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.
Born on 23 June 1844 at Otarihau, Hokianga, New Zealand, Gundry was the second child of William Richardson Gundry and his Maori wife, Margaret Rautangi of Ngaitupoto. He attended the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell and studied under the Rev John Kinder. A sketch by Kinder of Mercury Island, New Zealand, has the artist and Arthur in the foreground. Sketches by Gundry employed in the Magazine of St John's College, were highly regarded, as the work of 'Arthur Gundry, about 16 years old, a half-caste'.
Arthur left Auckland in 1863 for Sydney and then to Gravesend, Kent where he arrived on 1 June. In Britain he took classes at Mr Cary's Academy, Bloomsbury, and in the following year was admitted as a probationer and then a student at the RA schools. In the two years prior to his early death, he exhibited four works at the RA, and two works at SS immediately before he died.
Possibly in Cornwall to search of family connections, Gundry died of a fever in Penzance at the age of 24. This was well before the influx of artists that became known as the 'Newlyn school', however it is clear from the title of a painting exhibited at the RA in the year of his death, that he was already engaged in genre paintings (or story-telling pictures). The work referred is Making her way from Madron Church Tower to Penzance Market. The whereabouts of this painting is unknown, and to date no images of his work have been found.
His lodging address in the Penzance area was 1 Aubrey Villas, and Gundry is buried in Paul Churchyard. (Paul Burial Registry)
His death, reported in the Daily Southern Cross of 29 July that year, said "His artistic talents were of a very high order, and had he lived he would have undoubtedly attained great eminence in his profession. He was greatly esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances both in this country and England."
Between 1903 and 1913 Maud was living in Leicester and exhibiting regularly at Nottingham Castle Museum. She was elected a Member of STISA, by five votes to three, at their meeting on 14th July 1929, on the basis of two of her paintings.
Her watercolours were neither mentioned in STISA's reviews nor selected for the Touring Shows. In 1931 she is known to have tenanted one of the studios managed by Lanham's, implying that she was resident in the town at the time. It is thought (by Tovey) that she was possibly the sister of William Archibald GUNN.
Gunn was educated in Hereford and studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1897-1901. He painted principally in watercolours and pastels. He exhibited in Liverpool in 1929 and 1930, giving his address as Newport, Monmouthshire for the first and York for the second.
His first exhibit in St Ives was with STISA in 1939, and he soon becoming fully involved with the Society, serving on the Committee during most of the War years. He lived at 'The Haven', Higher Trenwith and his studio on Westcott's Quay was always fitted out on STISA Show Days to look like an Art Gallery. In 1950 he moved to Ocean Wave Studio in St. Andrew's Street.
Recorded in the 1901 Census as a Boarder at 61 Hawkes Point, an Artist, living on his Own Acount, born at Carlshalton in Surrey. By 1904 he had moved to Porthminster House, Penare Road, Penzance, and from that address exhibited a painting at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.
John Wheeley Gutch was born in Bristol on Christmas eve. He initially trained as a surgeon in Bristol and practised as a physician in Florence, Swansea and London before quitting medicine in the 1840s to become a Queen's Messenger and editor of a new scientific annual. His wide range of interests encompassed botany, geology, entomology, meteorology and experimenting with photography, which began as early as 1841, just after Fox-Talbot had announced his discovery.
Gutch was particularly active in photography during the mid- to late-1850s, and was perhaps unique amongst early exponents of the medium in making comprehensive records of a variety of locations in Britain, from the South West to Cumberland, Scotland and Wales. He was interested mainly in using photography as a means for finding both 'health and happiness', and 'the Picturesque', given that there was much change during that period of Industrialisation, and for his own personal creativity in undertaking the craft of perserving images.
He bravely attempted to photograph every church in Bristol and Gloucestershire in 1858-59. The landscape and people of Cornwall greatly inspired Gutch, providing him with some of his best visual material. During a three-month period in 1858, he made an extensive journey through the coastal landscapes of this wild and rugged terrain, managing to make over one hundred photographs of coasts, cliffs and rock formations, and protraits.
The West of Cornwall in particular appealed to him, with its ancient tombs and history, and the botany thriving all around (particularly lichens, heathers and grasses). He found Land's End an inspiration, and the piles of stones 'stand out in full majesty', but he also focused on studies of Cornish fishermen and their families and groups of young miners, 'arguably his finest', according to Summers. A printed list, published by Penzance bookseller Rowe in 1859, recorded these Cornish photographs.
