Suki Wapshott lives and works in Polzeath, north Cornwall. A self-taught artist, in 2000 she obtained a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Oxford University, as a mature student. After the tragic death of her daughter, Suki and her husband moved from the Midlands to Cornwall. This change had a profound impact on her art practice. Her emotional and sensory response to poetry and literature has found expression in sea and landscapes, alongside some abstract work.
Along with her photographer husband Nick Wapshott, Suki owns and runs the Whitewater Gallery in Polzeath.
A painting by this artist, Farmyard (Private Collection), was exhibited at the 2002 Penlee House exhibition in Penzance, 'Women Artists in Cornwall 1880-1940'. She was the wife of the Newlyn painter John Gutteridge SYKES, and mother of the late artist, Dorcie SYKES.
Peter Ward describes himself as an artist/illustrator. His special focus of interest is on the 'use, formation, history and ecological implications of gathered materials, in particular earth pigments from Devon and Cornwall'. His work is shared through painting, workshops, installations and presentations.
After completing a Foundation Course in 1986 at Portsmouth CADFE, Ward studied for a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design & Illustration at Bristol Polytechnic, graduating in 1989. In 2012 he received the Sandra Blow Award for his MA in Art & Environment at University College Falmouth.
His work has been exhibited in Devon and Cornwall and throughout the UK.
Taunton-born painter of portraits, landscape and genre, Member of ROI, and husband of Charlotte Blakeney WARD. Lived in Chelsea (London) and Blewbury, Berkshire.
A painting by Kit Ward of St Just-in-Roseland Church (oil on canvas) is in the art collection of Royal Cornwall Hospital.
The artist was born in Manchester, and exhibited one painting in 1900 (under Blakeney) at the Paris Salon, Isabella. She was President of the Society of Women Artists 1923-1931, the Vice-President at the time being Dorothea SHARP. She married Charles Daniel WARD, also an artist, and painted portraits of fashionable London people. Her visits to Cornwall were working holidays and to be with friends such as Dorothea SHARP and Helen SEDDON where they often painted together in the open air.
Born and bred in St Ives, Cornwall, Eric Ward is one of a very small group of native professional artists. After retiring from life-long service to the community and seas around it, as fisherman, coxswain and harbourmaster of the St Ives lifeboat, he was able to devote himself full-time to his studio work.
He began showing his work with Leon SUDDABY at Marazion in 1994, and continued with exhibitions thereafter. In 1996 the exhibition was in parallel with the BBC programme Video Diaries, Oil and Oilskin, the life of Eric Ward (life with the lifeboat and his art), that increased interest in his paintings of the world around him. His work was shown at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance in 1999.
In 2003 Halsgrove published Eric Ward's St Ives from his studio and beyond, telling the story of his life through coloured plates of his work.
Philip Ward lives in Newmill near Penzance. He is a painter in oils (applied with a knife), charcoal and oil pastels.
Born in Hampstead, London, the son of an art dealer, Ward was educated at St Joseph's RC school in Highgate before training at the Slade School under Henry Tonks. His father died early which meant that he had to set to work to support his mother and himself.
He succeeded primarily in the commercial sector and worked for publishers such as the Medici Society, W R Royle, Frost and Reed, Solomon and Whitehead and W N Sharpe of Bradford. Many reproductions of Ward's work were to be found on chocolate boxes, jigsaw puzzles, greeting cards and commercial prints. Though he continued to paint seriously for his own pleasure, it was not until 1976 that he held his first solo show of work at the King Street Galleries.
It is not known when he spent time in Cornwall, but the results are in his prints. For much of his working life, he had the use of only one eye, due to an accident. In the 1960s he had a severe nervous breakdown, and was later crippled with arthritis. His own memoirs form the major part of the book about his life as a child of the Edwardian era. (Walpole)
Wardman is an experimental artist working from Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. Her studio practice includes painting and 'extended painting' involving film, installation and print.
Her work has been shown at the Cornwall Film Festival.
