A British-born American painter of landscapes. His mother married an American of the name of Grafton as her second husband, and he adopted the young McCune as his own. Robert grew up in the USA, studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and later in Paris, but at one stage returned to the Britain and assumed his birth-father's name.
He and his wife were in West Cornwall in about 1912, and Mrs Grafton acted as chaperone to the young Ruth ALISON prior to her marriage with Charles Walter SIMPSON. When she was called home due to family illness, another artist (& artist's wife) Gertrude HARVEY took her place as chaperone. Mr and Mrs Grafton were very popular with the Newlyn colony of artists, who upon their leave-taking gave a celebratory dinner (speaker: Alfred James MUNNINGS) and all at the dinner party accompanied them to the Penzance Railway Station. Robert Grafton was a prolific landscape artist, who latterly painted primarily in Illinois, and Louisiana. He painted three large murals (1918) as a part of the Illinois Centennial Celebration.
She exhibited at the RA (1) in 1910 from Fowey, and this remained her sending-in address until at least 1916.
A pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL, no date given. In 2008 one of her paintings, The Lifeboat, was presented to Penlee House, Penzance, by a patron, George Bednar.
Peter Graham is a sculptor based near Liskeard. His subjects range from bird and animal themes to abstract and letter forms.
Val Grainger lives and works on a smallholding near Bodmin. She has 40 years experience of keeping sheep and much of her work is themed around her animals.
A pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL (no date given), and possibly Mrs E Granger-Taylor, RWS as later known.
Kerry Grant moved to St Ives in 2011. In 2022 she joined Taking Space, a group of women artists.
A well-known American artist who visited Polperro in 1940. He was born in San Francisco but completed his education in Scotland, living with his widowed grandmother in Kirkcaldy. After leaving school, he studied art at Heatherley's and at Lambeth Art Schools in London.
His career in journalism took him to New York and subsequently to South Africa, where he covered the Boer War. Returning to the USA, he carried out illustrations alongside his painting practice. An early success as a marine artist was a watercolour of the ship US Constitution, the original of which is owned by the White House.
After World War I, he exhibited his marine paintings at the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society. He was also a highly regarded etcher, winning a number of prizes at the Chicago Society of Etchers.
Grant's painting of Polperro which is dated 1940 was shown at the Allied Artists of America exhibition in 1943 and won the 'Anonymous Member's Prize'.
During his time in Cornwall it is suggested that he may have visited Falmouth and Mousehole.
Jeanni Grant-Nelson is a graduate of the University of Exeter who has worked as a freelance artist and teacher in the UK and Australia. She is based in Cornwall and is artist-in-residence at the Nare Hotel on the Roseland peninsula. Her seascapes, landscapes, portrait and animal commissions can be found in private collections not only in the UK but in Europe, the USA and Australia.
Grant-Nelson is the creator and director of 'Visual Awareness Ltd', an art event company which runs charity events and team-building days with groups of up to 150 students.
Jenna Grassick is the co-owner and creator of Tor Pottery Works in Newquay.
After graduating from Margaret Street Art School in Birmingham, Laura Graven embarked on a career in teaching, which took her to Budapest. She has recently returned to Cornwall. Her work has been shown not only locally, but also in the Cotswolds, Birmingham and Budapest.
Harvey Graver was born in Leeds and studied at Leeds College of Art. Since 1998 he has worked from his studio and art gallery at Elerkey House Hotel at Veryan on the Roseland peninsula.
RCPS Annual Reports: In 1876 there was another first; Cornwall produced its first two ladies in the 'Professional' class of photography.
Miss Emma BLIGH of Fowey with her portraits and Rose, Lady Graves-Sawle of Penrice with her portfolio of Egyptian views were welcomed as medal winners in the annual exhibition.
Liv Gravil is a painter and 'tentative storyteller'. She graduated from Falmouth University in 2020 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, and works from a studio at CAST in Helston.
