Pamela Mulholland is a painter and printmaker who divides her time between Cornwall and Epping Forest.
Born at Munchengladbach in the Rhineland of Germany, Franz was the eldest of seven children. His father was an industrialist and thought that Franz would succeed him, but art was his major interest.
He first exhibited in a Swiss exhibition in 1886, demonstrating the talent necessary to make a success of art. He studied at the School of Art, Dusseldorf, and in 1899 came to Cornwall to study, first at the FORBES SCHOOL and later with Julius OLSSON. In 1905 he taught painting in Penzance.
By 1914 he was interned as a prisoner of war and due to ill health was repatriated to Germany. There he was commissioned on a number of occasions by the Kaiser to produce monumental works of art. After the war he settled in Switzerland and continued regular visits to Cornwall; he left St Ives during the Munich crisis of 1938 (Whybrow). He died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1946.
Mulrooney was born in Glasgow but moved to Cornwall in 2011, settling in Penzance. She studied art in St Ives, at the University of Plymouth and the Slade in London. She has taught in the UK, Europe and Oman, and has exhibited widely in Devon, France and the Middle East.
Her work is based on the human form, with a particular focus on movement and body language.
Born in Columbia, Alice works from a studio in Hayle. She studied at Dartington Hall in Devon, Southwark College of Arts & Design, Camberwell School of Art, and also at Falmouth College of Art. Known especially for her still lifes in piercingly vivid colour, both cool and hot simultaneously, she also teaches with the St Ives School of Painting.
She has exhibited widely, both in London and locally, and one of her solo shows ran at Badcock's Gallery, Newlyn prior to its closure. Entitled 'Colour Blast', the Cornishman's review led with the banner, 'Vivid colours will blow your mind', featuring a photo likeness of Alice in front of her painting Blue Square (What's on, Cornishman, 14 Oct 2010). Her mother is the watercolourist Janet TRELOAR.
An American artist who appears to have been in Cornwall in the fairly early days. One of his paintings, Cornish trawlers at rest (1879) is in the Sudley House collection at Liverpool. It is suggested by a correspondent that an image by G F Munn on BBC Your Paintings is a view of Newlyn? Any further information welcome.
The son of a miller, Munnings was born in Mendham on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. He was educated at Redenhall Grammar School and Framlingham College. At age 14, he was apprenticed for six years to the firm of Page Brothers, lithographers, in Norwich where he was noticed by John Shaw Tomkins, a director of Caley's Chocolates, who became his earliest patron. In 1902 he went to Paris to study at Julian's Academy for a few weeks, a practice he repeated several times. He also attended Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting in Finchingfield, Essex. A passion for horses and horse painting led him to acquire the first of a succession of horses, both to ride and paint. He also visited race meetings and gypsy horse fairs.
In 1910 Munnings moved to Cornwall, which he had already briefly visited, arriving in Newlyn with a group of girl models and soon becoming the life and soul of the artist community in Lamorna. A converted mill served as both studio and stabling for his horses. He became infatuated with a young art student, Florence CARTER-WOOD, who modeled on horseback for him; they were married in 1912, but this disastrous marriage ended with her suicide in 1914.
Records do not show that he ever exhibited in galleries in Cornwall, and since his death his work has been included in only one Cornish exhibition, as promoted by the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol (1992) Artists from Cornwall. However, since there is no list of exhibits in the accompanying exhibition catalogue, it is not known what work(s) of his were chosen.
A five-week stay at Mrs. Griggs' at Zennor in 1913 resulted in many fine paintings of his horses and groom, Ned Osborne. In 1917 he joined the army and a year later was sent to France as a war artist for the Canadian Cavalry, resulting in more paintings and memorials. Never afraid to show his dislike for modern art, at the opening of the Stanhope FORBES Memorial Exhibition in Newlyn (1949), he urged those attending 'to march' on the Tate as Forbes' The Health of the Bride was languishing in the basement while "absurd paintings by Matisse were hung preciously on the walls with half a mile between each one".
In 1919 Munnings bought Castle House in Dedham, Essex, and the following year married his second wife, Violet, also a horsewoman. He died in Dedham in 1959, aged 80.
Munnings became president of the Royal Academy in 1944. An outspoken critic of modernism, he gave a speech in 1949 at a Royal Academy banquet condemning modern art as 'damned nonsense'. This damaged his reputation considerably, but his landscapes continue to be highly regarded.
Munro taught visual studies and life drawing, part-time, at Falmouth College of Arts (2000).
A painting by this artist, A Falmouth Garden (1982) is part of the permanent collection of NAG.
