John Tregembo's family originated from Breage, St Hilary in Cornwall. He was born in Padstow and began painting at a very early age. He paints the local landscape in a loose and expressive style, always striving to capture the unpredictable nature of the Atlantic Ocean. He first exhibited his work in 2006 and has since established himself in many galleries in Cornwall. In 2012 he opened his own gallery in Polmorla Walk, Wadebridge, where he paints and shows his work.
A graduate of Falmouth University, Shelly Tregoning has in 2018, for the second time, had her work selected for the Columbia Threadneedle Prize exhibition at London's Mall Galleries. Her paintings have also been on show at the National Open Art Competition, the Discerning Eye exhibition, and the Royal West of England Academy show.
Working from a studio at the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) in Helston, she describes her art practice as an exploration of the interior of people, of their deeper identity and selves.
Mentioned in Crozier article when the writer was perusing exhibitions at the Passmore Edwards, in 'The Newlyn School of Painting' (Girls Realm 1904) as producing a charming study of a red-haired maiden clad in green and gold, the work of MMT, 'whose first exhibited picture had the good fortune to be sold at the New(lyn) Gallery last year'.
In 1908 she sold another, (?Material) in the Bay at NAG (handwritten sales records are almost indecipherable). She also exhibited at least once at the New Gallery, London.
Dick Treleaven, whose home was in Launceston, became one of the foremost authorities on the peregrine falcon. Educated at Dulwich School, he went into the military, serving with distinction with the 14th Army in Burma. On his return, he visited an exhibition of paintings of birds of prey and became fascinated with the peregrine. He had always wanted to become an artist and soon made the acquaintance of a painter, George Lodge, who was to become his guide and mentor.
From the 1940s onwards, and for the next sixty years, he devoted himself to the observation and study of the peregrine on the north Cornwall coast. During the 1950s he found that the population was declining and, as a result of his investigations and analysis, it was found that pesticides were to blame. After a ban was imposed, the numbers began to improve until, much to his delight, a breeding pair were discovered again in Cornwall in 1969.
Treleaven's first book (1977) 'Peregrine - the Private Life of the Peregrine Falcon' was illustrated with his own drawings. In 1998 he published his second book, 'In Pursuit of the Peregrine' incorporating another 20 years of his experiences.
Dick was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, and exhibited every year in London. In 2007 he was awarded the MBE for services to ornithology.
In 2017 his paintings were included in an exhibition celebrating 'The Causley Century' at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun.
Janet Treloar was born in Helston, West Cornwall and spent a year at Penzance School of Art before studying at Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained an MA. After many years spent in various locations abroad, where she both continued her art studies and exhibited, she returned to the UK in the 1980s.
She is currently Senior Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society, and divides her time between Cornwall and London. Her daughter is the painter Alice MUMFORD. Her works were included in the first exhibition of the RWS to be held in Cornwall, which took place at the Royal Cornwall Museum at the end of 2010.
She is exhibiting in July 2011 at the Lander Gallery, Truro, with paintings of Botallack and St Ives.
Jon Tremaine is a wildlife artist whose drawings are executed in pen and ink.
The artist was employed as a student teacher from 1901 when John William ALLISON was Headmaster of the Penzance School of Art.
Reginald Tremberth was born in Yunnan, south-west China, the fourth child of William and Emily Tremberth.
In 1881 the Census shows that William (b1867) was living in Darite in the parish of St Cleer, near Liskeard, employed in tin and copper mining as an ore dresser. Later he trained for the ministry of the Primitive Methodist church and was assigned to the China mission in the early 1890s. The family returned to England in 1905, living variously in Faversham, the Isle of Wight, Helston, Cornwall, Edgbaston and Bristol.
Reginald attended the Grammar School in Helston before proceeding to the University of Bristol to study geology, where he contributed scientific illustrations to research papers written by members of the faculty. He worked as a teacher at the Central School, Bilston (West Midlands), where he shared an interest in watercolours with a colleague. In 1932 he married Mabel Cicely Maddern, who had been born in St Erth, near Hayle, cornwall in 1906.
Before WWII he visited West Cornwall regularly with his wife. On one of these occasions, in 1937, he exhibited work at NAG. During 1943-4 the family lived at St Erth and Barncoose near Redruth. From September 1944 he taught art and woodwork at King Edward VI School, Lichfield, Staffordshire, until his death in 1964. His main works of art have remained in the hands of his family.
