This artist may be Frank Haigh of Hyde Park, London, and Shepton Mallett, Somerset, who exhibited in London and Liverpool between 1901-08 (J&G), but this is only a stab in the dark. Tovey also finds an art student-cricket player of this name on the St Ives team in 1901, who also takes part in the St Ives Dramatic Society's activities that same year.
He is known to have exhibited at the Royal Cambrian Society.
Catherine Haines was a student at Falmouth School of Art from 1997 to 1998. Subsequently she studied at London's Central St Martins School of Art & Design, and at the Printmaking Department of the Royal College of Art from 2007 to 2009. She lives in Cornwall and is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2017).
Born on 27 August 1837 at Bristol, where he also died on 7 March, 1929 at the age of 91 (GRO).
He studied art under J D Harding and Collingwood Smith. In 1899 he exhibited a Newlyn title at the Royal Watercolour Society, where he exhibited with regularity (237 paintings), and Mount's Bay Fishing Boats at Manchester in 1900. He also exhibited at the RA.
Hale lived in London and at Stoke Bishop near Bristol, but travelled widely in Europe.
A correspondent (2022) has written to tell us of an oil painting by Hale entitled 'Mounts Bay' in her possession, acquired by her father.
Born in Hastings, the son of a doctor, Fred Hale studied painting in Paris (1873-5) under Cabanel and Carolus Duran. Working for the Illustrated London News, he was a war artist covering from the Russian side, the progress of the Russo-Turkish war. Following that assignment he travelled around Britain painting landscapes, classical and mythological subjects, not unlike those of ALMA-TADEMA in style. At some point (though known in no detail) he painted watery scenes in Cornwall. Otherwise his paintings seem to reveal war scenes and military life.
He settled in London and then from 1897 in Godalming, Surrey, exhibiting mainly with the ROI after WWI.
Born on 7 June 1819 at Bristol, and was found to have painted a Newlyn title in 1882. No further information currently available.
A New Zealand artist signed into the St Ives Arts Club in March 1901 by the Australian David DAVIES, and assumed by Tovey to have been a pupil of his at the time. Recently (2011) a grandson has been in touch with Tovey and provided much greater detail of his grandfather's time in Europe and Cornwall.
Hales was the son of a Warwickshire-born Englishman who began his working career as a piano-tuner in London (1851 Census) but who appears to have made good money from gold mining in both Australia and New Zealand, where he emigrated in the mid-1850s. Samuel Hales, named for his father (also Samuel) was born in Dunedin. His father died when he was 16, and his mother, 28 years her husband's junior, financed his art training first locally, then with the Otago Art Society from 1892, then moving to Paris in 1894. In Paris he enrolled at the Julian Atelier, and met amongst others the Hungarian painter Karoly Kernstock, who painted his portrait. In the mid 1890s he spent time in Etaples, and studied under the American, Max Bohm, and making a friend of James Quinn. His painting La Nuit from Etaples was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1897. He also exhibited there in the following year with a marine painting, before moving on to Switzerland.
In 1901 he determined to study with David DAVIES in Lelant, and found lodgings with Mrs Elizabeth Jones in Higher Lelant. His grandson comments that 'as a result of his time with Davies, his style became more impressionist.' Davies became his first biographer.
Hales returned to Paris in 1902 becoming a partner in the Paris American Art Company and settling with his wife, a fellow art student, Elizabeth Blair Thomson (1877-1969) there. Two acquaintances that he had made in Cornwall were the Australians Will ASHTON and Richard Hayley LEVER, and they arrived in Paris for the winter of 1903-4. From that period Ashton became a lifelong friend, but for Lever he had no time.
Hales also re-established contact with David DAVIES when the latter settled in Dieppe in 1908, and he and his wife spent time with the Davies family every summer until 1914 and the outbreak of war. Hales stayed with the Paris American Art Co until 1947, which limited his output though not extinguishing it altogether. His firm served many artists, including the Americans, Sidney Elmer SCHOFIELD, George OBERTEUFFER and Richard Emil MILLER, all of whom worked in St Ives, and he enjoyed their company.
Rene Halkett was a student of the Bauhaus who studied under Klee and Kandinsky. During World War I he had served his country as a soldier, but in 1936 he left Germany to seek refuge in Britain, becoming a British citizen 10 years later. After moving to Cornwall he broadcast for the German Service of the BBC, and continued to pursue an art practice based on the Bauhaus principle of form following function.
In 1967 he settled in Camelford, north Cornwall, from where he sent regular 'Letters from Cornwall' to Germany. An artist inspired by Surrealism, he remained politically active as a writer and journalist.
Artist and Assistant custodian at NAG when Reginald Thomas DICK was Acting Honorary Secretary of the NSA (from 1920-21, at the death of Henry Meynell RHEAM). Dick continued on as Honorary Secretary until well into the 1930s, but would not have been able to do so without the help of Miss Churchill-Tayler and her assistant Miss Hall. These two women were the first of their gender to be of more than passing importance to the organisation of the Gallery, setting aside the voluntary talents of the lady artists who, though they contributed their art work, could not contribute their time to bureaucratic detail.
Miss Hall also attended classes at the FORBES SCHOOL in Newlyn, and occasionally contributed craftworks for the exhibitions held at NAG. To date it is not known what craft she exhibited.
