Two paintings by this artist are held in the art collection of Newquay Hospital.
Raynes trained at the St Albans Art School and the Royal College of Art in London. His specialities are figure painting and illustration, and his commissions have been numerous.
His publications include nine successful instructional books on aspects of drawing and painting, two of which are Figure Drawing and Anatomy for the Artist. His work Suzi in Log Cabin Wrap (oil on canvas) was selected for the '20 Years of Contemporary Art' exhibition at the Falmouth Art Gallery in 2000.
Art critic, poet and historian, Herbert Read was invited to become the first and founding President of the Penwith Society in 1949, by the founding artists, which included Peter LANYON, Barbara HEPWORTH, Ben NICHOLSON, Shearer ARMSTRONG, Denis MITCHELL, Misome PEILE and others. He was a close friend of T S Eliot and a firm champion of modern art. Though he did not live locally, he was looked to as the intellectual justifier and supporter of the breakaway from simple representational art. He is noted for being amongst the earliest thinkers to take note of existentialism and to interest himself in the work of Jean Paul Sartre.
His bibliography is large, and can be found on Wikipedia and other related websites. He was knighted in 1953 for 'Services to literature', despite a lifetime of anarchist tendency and writings.
Cornish born and bred, Sue Read has a deep connection with the north Cornish coastline which is revealed in her expressive seascapes and landscapes. She exhibits locally, and has undertaken several commissions.
Listed in the 1901 Census as a boarder, living at The Terrace, an Artist (Painter), 42, from London.
London painter of architecture and townscapes who exhibited four works at the RA, boarding in St Ives (at 15 The Terrace) in 1901.
In 2011 Reche exhibited his sculptures on classical and literary themes at the Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance, alongside the paintings of Jamie BOYD.
Though largely self-taught, the artist studied in his home city of Bruges, and exhibited regularly in the Belgian Art Salons and internationally. His particular colleagues were Emile FABRY also from Belgium, and in St Ives, the photographer Herbert LANYON whose studio he employed.
Tovey includes a section (Chap 3, 3.4) on 'The colourful and decorative watercolours of Louis Reckelbus' in his latest historical review, Sea Change, and illustrates this with coloured plates never before seen. 'These works were inspired by the intensity of colour of the Fauves, and so introduced into St Ives novel colour values, which clearly had an impact...' (Tovey p 52) He was to prove a particular inspiration to the artist Frances LLOYD.
From 1930 he was the Curator of the Fine Art museum in Bruges, and looked back on his time working in St Ives with great affection.
Don Redwood qualified as a graphic designer at Nottingham College of Art in the 1960s. After graduating he moved to Edinburgh, then London, producing posters, illustration and general publicity design.
He moved to Cornwall in the 1970s.
Nigel Reed is a painter, based in Feock, of working boats and seaside scenes. He is also the author and illustrator (together with Yuki Reed) of the stories in the 'Kevin the Canvas Canoe' series of children's books.
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.
Michael Rees grew up in Ipswich. He is married to the artist Tracy REES and first exhibited in Cornwall at the Salthouse Gallery in St Ives in 1988. Since then he has had four solo shows at Austin Desmond in London and has exhibited at a number of local galleries including the Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
Tracy Rees was born in Ipswich and trained as a graphic designer at Suffolk College. In 1987 she and her husband, Michael REES, moved to Cornwall, and she took an HND in ceramics at Falmouth Art College. A career in pottery followed, combined with part-time work as a ceramics and art technician at Penwith College. She began painting full-time in 2003 but it was not until 2006 that her work began to reach a wider audience. A show at Badcocks Gallery in Newlyn led to representation later that year at the Affordable Art Fair in London, and since then she has exhibited extensively in Cornwall and beyond. Her subjects are domestic animals and garden birds, painted in surroundings expressing the simple pleasures and comforts of home. Her cards and paintings, imbued with humour and wit, have tremendous popular appeal.
Sam Reese divides his time between St Ives and Manchester. He grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and obtained a BA in Graphic Design in Manchester. After graduating, he completed a PGCE in Design & Technology. He has taught full-time since 2010, spending much of that time as Head of Art, Design & Technology. He is a member of STISA.
A Canadian potter who travelled to St Ives as an apprentice to Bernard Leach from 1958-1961.
Sharon Reeves studied graphic design at Solihull Art College. Her career then took a route into the medical profession, but she has now returned to painting, applying acrylics with a palette knife.
She joined Taking Space, a group of women artists, in 2022.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Sharon is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Rachael Reeves is partner to Gareth EDWARDS, and artist member of the NSA.
She is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
A Scottish artist, the younger sister and pupil of John Robertson REID, she was born in Islington, London, but was brought up in Edinburgh, where she began exhibiting at the age of 16. She exhibited three paintings at the Whitechapel Exhibition of 1902 for artists associated with West Cornwall. Her titles included Charity (for the Sick and Needy) and The Widow. That year, both she and J R Reid lived at Park Hill Rd, Haverstock Hill, London, where they both were actively exhibiting at many shows.
She spent many years in France, Norway, and Belgium, and lived for 10 years in Looe, Cornwall. Flora and her brother John always shared the same exhibiting address, which from 1904-1906 was 'Osprey Cottage' in Polperro. Between 1881 and 1932 she exhibited more than 80 pictures at the Royal Academy. Her works typically depict the daily life of working people, often with a religious touch.
In 1939 she was living in Hampstead, and she died in 1945 in Barnstaple.
John Robertson Reid was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy under Chalmers and McTaggart. He painted mainly landscapes and coastal scenes, living first in Sussex and later in Cornwall, working regularly around Polperro.
He was listed in 1891 as living in Newlyn (with his sister Flora MacDonald REID), and was a presence in St Ives during the 1901-10 period, probably as a member of STIAC (Whybrow). He was also closely associated with Polperro for several decades but, whilst he exhibited paintings of Polperro subjects for over twenty years, he only used a Polperro exhibiting address, 'Osprey Cottage' from 1904-1906.
In 1918 he produced a large, dramatic work entitled 'Capturing a German Mine off the Cornish Coast' which contains certain recognisable features of Polperro.
In 1920 the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists held an exhibition in Winnipeg, USA, containing work by, among others, John Robertson Reid.
His final years were spent in London, where his work was frequently exhibited. Wood comments that he contibuted notably to the development of the Glasgow School.
Albert Reuss was a Jewish artist who fled Austria for Britain on the eve of World War II. He eventually settled in Mousehole, where he rebuilt his reputation.
Paintings by Reuss make up the largest single collection in the keeping of the Newlyn Art Gallery and fill pages 82-88 in the Public Catalogue Foundation review of oil paintings in the collections of Cornwall & Isles of Scillies' institutions. Figurative and surreal, his paintings are of anonymous people, places and things which are recognisable but indeterminate in their meaning, despite exact titles, for example: Green and Yellow Hankies with Landscape, Green Room with Green Form. His colouration is modulated, earthy and smooth in its contact with the canvas.