Born in Welling, Kent, Roy Walker trained in art at the Gravesend School of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic during the early 1950s. Following National Service in the RAF, he attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1957-1960.
In 1965 he and his wife, Peggie, moved to St Ives, where he joined the Penwith Society of Arts, the Newlyn Society of Artists, and the Plymouth Society of Artists. From 1972 he was director of the print workshop at the Penwith Gallery, and had his first solo show at the Camel Gallery, Wadebridge the following year. With the Porthmeor Printmakers he exhibited at the Tate Gallery, St Ives in 1993. In the interim years he was a visiting lecturer at the Falmouth College of Art, Plymouth College of Art & Design, and exhibited abroad in the USA, and held workshops for international groups visiting St Ives. He exhibited widely in many group and solo shows.
Roy had an impressive reputation both as a painter and printmaker, and was known for his warm, generous nature. A close friend of the artist Bryan PEARCE, he helped to produce prints for him, and also John WELLS. He was continually experimenting with different media, later in life producing work on a scale which exceeded in size the confines of his studio. However the theme of flight (integral to his art practice since his RAF days) was always evident in his work, together with his love of form, colour and light.
He died of cancer in 2001, aged 65. A memorial exhibition was held at the Penhaven & Belgrave Galleries, St Ives, in 2003. In 2011 a retrospective exhibition entitled 'Roy Walker Ten' took place at the Cafe Art, The Drill Hall, St Ives.
The artist graduated from Falmouth College of Arts (then School of Art) in 1992.
'Walker is a highly regarded artist for his mature and sensitive portraits. He has won awards at the Discerning Eye, The Hunting Art Prizes and the Holburne Portrait Prize (2004). He has exhibited at the NPG and has recently been made an Associate member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.' (Open Studios Catalogue)
In 2005 he painted the portrait of St Ives artist Bryan PEARCE, which was given to the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro as part of the Bryan Pearce Bequest (collection).
Walker teaches the three-day Figure Painting course at the Newlyn School of Art in Chywoone Hill, Newlyn. He is also a tutor on the weekly Life Drawing evening sessions held at the School.
Nicky Walker spent many years living on Dartmoor, then moved just over the border into Cornwall. She also spends time on the Isles of Scilly.
Caroline Walker studied in Wales and worked in the fashion business in London before moving to Cornwall. A painter of animals, she is adept at capturing the individual personality of her subjects.
Born in London and worked initially as a glass blower.
In 1959, during Wall's final years in St Ives, he produced a small scale sculpture, Standing Figure, that came back on to the market at the Paisnel Gallery in 2009 (cat no 27, illus). This was created at the same time as he was acting as an assistant to Barbara HEPWORTH, and demonstrates his constructivist mode of formal work.
Eloise Wall works from her home studio in Port Navas. Cornish seascapes and dreamscapes form the main focus of her work.
George Wallace was born in Dublin but trained under Paul FEILER at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. From 1949 to 1957 he taught painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture at Falmouth School of Art. He lived initially in Penryn, then Falmouth, painting abstract landscapes inspired by the St Austell clay pits. This theme was to remain an inspiration throughout his career. Around 1955 Wallace attended Falmouth Polytechnic in order to learn to weld.
In 1957 he emigrated to Canada, embarking on a career as a teacher of art at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His works in a variety of media were exhibited widely, and he developed a reputation as a sculptor of significance. He retired to British Columbia in 1985 and died in 2009 at the age of 89.
Headmaster of the School of Art at Redruth (founded 1873) located on Clinton Road.
Primitive painter, born in Devon in August 1855, moved soon to St Ives in Cornwall, where he lived and died. Worked as a fisherman for most of his life, then owned the marine stores on the harbour at St Ives. He took up painting as an old man of 70 after the death of his wife in 1925, in his own words "for company".
For three years he worked alone making pictures of ships, lighthouses and the sea with materials he found around him; marine paint, backs of washing powder packets, flotsam, etc. In 1928 he was discovered by Ben NICHOLSON and Christopher WOOD as they strolled by his house on a Sunday afternoon. They immediately realised the importance of this untrained talent, who had no knowledge or interest in the history of art. Throughout the thirties he was incorporated in exhibitions in London, where Nicholson acted as agent.
