Jane Smith grew up in the Midlands and was a student at Dartington College of Art. Subsequently she obtained a BA (Hons) in Ceramics and Glass from Birmingham City University. She has been working with clay since the age of ten. She spent 25 years as a teacher of glass and ceramics but currently works full-time as an artist, while running her own business, Jane Smith Glass.
Her work is sold through several galleries including Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelissick and Trelowarren, and the Poly Guild in Falmouth. She undertakes both private and public commissions. Smith says 'My work is now heavily influenced by the dynamic landscape of Cornwall and my passion for the patterns formed in the natural and man-made environment.'
He exhibited for two years sending in from The Hut, St Levan, primarily to Liverpool where he exhibited 8 paintings in 1909.
An amateur artist who was possibly an illegitimate daughter of the Prince Regent and lived at Ince Castle, near Saltash, Cornwall. Her only significant known work is at the Whitworth.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Recorded as a participant in the St Ives Show Day of 1923. Regularly exhibiting with STISA, she does not appear to have done so after 1932 when her address is given as Hampstead Garden City. She mainly produced coloured woodcuts, favouring castles, bridges and old houses.
Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951) was an artist, illustrator and writer. Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. Smith was born in England to American parents, and grew up in Jamaica. She toured with the theatre company of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving in the late 1890s, where she joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and met Waite.
She also did a great deal of illustration work for William Butler Yeats and his brother Jack, but apart from this deck, her art found little commercial success. In addition to the tarot deck, Smith wrote and illustrated several books about Jamaican folklore, including Annancy Stories (1902) which were about Jamaican versions of tales involving the traditional African folk figure Anansi the Spider. As she approached the age of forty, Pamela received a small inheritance, and moved to the English coast to an artists' colony at the Lizard, Cornwall. Eventually, suffering from both physical problems and shrinking financial means, Pamela relocated to Bude, Cornwall, during WWII. Unfortunately, the original art work for her tarot deck has disappeared, and the original printing plates were destroyed during the bombing of London in the war.
Frances Tysoe Smith was a fine maritime painter whose work has been greatly underrated.
In 1914 this artist member of the Arts Club signed in the painter Thomas Hodgson LIDDELL as a visitor. The following year she exhibited at the Show Day.
At the 1923 St Ives Show Day, and in 1924 she exhibited from her own studio, showing a large landscape, 'marsh lands with water in the foreground, and a flock of sheep beyond', alongside two other paintings. She shared the Blue Studio with her sister Miss S FREEMAN.
Born at Warnbrook, Dorset, the son of a clergyman, Hely Smith studied at the Lincoln School of Art and at the Antwerp Academy. He worked abroad before being based in Looe for much of the 1890s, and, as he specialised in marine subjects, he may have studied under, or become friendly with, OLSSON at this time (Tovey). By 1899 he had moved to London.
A correspondent (2021) who is a great-great nephew to the artist, has written to offer additional information about him, provided by the correspondent's mother, who knew Hely Smith well. The correspondent is the proud owner of around 100 of the artist's paintings.
Apparently Hely Smith was friends with an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, with whom he went on painting expeditions. Smith was also acquainted with Vincent van Gogh. A letter written by Hely Smith in 1941 suggests he was very active and lucid until shortly before his death.
Born on 22 October 1879, Matthew Smith, was interested in painting and drawing from an early age and studied art at Manchester College of Technology (1901-1905) and the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1905-1908) - without, however, showing particular promise. He moved to France late in 1908, and in Etaples and Pont-Aven painted still-lifes and portraits that are Intimist in manner, showing attention to local color and modeling. After spending an extensive period in Paris, painting and exhibiting in the Salon he joined the London Group in 1920 after a long illness, and then spent the autumn and winter of 1920 in the village of St Columb Major in Cornwall. Between the wars he spent long periods in France and in Cornwall, later in the 1930s returning to London.
Smith applied dark saturated color and an increasing fluidity of construction to a series of Cornish landscapes, strongly Expressionist in character, the culmination of an earlier style. Smith was knighted in 1954, and died on 29 September 1959.
Born in East Moseley, Surrey, the artist's family moved to America. She studied first at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and the Philadelphia School of Design, and then returned to Europe to attend Colarossi's Atelier in Paris, taught by Eugene Delecluse.
She first came to St Ives in 1914, her initial success at RA in 1916 being St Ives Harbour. Concentrated on landscapes and townscapes in early years, and painted from 3 Porthmeor Studios by 1920. Moved to London 1921 to live with Dorothea SHARP in Maida Vale, but maintained her St Ives studio. She was invited to contribute a painting to Queen Mary's Doll House (1922).
In 1930s, she concentrated on flower paintings in oil, and increased the size of her canvases. One of these, Peonies, is illustrated in the Falmouth Exhibition Catalogue (1996) and three other titles exhibited were Magnolia Grandiflora, Anemones, and An Arrangement of Herbaceous Cut Flowers, all from private collections.
She lived in St Ives with Dorothea SHARP during WWII, and acted as a curator for Lanham's Gallery, organising exhibitions and running the shows. After the split of STISA, she returned to London, but continued to go back and forth between the two. She died in 1963 in St Ives at 1 Piazza Studios.
St Michael's Mount at Sunset (2000), a painting by this artist, is in the art collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Jayne Anita Smith was born in London and obtained a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth. She lives near Penzance and works from a studio at Trewidden.
Karen Smith was born in Essex and studied Textiles and Graphic Design in Southend. She moved to Cornwall in 1999. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Clement Church near Truro, occupying the Lychgate studio. In 2004 she became a member of Taking Space, an exhibiting group and a collective of women artists.
Her paintings are on permanent display at the Camelford Gallery (with the Cornwall Watercolour Society).
Nicholas Smith, son of landscape painter Caesar Smith, was born in East Anglia. He began his artistic career shortly after leaving school in Peterborough, creating watercolours inspired by the wildlife in his native fens. During the 1980s and 1990s he exhibited widely across the Midlands and in London. In 1997 he moved to Cornwall, making the transition to oils in order to portray the vast skies and rugged coastline of the south west. Smith works from The Bank Square Gallery in St Just.
Joshua Smith grew up in a rural Scottish fishing village. Currently living in Cornwall, he creates canvases which evoke the dramatic light of the landscapes around his home.
Anthony Smith, a self-taught artist, spent his early years on the Gower peninsula in Wales. After moving to Cornwall he established Gallery Anthony near Mullion, on the Lizard peninsula. Since its opening in 2001 the informal atmosphere of the gallery and studio has played a considerable part in attracting a wide range of visitors. Anthony paints on Oriental and handmade papers and, together with Marjorie SMITH, he offers regular demonstrations which provide an insight into the techniques he has developed over the years.
She is recorded as a member of STISA in 1932 when she worked from Bluebell Studios.
Dutch painter of landscapes and florals, many in modern photo-realistic style, from Amsterdam staying at 14 Ayr Terrace (Feb 1915) with his wife.
In section 3.6 'The brief but productive visit of Dirk Smorenberg' in Sea Change (2010) Tovey adds significantly to our sparse knowledge of the artist's year-long visit to St Ives from 1915-16.