Born in London on 25th March, 1849 (GRO), the artist studied art at the RA Schools. He is known to have mounted an Exhibition (1887) under the title Summertime on the South Coast from Rye to Penzance at Dowdeswells Gallery in New Bond Street, London, being the culmination of some years' work.
After 1890 he lived successively in Ripley and Godalming (Surrey), and then in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where he died on 21 October, 1920 at the age of 72 (GRO).
Gregory lives and works in north Cornwall. she describes herself as a mixed media artist who relies on materials from the natural world to provide her artworks with depth. She also designs greeting cards and Christmas cards and is involved with book illustration. She has exhibited at the Boscastle Gallery, and at No. 10 Market Place in Camelford.
Draughtsman as well as lithographer and illustrator, Grieg worked with J Storer in supplying antiquarian engravings, and publishing The Antiquarian Cabinet. He not only made the drawings but also engraved the majority of the plates for the many publications he was involved with illustrating.
Born in Nelson, Lancashire the son of a weaver, Gresty attended the Nelson School of Art. He served in the armed services in WWI, and was gassed and wounded at Ypres (the effects of the gassing to last for the rest of his life).
On a Government Scholarship to Goldsmith College, London, Gresty studied for two years under Harold Speed and Edmund Sullivan. He travelled periodically to Italy and Spain, with a special interest in painting ancient buildings and ruins, and contributed etchings to STISA shows. He worked from a variety of studios in St Ives (Ship Aground, Mincarlo, Porthmeor), but after 1932 was no longer active in STISA, of which he had been a Founding Member in 1927. He remained in the area until his death in 1958.
Her name is listed on the WCAA master list (Penlee House), but nothing is known about this artist as yet. She could be the wife of artist Hugh GRESTY, but this is not known for certain.
Great Atlantic Publications, St Just, have published a book about the artist and her work.
'Although based in the Midlands, Jenny has been a frequent visitor to West Cornwall for the past decade (as written in 2006) and a major part of her artistic output features the harbours, coves and beaches of Cornwall. The book presents a large number of full colour images of paintings that trace the evolution of Jenny's work through the late 80's and 90's up to the present day and gives an illuminating insight into the trials and tribulations of life as an aspiring, then established, professional artist.' (Exh Cat 2006)
The artist herself has written: 'If you would like more details about me and my work please visit my website
www.jennygrevatte.co.uk I have exhibited several times at The Great Atlantic galleries , both in St
Just and Falmouth.'
There is also a 20 minute film about Jenny with reference to her Cornish work. The YouTube link is also on the website.
Based in St Ives, Anthony Gribbin is the director of the National Acrylic Painters' Association. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
An Australian by birth, Wyly Grier studied in Paris with Bouguereau, Robert-Fleury and Legros.
He and his younger brother Louis GRIER both spent some time in St Ives, although Wyly's time there seems lesser known. The brothers lodged together at 6 The Terrace, St Ives.
One of the first members of the newly formed St Ives Art Club (STIAC) in 1890, Wyly took part in cricket matches on the side of St Ives against the Newlyn artists. In the studio lettings section of Lanham's advertisements of 1892, it was announced 'To be let, Mr Wyly Grier's magnificent studio overlooking Porthmeor Beach'.
In 1894 he was living on King's Road, Chelsea in London, and by 1896 his address was c/o Chapman Bros, also on King's Road, Chelsea for sending-in to the RA, suggesting that he was no longer resident in St Ives. By the 1902 edition of The Year's Art, his name and address had disappeared from English record; he then, however, exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy (Ottawa). He died in Toronto, Ontario.
An Australian born in Melbourne, and brother of Edmund Wyly GRIER, Louis was educated in Canada before running a painting school in St Ives with Julius OLSSON.
He shared the Ivy Tower Studio, Porthmeor with his brother, and later worked and taught from The Foc'sle studio. When he separated from the Olsson school in order to start up classes on his own, Algernon Mayow TALMAGE took over as assistant to Olsson. His partner for the new venture, called The St Ives School of Art, was John Noble BARLOW, and tuition was offered in 'Landscape, Marine, Figure, and Still-Life, both in Oil and Water-Colour from Nature.'
