Bridget Winterbourne divides her time between Bude, north Cornwall, and Somerset. After retirement she was able to fulfil a long-held dream, becoming a self-taught artist. Her work has been exhibited widely in both Cornwall and Somerset.
Set in naive landscapes, Winton's work is full of whimsical characters and imaginary narratives, reminiscent of antique folk art.
The Art Union of Cornwall prize winner in the 1920 RCPS September show (winning £2 2s 0d), recorded as being from St Ives.
Born to artist parents (the potter Nic HARRISON and weaver Jackie Harrison) Lisa Wisdom spent much of her childhood at Trelowarren. She creates unique metal landscapes from a palette of recycled rust and copper.
After attending St Ives School of Art and Penzance Art School, she trained as a jeweller - a skill which introduced her to the art of blacksmithing. She travelled abroad to learn more about this craft, and on her return to Cornwall in 2008, she set up Smythick Forge near Falmouth. Since then she has established a smithy in a remote quarry near the town.
She has carried out commissions for artworks in Redruth and Carn Brea and, funded by the Landmark Trust, restored the Smithy on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. In 2014 she carried out restoration work on the original fireplace at the Leach Pottery (now part of the Museum).
Co-founder of the Cornish Blacksmiths Collective, Lisa was voted Cornish Blacksmithing Champion in 2014. The following year she was presented with the 'Design & Innovation Award' by the Guild of Ten at the Cornwall Design Fair.
The artist, a painter of marine subjects, studied at Liverpool School of Art between 1924 and 1930, and received a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. He won a further travelling scholarship to Rome, where he spent several months studying art.
From 1936-39 he rented a studio in St Ives though his sending in address remained at Liverpool, and he was particularly attracted by Cornish harbour subjects. In 1938 he became a member of STISA. During WWII he was based in Liverpool, working in the Air Ministry.
In 1945 he started teaching part-time at the Liverpool School of Art, and first became involved in restoration work for the Walker Art Gallery, an area in which he was to excel. His paintings were very well received by the time he visited Polperro in 1948, producing a number of works in the village. In 1949 he resigned from STISA and joined the Penwith Society, where his Polperro works were highly praised.
He was closely associated with the RCA, becoming its treasurer. A number of his exhibits during the 1950s were acquired for public collections, but he gave up painting in the late 1960s as he was in such demand as a restorer for the Walker, Lady Lever and Derby Art Galleries.
Carolyn Wixon was born and brought up on Dartmoor, Devon, but now lives in east Cornwall. After a career as a ballet dancer, she took a law degree at Exeter University, then became a horticulturist. Her landscapes and seascapes have been exhibited in Devon and Cornwall.
Wolfe was born in Bristol, where he was raised by an adoptive mother, Mrs Buckley of Windsor Terrace, Clifton.
Later he settled in Hampshire.
Joy Wolfenden Brown was born in Lincolnshire and studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds. After taking a postgraduate diploma in art therapy she spent ten years working in the field of mental health. She moved to Cornwall in 1998, settling in Bude, where she resumed painting. The subjects of her paintings, usually solitary female figures, are not drawn from life, yet they possess a vulnerability and fragility which is instantly recognisable.
Wolfenden Brown has had a number of sell-out solo exhibitions in Cornwall and beyond. Her work was acquired for the Anthony Petullo Outsider and Self-Taught Art Collection in Milwaukee, USA.
She was the 2007 winner of the Sherborne Open Prize. In October 2012 she was awarded first prize in the 16th annual National Open Art Competition with 'The Lacemaker'. In 2019 she won the Evolver Prize at the Royal West of England Academy.
Garnet Wolseley first sold a painting, Rough Seas, at Newlyn Art Gallery in 1908 and in 1909 he exhibited A Fairy Story and A Silver Sea. He served on the main committee of the Newlyn Society of Artists, and the hanging committee of the Gallery from 1911 to 1913, when Charles Walter SIMPSON undertook to replace him on the Management Committee.
Penlee House has his painting of St Michael's Mount (oil on canvas), gifted by the Friends and the Simon Levy Charitable Trust in 2001. Wolseley features in back profile with Laura KNIGHT and Florence CARTER-WOOD, modelling as a butler in the painting by Harold KNIGHT, Afternoon Tea (1910). The setting was Wolseley's drawing room in Newlyn. Laura Knight describes him taking part in wild but sparse attire at one of Phyllis Maureen GOTCH's extravagant parties. He worked from Sandy-Cove Studio, Newlyn, often painting in the Lamorna Valley nearby, until 1913.