But it was really after his death, in poverty and in the work house at Madron, that he was accepted by the art world at large. Alethea GARSTIN was the kind friend who took paints and paper to him when he was incarcerated in the work house. Now his work is held in many public collections, primarily the Tate Gallery, St Ives, and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Though utterly primitive and childlike in style, there is a certain sophistication to his work. His ships are delineated with the utmost attention to detail, and his seas are bursting with the energy that is so hard to capture in paint.
Herbert Read (Art Now, 1933) called him 'An old man who still has the eyes of a child'. Adrian STOKES explained: 'He has been a fisherman all his life, accustomed to conceive the sea in relation to what lies beneath it, sand or rock and the living forms of fish. The surface of his sea, seen best on grey days, is the showing also of what lies under it.' (Colour and Form, 1937, p64)
She first exhibited at the RA in 1907 when she was living in Walton-on-Thames, and by 1924 was working from 11 Avenue Studios in the Fulham Road. She moved to St Ives just before WWII working from 2 Porthmeor Studios in both charcoals and paints. Each Show Day her charcoal portrait studies were well-received.
Amanda Walsh spent her early years in Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. She studied law at university, subsequently working in finance.
In 2020 she moved to St Ives, where she worked at the School of Painting. In 2022 she was appointed as gallery manager of the St Ives Society of Artists.
A self-taught painter, she has exhibited her work in galleries in Oxfordshire and Devon, and currently sells paintings in the Sloop in St Ives.
Peter Walsh has exhibited his ceramics at Toe in the Water Gallery, Lostwithiel.
Walsh was born in Worcester. In 1992 she obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University in Leicester. She subsequently spent several years teaching art in London, before moving to Cornwall in 2011, taking studio space at Krowji, The Old Grammar School, Redruth. Graduating with a Distinction from the MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice course at Falmouth University in 2013, where she was recipient of the Sandra Blow award, she moved into working with digital video installation. She is an active member of the CMR Gallery in Redruth and exhibits regularly.
Juliet Walshe was born in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Her foundation course was at St Alban's College of Art and Design which she completed in 1987. In 1991 she graduated from the Slade School with a BA in Fine Art.
After a 20 year administrative career, she has moved to Falmouth, where she is currently attending the MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice course at Falmouth College of Art. (2012)
All of the paintings and prints shown in her March (2012) exhibition in the Third Room of the New Street Gallery, Penzance, were of beaches in and near Falmouth, Penryn, the Fal and Helford Estuary. Also of South Cornwall subjects included the coastal stretches between Helston, Loe Bar, Porthleven and Penzance.
Sam Walshe was the founder of the 'Neo-Deco' style. The motifs in his paintings were derived from his concern for the environment, in particular the oceans and endangered species. He depicted the fringes of our world with his unique stylization and dramatic sense of colour. He regarded his paintings as his main form of communication and loved "the collusion between people and the environment".
Born in Liverpool, Walshe settled in Cornwall in the 1960's, becoming a founder member of the emerging surf scene. He was an intensely private and unpretentious artist, who allowed his work to reveal his life and mind.
His work has been exhibited at the Driftwood galleries in Falmouth, Truro and Padstow.
Sam Walshe died in July 2021.
Listed as based in Liverpool (1908), Birkdale, Lancashire (1917) and St Ives (1923), this artist exhibited three etchings at the New Print Society Exhibition (for etchers, printers, litho and woodcut artists) in April 1923.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Maggy Walters' work represents an exploration of our physical and spiritual relationship to landscape. She draws on the teachings of Jung to capture a sense of both inner and outer worlds.
Sonya moved to Cornwall from London in 1989. She works as a painter and printmaker from her studio in St Ives.
Kate Walters works from a studio in Newlyn. Her work has been exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery and at the Exchange, both in Penzance.
She is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
Originally from the north-east, Glyn Walton divides his time between St Ives and London. He studied sculpture at London's Central School of Art between 1970 and 1973.
His work is held in private collections around the world.
Described in the St Ives Times in November 1913 as 'new to St Ives but well known in Newlyn'.
The artist listed a Newlyn address in 1898, one in Oxford (1902), Acton Hill, London (1910) and Regent's Park, London (1917).
Born at Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, he studied architecture in London, became interested in painting, and studied at the Forbes School, the Slade and in Paris 1913-16. In 1918 he studied at the Westminster School of Art with Walter SICKERT. He was to have become Professor of Textile Design at the Royal College of Art but died before taking up the appointment. He lived in London and Shotley, Suffolk.