Louis was known as a party-goer, fun-loving and social person, who sported striking clothing, including a black cape and high boots. His work was strongly influenced by Whistler and French Impressionism, and his freedom of style attracted both admiring students and some distaste amongst the more formal painters. In 1910 he donated one of his paintings to be auctioned for the Relief Fund set up in St Ives after the loss of the fishing boat Lily John. He was styled as one of Wormleighton's 'painters of light.' He was the author of 'A Painters Club (at St Ives, Cornwall)' in The Studio (V:110), and a signatory of the Glanville letter (Nov 1898).
Born in Cobh (then Queenstown) County Cork, Republic of Ireland, the artist had a residential address there in 1888 for submissions to exhibitions. Prior to that he had studied at the Westminster School of Art. In 1888, the Manchester City Art Gallery reported an address for McIver Grierson (sic) in Heamoor, Penzance. Wood associates him with the Newlyn painters directly, and states that he lived there. In 1887 he married a widow, Annie Elizabeth North (nee Garnett) in Madron, near Newlyn. In August 1888 their daughter was born at Rose Cottage, Heamoor, Penzance.
At the 1891 Census the family was living at Brondesbury Road, Willesden, Middlesex. By 1894 his address was given as Haverstock Hill, London where he continued to exhibit widely until 1902 when he was sending-in from County Sligo, Ireland. By 1910 he was back in London and moved around the City from North to West London. Meantime he became a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) and the Pastel Society (PS). He died at the age of 76, on 25 September 1939, in Hillingdon, London (GRO).
Born into a wealthy and distinguished family near Uckfield, Sussex, she grew up mainly in Castle Hill House, Torrington, Devon. Her private tutor, Francis James, was a flower painter and inspired her interest in art, and after the death of her father in 1918 she went to Florence to study at Marfori Savini's studio.
Accompanied by her mother, she returned to England as Fascism took hold in Italy, settling in St Ives where her interest in book illustration developed into wood engraving. At the 1924 Show Day in St Ives she was noticed for her 'very effective' wood engraving entitled The New Italy, showing Mussolini reviewing his troops. Having hoped to study under Alfred HARTLEY - his health at this time making it impossible - she attended the Walter SIMPSON School for a short time, but afterwards remarked "it was not the tuition I needed".
Primarily a wood engraver and author, she also exhibited illuminated work with fine lettering and decorative wooden boxes. In 1925 she married Cyril Drummond le Gros Clark in St Ives, and they travelled on postings to China and Sarawak. She exhibited in the 1928 Summer Exhibition at NAG under her married name Le Gros Clark, and showed three works: Rice Fields, The Poet Chu Yuan and Schloss Tauffers: Tyrol. Returning from the Far East in 1936, she continued to travel extensively, devoting more time to writing than art. Her husband was killed in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in WWII. She later married John Keevil, the medical historian.
She died in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, predeceased by her husband.
Kat Griffey was born in London. She obtained a BA (Hons) Degree in Creative Arts, specialising in painting. After working in the theatre, she went on to train as an art therapist in St Albans before moving to Cornwall.
Emma Griffin was born in Surrey. In 2011 she obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art at University College Falmouth. A background in fashion design indulged her fascination for colour, which is central to her painting practice. An abstractionist, Emma works intuitively, regarding painting as 'an organic process'. Her studio is a 'performance space' in which music and emotion engender a meditative state from which she embarks on a creative journey. She has exhibited in a number of group shows in Devon and Cornwall.
Griffin was involved in the Polperro art scene from the 1940s and is best known for a series of postcards which he produced and sold in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These record Polperro harbour scenes. He exhibited occasionally with the East Cornwall Society of Artists, and for a while he ran a gallery in the village, at the junction of Lansallos Street and Landaviddy Lane. He was described as a cultured man, a lifetime communist and a skilled odd job man.
The Griffiths family were in business as shopkeepers and photographers.
In the 1871 Census Richard P was listed as 15, born in Carnarvon Caernarvonshire and living in River Street, Truro with his father, Richard J GRIFFITHS a Teacher Of Art & Photographer. By the time of the 1881 Census he is recorded as a 21 year old Stationer & Photographer.
In the 1871 Census he was living in River Street, Truro and is recorded as a 54 year old Teacher Of Art & Photographer, born at Holyhead, Anglesea. Both Griffiths and John GILL taught at Truro, the former being a ‘certificated art master’ and therefore we suppose approved by South Kensington, the latter being connected with Design classes.
By the time of the 1881 Census he is described as 61 years old, a "Printer, Stationer Empl 5 Hands", and also a Photographer. He was the father of Richard Price GRIFFITHS.
Diane Griffiths is a self-taught artist who grew up in the Midlands, spent several years in London and moved to Newquay in 2017.
