Lucy Middleton is a member of Art Space Gallery, a co-operative group based in St Ives.
Juliet Middleton-Batts works from a studio in St Ives. She describes herself as 'a storyteller who likes to represent the hidden or overlooked in unexpected ways'.
She has an MA in Contemporary Art from Plymouth University and her work has been exhibited in London and the south west.
A graduate of London's Royal College of Art, Colin Mier was a practising illustrator while lecturing at Kingston University, Kent Institute of Art & Design and course advisor at De Montfort University. In 2013 he moved to Falmouth with his family, to focus on printmaking, in particular, screenprinting. He maintains a base in London which enables him to continue working with contacts there.
His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and beyond.
A member of the industrial class working with copper, before World War I.
June Miles was an outstanding landscape and still life painter, with a soft, gentle but vividly colourful palette. Her exhibitions represented work carried out not only in Cornwall, but also in France, where she and her late husband Paul MOUNT maintained a second home. Both her daughters, Helen FEILER and Christine FEILER, are also artists of greatly refined sensitivity: Helen with her jewellery and textiles, and Christine with her porcelain and ceramic exhibition pieces.
June was born in London, the daughter of William Miles, a Royal Marine engineer, and his wife Constance (nee Temple). She spent the first six years of life near Hong Kong. She gained a place at the Slade School of Art at the age of 17, where she studied painting under Randolph Schwabe. During WWII she drew maps for the Admiralty Drawing Office.
The artist was the first wife of painter Paul FEILER, and the couple moved to Bristol where their three children (Anthony, Helen and Christine) were born. She moved to Cornwall when the couple separated, though she continued to teach at Bristol Polytechnic and the Folk House in Bristol. An superb portraitist, she displayed an unwavering drive and determination that sustained her work and prevented her qualities as a painter from being overshadowed by marriages to two well-established artists.
In 1978 she married the sculptor Paul MOUNT and together they had studios in St Just-in-Penwith, where they also lived. At that stage June became fascinated with still life, one of the two major dedicated themes of her working life along with the landscapes. She worked directly on her canvases, letting them evolve as she worked, without using sketches.
June was a medallist at the Women's International Art Club in Paris (1968) and her work is in permanent collections in the Plymouth and Bristol City art galleries, and in the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). She had a long series of solo shows including at the RWA, the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath, Newlyn Gallery, Penwith Gallery, and Lemon Street Gallery in Truro.
In a review in The Cornishman in 2004, Frank Ruhrmund wrote: '... there is a sense of peace in her work that passes all understanding ... An artist who has never courted publicity, never owned a trumpet of her own let alone blown it, June Miles must be one of the most retiring, unassuming and consequently one of the most underrated of the many artists practising in Penwith.'
Paul Mount died in 2009. June Miles was known for her exceptional warmth and steady kindness to family and friends. She died, aged 96, in 2021.
Sculptor based just outside St Ives, working mainly with wood: 'My sculptures are largely intuitive. The selected block contains a form peculiar to me. My task is to release it. I must have no fixed idea about the sculpture. This destroys the dialogue between the material and myself...art is only a stepladder to wider consciousness.'
Laetitia Miles creates pots in white earthenware in a French provincial style, which serve as everyday domestic pieces. She has taught pottery at adult education level. Her work has been exhibited at Beside the Sea, Padstow; Cotehele House; Guild of Ten, Truro; and Spindrift Gallery, Portscatho.
Tracey Miles was born in Wiltshire and studied in Cardiff, where in 1986 she gained a BA in Fine Art, followed by a PGCE in 2003. She lives in Constantine, near Falmouth and works from Krowji Studios, Redruth. Her images are based around the female form and she is an accomplished portrait painter.
The artist is the great granddaughter of Sir John Everett MILLAIS.
