Agnieszka Niesluchowska works from KROWJI Studios, Redruth.
Since graduating from University College Falmouth in 2000, Jen Nightingale has worked as a freelance illustrator for clients including Macmillan Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Penhaligons Friends, Blue Reef Aquarium and the National Maritime Museum.
Born in Reigate, Surrey, his father was an ironmonger of St Ives origin. Ninnes studied at West of England College of Art, Bristol, then at the Slade under Tonks and Steer. He married Edyth Mary Day in 1930 and settled in St Ives. Tovey gives him the compliment of being 'an extremely important figure in STISA, serving on the committee from 1932-63, and within that as Vice President and Chairman from 1949-54. He was also President of STIAC in 1936, and in 1953 was founder of the St Ives Society for the Advancement of Music and Arts.
A distinctive artist admired for his "modern" touch in 1930s and 1940s, his work is sadly neglected now. Initially he worked from Dolphin Studio and made a strong impression on Borlase SMART in 1932. In 1938 he left St Ives and gave an address in Dublin for exhibition purposes. The following year he listed Guildford, Surrey as his base, but then returned to St Ives in 1940, living in the Ayr district.
By 1962, he had shown over 135 works in exhibitions of STISA and RBA but had ceased exhibiting by 1963 due to ill health. Altogether he tackled a wide range of subjects-landscapes, marine paintings, town and harbour scenes, interiors, figure paintings, still life, producing bold and distinctive work in all.
Lesley Ninnes began painting regularly in the 1980s while she was living abroad. Initially she produced botanical illustrations, which were subsequently incorporated into a book. Later she painted land and seascapes. After returning to her home town of St Ives, Lesley joined Art Space Co-operative Gallery.
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, he studied at the Slade and at South Kensington. Nixon painted in oil and watercolour, mostly landscape and topographical scenes, and was also known for etchings, drypoints and line engravings which he started in 1913. He exhibited in all media, the most impact being in etchings and drypoints. Rome scholar 1923.
Visited Falmouth in 1929 and then moved to Cornwall in 1931 at the urging of Lamorna BIRCH, settling originally in Lamorna where he lived at the Riverside Studios, 1931-33. In 1931, headlines were made in the Daily Mail, the Western Morning News and The Cornishman, excited by the exhibition of Nixon's painting Gipsies at the Newlyn Art Gallery, 'the biggest splash of colour in the gallery that the gallery has ever known' (See Hardie 1995 for repr of cuttings, p83).
He was married to fellow artist, Nina BERRY. They moved to St Ives in 1934 and briefly ran a School of Painting in Back Road West while also working from St Peter's Studio. His teaching ability was much admired and he was well-liked in the colony. In 1935 he returned to London to teach at the Slade, therefore their involvement with St Ives was relatively brief. He died at the early age of 47.
Born in Surrey, Emily Ash graduated from Goldsmith's College, London in Fine Art (Textiles, 1st Class Hons). The following year she was awarded a British Council Postgraduate scholarship to study tapestry and sculpture in Warsaw, Poland.
Returning to Britain, she spent the years from 1990 to 1992 in Edinburgh, Scotland where she set up and directed the Ash Gallery, curating and organising art and craft shows alongside her own work. In 1993, she was chosen to be the Director of the Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, the first full-time woman Director of the Company, the youngest Gallery director in the country, and the first practising artist to hold that position. [Curators before 1974 were not 'Directors' as such, and only a very few such as Henry RHEAM and Percy CRAFT in the early days, and Michael CANNEY in the 1960s were artists as well as curators and organisers.] She managed her post with distinction, curating and organising an array of contemporary art and craft exhibitions.
In 1995, she led the planning for the massive retrospective for the centennial of NAG, with all the celebrations to accompany that grand occasion. As that set of events was approaching, she was also overseeing 'the most important redevelopment of the Newlyn Art Gallery since it was built a century ago' (Douglas Williams, Western Morning News, April, 1994). Made ready in advance of the centennial year, this included new flooring, a completely new arrangement of rooms and gallery spaces, and the addition of a lift between floors and modernised toilet facilities amongst other improvements.
The centennial year opened with an Arts Council Collection of work selected from 27 contemporary artists, and continued with a major show by Terry FROST - New Work at Eighty. From June until August, she curated 'Newlyn Art Gallery: 100 Years, Context and Continuity' in three parts: Newlyn School (1895-1939); The Middle Period; Continuity.
With her marriage to the graphic designer, Martin Nixon, and the advent of children, Emily resigned in 2000, and has begun a new and successful career in jewellery making, creating contemporary handcrafted pieces from silver, gold, other art metals and rare gems. She exhibits locally, and also widely at Trade and Craft fairs around the UK.
Peter Noble is a landscape painter who lives and works at the 'One Life Community' ecological farm project on the Lizard peninsula.
An artist from Kirkaldy, Scotland, aged 46, is identified in the 1891 Census as boarding at 37 Barnoon Villas in the home of Samuel Williams, Fisherman. Another artist, Francis SAVAGE from London is boarding there at the same time. Noe does not appear further in the artists' lists.