[Information provided by his sons, Michael and John Tremberth]
Engraver and painter in watercolour. Brother of Walter TREMENHEERE, Henry retired to Penzance after a career as a sea captain.
Walter Tremenheere was born in Penzance, the third son of a successful Penzance lawyer. He went to school in Truro. In 1779 he was commissioned in the Corps of Marines (later Royal Marines). He appears to have had training in drawing as a naval officer and two of his drawings were used by Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821) in The Naval Chronicle (Vol. 1, Plate XI and Vol. 3, Plate XXXV). He married Frances Apperley of Gloucester in 1802 and they had four sons and two daughters. After successful service at sea, he was placed on the permanent staff of the Royal Marines, Woolwich Division in 1805, eventually reaching the rank of General. He and his family were regular visitors to Penzance, where his brother, Captain Henry Pendarves TREMENHEERE, lived.
Walter Tremenheere died in London.
Listed as a 38 year old artist, born at Bolingey, Perranzabuloe in 1891 Census. In 1886 the artist listed her address for sending-in to the RBA as Lewisham, London.
The artist was born in Sticker, near St Austell in Cornwall, growing up on his parents' farm and and proceeding to study at the Falmouth School of Art (1962-3), Birmingham School of Art (1963-66) and in London at the Royal College of Art. The most comprehensive coverage of his remarkable career in sculpture, drawing, painting and photography will be found on multiple websites.
He has been a runner-up for the Turner Prize in Britain (1992), and exhibits in major galleries and exhibitions all over the world. His work is catalogued in many famous gallery collections including the Tate Gallery, the Kunsthalle, Hamburg and in Paris. His solo shows and exhibition record are included on www.geringlopez.com/artists/david-tremlett . Amongst native Cornish artists, he is rightly recognised as one of the most prominent.
Commissioned by the Tate Britain, Tremlett is now in the process of making a major wall drawing in the Manton staircase of The Tate Britain in London. This drawing will extend over the period from September 2011 (past) through to the end of December 2016, and the work is being shown on video link Tate Shots: David Tremlett, The Manton Staircase.
Sandy Trerise is a member of Padstow Art Group. She has successfully undertaken commissions for portraits of pets. Her preferred medium is pastel.
Waves Breaking on the Foreshore is an oil painting by this artist, that forms part of the collection of the RCM, Truro.
The son of an actuary (Falmouth Savings Bank), auctioneer and valuer, the young artist studied first at the new Falmouth Art School, and then from 1906-8 with Stanhope FORBES. In 1909 his picture The Eve of Waterloo was accepted at the RA.
He stayed in lodgings in Florence Place, Newlyn, with Carey MORRIS (a Welsh student from Llandeilo, Wales) who became a close family friend, especially with Tresidder's brother, Alfred. Hereward set up as a professional painter in Falmouth, painting portraits, flowers, landscapes and seascapes. After his father's death in 1914, he took over his bank position, but became a Grenadier Guard at the outbreak of the War.
Wounded at the Battle of the Somme and declared unfit for further service, he painted delicate and poignant water-colours of patients during convalescence at Torquay . He married Daisy Maud Webster in 1919; they lived in Clare Terrace, Falmouth, and had three children. He decided, due to his family responsibilities, to continue his banking work rather than try to succeed as an artist. He was one of the Forbes School of Painting's early pupils still alive to remember Forbes' 85th birthday. Although virtually all of his work is kept within the family, in 1983 an exhibition of 66 of his paintings was held at the Falmouth Art Gallery.
Lived and worked in a netloft in Mousehole, 1990s. Information needed.
One of five Gallery Tresco artists to participate in the Venice Collection painting project and exhibition in 2004. Eight of her oils on canvas, including Rialto Bridge Morning Light, were included in the Christmas show on the Isles of Scilly that year.
Her titles, when invited to paint Tresco in 2006 for exhibition, included Abbey Garden in January, Summer Visitors in the Abbey Garden, and Sun and Rain.
In 2010 Rosemary was one of the artists whose work was taken by Gallery Tresco to the Affordable Art Fair, London.
Silvanus Trevail (often misspelled as Sylvanus Trevail) was born in Luxulyan in October 1851. He rose to become Mayor of Truro and, nationally, President of the architects' professional body, the Society of Architects.
More importantly perhaps, he was certainly Cornwall's most famous architect of the 19th Century. Following his association with philanthropist John Passmore Edwards, several Libraries and Institutes were designed by him in addition to the many other public and private buildings, chapels, churches, hotels - to which he also gave his services as a fundraiser and developer.
