Ges Wilson moved to Cornwall in the mid-1980s, and has since made St Ives her home. Previously she had studied art at Loughborough and Exeter Colleges of Art, and came to Penzance as an art teacher.
She is a member of the Penwith Society of Artists and also works freelance as an artist for the Tate St Ives. She is a former principal of St Ives School of Painting. Her semi-abstract landscapes are inspired by the 'elemental energy' of Cornwall. She exhibits widely, and her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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Sarah Kate Wilson is exhibiting at the Newlyn Art Gallery from 19 July - 27 September, with Sophia STARLING and Kate TERRY.
Bernice Wilson is a portrait painter who lives in Menherion near Redruth.
Patricia Wilson Smith is based in St Just, west Penwith. In 2022 she joined Taking Space, a group of women artists.
Wilton works from Shallal Studios, in the grounds of the John Daniel Centre in Penzance.
Yvette Wiltshire was born in Plymouth. She lives in Menheniot, near Liskeard, where she paints and teaches. From 2003-2013 she was an adult education art tutor, also holding private classes. Currently she focusses exclusively on her private classes in the Liskeard area and also conducts workshops for Cartwheels Craft Centre and the Duchy Nurseries, Lostwithiel.
The artist was born in London at 2 West Halkin Street. A water-colour painter who is known to have exhibited between 1881 and 1908. He married Helen Margaret Sillar, a British subject born in Shanghai in October of 1880, and the couple had six children, three girls and three boys.
He is particularly well known for a large series of small watercolours for postcards issued in series by Raphael Tuck. The subjects chosen are landscape scenes of Devon, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. A list of his series is available at http://www.jhsn.eclipse.co.uk/id29.htm and it is clear that he must have spent some considerable time painting in Cornwall. No particular detail of these visits is known, though indicated through the choice of his subjects.
In 2021 we heard from the granddaughter of Henry Bowser Wimbush, Jessamine Barron. A painter in Canada, she has followed in her grandfather's footsteps.
Born in Chester, Wimperis studied wood-engraving under Mason Jackson, and worked as an illustrator for The Illustrated London News and other magazines. He gradually took up painting in oil and watercolour.
From 1859 he exhibited at the most prestigious galleries, including the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists in Suffolk Street, the New Watercolour Society, the Grosvenor Gallery and the New Gallery. He was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1875, and then became its Vice President in 1895.
His titles include some Cornish and West Country scenes, and he is believed to have been in Newlyn for a short period in 1881. Flanagan finds him frequently painting along the Ouse in Huntingdonshire (1890s) and reprints two of his paintings in colour in her excellent book, Artists along the Ouse, 1880-1930.
A correspondent (2020) has advised us that Wimperis' connection with Cornwall was through his wife, Anne Harry Edmonds, who was born in Penzance in 1840. The couple were married there in 1863. Her father, Walter Edmonds, was a cousin of the Bronte sisters through his Branwell mother, which may explain why he was chosen to illustrate the Bronte's books.
Sarah Wimperis is a painter and illustrator who was born in Kent. She graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1981 and spent many years travelling, including six years in Norway, teaching art, and four years in France, before settling in Manaccan in Cornwall. She has been a regular exhibitor at Beside the Wave in Falmouth since 2008.
In the summer of 2016 Sarah Wimperis travelled to Gdansk, Poland, as the only English oil painter among a 95-strong international team of artists selected to participate in the creation of an animated film on Vincent van Gogh, entitled 'Loving Vincent'. The film is due for release in 2017.
She has led workshops at Truro Arts Company (2018).
Janine Wing is a self-taught mixed media artist. Originally from St Ives, she currently lives and works in Penzance.
She became a member of STISA in 2025.
Bridget Winterbourne divides her time between Bude, north Cornwall, and Somerset. After retirement she was able to fulfil a long-held dream, becoming a self-taught artist. Her work has been exhibited widely in both Cornwall and Somerset.
Set in naive landscapes, Winton's work is full of whimsical characters and imaginary narratives, reminiscent of antique folk art.
The Art Union of Cornwall prize winner in the 1920 RCPS September show (winning £2 2s 0d), recorded as being from St Ives.
Born to artist parents (the potter Nic HARRISON and weaver Jackie Harrison) Lisa Wisdom spent much of her childhood at Trelowarren. She creates unique metal landscapes from a palette of recycled rust and copper.
After attending St Ives School of Art and Penzance Art School, she trained as a jeweller - a skill which introduced her to the art of blacksmithing. She travelled abroad to learn more about this craft, and on her return to Cornwall in 2008, she set up Smythick Forge near Falmouth. Since then she has established a smithy in a remote quarry near the town.