Born on 13 May 1847, in Mariestad, Sweden, the artist is known to have exhibited from 1885-1901, although she does not appear in the NAG exhibition records (incomplete).
A Newlyn address is listed for her in 1888 in the records of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, but by 1890 this had been superseded by a Swedish address. Nonetheless, she was sending work back to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, as Newlyn was exhibited there in 1891 and she continued to send in for the next ten years to British exhibitions. She died in 1916 on 10th September at Skara, Sweden. Her titles include Baby and Galway.
Vicki Norman works from Gwavas House on Sandy Cove in Newlyn, from where she conducts workshops and events. She has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London and her work has won awards both in Europe and the USA.
An American painter, born Belle Elkin MITCHELL, who moved from Kansas to the UK with her parents in the late 1880s, in her teens. After a successful early career as a pianist, Belle married John Thomas Norman in 1897. The couple settled in Surrey and had three sons but separated in 1904. Belle moved to Peaslake, where she and her children shared a home with Adah Franks, an unmarried women friend, who was an artist.
Here Belle took up painting and adopted the name 'Da Loria'. She began to build a career as an artist. Contemporaries saw in her work a likeness to that of William Blake. Da Loria enjoyed unusual success practising book illumination, working also as a painter in oils and watercolour. She became well known too for her murals and needlework. She collaborated with Walter Crane and developed an affinity for the Arts and Crafts Movement.
In 1911, seeking artistic stimulus, Da Loria spent several months in St Ives. The census for 1911 gives her address as '18 The Terrace' which she and her sons shared with Adah Franks. Returning to London, she took a studio in Camden Mews. In 1914 one of her paintings was exhibited in the Louvre.
On the eve of the First World War, Norman returned to the USA for good. In New York City her circle included the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. She exhibited widely and undertook some significant private commissions. Nowadays her work is almost unknown, but the Smithsonian American Art Museum has a number of her paintings, and her papers are held in the Archives of American Art.
Born on 25 March 1863, the third son of Archdeacon Norris of Bristol. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College before he became an art student. In his earlier years as a professional artist he shared a studio with Charles FURSE.
His earlier work included portraits in oils, but his intense love of nature prevailed, and it is as a water-colour artist that his work has long been known. He married Mabel STEVENSON of Hedgerley Park, Bucks and they had three sons.
Norris was present in St Ives on 31 August 1888 to attend the Chantrey Purchase celebratory dinner for Adrian STOKES, as shown by his bold signature on Alfred EAST's menu designed for the evening. (Tovey Fig1.4, p20) The earliest known Cornish title by Norris is found by Bednar to be 1890, his RA titles including Washing Day, Newlyn. At the 1895 Opening at Newlyn the artist was noticed: 'sends a finely composed canal scene and a sketch of moorland which almost brings the scent of the heather into the gallery.' He died on 24th May 1942.
A sculptor based in Leedstown, Paul Norris creates carvings in stone.
Student from London art school, who visited St Ives, noted by Marriott. The artist died in action in WWI.
Mentioned in St Ives Times (from WMN) and originally from Taunton, but may not be locally based. Possibly John William NORTH.
Mentioned in the St Ives Times 1920, and is probably J W North, ARA.
Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire on 15 November 1857 (GRO), he studied at Antwerp (1882). For the 1886 RA exhibition, he gave his sending-in address as Cliff House, Newlyn. He and his wife were mentioned by Stanhope FORBES in a letter to his mother (19 Nov 1885) which clearly implies that they were not new arrivals at that time.
His life was cut very short, however, as he died on 9 February, 1887 at age 29 in Huddersfield (GRO).
The artist, born in Honiton, Devon, married Beatrice (from Barnstaple), and lived at Bellair Terrace, St Ives, lodging with the Noall family (1891).
Writer who compiled Highways & Byways in Devon & Cornwall (Macmillan & Co, illustrated by Joseph PENNELL and Hugh THOMPSON). Chapter XVII is about the Penzance to Land's End area and around the coast to Zennor and St Ives Bay. The illustrations are in the form of sketches and line drawings, and include the standard sights of St. Michael's Mount, a panoramic view over Penzance, Market Jew Street, Newlyn backstreets and rocky promontories around Land's End, finishing with a sketch of boats in the bay of St Ives (but no mention of artists there). The author makes the striking statement (p 297) 'there is not much to say about Penzance; while the settlement of certain distinguished artists at Newlyn has made that little fishy town as familiar as Kensington.'
Richard Nott obtained a BA in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic, followed by an MA in Fine Art at the University of Reading. He then worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. In 1994 he won the South West Arts Visual Arts & Photography Award, and this was followed by a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia.
He worked for many years from Porthmeor Studios and subsequently from his own studio complex at The Forge in Hayle. Towards the end of his life he worked from Bay House, overlooking St Michael's Mount.
His many solo shows included a long period being represented by Anima Mundi in St Ives. He also exhibited at Chashama on Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
He is widely regarded as one of Cornwall's most influential and ambitious contemporary artists, creating a singular body of work which continually pushed the parameters of painting.
After a long illness, during which he continued to make art, Richard Nott died in 2025.