Allegory (1937-38), a painting hung at Newlyn in the late 1930s, was 8 ft x 4 ft, and the largest work of that year's exhibition. It is an anti-war allegory, last seen hanging on a stairway wall of a bombed-out house in the Midlands. Chapman was delighted to be in-touch with the Newlyn Art Gallery again in 1995 when the Diary of a Gallery was being collated for the Centennial celebrations. A witty and self-deprecating man, his paintings show him as an undoubted modernist working well before his time.
From a family where his mother and sisters were artists, he studied at Dulwich College and Byam Shaw School under Charles Ricketts. He became interested in modern trends, moving towards the abstract after a Grand European Tour in 1934. He states that collage noye was one of his inventions, and wrote for What's On in London for a quarter-century.
David and his wife Sarah, a writer and geographer, work together to produce a stable of wonderful pictoral guides to the flora, fauna and landscapes of the Lizard - and of Cornwall in all weathers - through photography.
Two portraits by this artist, those of Mr Thomas Richards, Penzance Hairdresser (1856) and Mrs Thomas Richards, his Wife (1856) are in the possession of Penlee House Museum. At the RCM, Truro is his portrait of Tamson Blight (1798-1856), the White Witch of Helston painted in the year of her death 1856. Chapman's portrait of John Ferris Bennallack, mayor from 1819 to 1823, is in the collection of Truro City Council.
A recent correspondent writes (2013): We have in the family a portrait painted by Wm J Chapman in 1857, of my great-grandfather Benjamin Bosence of Alverton, where he had a business as fellmonger and, later bootmaker and tanner.
Carol Chapman first studied sculpture in Surrey, exhibiting regularly with the Camberley Art Society. After moving to Cornwall in 1990 she studied with the Open College of Art, qualifying both Art and Design and Sculpture.
Her medium has been almost entirely in concrete, but more recently ceramics. Her work is mainly abstract, focusing on strength of line to create form. She regularly attends life drawing classes at the St Ives School of Art, of which she is a member.
She is a founder member of the Boscastle Group and has exhibited with the Bude Art Society and several galleries in both Devon and Cornwall.
Her work can be seen in the Cowhouse Gallery, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall.
Born into a family of traditional potters of Famagusta, Cyprus (1929), Valentinos studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. After he obtained the Central School's diploma (with Distinction) he worked there as a technical assistant, and then spent a year working in the LEACH Pottery (1950-51).
In 1952 he returned to Cyprus to work with his father, and in 1957 was asked by the Ministry of Education of Iraq to undertake the establishment of the Department of Ceramics of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. In 1960 he was assigned to establish a similar department at the 'Tahrir' Girls College, Baghdad, and in 1967 he joined the newly established Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Baghdad where he became the head of the Department of Ceramics, a position he held until his retirement in 1983, when he returned to Cyprus. He remains in close contact with Baghdad and in 1987 the Iraqi Government honored him for his contribution to the development of Iraqi art both as a teacher and an artist. Valentinos still works with the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture assigned to the development of the Cyprus-Arab cultural relations.
Whybrow quotes Charalambous (2006) as saying 'My work isn't directly influenced by Bernard LEACH but life is much richer for having known him. Even now, I find myself asking "what would BL have thought of this?" '
Samme Charlesworth worked for many years in publishing before a change of direction enabled her devote more time to ceramics. She works in Cornish stoneware clay, creating domestic and decorative pieces.
Her family, the Charlesworths, were related to Augusta LINDNER and were good patrons of Moffatt LINDNER's work. She studied at the Slade and lived at Holland Park. It is not known of any permanent address in the St Ives area, but she has paintings with local titles and did exhibit in the town.
She often accompanied Arthur James Weatherall BURGESS and his artist wife, Muriel BURGESS on holidays. The Alps featured strongly in her works, and a portrait of her by William Lee Hankey was exhibited at the RA in 1932.
The artist's first exhibited work was at Birmingham in 1892. An oil painting of Newlyn harbour frontage was sold at auction in Penzance (W H Lane) in 2015, signed and dated 1890. Adding to this, George Bednar has found that the artist was living in Penzance when the 1891 Census was taken.
A brief stay in St Ives in 1937 produced the title Interior of the Artist's Studio, St Ives Harbour from my living room window. More information is required about this artist.
A recent correspondent (2011) has located a postcard dated 1932 and signed Richard Chatterton as 'from the artist' depicting a street in Tetuan, Morocco. There are no further clues concerning the artist, and the card was never sent.
The artist was born on 16 May, 1852 in Birmingham, and died there 78 years later on 10 January, 1931 (GRO). He studied at the Birmingham School of Art and South Kensington, where he achieved both silver and bronze medals.
Bednar has noted a Newlyn title by the painter, dated 1885. Cheadle exhibited mainly at Birmingham (105), Liverpool and the RCA (16).