Julia Guthrie creates watercolour illustrations based on Cornish myths and legends.
Susi Gutierrez was born in Peru and moved to St Ives in 2013. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
The 1859 announcement of the list of RCPS 'premiums' (the prizes in the annual competitive exhibitions) for 1860 included, for the first time, a new category in the already large class of 'Fine Arts'. This was One Pound 'for the best series of not less than 12 photographs'. The Reverend Gutteres, a talented amateur, was the winner.
Born in London, Melanie Guy obtained a BA (Hons) in Applied Art, followed by a Certificate of Education and Diploma in Art & Design (Ceramics). She has had an extensive career in art education, and has worked in ceramics and jewellery; more recently she has been a professional exhibiting artist working in metal. She has lived and worked in east Cornwall since 1977. Currently she works with pewter, extending the possibilities of the metal into expressive forms.
The artist's address was Clifton, Bristol, and she is known to have studied at the Slade School of Art, Delacluse's Academy, Paris, and also in St Ives. Tovey mentions that she exhibited St Ives landscapes at BAPFA for several years (Note 525).
Gwynne-Jones was born in Richmond, Surrey and educated at Miss Clare Berry's School at Folkestone (1899-1902) and Bedales (1902-1910). He spent six months in Germany from 1910-1911, and from 1911-14 studied Law under the solicitor, Joynson Hicks, but never practised, instead developing a love of art and beginning to paint watercolours.
In 1914 he began a course at the Slade School of Fine Art, but was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment three months later. He was wounded and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Returning to the Slade after demobilisation in 1919, he won many prizes for his work, including First Prize for painting from life: a cash prize of £6.
Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art (1923-30), he gained renown for his own painting, most notably portraits and paintings of flowers. In 1926 he was elected to the New English Art Club, remaining a member until 1940. From 1930-59 he taught at the Slade School of Fine Art. Gwynne-Jones was elected Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1955 and RA in 1965.
In 1979 he gave up painting due to failing eyesight, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980, only two years before his death.
His association in Cornwall is with Zennor c1919, when he spent some months painting before attending the Slade.
A Penzance-based painter, Graham Gynn spends his winters in south east Asia. His work celebrates both the forest there, and its bird species.
Born in Liverpool, the artist lodged on the Terrace, St Ives in 1901.
Together with her partner Paul CLARK, Liz Hackney is an artist who runs Atishoo Designs, a contemporary arts and crafts gallery in the port of Charlestown in Cornwall.
Diane Hadden studied Fine Art at HCHE, Hull, from 1985 to 1988, then took a post-graduate degree at Cyprus College of Art (1988-1999) before moving to west Cornwall. She is a painter of landscapes inspired by her travels in Europe, particularly in Greece and Crete.
Born on 22 August 1864, Barnet, Greater London (GRO), he studied art at the Slade School under Legros from 1883 on a three year scholarship, and was exhibiting Newlyn titles at the RBA at the end of that period (1885-86), demonstrating that he had spent time in Cornwall within his coursework. At the Slade he not only won a Landscape prize, but also a medal for Painting from Life. He worked in Spain for a year (1886-87), and then returned to London to work with Herkomer at Bushey. From 1896 through 1897 he painted in Rome.
Haddon travelled far and wide, painting, and writing travel books including The Old Venetian Palaces and Southern Spain. In England he lived at Cambridge in his later years and died there on 13 December, 1941, age 77 (GRO).
David Haddon was a painter from Birmingham who exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
The artist was Middlesex-born, married to Elizabeth (1866), and lived in Wanstead, Essex (1871, 1881). He exhibited West Side, St Michael's Bay, Cornwall at the RA in 1882.
He disappears from artist's lists thereafter, and his wife is shown to have become a governess to a nearby leather merchant's family (1891). A person of the same name of Wilberforce Haddon, with the same birth year, is registered as dying in South Stoneham, Hampshire in 1893.
A native New Yorker, Ann lived for four years in West Cornwall near Coverack in the 1990s, before moving to London and then to France where she settled near Toulouse until 2007. Following this sojourn in European travels and exhibiting, she has now re-settled in New York City. In each location she exhibited her work, and in Cornwall this was at the Jamieson Library (1997) and in the Hypatia Showcase (2000), both venues in the Penzance area. Her style is modern, abstract, and often incorporates writing. Ann is also a poet.
In the USA she has exhibited in both New York, and in the Art showcase, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.