Miss Gray was born in Newcastle on Tyne, and studied art at York, Leeds and the Royal College of Art. In 1900 her sending-in address was in Oxford. She went on to become Art Mistress at York and Leeds Schools of Art and at the Leeds Training College.
Gray then became a pupil again, working at the FORBES School in 1926 and exhibiting at NAG in the Christmas Show the same year. Her address in 1939 was Leeds.
Gray studied at the studio of Percy Jacomb-Hood and at the Westminster School of Art under Fred Brown before going to Julian's in Paris. A portrait and landscape painter, he later taught art at Bishops Stortford College and was part of the London art scene for many years, knowing Philip Wilson STEER, Gore, Tonks, Connard and MacColl. He came from London to St Ives to stay with fellow portraitist Phil Whiting in 1941, and was made an honorary member of STISA.
Paula Gray works from Pentreath Pottery on the Lizard, where she creates wheel thrown porcelain table ware.
Jules Greaves is a ceramicist based in Callington. His quirky experimental vessels refer to the domestic in a subtly abstracted manner and form.
In 1887 at the September Exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, Green won the Silver Medal First Class for his photographic work.
Based in Christchurch, Dorset, this woodworker and artist exhibited in the Summer Exhibition of 1928 with wood-carvings and inlaid woodwork at NAG. He was known as a designer of furniture in the Arts and Crafts tradition, and a socialist of the William Morris variety. In the following year at NAG (1929) he exhibited carvings in walnut.
He wrote for The New Age, from its beginning. In 1901 he published a volume of poems, and a biography covering his extraordinarily varied life, Life to the Lees by Susan Elkin, was published in 2004 (Christchurch: Natula Publications). Amongst his close friends were other West Cornwall connections, Bertrand RUSSELL, Phil Whiting and other artists.
A correspondent writes: Romney Green's Cornwall contacts include Robin NANCE (2nd from left in the photo of Green and his workmen taken in 1927 and in Susan Elkin's book Life to the Lees). Nance afterwards set up his own furniture business at St Ives.
The artist was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA and died there. For one year in 1889-90 he lived and painted in West Cornwall. During that year he worked on A Newlyn Fish Auction and others that he finished when he returned to Boston in the fall of 1890.
On 16 February 1891 his promoter, J Eastman Chase opened a major show of the paintings Green had completed based on his time in Newlyn. His biographers comment 'The Newlyn experience sharpened all his developing senses and provided a focus for his art. It was the single most important experience of his career.'
Born in Leamington Spa, Mary undertook her art education at Mid Warwickshire College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. She taught art and crafts in London before moving to Cornwall in the early 1970s. Since 1998 she has been involved with the Rambert Dance Company during their visits to the Hall for Cornwall, working with them during rehearsal. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Judith Green was born in Hampstead. She attained a BA (Hons) in graphic design from Kingston School of Art and studied painting at the Slade School of Art from 1997 to 2000. In 1984 she co-founded the international award-winning design consultancy, The Green House. Relinquishing her full-time design career in 2000, she decided to devote her creative energies to painting. The following year she gained a place on the Drawing Year MA level programme at the Prince's Drawing School, becoming 'artist in residence' at Kensington Palace in 2009.
Subsequently she moved to Tregony in Cornwall, where she has developed an art practice which draws on themes of personal and historical memory to create evocative meditations on time and duration. She is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery. Her work appears in private collections in the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
Green's portrait 'Seeing Differently' was selected for the 2017 RWA Annual Open Exhibition in Bristol.
With a degree in fashion and textiles, Carole Green has a background working freelance in industry, designing textiles for fashion and interior markets. She is influenced by historic and contemporary ceramics and textiles, which are recurring motifs in her work.
Christopher Green is based in west Cornwall. Since 2006 his work has been exhibited widely, not only in the UK but also internationally. His career has also involved teaching, radio interviews and contributions to art publications.