The 1891 Census lists him as being born in Plympton, Devon, and living at Wood House Terrace, Falmouth with his wife Sarah. He was both an architect and an artist-painter.
Roger Wonnacott was born in Okehampton but lives in west Cornwall. He has family roots in the Carharrick area, where his great-grandfather was a miner. Self-taught, he works mainly in acrylics. A fascination for the Cornish coast informs his subject matter, which includes boats and ships, often battered and rusty from years on the open sea.
Matthew Wood lives in Playing Place, near Truro. His painting is often the inspiration for a bespoke glass picture.
Ron Wood was born in London. From 1936 to 1941 he was an apprentice engineer, and the subsequent five years were spent in the Royal Navy. From 1946 till 1966 he lived in Kent, following a career in marine and nuclear engineering. During the 1950s he was a student at London's St Martins School of Art.
Wood moved to Cornwall in 1966 to follow a career in painting and sculpture. Settling near Truro, he worked with glass fibre and polyester resin. His work was shown in group and many solo exhibitions in Cornwall and throughout the UK. It is also held in private collections in Britain, Europe, the USA and South Africa.
During the 1970s and 1980s he was awarded several commissions for sculpted works.
A painting by this artist, Ribbon Painting (1967) is part of the permanent collection of Cornwall Council.
A portrait in oil paints on canvas of James Miners Holman (1857-1933) is in the fine art collection of RCM, Truro, with the signature of Wood.
Recognised as a West Country 'connection' due to his discovery with Ben NICHOLSON of the naïve artist Alfred WALLIS of St Ives in 1928. Wood was a multi-talented painter of the sea, ships, and dockside life.
In 1926 he met Winifred and Ben Nicholson and in their close friendship worked with them from time to time in Cumbria and in St Ives. First studying architecture at Liverpool, Kit soon turned to painting and studied at the Parisian ateliers of Julian's and Grande Chaumiere, where he was much influenced by modern European art movements (especially Picasso and Cocteau and their circles).
His visits to Cornwall were three in number in the years 1926, 1928 and 1930, in between travels in France, mainly Paris, northern France, and in and around Douarnenez, the capital of Cornouaille (the other Cornwall, a district within Finistere, Brittany). His strong and colourful palette led him with his unique naïve style latterly toward surrealism. He died (by suicide) at Salisbury station on 21 August, 1930 at the age of 29, killed by a train.
Headmaster of Penzance School of Art, taking over from William Henry KNIGHT in 1916. For four years he built it up successfully and was highly respected for being one of the 'best art teachers in the west of England'. Wood resigned in 1920, perhaps fearing the loss of the school's local independence, and was replaced by James W LIAS. In that year he prepared plans for the Lelant War Memorial.
James Wood is a self-taught figurative painter living in St Mawes. He is interested in light, colour and atmosphere, and attempts to capture these effects in all his work. He has exhibited in London with the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
Robert Sydney Rendle Wood exhibited several Cornish-titled paintings at the Second Exhibition of Works by members of the Plymouth Society of Artists in September of 1945.
He was based in Mevagissey and in 1962 he exhibited a series of Polperro paintings at the St Austell Society of Artists and the St Mawes Society of Artists (at that time President of the latter).
Keith Woodhouse, the second son of ROGER HILTON and ROSE HILTON, changed his name in 2010.
His early years were influenced by the colourful abstracts of his father, and poets, actors and other painters formed an important part of his life. He went to school in Penzance, then attended London University to read English. He was subsequently accepted into Falmouth School of Art but in 1988, struggling with his mental health, he was confined to psychiatric care. This continued off and on for the next 23 years. He currently lives in a care home in Devon, where he continues to paint and write.
Aside from his painting practice, Keith also writes poetry. Over one hundred of his poems have been published in magazines, journals, anthologies and zines.
Hannah Woodman was born in Totnes. She studied at Exeter College of Art & Design, and then at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Subsequently she trained as a teacher at the London Institute of Education, and went on to teach and lecture in schools, museums and galleries for six years, after which she turned to painting full-time.
A landscape painter, she works from Jubilee Warehouse in Penryn, a beautiful waterside studio complex. She has enjoyed a series of sell-out one-woman shows. Woodman's work is held in public and private collections both in the UK and abroad.
Woodman is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
An artist, etcher and illustrator, Patrick Woodroffe was born in Halifax and attended Leeds University, where he read French and German. He specialised in science-fiction fantasy images bordering on the surreal, and was a self-taught artist. He married in 1964 and honeymooned in Cornwall, where he remained for the rest of his days.
In 1972 he gave up his work as a language teacher, in order to focus full-time on his art. His love of the irrational was fostered by Sir Roland PENROSE, the Surrealist artist and critic. It was through Penrose's influence that Patrick had his first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In 1972 his work was shown at the Covent Garden Gallery. His career included the creation of covers for a considerable number of science fiction and fantasy books published by Pan Books. He also created album covers for rock stars.
In the early 1990s a retrospective of his work was held at the Chateau de Gruyeres in Switzerland, covering the walls of the former prison tower. This attracted 150,000 visitors and led to the formation of a permanent exhibition of his work there. Following this, he exhibited widely in Switzerland, Germany and France.
In Cornwall Woodroffe's work was exhibited at Falmouth's National Maritime Museum. In 2012 he took part in 'Soaring Spirits' at Falmouth Art Gallery.
Chloe Woods aims to capture the colours and textures of the Cornish coastline in her paintings.
Sarah Woods is based in Newlyn. She graduated from Falmouth University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art.
He first exhibited in 1889 when he was living in Newbury, and his first RA success was in 1922, by which time he was at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. By 1927 he was resident at Seaford in Sussex.
His subjects were taken from all over Southern England, and it can only be assumed that he joined STISA after a visit to St Ives, as no other Cornish connection has been established. Due to distance, however, he was not a regular exhibitor.
Caro Woods' work is concerned with the 'formal aspects of landscape, as well as the hidden structures in the anatomy of the land.' She has exhibited widely throughout Europe and Africa, as well as the UK and Channel Islands. Her commissions include assignments for local interest magazines, and the illustration of a gardening book with over 80 line drawings. Woods is also an experienced teacher, whose community work has strengthened her belief in the therapeutic power of art.
Alongside her art practice, she runs experimental workshops on themes based on the local environment.
An advertisement in the St Ives Times (1917) was for an Artist's Exhibition at The Cottage, Treveal, 11th-14th September, with Meredith STARR, Horace J Wooley and Lady Mary STARR. The works were said to "demonstrate new methods of execution and conception."
'Jim Woolley is a painter of landscape and a sculptor in stone and clay with a studio at Maker Heights on the Rame Peninsula, southeast Cornwall. Since visiting West Penwith on a short painting trip in the winter of 2004/05, his main body of work has been "en plein air" oil studies of coastal Cornwall.'
A full resume of his art training and his extensive exhibition list is available on his website, from which the above statement is taken.
Paintings by this artist form part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth.