Although Bob Rogers has retired from academic life as a university lecturer specialising in three-dimensional artwork, he continues to sculpt at his home in Falmouth, and his small figures attract a great deal of attention and admiration.
Tanya Rogers is a Cornwall based mixed media artist who creates beautiful and unusual landscapes through a process of felting and stitching.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
One of the Birmingham Art Circle revealed due to the recent research of Roger Langley to extend our knowledge of the artists who without doubt came to Cornwall to paint en plein air, but did not (to our present knowledge) actually exhibit their work in Cornwall. It therefore takes study of the exhibition lists and catalogues in places far afield to discover some of the works related to us.
Rollason was born in Birmingham, the son of Mark Rollason, brassfounder, and his wife Eleanor. He was a painter of rural scenery and storytelling pictures who exhibited Cornish-related work at the RBS and in the Art Circle exhibitions in some quantity. He did not come to Cornwall initially until about 1889 but continued to show Cornish subjects until 1898, probably indicating that he made a number of visits. In all Langley has identified 31 titles that were exhibited, though no illustrations have yet been traced.
By 1901 he appears to have moved to Cornwall to work as an art master in Truro. He and his wife Frances Alice, had one daughter, and lived in the Kenwyn area.
Born in Clapham, Surrey, the artist was educated first at Westminster School, before studying art and illustration at the Lambeth Art School. Later he was to attend Julian's Academy in Paris (1888-90) and to meet there other artists who also arrived in Cornwall around 1890. Walter JEVONS and Lamorna BIRCH were two of these.
Tovey mentions Roller as one of the pioneers of St Ives Art (1889-1914) but it is not clear how long he remained in St Ives, after he became a founding member of the St Ives Arts Club. His sending in and working addresses throughout his life were in London and Tadley, Berkshire. He married first in 1887 to Mary Margaret Halliday with whom he had two children, and secondly, after May's death in 1908, to Emily Kirk Craig.
A long-time friend of John Singer Sargent, he and his family were painted by the American artist (see jss gallery on-line for a portrait of Roller). A number of St Ives artists were part of Sargent's travelling circle, and met up from time to time as they moved around the colonies in England and abroad.
Roller was associated with the Burberry Company for more than 30 years, both as a friend of the family and as the primary illustrator of their sports attire and equipment. His work was featured in many national magazines, wherever Burberry advertised. He and Thomas Burberry had become acquainted through their mutual interest in horses, and both equestrian and sports settings were to feature largely in his painting. He also restored paintings for the RA at Burlington House, and for other museums in UK and abroad.
His military career gave him both prominence and many leadership roles. He fought in both the Boer War in South Africa, and in WWI in London and in France. He was a governor of several London hospitals, and until his death from 1928, an Honorary Life Governor of the Royal Berkshire Hospital. In later life he continued to restore paintings, and he died while visiting in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
A distinguished painter of portraits, who painted a distinguished Cornishman among many others, in the person of George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth (1758-1808) in 1784. The portrait is in the collection of the Falmouth Art Gallery.
Janine Rook trained in Fine Art at St Martins and the Slade Schools of Art, London. In 2011 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Her work employs found materials and images alongside drawing and photography.
Bryan Rooksby was born in Hendon, London, the son of bank worker, Harry P Rooksby and his wife Dorothy Pugh. During WWII he was evacuated to the Redruth-Camborne district, and afterwards, returning to London, he studied at the Willesden School of Art (c1948-52).
From the late 1950s to the early 1970s he worked as a commercial artist for several studios in the City of London, including such as Blue Circle. He developed an interest in photography and published some of his own in magazines such as Amateur Photographer and Photo News Weekly. He was a runner-up in several photographer-of-the-year competitions.
In 1972 he and his wife, Dallas, set up the Bryandal Guest House in Ocean View Terrace, in St Ives, with the idea of starting a new life. As a side-line he worked as a signwriter in Penwith and his painting receded to the status of experimental and spare time hobby, which he did not exhibit to the public. The guest house closed in 1976 and sold in 1977 with all contents, perhaps including a number of his pictures which may have been bought by local people. He left Cornwall in the late 1970s and died in Southend, Essex in 2017.
His eldest son Rikky Rooksby (1958-) is a published author and composer, some of whose music is inspired by Cornwall and Cornish art. In 2010 his orchestral piece, 'Scenes from the Life of Sir Humphry Davy' was performed in Penzance to mark the centenary of the Humphry Davy School.
John Rooney lives on the Roseland peninsula. He uses driftwood to create sculptures and pictures which are sometimes painted and sometimes left plain. He has exhibited at the Veryan Galleries.
NAG exhibitor from 1904-1912; from 1910-17 the artist's sending-in address was in Topsham, Devon.
Rachel Rose is a west Cornwall-based ceramicist. After obtaining a Foundation Diploma from Falmouth College of Art, she gained a BA (Hons) in Art & Design Practice at Plymouth University in 2022.
Based in Porthleven, Eleanor Rose graduated from Falmouth University with an MA in Illustration. Her work is inspired by Buddhist mandala designs and Indian Mehndi patterns.
