Ingrid Brown is a portrait, figurative and plein air artist living in west Cornwall. In 2011 she obtained a BA in History of Art from York University, followed by an MA in Architectural History and Theory.
Her work has been exhibited in Cornwall and London. She works to commission.
Born on 14 March 1851 in Chelmsford, Essex, Brown studied at the Royal College of Art (1868-77) and in Paris at Academie Julian with Robert-Fleury and Bougereau (1883). In the Edgbastonia, Fred Brown is noted ‘before his professional days’ to have shared a house in Newlyn in 1881 with eight other artists, including William John WAINWRIGHT, Charles Henry WHITWORTH, Edwin HARRIS and Richard Malcolm LLOYD.
Bednar has noted a Newlyn title by Brown in 1881, and in 1892 he succeeded Alphonse Legros as a Slade Professor. Scott has noted ‘a fairly brief connection with Walberswick’ in his essay on the coastal artists colonies in Painting at the Edge. Brown played an important part in the founding of the NEAC with a number of others, including those from Newlyn. Two of his paintings were purchased in 1933 (Portrait of the Painter) and 1940 (The Ivy Arch) for the Chantrey Bequest. He died on 8 January, 1941, age 89, at Richmond upon Thames.
Born in Monmouthshire, she studied with Professor Herkomer at Bushey, and exhibited at the Nottingham Castle Exhibition of Cornish Painters (1894) as Mia Edwards.
In 1896 she married John Alfred Arnesby BROWN. She was included in many exhibitions with Marianne L M STOKES and Elizabeth FORBES, frequently exhibiting her paintings of children. Her primary exhibiting was in the RA. The couple maintained a home in Norfolk and St Ives, roughly splitting the year between the two, with winter and spring in St Ives.
Born in Glasgow, he studied initially at the Glasgow School of Art under Newbery. At the age of 18 he went to the Slade for five years under Brown, Tonks and Wilson Steer, winning a scholarship and prizes for head and figure painting. For many years he assisted Gerald Moira in mural decoration work in a number of important buildings, such as Lloyds and the Central Criminal Courts, and was in charge of women artists who decorated the first Wembley Exhibition restaurants. In 1894 his address was in London, and in 1911 at Weston Turville nr Aylesbury.
In 1922 he was appointed Principal of the Reigate and Redhill School of Arts and Crafts, a position he retained for 18 years. However, he paid regular visits to Cornwall as the titles of his 1930s exhibition pieces show, and he acted as Temporary Headmaster at the Penzance School of Art in 1941 upon the sudden death of James W LIAS; he was then superseded within the year by the appointment of Edward Bouverie HOYTON to the post.
He settled in St Ives during WWII, living at Lyonesse, Talland Road at the time of his 1944 RA exhibition, but moved with his wife, an accomplished weaver, and elderly sister Marjorie Brown to nearby Carbis Bay in 1946. Mrs Todd Brown was partly responsible for the creation of the Cornwall League of Spinners, Dyers and Weavers. He moved to Torquay in 1950, and died there in 1952.
Born in East Sheen, London, Jennifer came to Cornwall first in 1953 on holiday, after having a range of shopkeeping, child-minding and infant teaching jobs. Her works are meticulous, beautifully and finely drawn, and show a quirky and hilarious sense of humour.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1901-10 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Born in Warminster, Wiltshire, the artist was a London-based painter (address in Swiss Cottage) until the 1891 Census, when he and his wife, Edith Clara, were living in the parish of St Uny, Lelant, near St Ives.
His painting for the 1890 exhibition at Dowdeswells, which was entitled November Weather-St Ives, indicates that they had moved to Cornwall some time earlier. His daughter Constance Mabel, 3 years old at that time, had been born in Berlin, an Overseas British subject.
