Viv Richards moved from London to Bude in 2017. She studied art at Central St Martins and Bristol Polytechnic. Her work has been exhibited in London and beyond, and in 2019 was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
The Morrab Library Collection contains 125 years of visual records of Dramatic Events - historic happenings, civic events, shipwrecks, portraits and townscapes - the work of Penzance-based artist photographers, brothers William Richards and Ernest Richards. An exhibition based on this collection, with annotated catalogue, was held at Penlee House, Penzance, January-March 2006.
In 2011, further photographs by the Richards Brothers, were included in the Penlee House Exhibition, 'The Marvellous Everyday', as curated by Jeremy Rice.
Kate Richardson is a self-taught painter, living and working in Penwith.
Frederick Stuart Richardson was born in Bristol and after leaving school commenced training as a civil engineer in London. A legacy enabled him to abandon his career prospects in order to study art. In Paris, as a student of Carolus Duran, he met a large number of fellow students including John Singer Sargent, and future members of the Staithes Group.
On returning to England Richardson became an active member of the Staithes Group. When his colleague Laura KNIGHT and her husband Harold moved to Cornwall, he began painting there, and became associated with the Newlyn group of painters. Like them he favoured the practice of painting en plein air.
In Cornwall Richardson met his future wife, Elsie Reynolds. They married in 1912, and a year later settled in Bristol, where they had two children. His landscapes, coastal and genre scenes in oils and watercolours were exhibited widely throughout the UK. He normally signed his paintings F S Richardson or with the initials FSR, but left many unsigned. One of his watercolours is in the permanent collection of the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston.
An exhibition of Richardson's work was held at Penlee House Museum in Penzance in 2017.
Landscape painter who exhibited two works at the RA (1896), one of which was a Dartmoor scene, with a sending-in address from Hawkes Point, Lelant (from 1895).
This little-known artist was born in Falmouth, and at the time of the 1891 Census he was a 30 year old unmarried Artist Painter Sculptor, living with his sister Emily and her son Cecil at 8 Belgravia Street, Penzance. He is also known to have lived at some point at Etaples, France.
At least twelve of his works are part of the permanent collection of the Falmouth Art Gallery, and the landscapes without exception depict rural scenes around Falmouth, the boatyard, Penmare Hill, and Prislow. Still life with flowers and fruit are also represented.
Richardson works from An Vellan, Crean Bottoms, St Levan near St Buryan, and focuses on form, colour and surface, describing in detail the patterns of the natural world. Her art has been commissioned for private and corporate collections, especially in the USA. In both textile and painting she explores the details of the Cornish landscape and her own private wild garden.
Sue Richardson lives near Callington and has exhibited her work with Drawn to the Valley. Her work has also been shown at Limekiln Gallery in Calstock.
Ellen Eliza Richardson (also known as 'Nellie') was born in Hackney, London. She and the painter William Kirkbride BLACKLOCK were married in Chelsea in 1909. In 1910 they had a daughter, Eleanor Irene. Nellie is known to have modelled for her husband for a series of paintings between 1910 and 1917.
About 1912 the family settled in Walberswick in Suffolk for a few years, but later moved to Leicester, then Polperro, where William died in 1924. Nellie was a painter of flowers in watercolour, exhibiting at the Royal Academy Liverpool, the Walker Art Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.
Nellie re-married in 1927 to Edward J B Sewell in Kensington. She continued to exhibit, and died in the Penzance district in 1956, aged 68.
Mary Richey was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland.
At NAG in early 1926 the artist began exhibiting, and followed this with entries to the winter exhibition. She first exhibited in 1927 in St Ives, whilst using an Edinburgh exhibiting address. She is believed to have studied under Dod PROCTER for a while. In around 1930 Mary moved to Polperro, and was based in the village for around six years. She was invited to exhibit with the shortlived Polperro Arts Society, despite having moved to St Ives. She had became an active member of STISA in 1932.
By the time of her 1936 RA success she had again moved, this time to Bridport in Dorset. Subsequently she spent a few years in Italy, after which she did not exhibit as much. She died aged 62 in Edinburgh, where her brother and sister were living.
Exhibited and sold a painting entitled Obligato at NAG in May 1902.
The artist was born in Somerset, and studied at Taunton and Chelsea Polytechnic. In WWI he was the Canadian Government war artist and in 1925 was commissioned to promote rail and hotel facilities through poster art in western Canada, by the Canadian Pacific Railway. His large colourful posters adveritising the region and the Canadian Rockies were much admired, and he worked for the English railways as well.
During the 1930s he visited St Ives regularly, taking a studio there in 1932, setting up a summer painting school in 1935. He lived successively in Brentford (1912), Southall (1914), London (1919), and was giving his address in Guildford in 1935.
