After teaching English Literature for 14 years, Rowena Scotney decided to focus on developing her art practice, which includes painting, felting and poetry. Her work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall and beyond.
Bernard Adams Scott was a younger brother to James Marshall SCOTT, and, like him, was a Penzance-based sculptor. In 1887 he married Ellen Ellis. The couple and their daughter lived at Alverton Buildings.
Rosemary Scott was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. She undertook a foundation course at Plymouth Art School (1972/73) followed by a degree in Fine Art in Cheltenham in 1975. She first exhibited in Cheltenham in the same year, continuing to exhibit and teach in London for many years.
In 1995 she returned to Cornwall, and has since then exhibited not only in Cornwall, but in London and Canada. Her work is held in collections in Florida, Paris, Sydney, New York and Japan.
Gunnis notes that his tablets are carefully carved and carried out. Examples of his work include those commemorating James Pascoe 1813 and Philothea Thompson 1825, at Gulval; William Nicholls 1815 at Madron; Mary Harrison 1820 and John Rogers 1821 at Helston.
Recorded as an Artist Sculptor living in Falmouth, originally of Wakefield, North Yorkshire.
A former geologist, Mary Scott developed her art practice later in life. Her abstract landscapes and seascapes echo the earth's organic shapes and curves, and reflect her love of Cornwall's wild places.
She became a member of STISA in 2023.
One of the five Gallery Tresco artists, Isles of Scilly, who participated in 'the Venice collection' painting project and exhibition in 2004. Eight of her paintings, all of which were oils on linen, were included in the catalogue prepared for the Christmas season that year.
Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland. His studies in art were at the Royal Academy Schools and when he departed he moved to Somerset where he taught part-time at the Bath Academy at Corsham, painted, and ran a market garden.
Stayed in Mousehole for six months in 1936. Scott married in 1937 and mainly lived in France. Post WWII he made further visits to Cornwall, especially Mousehole and Sennen, and made contact with Peter LANYON, Bryan WYNTER, Terry FROST and Ben NICHOLSON.
In the 1950s he became senior painting master at the Bath School of Art, while exhibiting widely and becoming a renowned still life and abstract painter. He died in Bath, Somerset.
Brother of the late Cornish-based artist and teacher of art, Colin SCOTT who died the following year. Eric's death affected Colin greatly. The latter was a talented artist, but does not appear to have exhibited in Cornwall. Born in Durham, he studied for a foundation course at the Durham College of Art before winning the 1966 Pernod Art Competition. Working later in London, his dealer was Nicholas Treadwell. Collectors of his work included Beatle Paul McCartney and prime minister Harold Wilson for whom he created portraits.
After travels and exhibitions in America, he settled near Cannes, France. His works are held by Saatchi and Saatchi and by the Sunderland Art Gallery.
Born and brought up in Sunderland, it was there that he attended the College of Art, and met his future wife, Patricia. He was also the brother of the artist Eric SCOTT.
A familiar and much-missed figure of the Penzance arts community, Colin kept his studio in the town centre, close by the Penzance School of Art in which he taught and inspired hundreds of students through the years. His prodigious talent meant that he could create paintings in all genres, and excelled in all. His encouragement to pupils was legendary, and at the Penzance Arts Club, and the Penzance School of English (where he also tutored for many years) his talents as a teacher were always noted and appreciated.
For some years he was a principal partner in the artists' exhibiting circle at the Victoria Studios. He also exhibited at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
There are dates for a John Scott (1802-1885) who may have been the artist who painted the 19th century image of Lanyon Cromlech near Penzance. However that John Scott was born and died in South Shields, and worked there most of his life. He was known as a landscape and marine painter who specialised in sailing ships. However he may also have sailed in these and painted on lands where he stepped ashore. Lanyon Quoit is the name of this assemblage of stones in the present day, and the relative formality of the title given to the painting indicates this John Scott was probably a visitor.
Nevertheless, this is only conjecture, as the painting as seen gives no other clues except the signature and title written verso. Alternatively the artist may have been a talented amateur with that fairly common name.
Carol Scott was born and brought up in London. Both her parents were writers, and many family holidays were spent in Cornwall. Carol went to RADA and then for twenty years worked in theatre and television management. In 1986 she moved to Cornwall to become a farmer and potter. Self taught, her early influences were every potter's work she came across. Now established, her influences continue to be eclectic, but from a wider range of design and from nature. Her work is intended for daily use. She no longer exhibits, selling her work only through galleries.
Patricia Scott studied at Sunderland College of Art during the 1960s. She then moved to London, where she worked for a number of years. In 1974 she moved to Cornwall and started to work with textiles while raising a family. In 1985 she returned to painting and drawing, combining this with working at Penzance School of Art. In the 1990s she began specialising in water colours and soft pastels, painting full time with occasional teaching at workshops.