Born in St Agnes, Cornwall and married to Mary, the 1891 Census lists him as a Photographer and Artist, living at West End, Redruth. More information is required.
Born at Templemere, Cork in Ireland. According to the Cornishman (1908), the artist was in attendance at the FORBES SCHOOL, after departing four years previously (1904) to go to India, then as Miss Chester of Pembroke Lodge, Newlyn.
Later, she exhibited from 1923-29 from her home address in Co Longford, Ireland, primarily at the RHA.
St Ives association according to Whybrow's 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Richard Dawkins writes:
'K O Chetwood Aiken appears in your list of Cornwall Artists for whom further information is required.
I had no idea he was an artist, but a Mr K O Chetwood Aiken was a master at Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury in the early 1950s when I was there, and for some years before. He taught what little German was required, but mainly he built and maintained the superb model railway, which was one of the prides of the school. I would guess that he was born circa 1900. As I say, I didn't know he was an artist, but it doesn't surprise me.'
Julie Chiffers-Roberts produces abstract ink paintings using a variety of materials.
A painting by this artist forms part of the permanent art collection in the possession of St Michael's Hospital (SMH), Hayle.
Margaret trained at the Coventry College of Art and Reading University. She taught art and crafts at various schools in Hertfordshire, London and Coventry. By taking early retirement, she moved to West Penwith and began to devote herself entirely to her creative life.
A skilled painter in oil, Margaret works in multi-media to create lino prints, etchings, watercolours and collages. She has exhibited extensively mainly in West Cornwall over the past 25 years, always willing to work with others for charitable purposes, and contributing to voluntary events.
Gertrude was born in Illogan, Cornwall, the daughter of Elias Christian, Gentleman, a mining agent of some substance. By the time Gertrude was 13, her widowed mother Jane had brought her family to Penzance, where they lived on Penrose Terrace. One brother, James, who had begun work at age 16 as a railway agent, had become by this time the station master of Penzance Station (the end of the line for this new service to the far west). Another older brother had taken his inheritance to London and thanks to wise investment (railway shares and mining) had amassed a sizeable fortune.
It was to this latter brother and his family that Gertrude, by visiting at their home in Walton Street, Chelsea, was able to extend her training in art, first begun at Penzance School of Art. Where she studied is not as yet known, but by the time she had returned to live with her mother in Penzance, she was listed in the Census of 1881 as an artist/painter.
From 1884-88 her floral watercolours made an impact. These were exhibited by the Royal Institution, the National Watercolour Society, and the Society of Women Artists.
No further information is available at this time; she is not listed in the 1891 Census, when she would have been 43, and there are no further exhibition traces. The marriage of a Gertrude Christian is recorded at Marylebone, London in January 1891, with no spouse listed. It is not known whether or not this is the same person, nor when or where she died.
The sculptor was a relation of the landscape painter, and gave an exhibiting address in Redhill, Surrey (1881), then London (1886), and Caterham, Surrey (1900). Whybrow notices him in St Ives after this date in her 1901-10 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Neil Christmas uses acrylics to create paintings in a unique contemporary abstract style.
Julian Christophers was born in west Cornwall. He has been creating art in Cornwall since 1982. Today he lives and works in Penryn. He is a painter in the naive tradition, best known for his pictures of trawlers from Newlyn, Falmouth and Fowey. His work is represented by the Tyler Gallery in Mousehole.
Anne WATSON was born in India, and was married in 1958 to the artist John Christopherson, who died in 1996. During their working life they lived in Blackheath and in Greenwich, later returning to Blackheath. These locations provided subject matter for many of their paintings.
The couple, aside from being artists themselves, were collectors of modern art, especially 1950s/60s works by St Ives artists. Since John was of Cornish ancestry, they regularly visited St Ives, which had an influence on their art practice.
Donations from their collections have been made to both Tate Modern and Tate St Ives. Mrs Christopherson, now retired, lives at Portscatho on the Roseland in Cornwall.
Anne was especially known and admired for her paintings, 'riverscapes' of the Thames and Greenwich, depicting the early industrial scenes of the Isle of Dogs, and the river transport carrying cargo to and fro. Some of her works can be found in auction houses today.
In 2010 paintings from their collection by Peter LANYON and by Alfred WALLIS were featured on the popular BBC1 Antiques Roadshow (May 2). Previously one of Anne's own paintings had been taken along to a programme in the series held at Greenwich, and it had been valued highly.
The Road to Higher Bal (1967) is the title of a painting by this artist, which is held in the collection of the St Agnes Museum, Cornwall.
The artist is listed as a member of NSA (2010). From internet searches it is clear that she has been working in the area for a few years, and has a well-rounded body of work including sculpture, installation, drawing and paintings. Her work has been shown at the Salt Gallery, Hayle, and on-line in the Art Cornwall Magazine (Rupert WHITE, editor), and also at Badcock's Gallery, Newlyn, prior to its recent closure on site (still operational on-line).
She has taken part in a number of mixed shows with the NSA.