The artist, designer and driving force behind the creation of the 'Restless Temple' at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance. A project which involved 15 years of research and planning, the structure was finally installed in 2015, and has delighted and intrigued visitors ever since.
Saunders describes the piece thus: 'Restless is about flexibility in the face of the mighty forces of Nature. It's about gravity and rules but also insecurity: pendulums interacting with a temple, symbol of a western civilization now teetering on the edge.'
'Restless Temple' was featured in The Guardian on 30 August 2018 as one of the 10 best outdoor art installations worldwide.
Robert Saunders is based in Newquay. He gained a degree in Contemporary Art from the University of Northumberland, subsequently undertaking further tuition from the internationally exhibited painter Riduan Tomkins.
Originally from Plymouth, Leo Saunders gained an HND in Art & Design from Plymouth College of Art and Design in 1995. He moved to Cornwall in 2002. He has fulfilled several public art commissions, including two external murals in Plymouth's historic Barbican area.
In October 2018 Saunders spent two weeks as the first artist-in-residence at Terre Verte Gallery in Altarnun.
An Artist is listed in the Census of 1891, as aged 51 and coming from London, lodging in the home of Samuel Williams, Fisherman, of St Ives. The address is 37 Barnoon Villa. No further information
From 2004 to 2012 she was a member of Taking Space, an exhibiting group of women artists.
Philippa Savage moved to Cornwall in 2005, settling on the Roseland peninsula.
Savory was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire and like his father before him was a bookseller. His father had been a printer, and young Ernest became both a printer and then later a painter and craftsman. He married Frances Mary Young with whom he had six children. Through his businesses located first in Cirencester and later in Bristol he worked as a carver and gilder, picture framer and manufacturer of mirrors/looking glasses.
Artist Biographies researcher Geoff Hassell (http://www.artbiogs.co.uk) has details of Savory's works, and his involvement with the Bristol and Clifton Arts and Crafts Society. The painting 'Porthmeor Beach, St Ives' is in the permanent collection of the Royal West of England Academy, and is featured on the website of BBC Paintings.
He is known to have painted in St Ives for a period, though dates are as yet unknown. He died on October 28, 1937 in Bristol, Somerset.
A painter who trained at Chelsea School of Art where he studied under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. This was followed by a period at Ben Nicholson's studio in Paris. With the encouragement of Nicholson and the other St Ives-based painters, he founded the Mousehole Group Art School in 1936, in collaboration with George Lamborn and Guy Allen. This venture was only short-lived, but these early experiences stood him in good stead when he applied his graphic talent to advertising campaigns and book illustrations. During this time his work was shown widely in London.
Sayer was also a natural teacher and by 1966 this had become his full-time career until his retirement in 1982 as Head of Art at Chelsea & Westmintser Adult Education Institute. He died in Fulham.
His middle name was registered at birth as 'Latimer'.
Debbie Sayers grew up in Bedfordshire and moved to Cornwall to study at Falmouth School of Art, from where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Studio Ceramics in 2000. She went on to complete a PGCE in 2008. Since then she has been a community educator running art classes in the community. She lives and works in Falmouth.
Richard Scaddan was born at Penzance in 1719, the son of John Scaddan and his wife Margaret (nee Hoskin),and baptised at Madron on 10th February 1719/20. In 1736 he was apprenticed to Thomas Frye, a ceramicist and artist. In 1742 he painted a copy of Frye's Portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the father of George lll. In 1743 he engraved another of Frye's portraits. He returned to Cornwall from London at the end of his apprenticeship in 1746. On 9th September 1748 he married Mary Newton at Madron. He then worked on a seemingly casual basis for Rev William BORLASE at Ludgvan vicarage as well as for Penzance Borough. In February 1747/8 Rev Borlase paid him for a portrait of his son Christopher (Kitt). In 1758 he painted a watercolour of The North East Prospect of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall which is now in the R I C at Truro.
