Trudy Montgomery was born in Bristol and lived in California for 14 years before returning to the UK in 2012. In 2016 she settled in west Penwith and completed the One Year Mentoring Course at Newlyn School of Art. She has a BA (Hons) degree in Economics from Exeter University and studied art while in California.
She has participated in artist residencies in India and Australia. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK, as well as Germany, Dubai, Canada and the USA, and has been included in private and corporate collections such as Hard Rock, Laing O'Rourke and Nordstroms.
Her tendency towards pure, bold colour on an immersive scale is influenced by the light and space of both the Californian and Cornish coasts, and the artist's own spiritual landscapes.
The 1891 Census lists him as a Photographer, born at Aston Upon Trent, Derbyshire and living in Market Jew street, Penzance. John Moody Jr was born in 1824, the son of John and Mary Moody. The family had moved to Taunton Somerset where three of John Jr's siblings were born before John Sr died in 1835. Mary and her children moved within Taunton to live with a married older sister (1841 Census record). By 1851 John had moved on to Marylebone, Middlesex to work as a cordwainer (boot and shoe maker) where he married in 1852. Sometime after 1861 he moved to Redruth where his brother, the Redruth photographer James Moody was living. John's wife died at Redruth in 1870. It has been assumed previously that John was James' son but they were siblings. By 1871 James Moody had opened a photographic branch at Penzance and installed his brother, John, as the manager. When John became the sole proprietor of the Penzance business is not clear as photographs for both Redruth and Penzance are inscribed J Moody, but John Moody only is entered in Kelly's directory as sole photographer at 27 Market Jew Street in 1883. However brother James Moody died in 1887 and John continued as a photographer in Penzance probably until 1900. The 1901 census describes him as a retired photographer and he had moved from the Market Jew Street premises. He died in 1914 having lived with his daughter, Mary Ann Stewart and her family for the interim years.
Howard Moody is a wood turner and carver who lives and works on the Roseland peninsula. He has been turning wonderful sculptural bowls and vessels for the past twenty years. Whenever possible, he obtains his wood from sustainable sources. He has planted close to a thousand native species and fruit trees in the last ten years. Moody has exhibited at the Veryan Galleries.
Born at the Doone, Athlone, his father was Lord Lieutenant of Athlone. He was educated at Galway Grammar School and Kingsley College, in Devon. Initially he studied modelling at Leeds but became dissatisfied with the limitations of the medium and abandoned it for paint. At Julian's Academy, Paris he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He then went on a painting tour taking in Barcelona, Majorca, Venice and Verona where, according to historian of Irish arts and crafts, Nicola Gordon Bowe, he appears to have come under the influence of the Italian Symbolist painter Giovanni Segantini, before returning to live in London.
After his marriage in 1927 he moved to live at Chalcot Studios, Mount Hawke, Truro, although he retained a London home and he exhibited with STISA at Lanham's that same year. In 1936 he held a solo show at No 6, Piazza Studios, and a joint show with Ruth DAVENPORT the following year. He moved to Newlyn some eight years prior to his death in 1946, though he had exhibited at NAG sporadically since at least 1929, perhaps earlier.
Ellie Moore moved from York to Truro, where she has a studio in a Georgian building. She obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 2017. Her fascination for medicine is expressed in her figurative work.
Born in Birmingham, she studied in Paris, then at the Spenlove School of Modern Art in Beckenham, Kent, and later in St Ives with Sir Alfred EAST and Terrick John WILLIAMS. Became Principal of the Cathcart School of Modern Painting, and lived in Wallington, Surrey.
Born in Honolulu, and studied at the Royal College of Needlework, South Kensington. She moved with her parents to Cornwall c1939, living initially in Penzance, followed by Carbis Bay and eventually Lelant. Her work was of very fine stitching, often with silver and gold threads. Examples are in the Public Library and St Ia Church. Her work was often exhibited alongside painters.
Born in Watford, he was educated at Highgate School and University College, London. He produced etchings, drypoints and aquatints. In 1910 he was living at Winkleigh in North Devon, but shortly before the Great War he had moved to 1 Draycott Terrace, St Ives, working from Beach Studio.
In 1924 he reputedly made a new departure into watercolour, as in addition to his well-known fine drypoint pictures, he showed ten paintings. Congratulated on the success of these, they were scenes chiefly of Cornwall and Devon. He had his own printing press so he could supervise the printing of his works personally. His wife was well known for her embroidery. He appears to have left the area in about 1930, as an exhibition address for that year was Woodchurch, Kent, and in 1935 he was living in Uffculme, Devon.
