Fulton was born in London, and was an art student at St Martin's College of Art in the mid to late 1960s. Experiences of walking in the Indian lands of the American middle west led him into new ways of thinking about art and landscape, which have coalesced into his life-time of walking journeys that form the basis of his creativity with photography and sculpture related to the land.
The work of Fulton was selected for the 1987 exhibition, Looking West, Paintings inspired by Cornwall from the 1880s to the present day. His exhibit was entitled A two day walk round the coastline from Penzance to St Ives (1980), and extended his repertoire of landscape 'paintings' that had been worked for both the Coastline (1982) and Second Nature (1984) exhibitions previously at NAG. In the summer of 2018, Kestle Barton featured a walk text by Fulton entitled 'Walking between Walks' funded by Arts Council England.
Pam Furby has lived at New Mill since the 1990s. Recently she has produced collagraphic prints of choughs, plants, waves and rocks. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Alan Furneaux has been a professional artist since 1987. Formerly living in Brighton, he is now based in Penzance.
Jane was born in South Molton, Devon, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art with John Ward RA and Gerald Cooper, then at London University's Institute of Education. She moved to Cornwall in 1957, exhibiting regularly at the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Penwith Society of Artists Gallery, St Ives, where she served on the Executive Committee with Barbara HEPWORTH, Terry FROST and Bernard LEACH.
In 1966 she moved to Bristol, and then London, both painting and teaching art at various schools. She was head of art at Redmaids School, Bristol, and from 1986 to 1995 taught in the illustration department at Falmouth College of Art. Subsequently, though keeping a studio in Penzance, she returned to Bristol and travelled extensively abroad.
Working in both mixed media and collage, much of Jane's work is based on the human figure, often as placed in a specific landscape; other works are partly or entirely abstract.
Jane Furness died on 7 September 2020.
A painting by this artist, entitled Tamar Street, Saltash dated c1905 (oil on canvas) is part of the collection made by the Saltash Heritage Museum and Local History Centre.
Gabo was born in Russia under the name of Naum Pevsner, and was the younger brother of the sculptor Antoine Pevsner. He began his professional education at Munich University (1910) in medicine, changing to engineering, and after meeting Kandinsky, joined his brother in Paris. He began making constructions in 1915, returning to Moscow until 1922 when began publishing essays on Constructivism. In Berlin he associated with the de Stijl group and the Bauhaus as well as designing for Diaghilev's ballet and becoming a member of Abstraction-Creation. He first visited England in 1935.
He married Miriam Israels, a niece of the Hague School painter Jozef Israels, and the couple lived in London. They moved to Carbis Bay near St Ives in September of 1939 to be near Barbara HEPWORTH and Ben NICHOLSON, after working on the Circle magazine with Ben previously in London. The best resume of Gabo's life in Cornwall is offered by Michael BIRD in St Ives Artists.
Gabo moved to the USA in 1946, and became a US citizen in 1952. He died in the USA.
Lyndsay Gabriel sculpts in stone. She has exhibited at Trelissick Gallery near Truro.
David Gainford is a painter who works from his studio in St Ives, and also in the south of France.
She lived in Spaxton, Somerset and was made an associate member of STISA in 1939. The following year she was made an Associate of SWA, but her involvement with the Society was brief.
Gair was a painter of landscapes with buildings, in watercolour and tempera.
Ada Mary Galton (fl. 1899-1928) was a printmaker who is believed to have spent some time in Cornwall. In the Census of 1901 she is recorded as living in Surrey. The 1911 Census notes that she resided in London.
Rita Gamble moved to St Ives from the Peak District in 2014. She joined Taking Space, a group of women artists, in 2022.
Megan Gant is a ceramicist who graduated from Cornwall College with a BA (Hons) in Art & Design Practice. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
In 1960 Elena opened the Sail Loft Gallery in Back Road West, St Ives, and continued managing it until 1963. She exhibited her own work beside others.
Meta was born in Heene, Sussex. She was privately educated, then studied under the miniaturist Edwin Morgan. Her preferred medium was pastels and she specialised in portrait sketches.
Her first exhibition in the area was with STISA in 1939 and she continued to show there until she left the Society in 1953, when she moved to Paignton.
John Straker Garbutt is a sculptor who describes himself first and foremost as a draughtsman. He has had a career as an art lecturer in various media in the west Midlands. He left education in 2006 to focus on his own art practice.
His work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and also in Europe. He has completed commissions for clients such as Barratt Homes and Harron Homes.
The artist is mentioned as an American staying in the town by the St Ives Times (17 July 1914).
Artist teacher and Headmaster of the Camborne School of Art (founded in 1889 in Fore Street), which by 1902 had become the largest school of art in West Cornwall, surpassing Penzance.