There is a burial record at Ludgvan for a Richard Scaddan in 1766 but it seems unlikely that this refers to the artist unless later references refer to his son, Richard, born 1749. Rev Borlase recognised his talent as an artist in his correpondence. In 1781 The Universal Magazine published an engraving of Dorothy (Dolly) Pentreath credited R Scaddan delin. In 1791 The Universal British Directory records Richard Scadden, Painter in Penzance. In 1802 a Richard Scaddan was buried at Bodmin. Whether this is the artist or why he should have been in Bodmin is unknown. Cyrus Redding, some forty years later states that Scaddan had died at the turn of the century.
Very little work by Richard Scaddan is known but it seems probable that some of the work now ascribed to his employer at Ludgvan, Rev William Borlase, could well be the work of Richard Scaddan. Certainly a pen and ink sketch of St Michael's Mount ascribed to William Borlase bears a marked similarity to the work by Scaddan at R I C.
A correspondent (2021) has advised us of two pen drawings by Scaddan in the collection of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. These are dated 1764 and show two different views of St Michaels Mount.
Kerry Scane is based in Newlyn. Her work expresses her love for folklore.
The exhibitor of the Silver Medal winning watercolour (professional division), entitled Father and Daughter, in the 1835 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth.
The artist's address was given as Penzance. Wood notes that most of his titles at the RA were horse and dog portraits.
Born in Finland, Helene was a sickly child from a very early age, and a fall was to result in lameness in one leg. Her talents were recognised, however, and from the age of 11 she was admitted to art school. On government scholarships she was enabled to travel abroad, and painted and exhibited in France and Italy. She studied at the Atelier Colorossi, Paris, with Marianne PREINDLSBERGER (later Marianne STOKES) in 1881 and painted with Marianne in Pont Aven. Invited by Marianne, she arrived in St Ives in 1887 to work with her friend and her artist husband, Adrian STOKES, for a period of months, finding the mild climate conducive to painting out of doors.
Several major pictures of hers were painted in St Ives: The Old Bakehouse and View of St Ives (1887). The Convalescent (1888) of which there were several studies, won a Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1899 (a b&w plate of this charming picture appears in Sparrow 1905). Chickens among Haystacks, which remains in Cornwall, was also from her St Ives period. She is said in Benezit to have fervently admired the work of Velasquez, and admitted to the influence of Symbolism.
In 1889 she returned to St Ives with her friend Maria WIIK. From 1917 when she had her first exhibition in Sweden, she met with increasing success and acclaim, and became one of the best known women in Finnish Art. In 1991 the Finnish Broadcasting Company completed a film version of her life, after visiting St Ives to trace film locations for some of her paintings. In 1992 an exhibition of her work toured to the United States, and in 2019 London's Royal Academy, in conjunction with the Finnish National Gallery, hosted a major Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the artist began painting after completing his education at his local college. When reported on by the St Ives Times, he was 23, and painting between Cornwall and the Brittany coast.
The review described him as '...a young American artist who has been working in St Ives for the past two months.' By 1915 he was back in the USA and living in Santa Barbara where he continued to paint. In 1918, he joined the Navy, and pioneered the construction of lighter-than-air craft, alongside his continuing exhibitions in art, solo and group. He died in Los Gatos, California.
Rosie Schneider is an interdisciplinary artist who offers painting courses in west Penwith. She obtained a BA in Contemporary Creative Practice from Falmouth University and has worked as a therapist for the past 25 years.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-39 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1901-10 list of aritsts in and around St Ives. G Bednar has spotted one of his images online: Low Tide, Newlyn, signed and dated (19) '15, inscribed verso.
Artist daughter of Herbert LANYON, sister of George Peter LANYON, and wife of painter Sidney Elmer SCHOFIELD.
Until recently when the National Trust acquired Godolphin House near Penzance from the Schofield family, Mary, her son and daughter-in-law worked without respite on the renovation and maintenance of the fabric of the house, and by opening this historic Cornish estate to the public and holding fundraising events, art and craft exhibitions and gala days/fairs, have 'saved' it for the nation. Mary was unremitting in her efforts to save the house which she and her late husband purchased in a deteriorated state in 1937. Sidney died in 1983, and Mary took up the work with a fervour that was much admired and supported by others to whom the Godolphin estate is an heritage icon.
Mary died at Treliske Hospital, Truro in 2008.