Charlotte Trevains has a studio in north Cornwall. Largely self-taught, she has participated in courses through the St Ives School of Painting and Newlyn School of Art. Her work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall.
Helen Trevaskis works from Krowji Studios, Redruth. She is an illustrator and writer with a love of experimental image-making, gritty topics and projects with a social impact. One of her current projects is a pamphlet on art and social change in the time of Covid.
She is a graduate of Falmouth University's BA in Illustration. She also has a writing MA from Sussex University and and MSc in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University.
Trevaskis is the founder of StreetDraw24, a 24-hour drawing fundraiser which takes place in Falmouth each autumn. She is also co-founder of DSKVR - a premium outdoor living brand on a mission to tackle unhelpful stereotypes about Cornwall. She has been featured in Colart's Sustainability Report 2021/22.
Born on 26 March 1856, Shelton, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (GRO), the artist referred to here painted a Newlyn picture in 1884, and was mentioned by FORBES thus: "Trevor whom I have met in Brittany...has not long to live." (Letter dated 1884) In fact, on 5 October, 1885, Trevor died in Anacapri, on the Isle of Capri (Italian certificate) at the age of 29.
C Wood, after Graves, notes an earlier Edward Trevor - or there is a conflict and mixture of data. J&G describe a landscape painter, exhibiting from Manchester in 1882, born in Conway, Wales, who died in Capri in 1885 (all could be true except for birthplace). Graves and Wood in Victorian Painters identify two separate Edward Trevors, a) fl. 1841-1846 who exhibited An Interior and A Gipsy Camp at RA from a London address, and b) fl 1885 exhibiting a view in Capri at the RA, from an address in Manchester (probably the painter Forbes met). It is not clear what the Manchester connection is at this stage, though it may have been the artist's homebase.
Edward Trevor was the younger brother (by two years) of the floral and landscape artist Elizabeth TREVOR, who later (after Edward's death) married Lester SUTCLIFFE, who had also painted at Newlyn.
Elizabeth Trevor was born in Ellesmere, Shropshire near Shrewsbury, the daughter of John and Ann Trevor, Innkeepers and toll contractor (gatekeeper). In the 1881 British Census she is described as an unmarried Landscape Artist, the sister of Edward TREVOR who was two years younger and also a Landscape Artist. Edward had exhibited a Newlyn picture in 1884, demonstrating his presence in Cornwall sometime around that date. (He died the following year on the Isle of Capri, Italy).
She married fellow artist Lester SUTCLIFFE in 1891 in Wales, who was mentioned by Forbes in a letter as being in Newlyn in 1887. Though Elizabeth Trevor may have visited and worked in Cornwall, as her brother and then her future husband were here previously, it remains unproven. Her titles do not reveal a known link though she continued as a practising artist in her own right after their marriage.
Elizabeth Sutcliffe died at Leeds 25 September, 1944 at age 90, eleven years after the death of her husband.
Listed in the 1891 Census as a Photographer, born in St Ives, married to Sarah and living at Tregenna Place, St Ives.
Judi Trevorrow lives in Trispen, near Truro. She is a professional tutor in art and has led workshops in acrylics at Truro Arts Company (2018).
G E Treweek was born in Redruth in 1869, the son of a bank clerk and later, manager. At Redruth School of Art he gained a Teachers Certificate. He first exhibited with RCPS in 1886, in the Amateur section, but by 1888 was included in the Professional section, exhibiting regularly until 1895.
Around 1902 Treweek moved to Plymouth, working as a bank clerk. In 1918, aged 49, he married Winifred Hewer. The couple had two sons and the family subsequently moved to Stowmarket in Suffolk, where he held the position of head cashier at Barclays Bank. There he exhibited with Ipswich Arts Club, although his subjects were Devon and Cornish scenes.
After retiring from the bank in 1929, George and Winifred moved back to Cornwall, settling in Newquay. He became a member of STISA in 1936 and continued to exhibit there until 1954. Retirement offered the opportunity to devote himself to painting, and he became prolific in both watercolours and oils.
In 1957 he was widowed and living in Burnham, Bucks, near his son. Until shortly before his death in 1961, aged 92, he continued to paint Cornish seascapes.
Listed in the Census of 1891 as the Artist son and eldest child (26) of John and Caroline Trewhella, and living with them at Sennen Church Town.