Born in York on 7 March, 1831 (GRO), and working primarily from London after studying at the RA schools. He had initially studied under his father at the York School of Design.
Stanhope FORBES's letters reveal that he was a visitor to West Cornwall in 1884. Moore was highly acclaimed as a marine artist in the 1880s and 90s for his very large paintings of the open sea, The restless ocean (1892, Brook-Hart) being an example. It was said that he could scarcely tolerate a boat, much less a stretch of shore; his joy was in the sea itself and its atmosphere.
He travelled and exhibited widely, though not as far as records show, in Cornwall. Between 1867 and 1900, he exhibited 15 paintings in the Paris Salons. He was interested in effects of light and weather upon coastal scenes, and his painting Off Dodman Head was included in the 1987 landscape artists' exhibition in 1987 entitled Looking West.
The artist died in Margate on 22 June, 1895 (GRO) just as Newlyn was developing its new Gallery.
After obtaining a Foundation Degree in Art & Design at Central St Martins in 2011, Sophie Moore studied Fashion Atelier at the University of Creative Arts in Farnham (2014). She lives in north Cornwall.
David Moore was born in Staffordshire. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1965, he worked as a designer of industrial ceramics in Stoke-upon-Trent for two years. From 1967 to 1990 he was a teacher of Art and Design. He first visited St Ives in 1963, where he drew images of Porthmeor and the harbour.
Now resident in St Ives, he creates abstract images connected to the idea of landscape.
His work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK, including the Royal Academy.
Seamus Moran worked as a sculptor and mould maker in the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent before settling in Cornwall in 1988. He has exhibited extensively and has won a number of awards for his work. He works in a variety of media and styles and says: 'The common thread throughout what I do is re-invention.'
Margaret Morcom was born in Liskeard of Cornish parents, and was educated at the Headland College, Plymouth and the Plymouth School of Art. She studied music under Walter Weekes, and painting under Wycliffe Egginton RI, Jack Merriott RI and Terry FROST.
She was living at Lux Cross in 1945 when she was exhibiting with the Plymouth Society of Artists. Neither of the paintings that she entered for the second exhibition of work by members of the Society, were for sale. Later she married a farmer, James Paull who farmed 300 acres at Place Barton, St Anthony, in the Portscatho district. She documented the area surrounding her by illustrating the booklet, available on-line entitled Around St Gerrans.
She was a member of a number of societies listed below, and in 1965 won a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon. Her travels to paint have taken her around the British Isles, to Norway and Italy.
Kathryn Morcom was born in Liskeard, Cornwall. Her interest in drawing and painting began at an early age, inspired greatly by the paintings of her Aunt, the late Margaret MORCOM.
From 1971 to 1974 she studied photography at Derby College of Art, a media continuing to influence her painting.
'I am particularly passionate about the Cornish Coastline, including the Isles of Scilly. With its great variation of shapes and colours, there is never a lack of subject inspiration to observe and paint.'
One of four artists from the MA Course in Art and Environment at UCF contributing to the exhibition, 'Sensing Earth, Art and Environment' at Kestle Barton (6-11 September, 2011).
Her website is www.freyamorgan.carbonmade.com
Recently researched in some detail is the landscape painter Charles Morgan, one of the original members of the Birmingham Art Circle, who made frequent visits to Newlyn and West Cornwall. Roger Langley in his latest work on the life and movements of his ancestor Walter LANGLEY, has revealed by a study of the exhibited paintings (in Birmingham) of Cornish subjects, a much fuller picture of the artistic interest taken by the midlanders of our corner of the country.
Morgan was elected President of the Art Circle in 1886 and served until 1893, and was again elected in 1912. His paintings of Cornwall were all exhibited between 1881-1899 in Birmingham, though as yet there is no evidence of exhibiting here in Cornwall.
His wife was the artist Mary Ann Vernon MORGAN, and his brother Walter Jenks MORGAN.
Morgan taught for 40 years at the Birmingham School of Art, and Langley suggests that his teaching career took first place in his life. Nevertheless in the list of representative Newlyn work, that is offered there are 12 paintings listed of subjects related to Cornwall, St Ives, and Newlyn (R Langley, p115). The GRO gives his age as 70 at death.
'Mary Vernon Morgan, the eldest daughter of landscape painter William H Vernon (an Associate of the RBSA) and was born at Handsworth, Birmingham. She married artist Charles MORGAN in 1879. She inherited her father's aptitude, exhibiting regularly at the Society and at the RA over a period lasting 50 years, her favourite subjects being fruit and flower studies.' (Roger Langley (2011) Walter Langley, From Birmingham to Newlyn). Following in her father's footsteps, Mary herself was an Associate member of the RBSA from 1892.