Although she had previously been successful at the Paris Salon (1909), where she had studied for six months, the Preview Exhibition staged by local artists in March 1920, before sending their pictures to the London Galleries, was her first in St Ives. This show was apparently separate from the St Ives Show Day Exhibition (in which she also exhibited), and well received according by the St Ives Times.
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Benjamin Warner was born in Truro and spent his early years in Penryn. After studying Illustration at Falmouth School of Art, he worked in London, illustrating book covers for publishers such as Heinemann and Penguin.
Warner returned to Cornwall in 2001, settling near Falmouth. His work can be seen at the Lighthouse Gallery in Penzance, and at Beside the Wave in Falmouth.
Gail Warner-Pryce was born in St Ives and grew up in the artistic atmosphere of the town in the 1960s. Her seascapes and beach landscapes have been exhibited in galleries throughout the UK and have been bought by private collectors in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
Associated with Falmouth, a painting by Warren entitled Fire Crew Attending a Blaze (acrylic on board) is in the possession of Truro Fire Station.
Vaughan Warren is a painter and lecturer who was born in Watford, Herts. He graduated and obtained his postgraduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1980s. Further studies took place at Hertford Regional College and Middlesex University (1998).
In 2002 he moved from Padstow to Newlyn 'to get closer to the influences of the Newlyn and St Ives schools'. In 2004, he and his business partner, artist Melanie Ann CAMP set up the PZag Gallery on New Street, Penzance and the pair produced some unusual and innovative exhibitions which included such subjects as the 'Art of the fashion design world' and shows of automata. The Gallery changed hands c.2008.
Warren strives to 'work towards an abstract beauty through paint and the image'. He has exhibited his paintings at the Padstow Arts Festival, and is a member of the Camelford Gallery Artists, who exhibit regularly in that venue. Other exhibitions have taken place at the Lander Gallery in Truro and Padstow Contemporary Art Gallery.
The artist was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, and there is record of his marriage to Mary Grant of Stoke Newington in 1876. He became a pupil of Thomas HART.
A long entry in the Collectanea reveals that he began sketching at an early age and was educated at the British School under Mr Robert Coome. His work was noticed by Dr Daniel Hack Tuke, Miss Caroline Fox and Mrs Genn in Cornwall and he became a pupil at the Falmouth School of Art. He began work in watercolours after seeing drawings of John MOGFORD RI who stayed in his home on first visiting Cornwall on a sketching tour. He also became a pupil of W BOASE SMITH of Falmouth. From there he went to London and studied at the South Kensington Museum, returning to Cornwall to work with Hart as mentioned above.
After his marriage he established his home and studio at Bournemouth, where he and his wife Mary had three sons and one daughter. His chief media was in watercolour. His death was registered at Epsom, Surrey, at the age of 76.
His great-grand daughter has been in touch (2015) and comments that he was commissioned to paint a number of important personages and nobility of the day, including her other great-grand father, Acton Phillips who was Mayor of Hammersmith in 1902/3. His portraiture as listed in the Collectanea includes people of Cornwall, Ireland, Bournemouth; views of Tintagel, St Michael's Mount, Scotland, York and Lancashire.
Due to the correspondence above from Warren's g-grand-daughter, another close relation has been in touch to say that he has family photos, a signed painting, and several unsigned works by the artist. If the above lady would contact CAI again, his contact details can be passed on, if interested. Please write to hello@hypatia-trust.org.uk.
The sculptor and potter Jo Wason lives and works from her own studio in West Cornwall. She is married to the potter Jason WASON, and for many years up until 2006 when it closed for renovation and expansion, worked for the LEACH POTTERY, where she assisted Janet LEACH.
She shows and sells her work at the Leach Pottery Museum shop, and also in mixed and solo shows as well as from her website in the Poetry Workshop cooperative. Her beautifully balanced vases and pots are illustrated there.
New work by this artist was included in the 2009 exhibition at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, entitled 'The Flower Show' which focussed on ceramic vessels for the art of flower display.
