Sarah Seddon's speciality is printmaking, with a particular interest in etching and aquatint.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Jenny Seddon's illustrative screen prints are based on nature, everyday objects and other sketch book musings.
Born in Bristol, the caricaturist and social satirist, Anne studied under Charles Orchardson and John Hassall at the London School of Art and in Paris. She married Walter Sefton, an Irish linen merchant, although she always used her maiden name 'FISH' when signing her works. An animal lover, she became particularly well-known for her amusing paintings of cats, although in the 1920s and 1930s she contributed drawings and caricatures on the flapper lifestyle to 'The Tatler' and created the character of 'Eve of the Tatler'.
In the 1926 Bookman, a review of Sugar and Spice by Lady Kitty Vincent (Bodley Head), reads 'Sixty sparkling essays by Lady Kitty Vincent and a dozen of those comically grotesque sketches for which "Fish" is celebrated constitute a volume which may be heartily commended for between-courses in serious reading.' These illustrations were not cats, but caricatures of 'grotesquely' thin women dressed in the flapper style.
The couple moved to St Ives after the end of the War. In later years she served on the management and hanging committees of NAG, and upon her death bequeathed them a cash legacy. For eight years prior to her death in 1964 she held an exhibition of cat subjects at her Digey studio, donating the proceeds to the Cat Protection League. She also made available Studio 27 to other artists for one-man shows.
Hyman Segal was born in London in 1914 and attended the Jew's Free School (known today as JFS) in Camden Town, London. The JFS website notes: Not only is Hyman Segal an artist of genius, but he is an outstanding personality. He is fighting a lone battle against race bias, particularly the colour bar. He became blind at the age of nine, regained his sight, and eventually won the JFS Raphael Tuck Scholarship under the tuition of Mr S. Polak.
At the age of 12 he won a scholarship to study at St. Martin's School of Art, where other students included Leon Underwood and Vivian Pitchforth, and his artistic career broadened to include painting, sculpture and design. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and a National Registered Designer. In 1935 he was commissioned by London Transport to design a series of posters.
In 1946, on his return from war service in Africa he joined the St Ives Society of Artists, of which he was a committee member. In 1949 he was one of the founding members of the Penwith Society of Artists. He worked from 10 Porthmeor Studios and became known locally for his black and white drawings of people, fisherman and cats. He did live for a time in St Agnes, and for a while he provided art therapy for TB patients at Tehidy Sanatorium. His caricatures of pubgoers in St Agnes, drawn in the 1950's, were exhibited at St Agnes Museum in 2012 and copies of his famous caricatures of St Ives locals can still be seen in The Sloop Inn.
He died in December 2004 at the Edward Hain Hospital, St. Ives, aged 90.
The artist exhibited three small oil paintings at the St Ives Show Day in Spring 1924, showing his work from Lanham's Gallery. One of these oils depicted an old gateway with pink blossom stretching over it, considered to be very effective (by the reviewer).
The artist was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 4, 1885, of Czechoslovakian descent (the Seidenecks were architects who for two hundred years built castles in Bohemia). He studied at Smith Art Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1911 he sailed to Europe for further study in England and the Royal Academy in Munich under Carl Marr and Walter Thor (1911-14). On this study tour, he worked and exhibited with the St Ives painters at their Show Day in March, 1912. After returning to Chicago, Seideneck taught at the Academy of Fine Art and Academy of Design. After his marriage to Catherine Comstock of Carmel, California in 1920, the couple spent two and a half years travelling and studying in Europe. He remained a resident of Carmel until his death on March 7, 1972.
Jennifer Semmens was born in Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth College of Art and Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology in Cheltenham before returning to west Penwith in 1986 to paint professionally. She is known for semi-abstract compositions whose inspiration is derived from the industrial and mining sites of west Cornwall. She employs a palette of subtle, earthy colours on rough textured surfaces of her own making, creating the impression of archaeological finds.
Semmens has been a regular exhibitor at Penwith Gallery in St Ives and the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance. A wide range of west country exhibitions has been augmented by shows in London, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Her work is also included in the Truro School Collection and the George Dannatt Trust.
Woodland Scene, a painting by this artist, is in the art collection of Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Somerset-born landscape and marine painter who lived in London where she was a member of SWA, and later in Porthleven 1893-1901.
She died in 1915, near Maidenhead in Berkshire.
Born in London, Spencer Shakespeare first became acquainted with Cornwall during childhood family holidays. In 1995 he obtained a degree in illustration at Bournemouth College of Art & Design. Subsequently he spent 20 years in Australia, and now lives in Penzance.
