Born and educated at Dulwich College, Fuller studied at the RA Schools between 1912-14, winning the British Institute Scholarship in painting (1913), and went on to attend the Clapham School of Art. Whilst serving in the Machine Gun Corps during WWI, he became friendly with Borlase SMART, and after the war attended the RA again (1919-21), and also got married to the artist Marjorie MOSTYN (called Nancy), daughter of the artist Tom Mostyn.
From 1922-32 he taught art at St John's Wood Art Schools, exhibited at the Paris Salons (Silver medallist), and also taught at his old school, Dulwich College (1927-37). Borlase SMART persuaded him to come to St Ives, and with his wife he established the St Ives School of Painting (1938ff). He was also a Founder member of the Penwith Society of Artists. A charming portrait of Terry FROST and Son (oil on canvas) is part of the permanent collection of the Newlyn Art Gallery.
A complete resume of his important contributions to the St Ives art colony and to the crucial role he played during and after World War II is best found in Tovey (2003) pp94-6. Fuller died in St Ives.
Stephen Fuller works from his studio and gallery at Trevaunance Cove, near St Agnes.
His painting, The Callington Town Crier and the Liskeard Town Crier, is in the possession of Liskeard Town Council. Another painting, being a sensitive portrait of a miner, Croust Time (1996) belongs to the collection of Geevor Tin Mine.
Jonathan Fuller studied for a degree in Printed Textile Design at Glasgow School of Art. This was followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art in London, from where he graduated in 1996.
He returned to Cornwall in 2005, settling in Falmouth. His wall sculptures are created from salvaged pieces of sea glass.
Born in Sidcup, Yvonne Fuller has lived in St Mawes since 1994. She studied painting at Bromley College of Art and Goldsmiths' College, University of London, where her tutors included Frank Auerbach and Bernard Dunstan. Her work is mainly representational. She painted for several years as a resident artist in Dulwich Picture Gallery, where some of her watercolours of gallery life were purchased for the permanent collection. This led to a term as Official Artist to the British Medical Association, documenting events for the British Medical Journal.
More recently she was appointed as Artist to Cornwall County Council, recording the historic outbuildings at Mount Edgcumbe. She has also documented Trewithen House near Truro. Exhibition venues include the Phoenix Galleries in Lavenham and Highgate, and at Sotheby’s and, closer to home, the New Gallery Portscatho, Tregony Gallery and Hotel Tresanton, St Mawes. She has prepared designs and painted scenery for stage productions including Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” for the Royal College of Music Opera School, Handel’s “Amadigi” and “Il Pastor Fido” for the Unicorn Opera, Abingdon, and for several pantomimes. Some of her larger paintings have been sold to support eye charities in the developing world. Her painting 'St Mawes from Lanarth' of 1995 is included in the 'Oil Paintings in Public Ownership' catalogue for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and is part of the collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
The artist studied in Birmingham and in Paris, and is listed as one of the first members of the Birmingham Art Circle by R Langley (p144n) in his biography of Walter LANGLEY (1997). He was both a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ('uniquely' amongst the Newlyn Fraternity according to R Langley, in his latest biography 2011 on the strong connections between the Birmingham Art Circle and Newlyn).
Fullwood also reveals in the 1870s a strong connection with Wolverhampton of his birth, in many etchings of old buildings which were published in 1880.
At the early date of 1881 he exhibited Cornish watercolours in Birmingham at the Art Circle and in 1882 he was exhibiting from an address in Paul, Newlyn making him one of the earliest Birmingham artists to work in Cornwall. Though departing Cornwall later that year or early in 1883, he went on to Paris. He made at least another brief visit to Newlyn in 1885, and put two West Cornwall paintings into the spring show of the Royal Birmingham Society in 1886.
His exhibition record was extensive and R Langley provides a representative list of Fullwood's Newlyn work in his latest survey work on Birmingham and Newlyn.
A correspondent in 2018 has written to inform us that he was the cousin of another artist, Albert Henry Fullwood.
Born 24 November 1854 at Wolverhampton, he died in Richmond upon Thames on 6 September 1931, age 76 (GRO).
Amelia K Fulton is an Australian artist living in Cornwall. She works across a variety of media. She has a Bachelor of Design, and a Bachelor of Mass Communication, both from Queensland University of Technology. Her work has been widely shown in the UK and Australia.
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)