In December 2024 her painting, Driving Home, depicting a starlit Texaco petrol station on Trevemper Road near Newquay, won the People's Choice Award, as a part of the British Art Prize.
In July 2025 Diane's painting Insert Coin to Begin, which depicts a Newquay amusement arcade by night, reached the top 50 of the SAA Artist of the Year award. This made her eligible for the People's Choice Award.
John Griffiths is a landscape painter who has lived in Cornwall for the past forty years. His work is influenced by the rugged coastline and atmospheric valleys of the south-west.
Ian Griffiths is a Helston-based painter of wildlife. In 2011, he was the winner of the 'Wildlife in its Environment' section of the BBC's annual 'Wildlife Artist of the Year' awards.
Grimshaw's work has been exhibited at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance, and Penwith and Belgrave Galleries, St Ives. Originally Martin trained at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art in 2000. He comments: 'Often I work directly from the model or in the landscape. However, where the experience is a fleeting one, I make quick sketches, and then in the studio, allow the painting process to realise something I did not ‘know’ or had forgotten, about for example walking on the west coast of the Lizard where I live, or standing absorbing the stillness of the old cathedral-mosque of Cordoba, Spain.'
He organizes the life class for Lizardart, and is also a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Born in Norway, the Gronvolds are first mentioned in 'Badcock's Historical Essay' about old St Ives. Tovey mentions his presence at the Chantrey Celebratory Supper for Adrian Stokes in 1888, as Gronvold signed the menu, and his name also appears in Whybrow's list of those who attended the Arts Club.
Melicent Grose was born in Truro, the daughter of James Grose (born in Gwinear, Cornwall), a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist church, and Melicent nee Symons, of Newlyn. From family information, it appears that she practised a greater part of her working life as an artist in France, living in Paris.
Two paintings were exhibited by this artist at the defining Dowdeswell Show of 1890 (exhibition catalogue in Hardie 2009) in Bond Street, London. This exhibition was for artists residing in or painting at Newlyn, St Ives, Falmouth etc in Cornwall, illustrating 'the Artistic Movement which is associated with that part of England.'
In Cornwall her early association with the artists' colony of St Ives is noted by Whybrow, and Tovey mentions that she was born in Truro. However, rather strangely, general sources (Johnson &Greutzner, Wood, etc.) never notice this connection. Her addresses given for sending-in are London 1880, 1889 and 1905; Pont-Aven, Finisterre 1881; Oxford 1900, with London and Oxford predominating. And her exhibition record is relatively full, with genre pieces and subjects akin to the realistic social style of the Newlyn school of the time. A number of her Polperro paintings were exhibited during the 1880s.
Her death is registered in 1923 in Middlesex, England, at the age of 79.
Janet Groves was born in Birmingham and moved to Cornwall in 1969. She studied watercolour at Penzance School of Art under the late Colin Scott. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal West of England Academy, and the Mall Galleries in London.
Addresses known for this artist are in Leicester (1887), Chelsea, London 1893, and St Albans, Herts (1895). He also travelled in North Africa and the Mediterranean, as witnessed by his landscape and coastal titles.
His titles include Off to the fishing grounds (signed and dated 1905). Another title is Off Fishing at Sennen Cove (1901) sold more recently (1992) at auction by Phillips. He is known to have exhibited in London from 1887, and exhibited 14 works at the RA, including two from the coasts of Iona.
Catherine Grubb is a painter, printmaker and art historian. She was born in Scotland and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. While working as a teacher in London and the south-east she established a formidable reputation as a printmaker. Her etchings have been exhibited widely and may be found in many public and private collections. Catherine's association with Cornwall began in 1982 and since 2002 she has been based in Truro.
Grylls studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art and at Newlyn under Norman GARSTIN. Her husband was a County Alderman and a member of Cornwall County Council for over thirty years. She concentrated on painting flower studies in watercolour or tempera, occasionally using oils. She also did some figure work and landscape painting.
She was exhibiting St Ives scenes from 1920 and worked from Blue Studio, Wharf Road, St Ives, living at Ar-Lyn, Lelant, with her husband Reginald Grylls. The painting which she exhibited for Show Day 1924 of a dead pheasant surrounded by cartridges, a gun, a bag and a few other accessories, was praised as 'the best work she has ever done.' Other works by her that year were studies of anemones in libraries, and a water-colour of a fishing group on the Wharf. She was a founder member of STISA.