His work has been exhibited in Europe, Australia and the USA.
Kleiner Shames was born in Oxford. At the age of 14, he started writing graffiti, which began a fascination for lettering, shapes and composition.
He works from a studio in Penzance.
Richard Sharland was born in London, with family roots in Devon and Cornwall. He was first inspired to paint by his teacher, William Lyons-Wilson, a prominent watercolourist. In 1972 Sharland abandoned a law degree course to travel with his wife, Jan - and to paint. His watercolours were exhibited in northern England and Scotland.
In 1978 Richard began to work for arts and community voluntary organisations, subsequently spending 15 years as chief executive of environmental charities and 10 years as national director of Groundwork UK, shaping partnerships and securing resources for national environmental programmes in some of Britain's poorest communities.
Throughout this time Sharland developed his artistic practice, holding one-man shows in Birmingham and Manchester. After Jan's death, he moved to the west country in 2013 to concentrate on the creative life. A year later he set up home in Altarnun, Cornwall, where he also established an art gallery, Terre Verte - a quiet oasis of creativity and inspiration where artists' work can be exhibited in space and style.
Born in Dartford, Kent. Despite her family's disapproval, she trained at Regent Street Polytechnic under George CLAUSEN and David Murray, and in Paris where she discovered the work of Monet. The latter greatly influenced her handling of subjects and colour in impressionist fashion. The Artist (journal) made much of her work, considering her to be one of the greatest women painters of her time.
She first visited St Ives in 1920 and took one of the Porthmeor Studios which she retained over many years, despite also having a permanent home in London all of her life. In St Ives she also met her lifelong friend Marcella SMITH. In 1928, when the St Ives Society of Artists was re-organising its efforts and inviting distinguished artists to become honorary members, Dorothea Sharp was one of those invited.
During WWII she moved to St Ives and she and her friend, Marcella SMITH became prominent members of STISA. Titles include Paddling at St Ives (c1930), Sand Castles (B&W Ill, Falmouth Exh Cat), A Sunlit Garden, The Warren, St Ives (c1930) and Flowers in a Window. Her paintings are held in many permanent collections.
A pupil of John A Park, she took part in the Show Day in St Ives in March 1923.
Moved to Cornwall in 1995. BA (Hons) University of Plymouth. Suzy makes work mostly about her experience and interaction with animals and the environment. She has led workshops in mixed media at Truro Arts Company (2018).
The mother of Dod PROCTER (Doris) was a pupil herself at the FORBES SCHOOL in 1906-7. They also shared living quarters at Myrtle Cottage ('The Myrtage') in Newlyn.
Son of Mrs D M SHAW, and brother of Dod PROCTER, who was also a pupil at the FORBES SCHOOL for a brief period c1907.
Born in Belfast, Shaw decided to become a sculptor at the age of 15, after discovering a book on Rodin. He came to England to study first at Manchester Polytechnic, then at Falmouth College of Art, where he received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art. After a brief time as a conservator of buildings and sculpture, he decided to devote himself fully to his sculptural practice. He lives on a farm in Cornwall, where he has had his home and studios for over 30 years. He has been a tutor at Newlyn School of Art since 2016.
In 2008 his 'Tank on Fire' was awarded the Selectors' Choice Threadneedle Prize. He won the prestigious Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 2015, the Mullan Prize at the Royal Ulster Academy, and a Kenneth Armitage Foundation Fellowship allowing him to spend two and a half years residing and working in the late sculptor's London Studio. In 2015 he won the George Schimmel Fellowship at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities 'Law as Culture' in Bonn.
He has also been awarded international residences in Greece, Spain and Ireland.
Major commissions include 'The Minotaur' for the Royal Opera House, London; 'The Rites of Dionysus' for the Eden Project; 'The Green Man' for Antony House, Plymouth; and 'The Drummer' for the Hall for Cornwall in Truro.
In 2013 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and he exhibits in the RA Summer Exhibition annually.
His most significant international solo exhibition to date was the highly acclaimed Beyond Reason (Oct 2018 to Feb 2019) at the San Diego Museum of Art. This included six of his immersive, large-scale installations, exploring themes of global terrorism, freedom of speech, abuse of power and the future of AI.
In 2024 Tim Shaw was awarded the PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture for 'Man on Fire'. This piece, cast in bronze, is on permanent display at the Imperial War Museum North. It was originally shaped by press images of a soldier engulfed in flames, leaping to safety from his burning armoured vehicle during a riot in Basra, at the height of the Iraq War.
A regular exhibitor at the Lander Gallery, Truro (2011), she became a member of STISA in 2023.