Listed for this artist are four Cornish paintings that were shown by her at the Birmingham Art Circle and the RBSA, as listed below. As far as known she did not exhibit in Cornwall, though two were painted after the opening of the Newlyn Art Gallery which would have been known to her.
Roger Langley has brought the Morgan family of Birmingham into the Cornish Artists' Index with his latest study of the life and work of his grandfather Walter LANGLEY. This is exactly the kind of 'data-building' which helps us greatly to provide the fullest historical picture of artistic life in Cornwall.
Walter Jenks Morgan was the younger brother of Charles MORGAN and was born in Bilston, near Birmingham. He was apprenticed to the Birmingham lithographer Thomas Underwood, and also studied at the School of Art and in classes run by the Society of Artists in Birmingham. From there he won a scholarship to study painting in the RA schools at South Kensington. His achievements as an artist were greater than his brother's, and he was best known for his watercolours and also for magazine and book illustrations.
Langley suggests that it is 'probable that the three Morgans visited Newlyn together in 1881, since both brothers first exhibited West Cornwall works in that year' (at Birmingham). WJM visited Newlyn twice again in 1882 and 1883.
Beverley Morgante Le Levier was born in Coventry. She is half Italian by birth, and her paternal family roots have been traced back to eighteenth-century Florence. Her creative potential was recognised early on, but it was many years before she was able to forge an artistic career for herself. She moved to west Cornwall in 1991, and in 2010 she and her husband settled near St Austell.
As an active member of the Camborne Society from 2002 to 2008 (and Chairman from 2006 to 2007), she was a regular exhibitor in Redruth, Famouth, Hayle, Camborne, Gweek and St Ives. Her work was also shown annually at a charity show held every summer at Cape Cornwall School.
Entirely self-taught, Beverley is fascinated by natural forms and patterns. Her early work was representational, characterised by bold composition and confident use of colour. Her more recent work is abstract. Her natural flair for textiles, interior design and horticulture comes across in vibrant canvases which testify to a rich imagination and adventurous spirit.
Since 2009 Beverley has been a member of Taking Space, a collective of female artists who exhibit annually at the Crypt Gallery in St Ives, as well as at other venues throughout Cornwall. She has shown her work with other groups at locations including the Old Lifeboat House in Porthleven, the Crypt Gallery, the Millennium Rooms in St Mawes, Helston Museum, Redwing Gallery in Penzance, and Falmouth Methodist Church.
One of four artists from the MA Course in Art and Environment at UCF contributing to the exhibition, 'Sensing Earth, Art and Environment' at Kestle Barton (6-11 September, 2011).
Her website is www.lucymorley.co.uk
Robert Morley was born in Bristol. From 1961 to 1963 he was a student at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. A musician as well as an artist, he has worked in west Penwith since 1973. In 1974 he participated in an ITV 'Aquarius' arts programme entitled 'St Ives Alive'.
His work has been exhibited over a long career, not only in Cornwall but also in London and Europe. Further afield, in 2005 Morley participated in a collaborative project (part of Expo 2005) for a ceramic sculpture at Chukyo University in Japan. He has also had work shown in India and Australia.
From 1981 to 1991 Morley was the bass player and a founder member of the Afro-Cornish dub rock band 'Zambula' formed by Titus Mwange Sembatiya who came to Cornwall from Uganda. He played bass for the Clive Palmer Band from 2010 to 2014 (Clive was a founder member in 1966 of the Incredible String Band).
He became part of a group of artists, actors, writers and musicians who took over the ailing West Cornwall Arts Centre in Penzance, re-naming it The Acorn Theatre.
In 1974, Ivan Benbrook (of the British Film Institute) wrote: 'We live in only a small part of reality; there is always so much more than we can perceive with our limited senses. The artist's fantasies can often help us to see a part of that greater reality. Bob's paintings are not just intellectual statements, but pictures of how things might be. They are windows to look through, holes in everyday reality through which we can wander and discover new things about ourselves, our concept of our relationship with the world with which we surround ourselves.'
The Library holds several collections of photographs depicting the life and times of West Cornwall in all fields of endeavour and interest. The largest collection is that of the RICHARDS BROTHERS, containing over 10,000 photographs and negatives. The photographic section is currently open on Thursdays only from 10am-12.30pm. Copies may be requested.
Joe Morris lives in St Columb Major. His abstract, minimal artworks are created using tadelakt, a form of lime plaster from Morocco.