She has carried out commissions for artworks in Redruth and Carn Brea and, funded by the Landmark Trust, restored the Smithy on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. In 2014 she carried out restoration work on the original fireplace at the Leach Pottery (now part of the Museum).
Co-founder of the Cornish Blacksmiths Collective, Lisa was voted Cornish Blacksmithing Champion in 2014. The following year she was presented with the 'Design & Innovation Award' by the Guild of Ten at the Cornwall Design Fair.
The artist, a painter of marine subjects, studied at Liverpool School of Art between 1924 and 1930, and received a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. He won a further travelling scholarship to Rome, where he spent several months studying art.
From 1936-39 he rented a studio in St Ives though his sending in address remained at Liverpool, and he was particularly attracted by Cornish harbour subjects. In 1938 he became a member of STISA. During WWII he was based in Liverpool, working in the Air Ministry.
In 1945 he started teaching part-time at the Liverpool School of Art, and first became involved in restoration work for the Walker Art Gallery, an area in which he was to excel. His paintings were very well received by the time he visited Polperro in 1948, producing a number of works in the village. In 1949 he resigned from STISA and joined the Penwith Society, where his Polperro works were highly praised.
He was closely associated with the RCA, becoming its treasurer. A number of his exhibits during the 1950s were acquired for public collections, but he gave up painting in the late 1960s as he was in such demand as a restorer for the Walker, Lady Lever and Derby Art Galleries.
Carolyn Wixon was born and brought up on Dartmoor, Devon, but now lives in east Cornwall. After a career as a ballet dancer, she took a law degree at Exeter University, then became a horticulturist. Her landscapes and seascapes have been exhibited in Devon and Cornwall.
Wolfe was born in Bristol, where he was raised by an adoptive mother, Mrs Buckley of Windsor Terrace, Clifton.
Later he settled in Hampshire.
Joy Wolfenden Brown was born in Lincolnshire and studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds. After taking a postgraduate diploma in art therapy she spent ten years working in the field of mental health. She moved to Cornwall in 1998, settling in Bude, where she resumed painting. The subjects of her paintings, usually solitary female figures, are not drawn from life, yet they possess a vulnerability and fragility which is instantly recognisable.
Wolfenden Brown has had a number of sell-out solo exhibitions in Cornwall and beyond. Her work was acquired for the Anthony Petullo Outsider and Self-Taught Art Collection in Milwaukee, USA.
She was the 2007 winner of the Sherborne Open Prize. In October 2012 she was awarded first prize in the 16th annual National Open Art Competition with 'The Lacemaker'. In 2019 she won the Evolver Prize at the Royal West of England Academy.
Garnet Wolseley first sold a painting, Rough Seas, at Newlyn Art Gallery in 1908 and in 1909 he exhibited A Fairy Story and A Silver Sea. He served on the main committee of the Newlyn Society of Artists, and the hanging committee of the Gallery from 1911 to 1913, when Charles Walter SIMPSON undertook to replace him on the Management Committee.
Penlee House has his painting of St Michael's Mount (oil on canvas), gifted by the Friends and the Simon Levy Charitable Trust in 2001. Wolseley features in back profile with Laura KNIGHT and Florence CARTER-WOOD, modelling as a butler in the painting by Harold KNIGHT, Afternoon Tea (1910). The setting was Wolseley's drawing room in Newlyn. Laura Knight describes him taking part in wild but sparse attire at one of Phyllis Maureen GOTCH's extravagant parties. He worked from Sandy-Cove Studio, Newlyn, often painting in the Lamorna Valley nearby, until 1913.
Hendrik Jan Wolter was one of the few Dutch artists to embrace Impressionism. His friendship with Frank HEATH, a fellow student at art school in Antwerp in 1895, drew him to Cornwall. He is known to have visited the Heaths in Polperro in 1911, though that was not his first trip to the fishing port. He returned regularly to Polperro and also St Ives for the next twenty years.
As a student, Wolter also spent some time in Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Georges Seurat, Claude Monet and Paul Signac. These influences are clear in the wonderful paintings he produced of Polperro harbour.
In 1924 he was appointed Professor at the State Academy in Amsterdam, a position he held until 1938. This impacted greatly on his painting output. But he did return to Polperro in 1932, producing an impressive painting of the harbour. His Cornish work is some of the best of his career, and fetches significant sums at auction.
Shayla Wongwichien works from a studio between Padstow and Wadebridge, along the Camel Trail. Her work incorporates elements from the landscape such as wild foraged clay, and glazes created from the ashes of fallen trees.