James Henry Millar was born St John’s Wood, London, an artist who specialised in waterscapes in oils. One of his works is reputedly owned by the Queen and hangs in Osborne House, Isle of Wight. He married Mabel Key, of Trevone in Padstow, Cornwall (b1873), and the couple had at least one son, James Henry Bright Millar (1898-1917) who was born at Trevone, and died in the course of the Battle of Arras Bridge (WWI). Their son, known as Bright Millar was named for his great-grandfather, the well-known watercolourist, Henry Bright, artist of the Norwich School, after whom he took his name. Fanny Bright, the daughter of Henry (and Bright's grandmother) lived at Trevone with the Millar family. [Please note] This information was researched by Peter Smith, who is currently writing a book about Padstow’s part in the Great War. Anyone wishing to correct errors or supply additional information can write to him at 24 Mallard Drive, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 5PW. Also phone 01825 762226 or email smithpeter24@gmail.com Further information has come from Ipswich, and correspondent Tony Copsey (2013) about Millar and is added in its entirety for genealogical interest:Another member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club James H C Millar: born at Marylebone, London in 1863, son of James Lawrence Millar (1840-1881) and his wife Fanny Susanna Ellen nee Bright, who was born at Saxmundham, Suffolk, and married at Marylebone in 1862. His mother was a niece of artist Henry Bright [q.v.]. In 1871 he and his 32 year old mother were living at 41 Clifton Road, Marylebone, the home of her aunt, 62 year old widow Margaret Todd, a stationer. His father died in 1881, aged 41, when Fanny was a 40-year old [sic] boarding house proprietor living at 11 Harrington Road, Kensington with 17 year old James, a student. By 1891 James, now a 27 year old landscape painter was living at The Bryn, Padstow, Cornwall with his 52 year old mother and an indoor servant. He married in the Liskeard district of Cornwall in 1895, Mabel Josephine Key, but in 1901 was a 37 year old married artist boarding at 27 New Cavendish Street, Cornwall. In 1911 a 47 year old artist living at Trevone, Padstow, Cornwall with his 75 year old mother, 36 year old wife and their five children, all born in Cornwall, a tutor and an indoor servant. He died in the Truro district in 1929, aged 65.
Born in London on 29 August, 1857 (GRO), he studied in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens, being a contemporary there of Henry Scott TUKE in 1882. Millard appeared in the group photograph of Newlyn artists in 1884. In 1889 his address was at Belmont, Paul Hill, and in 1891 (age 39) he lived in Fore Street, Newlyn. Lodging in the same Trahair household was the artist S K M BLACKBURN (sic).
Wood notes his association with the Newlyn colony in 1893, but follows him no further, and the artist departed Newlyn before the opening of NAG in 1895, hence no gallery records exist for him. However, Millard was one of the original artists of the group, if not a major one, and one of Bateman's studios in the Meadow was constructed for him. In 1887, a small note in the Cornish Telegraph reported on a violent accident on the cricket field at Tregenna Castle, whereby Millard and Phil Whiting were in a scrum resulting in a fractured nose for one and a 'brain concussion' to the other. Both were playing for the Newlyn team on this occasion, and both were rendered unconscious and had to be removed to the house of 'Mr Simmonds on the Terrace'. It was projected to be a long wait before either sufferer would be well enough to emerge.
A genre painter, he exhibited mainly at SS, and also at the RA, early titles including The Convalescent, Bad News and Walls Have Ears. By 1894, he had moved to Hampstead, London, and in 1896 his address was in Boreham Wood, where Tuke frequently visited him by bicycle in the 1899-1905 period. Tuke also mentions in his diary that Millard had a 'dock studio' in Falmouth in 1902, and it is clear he maintained a home in Falmouth while living primarily in the London area for a number of years. Later he returned with his wife to live on Cliff Road at Falmouth, though continuing to exhibit in London (primarily with the RBA). He died in London, age 80 on 13 October, 1937 (GRO).
The St Ives Times noticed in 1913 that this artist and singer was taking classes in painting with John Noble BARLOW.
Mandy Miller was born in Falmouth and studied at Falmouth School of Art, completing a foundation course in Art and Design.
In 1987 Melanie Miller obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. This was followed by an MA in Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 2002. She moved from London to Cornwall during the pandemic.
Her work, with a strong focus on the natural world, has been exhibited widely in the UK, and also in Europe and the USA.
Born in Glasgow in 1887, the artist studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1906-9), and also travelled to study in Paris, Vienna, Munich (1909-10) and Berlin.
In the Summer Show of 1921, he exhibited at NAG, signing-in as Haswell-Miller. He was assistant Professor at the Glasgow School of Art between 1910 and 1930, with a gap during the First World War. Subsequently, he was Keeper and then Deputy Director of the National Galleries of Scotland between 1930 and 1952.
Haswell Miller specialised in the painting of portraits, especially the military portraits for which he is known today, landscapes and architectural subjects. He was also a noted illustrator of books.