Warne Browne exhibited at Newlyn from the opening exhibition in 1895, his paintings always proving popular. A major sale he achieved at NAG was of seven sketches on sea subjects in 1899. By 1901 he and his wife and three daughters had moved to live in Ruan Minor, the address he gave for exhibition purposes. He was a member of the NSA. Although he exhibited at the Royal Academy, he did not achieve the recognition he deserved in the UK. However, his seascapes were sought after by Americans.
Tovey has found an image of Pilchard Fishing with the Seine Net, reproduced in 1901 in The Sphere, which was simultaneously showing at an exhibition at the St James Gallery in London. This scene shows a large group of fisherman working their large seine net, possibly off the coast of St Ives, though the location is indeterminate.
In 1905 he exhibited two paintings at NAG, which were both sold to a Liverpool buyer, Winter Weather and Lizard Coast; and Kynance two years later. In 1913 he resided at Lower Shiplake, Oxon.
Upon his death in Ruan Minor from a stroke in 1915, the artist was described in the Helston Advertiser and the West Briton as 'a true Bohemian, with a highly developed artistic temperament. Mr Warne Browne loved the sea, and painted it with a sincerity and fidelity which ought to have secured for him a higher place in the world of art'.
The artist exhibited at the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890, with the painting Sundown which indicated earlier visits to West Cornwall.
In 1894-1902 he was exhibiting from 5 Pembroke Studios, Kensington, and by 1910 his address was at Palace Gate in the West End of London where he remained until 1917 or after.
Stated by Johnson & Greutzner to be a sporting painter, he is listed as visiting St Ives sometime between 1911 and 1920. No further information currently available.
Born on 7 July 1862 in Nottingham with the name of Anderson Henry, Anderson was his father's forename as well. The artist was a lace manufacturer by trade, and Bednar has noted a Newlyn title listed for him in a mixed exhibition at the RBA. In 1889 at the RA he exhibited A Court in Newlyn, and the following year he showed In sweet September.
His sending-in address to the Paris Salon (1892) was 5 Magdala Road, Nottingham, and he exhibited two paintings that year: Le Soir and a view of Wells-sur-Mer (Norfolk).
He died on 23 August 1920, aged 58, in Nottingham (GRO).
Living at 23 Regent Terrace, Penzance, the artist exhibited locally at NAG in 1937 with Autumn Bunch. Both she and her husband attended the FORBES SCHOOL classes in 1937.
In 1937 the artist exhibited two paintings at NAG The Classic Road to Draughtsmanship and Girlhood, a Portrait. Listed with an address in Edinburgh (1919), his sending-in address became Penzance in 1937.
He is recorded by Green (Hardie 2009 pp77-82) as attending the FORBES SCHOOL with his artist wife, Edith.
Ken Bruce is a landscape painter who lives and works in north Cornwall. In 1988 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
American-born artist who visited St Ives before 1923 - when a visitor noticed paintings by Bruestle and Richard Hayley LEVER hanging on the walls of a pub. (Tovey 2009, p331) It appears from a survey of internet resources that he specialised in architectural features (barns, brick factories, etc) and figurative subjects. Most titles indicate New England settings (he was born in New York and died in Connecticut), but it is not known how many or what paintings he may have left in Europe after his visit/s.
The artist was born at Eastbourne, coming to West Cornwall because of her friendship with Mornie BIRCH, made while they were both pupils at Badminton House in Clifton, Bristol.
She began her art training at the FORBES SCHOOL in the early 1920s, with the informal tuition of Lamorna BIRCH, and spent time thereafter in Paris. She remained active in Lamorna, St Ives and Newlyn artistic circles until 1955, and lived variously in Paul Village, Newlyn and Truro from 1924-1955. Primarily she painted portraits and landscapes.
Midge also attended painting classes with Harold HARVEY and Ernest PROCTER. Her paintings were signed "Midge" or "Bruford". Dod PROCTER painted several portraits of her (See p189 of A Painter Laureate, Lamorna Birch and his circle, by Austin Wormleighton).
She was the Head of the Liskeard School of Art, founded in 1883, and a frequent exhibitor at the RCPS in Falmouth.