The second son of Walter Elmer SCHOFIELD, born in Southport, Lancashire in 1901 shortly after his parents had settled in England. He obtained an MA in History at Christ's College, Cambridge then trained at the Slade in the early 1920s and went on to an extended trip to America, France and Spain.
Undoubtedly influenced by his father, a landscape painter in impressionist (plein air) style, he nevertheless decided to pursue a career in farming, studying agriculture at Seale Hayne College, Devon. On one of the family visits to Cornwall, he and his father had stolen a glimpse of Godolphin House which left a lasting impression. Farming in Suffolk when he heard in 1937 that it was for sale, he set off for Cornwall immediately and bought it.
In 1938 his parents moved in and Sidney, taking up his paints again, joined STISA at the same time as his father. His best work from this time is a series of portraits of St Ives fishermen. He fell in love with Herbert LANYON's daughter, Mary, who had also joined STISA (as an associate) in 1938. They were married in 1940. Shortly afterwards Sidney volunteered for war service, and at the end of hostilities, in 1945, he was raised to full member of STISA.
He rarely painted thereafter as the rescue and repair of Godolphin House became his principal passion (see Mary SCHOFIELD, who took up the wand). The major restoration works at Godolphin, led by Mary and their family following his death, and now the National Trust, will stand as a lasting tribute to their joint vision.
'One of the founders of American landscape painting', according to Cross. Schofield was born in Philadelphia and trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, before travelling to Paris in 1892 to study at the Academie Julien. He arrived in St Ives in 1903, where he remained for four years. While in St Ives he was awarded the Carnegie Gold Medal, and received a large cash prize at the National Arts Club of New York.
He travelled and exhibited widely, especially in USA (where he retained his US citizenship), but also moved back and forth at will to Cornwall until his death. He married an English wife, Murielle Redmayne, in 1897. She did not take to life in America and so the couple moved to England in 1901, living initially in Southport before their sojourn in St Ives. There Murielle brought up their two sons while her husband spent a considerable time away, either on the American exhibition circuit or sketching in Europe. In 1907 the family moved to Yorkshire and then in 1911 to Bedford, but Schofield continued to travel and in 1912 visited Polperro for the first time. His best Polperro work, 'The Outer Harbour, Polperro' was hung in the National Academy in New York in 1914.
With Julius OLSSON he painted at Dieppe, and with Alfred EAST in 1905 he served on the International Jury of the Carnegie Institute (for the awarding of the prestigious Carnegie Medal). From this prestigious position he raised awareness in America of the importance of art in Cornwall.
Joining as a private in the British Army in 1915, and taking part in the Battle of the Somme, he left with the rank of Major. His son, Sidney Elmer SCHOFIELD purchased historic Godolphin Manor at Breage, Cornwall. In later life Walter and the family moved there, where he died in 1944.
In 2007 the National Trust purchased Godolphin House and Garden, both Grade 1 listed and from May 2010 until July 2011 conserved and restored the house which is now open to the public on 6 days each month from February - October (except August).
Julia Schofield has excelled in several fields of creative work - as an actor and writer, as a silk weaver and painter, and latterly as an inspired jeweller. From the mid-1990s she maintained her own bespoke jewellery studio in Porthleven, Cornwall which she sold in 2009. This enterprise, called Tombodama, offered unique pieces of hand-crafted bead and jewel-encrusted for weddings and special events of all kinds.
Initially arriving in Cornwall to write a book, she has been captured by the liveliness and creativity found here, and made a unique place within it. In 2010 she was the moving force behind the army of people who contributed to the growth of the Porthleven Food Festival, and its huge success.
Sheila Scholes was born in Manchester but works nowadays from her studio in St Ives. Her work has been exhibited at the St Ives Arts Club, and she is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Having always been fascinated by colour and light, Zoe Schoning began to work in fused glass in the early 2000s. She moved to Cornwall in 2012, settling in Mullion on the Lizard peninsula where, coincidentally, her great-aunt was involved in the setting up of the Marconi Project. Zoe's work has been shown widely and she has recently exhibited in the Far East. She holds glass workshops in the Gallery Anthony on the Lizard.
Artist known to be actively painting from 1885-1932, and of British origin. Identified due to watercolour exhibited at auction in 2008. No further detail known at present.