Hendrik Jan Wolter was one of the few Dutch artists to embrace Impressionism. His friendship with Frank HEATH, a fellow student at art school in Antwerp in 1895, drew him to Cornwall. He is known to have visited the Heaths in Polperro in 1911, though that was not his first trip to the fishing port. He returned regularly to Polperro and also St Ives for the next twenty years.
As a student, Wolter also spent some time in Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Georges Seurat, Claude Monet and Paul Signac. These influences are clear in the wonderful paintings he produced of Polperro harbour.
In 1924 he was appointed Professor at the State Academy in Amsterdam, a position he held until 1938. This impacted greatly on his painting output. But he did return to Polperro in 1932, producing an impressive painting of the harbour. His Cornish work is some of the best of his career, and fetches significant sums at auction.
Shayla Wongwichien works from a studio between Padstow and Wadebridge, along the Camel Trail. Her work incorporates elements from the landscape such as wild foraged clay, and glazes created from the ashes of fallen trees.
The 1891 Census lists him as being born in Plympton, Devon, and living at Wood House Terrace, Falmouth with his wife Sarah. He was both an architect and an artist-painter.
Roger Wonnacott was born in Okehampton but lives in west Cornwall. He has family roots in the Carharrick area, where his great-grandfather was a miner. Self-taught, he works mainly in acrylics. A fascination for the Cornish coast informs his subject matter, which includes boats and ships, often battered and rusty from years on the open sea.
Ron Wood was born in London. From 1936 to 1941 he was an apprentice engineer, and the subsequent five years were spent in the Royal Navy. From 1946 till 1966 he lived in Kent, following a career in marine and nuclear engineering. During the 1950s he was a student at London's St Martins School of Art.
Wood moved to Cornwall in 1966 to follow a career in painting and sculpture. Settling near Truro, he worked with glass fibre and polyester resin. His work was shown in group and many solo exhibitions in Cornwall and throughout the UK. It is also held in private collections in Britain, Europe, the USA and South Africa.
During the 1970s and 1980s he was awarded several commissions for sculpted works.
A painting by this artist, Ribbon Painting (1967) is part of the permanent collection of Cornwall Council.
A portrait in oil paints on canvas of James Miners Holman (1857-1933) is in the fine art collection of RCM, Truro, with the signature of Wood.
Recognised as a West Country 'connection' due to his discovery with Ben NICHOLSON of the naïve artist Alfred WALLIS of St Ives in 1928. Wood was a multi-talented painter of the sea, ships, and dockside life.
In 1926 he met Winifred and Ben Nicholson and in their close friendship worked with them from time to time in Cumbria and in St Ives. First studying architecture at Liverpool, Kit soon turned to painting and studied at the Parisian ateliers of Julian's and Grande Chaumiere, where he was much influenced by modern European art movements (especially Picasso and Cocteau and their circles).
His visits to Cornwall were three in number in the years 1926, 1928 and 1930, in between travels in France, mainly Paris, northern France, and in and around Douarnenez, the capital of Cornouaille (the other Cornwall, a district within Finistere, Brittany). His strong and colourful palette led him with his unique naïve style latterly toward surrealism. He died (by suicide) at Salisbury station on 21 August, 1930 at the age of 29, killed by a train.
Headmaster of Penzance School of Art, taking over from William Henry KNIGHT in 1916. For four years he built it up successfully and was highly respected for being one of the 'best art teachers in the west of England'. Wood resigned in 1920, perhaps fearing the loss of the school's local independence, and was replaced by James W LIAS. In that year he prepared plans for the Lelant War Memorial.
James Wood is a self-taught figurative painter living in St Mawes. He is interested in light, colour and atmosphere, and attempts to capture these effects in all his work. He has exhibited in London with the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
Robert Sydney Rendle Wood exhibited several Cornish-titled paintings at the Second Exhibition of Works by members of the Plymouth Society of Artists in September of 1945.
He was based in Mevagissey and in 1962 he exhibited a series of Polperro paintings at the St Austell Society of Artists and the St Mawes Society of Artists (at that time President of the latter).
Matthew Wood lives in Playing Place, near Truro. His painting is often the inspiration for a bespoke glass picture.