Vernon Rose now lives in Suffolk, but did live for a time in St Ives (1960s). In 2009 he returned to show at the Market House Gallery in Marazion, in a four-man show, 'Sons of Guns' with one of his old friends, Tony 'Doc' SHIELS.
Born in Edinburgh, she studied at Heatherley's and in Penzance, Cornwall in the mid-1920s, possibly with FORBES. Initially her address was given as Maen Cottage, Newlyn, but by 1931 she had moved to Paul. She exhibited at Lanham's as early as 1928 and Arthur HAYWARD's Shore Studio in the early 1930s.
A portrait of the artist by Midge BRUFORD was exhibited at SWA in 1928.
Recorded in the 1901 Census as a 32 year old Artist (Painter) from Bath, Somerset, lodging at The Terrace, St Ives. Recording her association with the St Ives painters, the artist exhibited one painting, Cornish Sea, at the Whitechapel Exhibition of 1902.
Her obituary (1912) appeared in the St Ives Times : 'Not only the St Ives art colony, but many other friends of Miss Gertrude M Rosenburg, will regret to hear of the death of this lady, which occurred at Oudon, Loire Interieure, France, quite recently. Deceased had been suffering from meningitis, and was only ill a very short time.'
Born in Denmark, he was the son of the Danish minister to Italy and trained in art at Academie Julian, Paris. After 1896 in USA working for Tiffany, he moved to London.
Associated with St Ives (signed Rosenkrantz at Arts Club).
The cousin of Francis John ROSKRUGE, born in St Keverne near Helston, the third child of James and Annie E Roskruge. Her father died in her early years, and her widowed mother brought up the family by working as the sub-postmistress locally in St Keverne. Her first exhibition in 1900 was with the RCPS (Falmouth). She sold three paintings at NAG in 1906. At the time of her one RA success in 1910 she was living at Yelverton, South Devon.
Exhibited two paintings entitled Wall Flowers, and A Bluebell Wood at NAG Winter Exhibition of 1911. She also exhibited in the craft section of the 1926 Christmas Show at NAG (no detail). Upon STISA's formation she was an associate only, becoming a full member in 1931. In the late 1930s Ethel was highly regarded as a miniaturist, working alongside Mabel Maud DOUGLAS and Blanche Hamilton POWELL, and she produced a number of tiny books which she illustrated.
An Engineer Captain in the Royal Navy, he was born at St Keverne, Cornwall and educated in Truro. He served in South Africa during the Boer War and East Africa in the First World War (awarded DSO). He moved to St Ives on his retirement from the Navy in 1922.
He exhibited from Borlase SMART's studio in the Show Day 1924, and was complimented for his 'bitten lines and aqua-tints' in some quantity, including ones of Saltash, Lelant, Selina's Cottage (down Skidden Hill) and A Devon Coombe.
Roskruge exhibited in the NAG Christmas Show of 1926. He was a founder member of STISA and served on the Committee for its first thirteen years. He made a valuable contribution to the 'black and white' section of the society. In the Track of the Moon was considered to be one of his best prints.
However he is perhaps best known for his map of the studios around the town that he prepared for the Show Day brochure each year. Tovey (2003) reprints the 1929 version of Map of Studios (p14) and employs it again in his 2009 social history of the town. Roskruge also illustrated Greville Matheson's book of poetry about St Ives, Crooked Streets.
Not only a keen member of STIAC, he was a good actor and a well-respected playwright. He ceased exhibiting after resigning as STISA Treasurer in 1940, but remained a member until his death. He lived at Bosvean, St Ives and had a studio at his home.
Sara Ross began her creative career in the film and theatre industry in London, working as a sculptor, painter and prosthetic artist. She now lives and works in Cornwall.
She runs summer courses in sculpture from her studio in St Ives, and has led workshops at Truro Arts Company (2018).
He joined Crysede in 1926 to become the assistant chemist to John Sherlock, concerned with the technical issues of dyes. He provided the information on Crysede Fabrics and Printing Techniques (pp51-54) to the Arts and Crafts in Newlyn 1890-1930 Exhibition Catalogue in May 1986.
From the largely urban and metropolitan environment of London, Ross attended art college in Hull, Yorkshire, before coming to live in Cornwall. This, in his words, was a challenge, and at least partly met by settling in the post industrial environs of Camborne-Redruth. Not so over-exploited, the area offers most in the way of urban/rural contrast than some of the more picturesque parts of the county, and given him access to new subject matter. [2000 Exh cat, Falmouth AG]
This may be the Stuart ROSS recorded in the previous entry. We would be grateful for clarification.
Rothko visited West Cornwall in the summer of 1958. There is a photograph of a tea party in the garden of the artist Paul FEILER. Others attending were Peter LANYON, and Terry FROST (wrongly ascribed as Feiler himself, who was in fact the photographer). The photo appears in section A (black & white photos) of 100 Years in Newlyn, Diary of a Gallery (Hardie 1995).
The artist came to Cornwall from Brittany, and exhibits his work from Trevelloe Cottages, Lamorna. He takes a graphic approach to sculpture and includes letter cutting and stone carving techniques to create pieces suitable for garden, usually depicting animals, poetry and symbols in stonework.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Helen Round lives in Millbrook in southeast Cornwall and exhibits with Drawn to the Valley.