Mat McIvor is an artist living and working in Penzance. In 2018 he created a large-scale mural celebrating the links between Cornwall and Brittany. This was shown at the 'Festival Interceltique' in Lorient, Brittany, at the end of which it was formally handed over to the Festival's director for display at future events.
A painting by this artist, entitled Boathouse, St Just-in-Roseland (oil on canvas) is in the collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Tracy McKenna works from her garden studio in Treluswell, near Penryn. She grew up in a northern mill town on the edge of the Pennines. After studying Art and Design at Nelson & Colne College, she graduated with a BA (Hons) at the Arts University Bournemouth.
McKinlay was listed in the 1891 Census as an Art Sudent sharing lodgings with the then art student (later to be author) Charles J LEE. They resided at Lower Green Street, Newlyn. Nothing further is currently known about this artist.
A landscape artist, John McKinstry was born in Hertfordshire but is currently based in Cornwall. His work has been exhibited widely across the UK.
Elisa McLeod was born in London. In 2005 she obtained a BA (Hons) Degree at University College in Falmouth. She lives in Penryn. Her paintings explore the intervention of man-made structures on the rural landscape. Elisa has exhibited widely in Cornwall, and her work has also been shown in London and Bristol. Her paintings are held in private collections in France and New York, as well as the UK.
McMahon was noted by Whybrow as working from 9 Bellair Terrace in her 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Ben McManigan is a craftsman potter working in Cornwall. He makes hand thrown studio pottery in porcelain and stoneware, using unusual glazes. His speciality is 'raku' ware.
Barbara McMillan studied at Bath Academy of Art. She then worked as an art editor in Boston, USA, travelling extensively throughout the continent. Her flower paintings are inspired by the tropical flora of Singapore, where she spent a few months. She now lives near Fowey. Her work has been exhibited in Fowey, Padstow and Camelford, and also at the Lander Gallery in Truro.
McNally was born in Northamptonshire and came to St Ives in 1973. She had studied art at Northampton and also at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London, prior to establishing her studio in Cornwall.
Minnie McNaughton lives in Feock, near Truro.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Martine McPherson is a mixed media artist whose seascapes reflect her interest in sailing and marine science.
A St Ives exhibitor, Dr McVie used one of the Island Studios, Porthmeor Road, which were managed through the Lanham's agency. He was a retired medical doctor, who also acted as the Treasurer of STISA in 1918-19. Exhibiting his work on Show Days, he also showed with the Cornish group of artists in their Exhibition in Plymouth in 1922.
Listed in the 1901 Census as a boarder at Draycott Terrace, St Ives, a 40 year old artist/painter from Maidstone.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives.
A St Ives Exhibitor and the wife of Arthur MEADE (1863-1942), his biography in Hardie (2009) reveals what little we know of Mabel. Reputedly from Dorchester, Dorset, Mabel and Arthur, with their daughter Celia, lived on the terrace at St Ives before moving to Trelyon Hill in Godrevy in 1904.
Nothing is yet known about her creative work, although an M E Meade was a signatory of the Glanville letter in 1898, about land developments in St Ives, and this may well have been Mrs Meade.
Arthur Meade was born in Burrowbridge, Somerset. After studying in Paris under Gerome and at Bushey under Herkomer, Meade arrived in St Ives in 1890. Initially a traditional painter of landscapes, Meade's palette lightened over the years as he painted coastal and harbour subjects. Primarily a landscape artist, he also painted portraits and figures, and at one stage became well-known for his bluebell depictions (his critics nicknaming him "Bluebell Meade").
Meade participated in the opening exhibition at NAG in 1895, displaying a landscape. He then travelled across the west of England painting 'Wessex' subjects in Thomas Hardy's Dorset. Working first from a studio in Back Road, St Ives in 1895, and also from a studio at Lelant, he lived at 2 Bowling Green before moving to 'Godrevy', Trelyon Hill in 1904, where he remained for the rest of his life. From that address, he exhibited on four occasions at the Paris Salon (1905,11,12,13) receiving an Honourable Mention for his painting Une clairiere de campanelles.
At St Ives Show Day in 1911 he exhibited two paintings of Porthminster Beach, Knill Monument, and two portraits in oils.
The year following his death, an Arthur Meade exhibition was mounted in St Ives at Lanham's Gallery.
His wife was Mrs. Mabel MEADE, also an artist about whom little is known. In 1892 the couple had a son, Paul, followed by a daughter, Celia, a year later.
Meadows was born in the East End of London, and was an exceptionally successful marine and landscape painter, travelling extensively and selling widely.
Helford Creek was the subject of a landscape painting by Meadows, (oil on board), signed, 7x12 Inches, and included in WCAA picture file as found in Barnes Thomas auction catalogue (2011). No further detail is known about this artist's connection with Cornwall as yet.
An artist with the initials A K Meadows sold Kings Tor Dartmoor at NAG in 1898, and this may be the same artist.
Jamie Medlin is a Falmouth-based marine artist of international renown.
After studying Illustration at Falmouth School of Art & Design, he pursued a career in London and Australia. Since returning home to his roots in Cornwall, Jamie's focus has been on the subjects closest to his heart - seascapes and yachting - which are rendered in a photo-realist style.
He is represented by the Rountree Tryon Gallery in London, and in the USA by the Russell Jinishian Gallery.
Locally, his work has been on show at the Fowey River Gallery, Trebah Gardens and Bedruthan Hotel.
Baz Mehew is well known in West Cornwall thanks to his promotion of local artists for many years through two separate galleries on Bread Street, Penzance. His own work and experience is in sculpting in a range of materials and stones, such as serpentine (from the Lizard). His carvings have a primitive feel and mainly represent birds, heads, and various animals. He works from his studio at Lower Trevelloe Cottages, Lamorna.
He exhibits with the Lamorna Valley Group.
Roy Meldrum is a painter whose work has been shown extensively in Cornwall and Devon. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Mellis was born in Wu-Kung-Fu, China in 1914, the child of Scottish parents, and was returned to Scotland by the age of one. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, where one of her tutors was the Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe. From 1932 through 1938 she received several awards and scholarships enabling her to travel and study in Paris. For two years she traveled and painted in Spain and Italy before returning to a Fellowship at the College in Edinburgh. In 1938 she worked at the Euston Road School, London, and married Adrian STOKES, the painter and art critic, whom she had first met in France.
She and Adrian Stokes acquired Little Parc Owles, St Ives as the impending war in 1939 led to the dispersal of the Hampstead (London) group of artists. The couple invited Barbara HEPWORTH and Ben NICHOLSON to join them until they found local accommodation. During this period her work was primarily in collage and relief carving, though she returned to painting in 1945. And it was to visit Margaret that Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM first came to St Ives, as they had been students together in Scotland. This was the advent of the moderns and, as Whybrow summarises, 'The New Era'.
She and Adrian had one son, Telfer. In 1946 the couple were divorced and two years later she married the painter Francis Davison. Together with Telfer they spent two years travelling in France. Moving to Norfolk in the early 1950s, they enjoyed a life of rural self-sufficiency in an atmosphere of mutually supportive creativity, in which both artists turned to abstraction. In 1976 Margaret's rheumatoid arthritis necessitated a move to Southwold, Suffolk. Here she recovered her health and began to create driftwood constructions. She was widowed in 1984 when Davison died of a brain tumour.
Mellis exhibited widely throughout the UK, exhibiting from time to time in Cornwall.
In 2001 the Newlyn Art Gallery together with the Austin/Desmond Fine Art Gallery sponsored a Solo Exhibition which featured her work in both galleries.