Her paintings focus on still life, and the landscape of West Penwith.
James Marshall Scott was born in Penzance to James Scott and his wife Amelia Harris. He was the eldest of at least 11 children. A statuarist, sculptor and painter, he married Elizabeth Helen Crocker in 1872. They lived at Alverton, Penzance and had at least 6 children. His younger brother, Bernard Adams SCOTT (b. 1856) was also a sculptor.
James Marshall Scott emigrated to Canada, where he died in 1920.
His great-great-grandson is a correspondent of 2017. He has in his possession a seascape by his ancestor.
Cookie Scottorn works from her pottery at Wenford Bridge, near St Breward.
The artist was born in London, and studied art at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. From the Open University he afterwards earned a first class BA (Hons) degree, which included philosophy of art and modern art practice.
Though now permanently based in Dorset (2012), he has painted in Cornwall previously, and readily admits to the influence of modern artists Giorgio Morandi and William SCOTT.
In March, 2012, his landscape and still life paintings of Tuscany featured in a solo exhibition held at the Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
The Cork watercolourist Harry Scully showed three landscapes at the RHA exhibition in 1893. His studio was at 15 Nelson's Place, Cork, the house where once Richard Sainthill lived and Daniel Maclise painted.
In Cornwall he stayed in St Ives, and a newspaper report in 1887 (Cornish Tel) notes a cricket accident which he shared with fellow artist Frederick MILLARD, in which the two were in a violent collision on the pitch and had to be taken un-conscious to a house nearby, where one was to suffer a 'brain concussion' and the other a fractured nose. They both were playing for the Newlyn team.
Scully was to exhibit a total of ninety-six portraits and landscapes of Cork, Brittany, Normandy, Cornwall (1895) and other rural areas at the Academy, showing each consecutive year until 1911, when he ceased to exhibit for a period of twenty years. He re-emerged as an exhibitor at the Academy in 1931 and the following year, when he showed for the last time. He died in London on 21 July, 1935, age 77 (GRO).
She exhibited jewellery and enamels in the craft section at NAG in 1925, and again in the craft section at Christmas, 1926. In 1928, The Western Morning News comments that she is a Gold medallist and presents the larger collection of jewellery (larger than those of Ella NAPER); both presented a striking feature of the Exhibition of that year.
Married to the artist Doris VAUGHAN; together they acquired a studio in St Ives, Cornwall in 1927.
Searle's early training was as a nurse in the 1960s. She then completed her BA (Hons) at Falmouth College of Art in 1992. On a postgraduate trip to Cyprus in 1994 her interest came alive in the viewing of walls, textures and topographical spaces which left her with impressions of fading murals in sacred places such as churches and monasteries.
'Since then I have used painting and sculpture as a personal commentary on life' as the ravages of time and human conflict come together in her pieces of work. In 2000 she showed Sanctuary (oil on cotton on board) at Falmouth Art Gallery in the exhibition '20 Years of Contemporary Art'.
Searle runs occasional workshops and also exhibits with artists in Northern Italy, though she works and lives in Falmouth.
The artist exhibited handwrought pewter as well as leatherwork, in the NAG craft section from 1926-28. She was the wife of Donald SEAWARD.
The artist was principal of Falmouth School of Art from c1921-c1940, having studied art at the Royal College of Art in South Kensington.
At Falmouth he taught design and pattern-making as well as painting. Some of his designs were used by his wife (E A SEAWARD) who taught leather-work and the use of pewter to over-lay caskets, small boxes and writing cases. Primarily Seaward is remembered for his pure rich watercolour technique, and at the 150th Anniversary Exhibition of the RCPS a group of his watercolours, etchings and pen & ink sketches were shown, together with examples of leatherwork produced at the School.
Lauren Sebastian obtained a BA in Fine Art in 2000, and worked in education. She recently moved to St Ives where she has a studio.
Born in Shropshire, the daughter of a New Zealand sheep farmer. Studied art in Edinburgh and Paris. Locally she was a pupil of Charles Walter SIMPSON and Fred MILNER. She lived at Morvah Studio, St Ives and exhibited during the 1920s and 30s both locally and at the Society of Women Artists, with her friends in London. She exhibited in Show Days of 1923, and 1924, and in the latter she exhibited The White Sands of Picardy (prior to RA) and Hero Worship. She liked to travel and this is shown in her wide range of titles.
Other titles include Lostwithiel (wc) and Primroses and Polyanthus (wc), both of which were exhibited at the Falmouth Group Show in 1896. She is also known to have exhibited with another friend also from New Zealand, Helen Elizabeth Overbury FOX, at the St Ives Show Day 1923, from the Crab Rock Studio. Her close friends were Dorothea SHARP and Marcella SMITH.