Stuart Murdoch is a sculptor living on the Lizard peninsula. He was born in Epping and brought up in Harlow. His father was a stonemason and his grandfather was a master carpenter. He undertook a foundation course in art at Harlow Technical College, subsequently becoming a student at Stoke-on-Trent College of Art. After graduating, he joined the BBC's Visual Effects department. After 15 years he went on to create his own special effects company in west London.
In 2004 he and his wife, Sally, and their children moved to Cornwall. Since then Murdoch has worked on a number of installations at the Eden Project. He has also worked as a technician on the BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts course at Falmouth University.
Julie Murdoch-George graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2005 with a BA (Hons) in Ceramics. Her distinctive hand-crafted work contains elements of femininity and retro nostalgia. She is based in Hayle.
Helen Murgatroyd is a printmaker based in north Cornwall. Food and still-life imagery are among the themes which she explores via a number of different printmaking techniques.
A sculptor living near Chysauster in west Penwith, Lawrence Murley specialises in carving animals from serpentine, which is found on the Lizard peninsula. He also uses marble sourced from quarries in Ireland, Turkey or the USA. His pieces have a lustrous finish.
Before taking up sculpting full-time in 1997, Murley worked in tin mining at Geevor. After marrying, he and his wife spent a few years living in the USA, where their children were born. On returning to Cornwall he became committed to his art practice, and has been rewarded with representation by a number of galleries, and sales of his work in the USA. Exhibiting venues include the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives, Trelissick Gallery in Feock, Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula and the Customs House, Porthleven.
He is an expert at karate and a proficient surfer, having taken up the latter at the age of 47.
Murley's mother is the highly regarded sculptor Theresa GILDER.
Born at Templemere, Cork, Ireland, she lived permanently at Mosstown House, Co Longford.
She arrived in Cornwall to study at the FORBES SCHOOL for two separate periods, approximately 1904 (as Miss Chester) and again in 1908 under her married name (See Hardie 2009 pp77-82).
Murray had a spectacular success with his first one-man show at the Lemon Street Gallery in 2009, somewhat surprising as he hails from faraway Scotland. However, that success has encouraged the Gallery to invite him once again for their Summer Exhibition 28 May - 25 June, describing his work as from 'an emerging Scottish talent, creating bright, beautiful still life and landscapes...'
Born in Brighton, the artist was a pupil at the FORBES SCHOOL (c1906-10), acquiring the affectionate nickname of 'Mitrat' from the circle of artists around 'Fryn' JESSE and 'Mibs' (Elizabeth FORBES) who produced the Paper Chase local magazine. Musgrave contributed 'The Diary of an Art Student' to the 1908 Paper Chase.
Though it is known that he exhibited at NAG, there are no sales recorded for him in the period. British sources report his home as being in Fittleworth, Sussex. He also studied in Munich, and exhibited at the RA in 1911. By 1916 he had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he remained, and he also worked at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where his summer home was located at Truro (a tiny rural village).
The artist worked in the West Cornwall area from approximately 1885-1910, and lived at the Cliff House Hotel. He exhibited 17 works at RA, including A Breezy Day in Mid Channel, Near the Lizard, Cornwall and Off the Needles.
A Leeds-born artist who, together with his wife Gitte, spent some time during World War II in Polperro. His brother was the political cartoonist John MUSGRAVE-WOOD. The family were well-known in Polperro as their sister Florence Wood set up an antiques business in the village after the death of her husband in 1935.
Like his brother Gerald MUSGRAVE-WOOD, Leeds-born John Musgrave-Wood was well known in Polperro circles. He became the political cartoonist 'Mel Emmwood', working for the Tatler and Bystander, then the Sunday Express and the Evening Standard, and finally the Daily Mail.
He contributed an oil painting and several caricatures to the 1948 exhibition of the East Cornwall Society of Artists.
The family were well-known in Polperro as their sister Florence Wood set up an antiques business in the village after the death of her husband in 1935.
New work by this artist was included in the 2009 exhibition at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, entitled 'The Flower Show' which focussed on ceramic vessels for the art of flower display.
An established painter of classical themes, fairies and landscape, with a special interest in coastal scenes, Naish painted along the Devon and Cornish coasts and on Scilly.
Frederick Naish was born in Bristol but moved to St Ives, where he had a studio and gift shop.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Armorel Nance was educated at King Alfred School, Hampstead, London and trained in art at the Slade School, the Royal College of Art and the British School at Athens.
She lived at Pentowan in Carbis Bay while in Cornwall.