In 1902, a Miss Maynard sold 'Sea Lavender' at NAG.
Harriet Maynard is listed as a 30-year old 'art student' on the 1881 Census form when living at her family home in London. Following an attribution to her of a landscape at an auction in the USA, four similar landscapes bearing the same signature have been offered at two other auctions in the UK.
She was born in Surinam, South America, and died aged 56 near Launceston, Cornwall, in 1906. She was 51 at the time of the 1901 Census, when she was a 'visitor' at 40 Lillieshall Road, Clapham, London (see Harriett M Maynard, below). She had left a Will, and her estate was listed in the local newspaper.
In 1883, Harriett Maynard exhibited 'The Seagull's Home' (SWA) from 156 Portsdown Road, Maida Vale, London. That same year, but from 158 Portsdown Road, Annie Hodge Thomas (q.v.) exhibited 'The Pier at Newlyn' (RBA).
In 1885, Harriette Maynard illustrated two lines from Keats (RBA), from a boarding-house in London. Born in London, the 29-year old is listed as an 'artist' on the 1891 Census form, when staying as a boarder in Plymouth. In 1904, she exhibited two titles in Falmouth (RCPS): 'Motherhood' and 'The Old Mill'. In 1982, Sothebys Billingshurst attributed 'The Fisherman's Wife' to this artist.
In 1895, Harriett M Maynard exhibited 'A Cornish Fishing Village' (SWA), giving her address as 40 Lillieshall Road (see Harriet Maynard, above). Listed in the Falmouth (RCPS) catalogues under H M Maynard, she exhibited three titles in 1897: 'The Watched Pot Never Boils', 'Ready for Church' and 'On the Edge of the Heath', and one in 1898, 'Porthmeor Beach, St Ives'. In 1902 she is listed under H Maynard, when she entered just one title, her 1897 picture 'The Watched Pot Never Boils' at a reduced asking price! In November 1898, she supported the Committee of the St Ives Arts Club by signing a letter about the artists' concerns around proposed building development in St Ives [west-penwith.org.uk/glanvile.htm {sic}].
The artist works from the complex of studios at Trevelloe Farm, Lamorna.
In summer 2011 she participated in the exhibition 'Painters 4 - UK to CA', curated by Simon ANDREW at the Academy Gallery, Bath, Ontario, Canada.
Heather McAlpine was born in Scotland but was educated in England. She graduated with honours from the University of East London with a BA in Fine Art and in 1995 received an MA in Painting at London's Royal College of Art. She lives in St Ives.
Penny McBreen is based in Wadebridge, where she has been making hand coiled and raku fired ceramics for over 40 years. She organises and exhibits at the Rock Summer Show each year and recently spent a month studying pottery in China.
One of the group of artists that exhibit together at Gallery TRESCO on the Isles of Scilly. She works primarily with pastels and watercolour, and creates landscapes of impressionistic beauty with beautifully evocative titles.
Sarah McCartney was born in Devon. She obtained a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Kingston Polytechnic in 1986. This was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Sculpture from the Royal Academy Schools. In 2022 she completed an MA in Authorial Illustration at Falmouth University. She has also undergone courses in blacksmithing, ceramic shell bronze casting, chain saw training and botanical illustration.
McCartney has lived in Cornwall and has worked for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust as a graphic designer and illustrator since 1992. She has carried out commissions in illustration and sculpture for clients including Thomas Cook in Berkeley Street, London, the Royal Cornwall Museum, National Maritime Museum, Isles of Scilly Steamship Group and Royal Yachting Association. Her work has been on show in London, Oxford and Berlin, and she has exhibited widely in Cornwall.
Her work was included in the Cornwall Wildlife Trust's collection of non-native species, on display at the London Boat Show in February 2015, to raise awareness of the growing danger to the UK's marine life.
The work of this artist is included in the art collection of the University College Falmouth (UCF).
Louise McClary was born in Penzance and studied at the Penzance School of Art for a year. She opened her studio at St Ives in 1988, and quickly became both well-known and well-regarded for her person-centred abstract paintings, sometimes rendered in series. She has an impressive record of solo exhibitions from 1989 to the present, hosted by galleries in Cornwall, Plymouth and beyond.
She was elected a member of the NSA, and also an associate of the Penwith Gallery, St Ives. She now lives with her family on the Lizard near Helston, and maintains a large working studio there, situated in a quirky and fascinating Artist's Garden - not only full of plants, but also naturalist installations.
Cornish-born, prominent painter and active member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, Daphne was born in Helston. She began her art schooling at the Redruth School of Art, going on to the Hornsey School of Art, London and then the Central School of Art there. For 25 years she lived away from Cornwall, working for an exciting period of time at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
In 1976 she and her husband, dentist George McClure, returned to Cornwall to live in Porthleven near Helston. Twice in the 1990s Daphne was chosen as a Critic's Choice prizewinner in the Newlyn Contemporaries Exhibitions, when these popular and much missed NSA Open Exhibitions were held.
In 2005 she was invited by the Albers Foundation to take up a residency in New England. Together with her daughter, the artist Emma McClure, she twice presented a show of work. First at the Cadogan Contemporary, London, was a mixed show with other mother and daughter artists, and subsequently in Penzance at the Rainy Day Gallery, Daphne and Emma showed the works of 'Mother and Daughter'. She took part in many group and solo exhibitions locally, in London and around the southwest. Her much-admired work - quirky, sometimes muted, sometimes jolly - so evocative of the spirit of Cornwall, is to be found in many private and public collections.
Emma is the artist daughter of Daphne McCLURE and her husband, George, who made their home in West Cornwall. Emma was born in London, but described by Martin Val Baker (gallery review) as: 'Partly brought up in Cornwall, Emma initially trained at Falmouth Art College before doing a degree in Fine Art at Winchester and an MA at Chelsea School of Art. Since leaving college, she has worked consistently as a painter and has had several solo exhibitions in London where she is represented by the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery.'