American artist from St Louis, Missouri who studied in St Louis and then worked in Paris, enrolling at Julian's Académie and teaching at Atelier Colarossi. Influenced by WHISTLER and MONET, his paintings are reminiscent of Impressionism. He visited St Ives on a working holiday in 1914.
John Miller was a kind and generous patron to many good causes, frequently supporting museums, churches and schools by the donation of paintings that could be auctioned, raffled or sold on behalf of the relevant mission. Taking an essentially religious perspective on life, John played a significant pastoral role in Anglican activities in Cornwall in later years.
Arriving in Cornwall in the 1950s with his long-time friend, colleague and partner Michael Truscott, John's architectural skills were immediately put to use in the re-design and adaptations made to the Newlyn Art Gallery. His style in painting changed dramatically over time, from early figurative landscapes of great beauty and detail to later abstract sea and landscapes of vivid blocks of colour depicting the horizon where the sea meets the sky.
An extensive collection of his work was donated by his estate, after his death in 2002, to be housed in the Sunrise Centre at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, 15 of which are illustrated in the Public Foundation Catalogue review of work by artists held in public collections (pp165-7). All of the illustrated works are untitled and represent his style in later life.
John was a lay canon at Truro Cathedral, and the creator of the large mural painting there: Cornubia-Land of the Saints.
His work was extremely popular, and he had many imitators. It was not unusual to find a John Miller seascape on the back wall of a soap show such as Coronation Street, or a china mug at a local coffee shop.
Born in New York, Lee Miller combined a career as a fashion model for Vogue magazine in the 1920s with her own fine art photography. In 1929 she encountered Man Ray in Paris, famously becoming his apprentice, muse and lover. During this period she made friends with Picasso, Paul Eluard and Jean Cocteau and became an enthusiastic participant in the Surrealist movement. Marriage to an Egyptian businessman resulted in three years living in Cairo, but on a trip to Paris in 1937, she met the surrealist Roland PENROSE.
The pair were instantly attracted to each other. On the spur of the moment Penrose invited her, along with a group of surrealist friends, to Lambe Creek on the Fal Estuary in Cornwall. Here, in a secluded house rented from his brother, the friends enjoyed three weeks of hedonistic pleasure. Though Lee's encounter with Cornwall was brief, this period, with the threat of impending conflict in Europe, was one of intense creativity, during which significant artistic relationships were forged.
During the Second World War, Lee Miller became a US war correspondent, photographing the German occupation of France, the Blitz in London, the liberation of Paris and, in 1945, documenting the horrors of the German concentration camps.
She and Roland Penrose were married in 1947 but the trauma of the scenes she had witnessed during the War affected her mental health. The couple had a son, Antony Penrose. She died in Sussex aged 70.
Nadia Miller works from The Stained Glass Workshop in St Agnes. She uses the Raku method of firing her ceramics.
Sophia Milligan describes herself as a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. She has a BA in Visual Arts and World History and an MA in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Cornwall, London, Europe and the USA.
Having graduated from Falmouth University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Jasmine Mills now works from Krowji Studios, Redruth.
In July 2022 she was named by the Saatchi Gallery blog 'Canvas' as 'One to Watch'. Each month, this blog showcases emerging artistic talent from around the world.
The artist arrived in St Ives from Cheltenham, after studying art at both Wakefield and Doncaster Art Schools. In the 1890s he exhibited views of Lelant at the RA.
From 1903 to the end of his life he lived at Zareba on Trelohyan Hill, but travelled extensively, painting not only in the Cotswolds and Kent, but also abroad in France, Spain and Portugal. At the March Show Day in 1911 he exhibited A Bracing Breeze to a Gale it Grew, Westward as the Sun Went Down, and Portalegre, all in oils, working from Piazza Studios, St Ives.
Working locally with STISA, he showed three large canvases at Show Day in 1924, and from 1926 with NAG. His titles include: Cotswold Stream ( RA 1912), The Pool (1913), Low Tide on Bar, Evening on the South Downs (1924), October Mists in Berkshire (1924), The Pool Below the Hatch, Willow Herb and On the Great Ouse. Tovey comments on his fascination for Corfe Castle (Dorset) which repeatedly featured in his work. He was survived by his wife, also an artist member of STISA (no records), who died in 1947.