Born in Reading, Stanley was first apprenticed to a house decorator whilst in his spare time painting with house paint on card. First winning a Scholarship to Reading University, he further studied at the Allan Fraser Art College, Arbroath, Scotland. He travelled to America but returned in 1914 to serve in the Armed Forces. In 1915 he married Bertha Drew (1892-1975), who had encouraged his artistic ambitions, and with whom he had had a child, Gilbert, in 1911. The marriage may have been prompted by his enlistment, but he was discharged from his military duties in 1916.
In 1922 Stanley and Bertha, while holidaying in Cornwall, discovered Lamorna. He gave up a teaching post in Reading, renting 'Lily Cottage', and there they remained. Gardiner was encouraged and heavily influenced by Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH, for whom he made frames (and for Stanhope Forbes and others) when finances were tight. Gardiner worked often in the open air, and in the studio he built for himself (Bludor Studio). He studied at the FORBES SCHOOL in 1926, and showed at NAG in Christmas Exhibition of that year. His titles included Sun Daisies, April Morning, Lamorna, etc. He also took pupils for lessons in the open air, carrying on the long-held plein air tradition.
He maintained his artistic contacts in Reading and London, exhibiting with the Reading Guild of Arts and at a number of London galleries.
A major treasure at Penlee House, Penzance is A Portrait of Stanley Gardiner painted in 1938 by the artist Richard Copeland WEATHERBY (Seal), that was shown first at STISA and then hung at the RA in 1945. It depicts Gardiner 'who stands, legs astride, palette in left hand, brush to the fore, facing his easel with the Lamorna Quay in the background.' (D Bradfield)
Keith works from his father's old studio close to the Lamorna Stream, painting mainly in oils, and inspired by the sea and landscape of the Valley.
Christine was a painter in watercolours, chalks and gouache of landscapes, animals and rustic scenes. She was an artist who worked under Lamorna KERR, and exhibited with the present-day Lamorna Kerr Art Group artists, and in Open Studio exhibitions.
Daughter-in-law of Stanley GARDINER, of the late Newlyn colony, and wife of Keith GARDINER, the couple lived in the Lamorna Valley at Lily Cottage. Christine was a supportive friend to many, and played an active and creative part in Lamorna community events.
Born in Munster, Germany, Jeremy Gardiner studied first at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (BA Hons Fine Art) 1975-79, followed by studies at Royal College of Art (MA Painting) 1980-83. He has achieved a very active and international artistic career, exhibiting world wide, and receiving many awards and fellowships (see list below).
Currently living in Somerset, Gardiner has shown his work locally at the Belgrave Gallery, St Ives.
The artist and left wing political activist was born in Berlin, Germany, where her father Sir Alan Gardiner, the Egyptologist, was working at the time. Her education was undertaken at the Frobel School, Hammersmith, Bedales in Yorkshire, and latterly at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was able to devote her life to politics and the arts, thanks to the family wealth.
Gardiner was a friend of Barbara HEPWORTH, Ben NICHOLSON and many other artists whom she actively supported in their modernist agendas for art. Though she maintained a home in Hampstead most of her life, she visited often in Cornwall, especially during WWII (1939-45). She also spent time often in her favourite retreat on Rousay, Orkney. In 1979 she was the founder of the Pier Art Gallery in Stromness, and it was to the people of Orkney that she gave 67 works of art, including Curved Form (Trevalgan), Barbara Hepworth's first entirely bronze work. The latter sculpture now adorns the pier at Stromness.
In 1937 the artist exhibited two works at the RBA (J&G). Her work related to Cornwall was executed in 1939 and is available to view at Manchester University. Her sending-in address was 10 Campden Hill Gardens, London.
Brian Stewart, former director of Falmouth Art Gallery, introduced his review of Grace Notes with the statement 'Grace Gardner can make colours dance. She spreads great joy through her vibrant and innovative paintings...in a long and distinguished career Grace has embraced a wide variety of art, but it is as an abstract painter that she is now chiefly known...' Her portrait painted by the artist Chester Bratten is in the permanent collection of the Falmouth Art Gallery, alongside a large collection of her own paintings, known as The Grace Gardner Gift, representing work painted since 1961.
Gardner is an American artist from Chicago, best known for her 'grid' paintings, who came to live in Cornwall in 1984. She settled in Flushing, near Falmouth. She is widely travelled, particularly in Europe. A trip to Japan in the early 1980s inspired her to experiment with the Chinese collage technique known as 'chine colle' from which she created a distinctive series of etchings. In St Ives, Roy WALKER encouraged her to develop the technique of monoprinting, which she uses to great effect.
Her work is held in collections in the USA, Europe and the Far East.
Grace Gardner died aged 93 in July 2013, after a short illness.