Emma McClure returned to Cornwall in 2012, settling in Newlyn, with a studio at the Exchange in Penzance. She has exhibited with her mother, and also solo at Badcock's Gallery, Newlyn, and at the Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance (Mother & Daughter, 2005), and continues to exhibit in mixed shows in London and Cornwall.
Her work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, Hong Kong and the USA.
David McCormack was born in London but has spent a great deal of time on the Lizard peninsula, whose spectacular coastline has informed his paintings for many years. He attended painting classes given by Bob DEVEREUX at Camborne College.
Stevie McCrindle uses an ancient Japanese printing technique called Gyotaku to create prints from fish, shellfish and seaweed.
Anne McCrossan is a ceramicist with a studio in St Ives. Her pieces explore 'fundamental,, earthy, elemental forces'.
McCrossan was born in Liverpool, studying first at the Liverpool School of Art under John Finnie and then attending the Academie Delecluse, Paris [Wood says Julian's Academie], where she achieved a number of awards, before arriving in St Ives to study under Julius OLSSON (1897-1899).
Her earliest known St Ives title was shown in 1898. Adopting the town as her own, and using it as her base, she ran a painting school from her Porthmeor studio and exhibited harbour and coastal pictures from St Ives up to her death. Painting chiefly in oil colour, she also produced many impressionist studies in watercolour of cloud effects over Porthmeor Beach; she specialised in painting the sea.
McCrossan travelled extensively on the Continent, exhibiting dazzling oils from Provence and the Mediterranean at the NEAC and London galleries. She worked variously during the mid-1920s from 7 The Terrace, 9 Porthmeor Studios and 3 Seagull House, and her titles include Round House, Sennen (1927), Brixham (1933), Still Life and one of the paintings she exhibited at the RA: St Ives Harbour (Ill, Exh Cat, Falmouth). In 1928 she visited Polperro, producing Saturday Morning, Polperro. She made St Ives her permanent home in 1929. In 1934 she suffered a stroke, which proved fatal.
Her name has also been seen written as 'MaCrossan' (Wallace) and other variations.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth.
Melanie McDonald has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Textile Design. She divides her time between her home in Newquay and a renovation project in Brittany. The seascapes of north Cornwall provide the subject matter of her paintings.
Sue McDonald graduated in 1994 from Falmouth College of Arts and lived near St Ives for many years. She has spent a great deal of time sailing and specialises in seascapes. After leaving Cornwall she settled in Dartmouth but moved to France in 2008.
While in Cornwall she was a frequent exhibitor at Beside the Wave Gallery in Falmouth. Her work has also been shown in Dartmouth.
Janie McDonald initially studied Ceramics at art college, followed by Art as Environment and then Stitch & Constructed Textiles. Since 2005 she has lived in Cornwall, where she exhibits her textiles, based on natural forms. She teaches 3D Mixed Media for Cornwall Adult Education, and holds art and craft workshops for children.
McDonald works with a wide range of materials and techniques including paint, drawing, textiles, printmaking, and collage. Her art springs from ideas on marriage and costume, random road markings, holes, the notion of being stranded, fractured or cast adrift. A current project (2016) is concerned with routes and identity.
A group exhibition at the Crypt Gallery in August 2016 featured images from a project inspired by the rusty hull of a boat washed up on the rocks at Daymer Bay.
A Liverpool painter who worked in Cornwall, Sussex, Wales, Devon and the Isle of Man. He exhibited at the RA and elsewhere, working mainly in watercolour. It was while working in a cotton merchant's office in Liverpool that he was persuaded to take up painting fulltime. He specialised in marine scenes and coastal villages and Cornwall became one of his regular destinations. He painted a number of scenes of Polperro during the 1880s and 1890s before moving to Anglesey.
Carole McDowall's studies were in sculpture and printmaking at Putney Art School in London (1970's), and she began exhibiting in mixed shows from that time. She studied fine art at Sir John Cass College, then moved to Cornwall in 1989. Here she has shown frequently with the Penwith and Newlyn Societies of Artists, and in touring exhibitions and solo shows.
Karen McEndoo completed a foundation degree at North Devon College, going on to study graphics and illustration at Somerset College, Taunton. She spent much of her early life in Africa but has made her home in Tregony on the Roseland peninsula. She exhibits widely in Cornwall and Devon.
Robbie McEwan is a wood turner, carver and painter who specialises in pyrography (the art of burning designs onto wood). After 10 years in Australia he has returned to Cornwall and is based in Penzance.
Florence McGillivray was a Canadian painter of landscapes, still life and portraits, who visited St Ives in 1910 and possibly also in 1912, en route to France. While her presence in the town at this time is unrecorded, several paintings of St Ives by her appeared at auction in Toronto in 2012. After studying at the Ontario School of Art, she became a teacher and occasional critic. Her work was exhibited publicly for the first time in 1881. Outside of Canada, her work was shown in New York, London and Paris (Salon de Beaux Arts).
On a visit to France in 1913 she became influenced by the Impressionists and Fauves. After returning to Canada in 1914 her works entered public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada. It was felt that her European experience had given her a new vision for painting the Canadian landscape. She later moved to Ottowa, becoming a founder member of the Ottawa Group of artists.
Hazel McGregor is a member of Lands End School of Art. She runs community art projects and teaches textile courses in the Hayle/Camborne/Redruth areas.
McGrigor stated in her Will of 15th January 1923, that ".. Of my pictures which I have painted - two pictures are in the care of Mrs Ward at South Terrace." Her address at the time was Mavisbank, Paul, Newlyn.