusively in watercolour, he produced works of the Camborne and Hayle districts, maintaining a special interest in the mining landscape. In the 1960s he produced some works in oils and acrylics that he sold through the family art shop, W Dyer & Sons in Camborne. Latterly he seldom painted.
He was a nationally-known collector and authority on early English watercolours, and the founder of the Dyer Collection of Early English Watercolours, works by Cornish artists and the works of Joshua CRISTALL.
He published two pamphlets on the life and works of Joshua Cristall, who had served as the President of the Old Water Colour Society (later RWS). The first was awarded the Silver Medal of the RCPS in the Sir Edward Nicholl Prize Essay Competition of 1958. The second pamphlet accompanied an exhibition of the works of Joshua Cristall at Camborne Public Library in 1962.
David Dyer was born at Camborne in 1947. He was the nephew of W G S Dyer and worked in the family art shop in Camborne as a picture restorer and framer. He studied under Malcolm HALLETT and Donald SWAN and his earliest subject matter was still life.
He worked in oils and acrylics and became inspired by the Cornish scenery, particularly the coast and the mining landscape. Much of his early work bore the signature OWENS. In the 1970s and early 80s he had a studio at St Ives but then worked from a studio at his home in Illogan. He published a series of greetings cards and prints based on his work. He died in May 2006 at the young age of 59.