This outstanding studio potter was born in Liverpool.
Six years at the Leach Pottery (from 1976) gave Jason a strong sense of workshop discipline and technical competence in glaze techniques, and the ability to throw whatever shape he had in mind; after completing his commitment to producing the standard ware range of the Leach Pottery, he had the freedom to experiment with his own designs. He endeavoured to introduce into a pot a sense of motion, energy and vitality, and his pots are of a ritualistic and ceremonial nature, much inspired by travels in Africa, India and the Middle East, where his search for a nation's pottery caused him to become involved in concerns for the preservation of indigenous peoples' physical and cultural survival.
Wason teaches ceramics at the Penzance School of Art. He is married to the ceramics artist Joanna WASON, who works and teaches at the LEACH POTTERY, St Ives.
After meeting Japanese ceramicist Yasuo TERADA in 2000, Wason was invited to work with him at his studio in Seto, Japan's oldest centre of continuous ceramic history. Since then they have exhibited and worked together on many occasions, showing in galleries in Japan and London, and several locations in Cornwall. Together they have built a coal-fired kiln at the Leach Pottery.
In 2005, South West Arts and the Sasakawa Foundation Japan funded Wason to work for three months alongside Yasuo Terada at the Seihoji Ancient Kiln Park, as part of the EXPO international festival of Japan.
In 2017 Wason (together with Yasuo Terada) became LSG Withiel's first artist in residence.
In 2019 one of his pieces on show at A View from the Edge, entitled 'Metallic Gold and Red Vessel' was acquired by the V&A for their permanent collection.
The artist exhibited his (1893 RA exhibited) A Hamadryad at the 5th Newlyn Art Gallery exhibition in 1896; the work was however alternatively titled as Faun and Hamadryad. A review was published in the 1896 Studio magazine [Studio 8 - 'Studio Talk', p244] that commented: 'Mr Waterhouse's Faun and Hamadryad is the most interesting picture in more ways than one, but markedly so as being exotic to the atmosphere of Newlyn, as exquisite work of a different inspiration should always strike those who labour in another field - unless they have closed their eyes to all other influences but that of their own clique, a danger signal of old age in Art.'
Waterhouse visited St Ives (Hobson Catalogue) and produced a 'St Ives Sketchbook'. There is stronger evidence for Waterhouse visiting nearby Devon from as early as 1890. He is known to have produced an oil work entitled The Devonshire Coast, 1890 (Hobson Cat no 87). He and his wife Esther made family visits to Croyde in North Devon on a regular basis between 1893 and 1909. Esther's sister, Emily, married a close friend of Waterhouse, the Newlyn artist Peregrine Mulvogue FEENEY (1838-1913) in 1891, and in either 1892 or 1893 the Feeneys moved to Croyde in North Devon. It is not unreasonable to assume that the Waterhouse visits to Devon included further travels into Cornwall from time to time.
Born in London on May 24, 1850 (GRO), Waterlow studied in Heidelberg and Lausanne, and then entered the RA Schools in 1872. In 1873 he received the RA Schools Turner Gold Medal for painting. By 1883 he had already visited Newlyn: the comment was made about the new President of the Royal Water-Colour Society in 1898, that "a visit was made to Newlyn, before that village had been invented by the School of that name".
The following year a special article was initiated in The Studio to explore the collections and preferences of well-known artists, with Waterlow as the first Collector. His treasures were wide-ranging and included A Girl Knitting, Newlyn by William Christian SYMONDS, a painting of his mother by Stanhope FORBES' friend, the portrait painter Arthur HACKER, and a pastel of his daughter by Marianne L M STOKES. Waterlow was Knighted in 1902. Martin Hardie (1920) wrote, following his attendance at Waterlow's studio sale at Christie's: "His somewhat idyllic landscapes found mainly in southern England, are marked by harmony of colour and quiet refinement." The artist died on 25 October, 1919 in London, age 69 (GRO).
Paul Waterman works from a studio in Lanreath, near Looe, from where he runs art courses.