He is one of the many artists who began work in West Cornwall at an earlier date, moved away and then returned to Cornwall at a later date, in his case, for three years from 1946 to 49.
Tovey's biography with photographs in Creating a Splash 2003 (pp156-8) is an excellent summary. A recent correspondent writes of her private collection (see Misc. below).
It is thought that Dorothy Kate Richmond and Miss W K RICHMOND may possibly be the same artist.
Dorothy Kate Richmond, daughter of J C Richmond, was born in Auckland and in her girlhood was taken on a Grand Tour which included European schooling and two years at the Slade. After her father's death, she again left for Europe a year or so before Frances HODGKINS [NAG 1902] set out. The two women (who do not seem to have met before) agreed by letter to join forces in the summer of 1901 at Norman GARSTIN's class in Normandy. So began a close friendship. Hodgkins admired Richmond's beauty, her knowledge of books and languages, her charm and generosity, but considered that her painting lacked 'fire and originality'. They travelled in France, Italy, England and Holland, returning to New Zealand together at the end of 1903. In Wellington they held a joint exhibition, and for two years seem to have shared a studio. Their paths diverged when Hodgkins returned to Europe in 1906, while Miss Richmond remained in Wellington to enjoy a long and successful career.
She exhibited leatherwork at the summer exhibition of arts and crafts at Newlyn in 1928 after having shown (unspecified crafts) in the Christmas exhibition there in December of 1926.
Born in London, Tom Rickman studied at the Epsom College of Art and Design. From 1983 for nine years he lived in Dorset, working from a beach hut studio. In 1993 he moved to Cornwall, settling in Penwith where he still lives and paints the landscape.
One of five Gallery Tresco artists to participate in the Venice Collection painting project and exhibition in 2004. Seven of his works, all oils on canvas, were included in the Christmas show on the Isles of Scilly that year.
Tom is part of the group of artists who exhibit and paint regularly on the Islands with the support and interest of Gallery TRESCO. He is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
A painting by this artist hangs in the Padstow Museum, and depicts Duke Street, Padstow.
Jennifer Ridgeley was born and educated in Richmond, Surrey. She moved to Hertfordshire in her twenties, where she gained her teaching degree in the late 1960s, with art as her main subject. After giving up teaching she was able to devote more time to painting.
Since moving to Cornwall, she has expressed her fascination for the emptiness of moorland and the changing moods of the sea in paintings full of colour, movement and emotion. Her abstract works are inspired by images of space seen from telescopes, and the immensity of the earth as viewed from aircraft.
Dolf Rieser was born in King William's Town, South Africa, and educated in Germany and Switzerland. In 1917, he studied at École Polytechnique, Zürich, obtaining a diploma in agricultural engineering, then from 1918-22 obtained a doctorate in biological science at the University of Lausanne. In 1923, he researched in science at Munich University, while studying art with Hans Hoffman.
Rieser studied at "Atelier 17" in Paris with British surrealist painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter (1901–88) and Polish engraver Józef Hecht (1891–1951). In 1926, Hayter had settled in Paris, where he enrolled at the Académie Julian and studied burin engraving privately with Hecht, who also taught Anthony Gross.
Rieser joined Hayter in 1928 after he began to take his own pupils and worked through 1940 at Atelier 17 (named in 1933, after the street number of Hayter’s studio in the Rue Campagne-Première). The signature of the workshop was its democratic structure, breaking with the traditional hierarchic French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labour and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, together with other Surrealists (including Picasso, Miró, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti, Ernst, Trevelyan, Peterdi and Rieser), associated with Atelier 17.
He organized portfolios of prints to raise funds for the Spanish cause, (including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso), and Kandinsky contributed to the Steven Spender and Atelier 17 Album “Fraternite” to raise money for unfortunate children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War. Stephen Spender's poem was both in English and with a French translation by Louis Aragon, was accompanied by a group of etchings by Kandinsky, Miro, Hayter, Hecht, Buckland-Wright, Husband, Mead, Rieser and Varas.
He moved to England to join the war effort in 1940, and in 1945, newly married, he settled back to civilian life, lecturing in biology, liberal studies and art, while also giving private lessons in printmaking. He rented from 1948 a cottage near, Zennor, and painted and drew the landscape extensively. In regular contact with several members of the St Ives School in 50s and 60s.
In 1960, he was invited to Cape Town and Johannesburg Universities to lecture on that subject. During the 1960s, Rieser pioneered printing on translucent fibre-glass panels and laminates. He also worked on a range of applied prints on scarves for Liberty. A member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, he introduced colour intaglio to post-war Britain.
Rigden creates small square unframed oil paintings, with a focus on dramatic skies.