Bruhl was responsible for Cornish Riviera, the GWR railway poster that epitomised the possibilities of this new mode of transport to exotic parts of England in the early 20th Century, alongisde other images depicting the delights of Falmouth and Glorious Devon.
Born in Liverpool, he studied painting at Bradford School of Art, the Slade, and privately with John M Swan in Kensington.
He was part of the St Ives Colony of artist and visitors (1901-10), and was listed as a rate-payer in 1905. However, he is primarily known for north-country landscapes. Reg served in the Armed Forces, WWI, with his home being given as Skipton, Yorkshire. Later his home was at Masham, Yorkshire.
Christine Brunnock, a painter of seascapes, is based in St Ives, where she grew up.
In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Art Prize. She won the ING Discerning Eye Purchase Prize in 2023.
Her work has been widely exhibited, not only in Cornwall but more widely throughout the UK.
Sharon Bruster creates abstract paintings inspired by the spaces between high and low tide. Surface is a key element of her colourful work. Her experimental approach and exploration of surfaces has led her to incorporate a range of materials into her pieces, including ash, sand, marble and slate dust, household filler and plaster of paris. She works from a studio in Padstow.
In 2023 she completed a second year-long professional practice course at Newlyn School of Art. She sells work in a number of galleries in Cornwall.
She is a founder member of artists' collective Ten:22.
In 2023 she and her artist friend Maggie COCHRAN set up Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.
Andrew Bryant's training as a psychoanalyst informs his art practice, which involves transforming found photographs into monochrome oil paintings. In 2021 he participated in the One Year Mentoring Programme at Newlyn School of Art. He lives and works in Cornwall and his work is in private collections in the UK and abroad.
A marine painter from New South Wales, Bryant arrived in the UK in 1908. He studied with Julius OLSSON in St Ives and exhibited his work created around St Ives scenery at RA (1913-36). A coloured plate of his painting, The Thames at Westminster, is included in Tovey 2009 at p242. He exhibited extensively in London and elsewhere.
In 1917 he became an official artist for the Australian Armed Forces on the Western Front. Following this, he was invited as official artist to the mandated territory of New Guinea in 1923 for the Commonwealth Government. He was also commissioned to paint the US fleet in Sydney Harbour. However, he still came back to St Ives from time to time (elected to STISA 1932), as can be seen in his show record and locally titled works.
Born in Port Adelaide, Australia, she studied at the Adelaide School of Design under H P Gill. She was the wife of the Reverend Reginald Bryant. In the 1924 Show Day at St Ives she exhibited three large oil paintings from Lanhams Art Gallery and was well reviewed: 'the largest is a scene, trees yellowed by autumn, another is a pastoral scene of bringing the harvest home, while the third is a river scene, charming and quaint with white farm buildings among dense green trees.' (St Ives Times)
Annie was successful in exhibiting at the Paris Salon (10), and during the 1930s she offered summer sketching holidays based at her home at Clyst St Lawrence, Exeter.
Bryant is a home-grown artist from West Cornwall, reflecting in his vibrantly coloured abstracts a strong emotional tie to his native environment. He was one of the few fortunate artists who showed their work in the short-lived Hilton Young Gallery on Chapel Street in 2008-9, but has been exhibiting locally in St Ives, Penzance (Rainyday Gallery) and further afield (Bath, Bristol, London, Cambridge, and Holland).
From 1980 through to 2002, his main focus and career was in sculptural green wood-turning, and examples of his work are in prestigious museum collections internationally, from the V&A Museum, the Liverpool Museum & Art Gallery, the Sainsbury Collection to as far afield as Hawaii. The designer David Linley has noted Bryant as being one of the five designers he admires most in the contemporary craft field.
Canadian painter, born in Greenock, Scotland, who visited St Ives between 1901-10, Brymer was a Royal Canadian Academician who gave a sending-in address in Manchester in 1884-5. No further information is currently available about his time in Cornwall.