The artist's work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance. Since 2006 she has held regular solo shows at Belgrave St Ives.
A painting by this artist, The Round Barn, Goonvrea Farm, St Agnes (oil on board), is part of the art collection of the St Agnes Museum, Cornwall.
Rebecca was born in Plymouth, Devon . She grew up in Fowey, Cornwall, and then near Tavistock, Devon. After a Foundation course at Plymouth College of Art and Design, she studied sculpture at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology, Cheltenham, for three years (1982-85) gaining a first class honours degree. She exhibited with The Nicholas Treadwell Gallery in Kent and Bradford for some years, where her work was shown at art fairs both in this country and Europe.
She returned to the West Country in 1987, and now lives and works on Bodmin moor in Cornwall, with her husband and two children. She has exhibited widely in England, has had several one person shows, and her work is represented in select galleries in Devon and Cornwall. In March 2000 she won the Black Swan painting prize, in Frome, Somerset.
Victoria Pond has spent most of her life in north Wales and Cornwall. She is based near the Helford Passage.
Ria Poole studied at Falmouth College of Art and is based in west Cornwall, where she finds the inspiration to paint en plein air. Her painting 'Phoenix' was shortlisted for the Cardiff M.A.D.E. Art Prize in 2016. In addition her work has been shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year Award (2018), Black Swan Open Art Prize (2019) and Creates Emerging Artist Award (2020).
Alongside her participation in Open Studios Cornwall 2022, in her role as psychologist she offers tutoring and creative mentoring sessions.
Simon Pooley was born in Cheshire, and then trained as an architect at Kingston Polytechnic. After completing his studies he worked as an architect in Sheffield in the North of England.
In 1992 he moved to Cornwall and settled at St Buryan (not far from Sheffield in Cornwall!), and has been a full-time artist since then. His work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery and Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance.
Born in Birmingham. A Founder member of the Birmingham Art Circle with Walter LANGLEY, Edwin HARRIS, Phil Whiting, William Banks FORTESCUE, he also visited or lived in Newlyn. (Ref Langley, Note 8, p144) Studied under Edward WATSON, H LINES and Samuel LINES.
Roger Langley in his new work (2011) on Walter LANGLEY and the Birmingham artists' connections with Cornwall, offers an extensive section on Pope. Pope is known to have first visited Newlyn with Langley in 1880 and thereby becomes one of the earliest of West Cornish visitors. He is known to have submitted nine Newlyn subjects to the Birmingham Art Circle exhibitions and three to the RBSA.
Terry Pope is an artist and inventor who was born in Penzance. In 1959 he enrolled as a student at Bath Academy of Art, and in 1962 was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy in The Hague, Netherlands. Pope describes himself as a constructionist, whose artwork reflects a fascination for science, in particular the concept of regarding space as a medium in its own right.
On returning to the UK in 1963, he was enrolled in the Penwith Society of Artists by Barbara HEPWORTH. At around the same time Peter LANYON beame a formative influence, and Pope also acknowledges a debt to the Constructivists of the 1950s.
Terry Pope has held posts at the University of Reading, Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. Alongside his academic career, he has exhibited extensively in London, Europe and the USA, and his work is held in public and private collections world-wide.
In 2000 he and his wife returned to Cornwall, settling near St Austell.
A regular visitor over the years to the Royal Cornwall Museum, Pope has been honoured with an exhibition there which runs until 27 February 2016. 'Space Visualised' is an interactive show, using optical illusion to challenge the viewer's perception. Included are inventions such as space-enhancing spectacles and a Pseudoscope, which re-maps space by switching the visual inputs to the brain. A number of these creations have attracted attention in the magazine 'Scientific American' and have been used for scientific research.
Mark Poprawski obtained a BA (Hons) in Painting in 1997 from Norwich School of Art & Design. Based in St Ives, he has exhibited his seascapes widely in Cornwall.
The Saltash Heritage Museum and Local History Centre have a Self-Portrait in oil, painted by this artist in 1936-37. He also painted a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Price Drury, CBE, RM, Mayor of Saltash (1931) which is in the possession of Saltash Town Council.
Porter was born in Derbyshire and studied at the Chelsea School of Art, completing his courses there in 1972. Ten years later he was artist-in-residence at the National Gallery for a year. Following that he has travelled widely, painted and exhibited in Spain, Poland, around the UK, and held a solo show at the Tate St Ives in 2001 of his series of paintings depicting Gwavas Lake, Cornwall.
Mike Porter settled permanently in Cornwall, and opened his Newlyn studio in 1997, having visited Cornwall many times previously. His work is held in several public collections as listed below. In 2010 he was awarded Third Prize in the National Open Art Competition held in Chichester, Sussex for his painting Coastal Path.
This artist could be one of two artist sisters, listed as Elinor (b1866) and Mary Emily (exh 1882-1903), born in Cumberland, who studied art in London but exhibited widely in the provinces (See Johnson & Greutzner for some detail of the two).
Wood's entry for Elinor suggests that it is most likely to have been this artist, as she made coloured woodcuts, after studies at Calderon's and at Westminster, and exhibiting four works at the RA (1889-1903). She exhibited and sold a Print at NAG in 1903 and another in 1904. Addresses in South Devon and London are listed for her.
An American painter with closest association to the state of Connecticut, the artist exhibited at St Ives in March 1913, with a Cornish coastal scene.
Kim Potter works from a studio in Hayle. She was trained as a 'paintress' at Royal Doulton in Staffordshire and moved to Cornwall after taking early retirement.
Although some of her work is created on board or box canvas, she loves to paint on more unusual objects like marine artefacts, such as paddles and oars, sourced locally.
Peter Potworowski was born in Poland. He was an abstract and figurative painter who had lived and exhibited not only in Poland, but also Sweden, France and England. During the 1920s he spent seven transformative years keeping company with the avant-garde of Paris, attending for a time the studio of Fernand Leger. Bonnard had the most influence on his work.
He taught at Corsham Court, part of the Bath Academy, from 1949 to 1958, when he returned to Poland as professor of painting at Poznan University. In recent years, Chippenham Museum has expanded its collection of paintings by those associated with Corsham from the 1940s to the 1960s, and one of the most important of these was Potworowski. He was directly engaged by Clifford Ellis, the head of the school, to bring a much-needed cosmopolitan touch to the teaching of art in the post-war years.
The laate sculptor Kenneth Armitage CBE said of Potworowski: 'I loved his work and could never understand why he was not burdened with success in England. He was certainly one of the most rare and special people I have ever met. He came from an outside world, from a longer time-life span; he brought a foreign flavour, and his values and approach were different.'
A former member of Taking Space, a collective of women artists. Sara Pound is a member of Art Space Gallery, a co-operative group based in St Ives.
Margaret Powell has lived at Trewoofe for many years and expresses herself both as an artist and a writer. She is the author of a life of her ancestor Charles Napier HEMY, and also a history of her own ancient home at Trewoofe, near Lamorna.
As an exhibiting artist she shows small stoneware and terracotta sculpted figures.
She exhibits with the Lamorna Valley Group and more information is available at http://www.lamornaartsfestival.co.uk/members.php
Blanche Powell was the daughter of Eyre Burton Powell (1847-1923) and his wife Mary Augustus, born on 28 July and christened on 27 September of 1884 in Madras, India. Her father, born in Madras, returned to Britain with his family and practiced as a Barrister at Law in Penzance, Cornwall.
The artist produced miniatures, specialising in portraits. At the time of her first RA exhibition (1928) she was living at Roseleigh, Alverton, Penzance, the family home, but in 1937 she moved to Egmore, Trelyon, St Ives. It is thought she moved to Truro in about 1946 and her death was registered there subsequently.
Jane Powell was born in Suffolk. She studied at Canterbury School of Art and Design, obtaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. She worked in the design and publishing industry in London for 25 years before relocating to Cornwall to concentrate on her own creative work. She explores natural forms in paint, stitch and weave. Her 'Iconic Botanics' series features large-scale 3D embroideries of plants set against painted canvases.
An artist known to have worked in both Cornwall and the Netherlands from approximately the early 1920s, and according to Artist Biographies into the 1960s. The details of his life in Cornwall are not yet known though painting titles are indicative.