He was reported in the St Ives Times as a RSW exhibitor at the Pall Mall Galleries in 1920, but no local connections have yet been found. Perhaps the news item was in response to etchings or paintings displayed of Cornish scenes from this very successful and prolific artist.
Born in Stillington, nr York on 6 February, 1860 (GRO), the son of a physician, he followed Frank BRAMLEY to the Lincoln School of Art (1879-81) and then to Verlat’s Academy in Antwerp (1882). His first exhibit at the RA was the following year.
Fred visited Newlyn first in 1884, settling there soon after and giving a Newlyn address in 1885. In the 1891 Census he was living at Tol-peden in Newlyn and describing himself as an artist-sculptor. At that stage he was painting in the style of La Thangue, Clausen, and the Newlyn painters. He finally departed Newlyn in 1897, where he had last been lodging at Belle Vue.
Hall married Agnes in 1898, a young woman of 24 who had been born in Burma. After a year in Liverpool, they moved to Dorking and then London, before settling in Berkshire in 1911. He lived at Speen, near Newbury (GRO) until his death at 88 years of age. [Photo likeness in Hardie 2009, p27]
Gary Hall is a landscape artist living and working on the north coast of Cornwall.
The Sisters (1964), by this artist, is part of the art collection held at the Newquay Hospital.
Identified as a landscape artist with addresses in London and Birmingham, he displayed a painting of St Michael's Mount in 1888 at the RBA at Suffolk Street, amongst 30 other landscapes. His wife was also a landscape and flower painter who exhibited her work, but less prolifically. After 1913 he drops from the listings in The Year's Art, and nothing specific is known about his time spent in Cornwall.
Sam Hall studied from 1985 to 1987 at the Harrogate College of Art and Design to obtain a BTEC National Diploma in Ceramics, then followed this up immediately with study for the BA Hons in Ceramics at Loughborough College of Art and Design.
He exhibits widely in London, Scotland and around the country, with dates as listed below for exhibitions in Cornwall. He has set up his studio at the Gaolyard Studios, St Ives.
Listed as a regular exhibitor at the Lander Gallery, Truro (2011). A timeline of his movements and influences appears on his website listed below, together with examples of his evocative work.
Richard Lannowe Hall studied at Guildford College of Art, North East London College of Art and the Royal Academy of Art, and has painted and exhibited regularly since then, with inclusions in the RA summer shows. He moved to Cornwall in 1996 where his love of sailing is reflected in his seascapes.
'I live and work in Cornwall, and for six months of the year I sail. This is a huge influence on my work and life. I am in love with the visual world around me. What the light defines, what I see around me has an intense fascination for me. All my senses are stimulated by what I see; this changes my feelings, & thinking. It is, I believe, a spiritual process. My spirit is enhanced.' (2014)
He exhibits regularly in Cornwall and southwest of England.
Kate Hall studied sculpture and printmaking at Leeds University, graduating in 1993. She moved to Cornwall in 2000 and works from a studio in Penzance. She has worked as a teacher, freelance writer and reviewer.
Hallard was born in the Midlands and trained initially as an engineer. Leaving engineering for art, he moved to Cornwall in 1967 to establish a working studio and gallery in Mousehole, where he also showed the crafts of other artists alongside his own paintings.
Twenty years later he rediscovered an interest in the Midlands industrial landscape of his younger years, and involved himself in aspects of art for industry, receiving several important commissions nationally. From 1989 he also worked from his own 17th century studio in Dinan, Brittany, and from the late 1990s travelled regularly to New Zealand to paint.
Sue Halliday's career as an artist spans some 45 years, from early training in graphic design, through to a degree in Fine Art (via a BSc in Psychology). Alongside her art practice she also ran the Cornerstone Gallery in St Ives for over five years.
Adam Halls was born into a farming family on Bodmin Moor. He was educated at Liskeard School, after which he went on to study Architecture at Plymouth University. His paintings, which incorporate fabric and thread, express his fascination for the local landscape.
His work is exhibited regularly at Circle Contemporary Gallery, Hawksfield, Wadebridge.
Sam Halstead is based at Half Acre Studios, Boscastle, on the north Cornwall coast.
Shoji Hamada was born in Tokyo. At the age of nineteen he started to study ceramics at Tokyo Technical College, and two years later spent some time touring Japan's traditional pottery sites.
In 1918 he met Bernard LEACH, and within a year the two men were working together at Abiko. In 1920 they both came to England, and Hamada helped Leach build the climbing kiln for the St Ives Pottery.
He gave two exhibitions at Paterson's Gallery in London in 1923, and then toured Europe and returned to Japan. He exhibited again at Paterson's in 1929 and 1931, and in 1932 went to the United States with Leach. During the next three decades he made many more trips to the USA. He is regarded as one of the most influential masters of studio pottery, and has probably inspired more potters than any other figure. The simplicity of his designs gives them urgency and power. This man, who was once declared a 'national living treasure', is certainly the jewel in studio pottery's crown.
Shinsaku was born in Tokyo, the year before the family moved to Mashiko, and was the second son of Shoji HAMADA. His training was in Art and Craft at Waseda University, before apprenticing himself to his father. He visited the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 1963, traveling with his father on lecture tour. In 1999 he completed his 30th solo exhibition of his work with the Tokyo Department Store, with whom his brother also exhibited. [See Atsuya HAMADA]. His details may be found at the Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics listed below in references.