Born in Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, Heyworth studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Benjamin Constant , and later in St Ives under Julius OLSSON and the Australian David DAVIES.
He was living in London in 1900, as this was the address he gave when he signed-into the St Ives Arts Club, although his work had been referred to on the 1899 Show Day.
He returned to Cornwall briefly in 1909 when he lived in Woodlane, Falmouth, but by 1912 he was living in Teignmouth, Devon and by 1917 in Kings Road, London. From 1923 he was in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, and was good friends with D W Herdman, curator of the Cheltenham Art Gallery.
He may, therefore, have helped with the organisation of the St Ives Artists' Cheltenham Exhibition of 1925 (and he also contributed six works for that show). Although he was accepted as a member of STISA in 1929, his contributions were sparse, and he did not feature in their 1936 Cheltenham Touring Show.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1901-10 list of artists in and around the St Ives colony.
Mentioned in Whyrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives; he died in the First World War.
Michael Hicks is married to the artist June HICKS. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Aidan Hicks was born in Penzance and studied architecture and design, returning to his family farm in 1991. The local granite on his farm is the prime source for his sculptures.
He is a regular exhibitor at the Penwith Gallery in St Ives.
The artist who was the original architect of the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Redruth Free Library; his original artist's drawing for the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery (NAG) is illustrated in Hardie (1995).
Richard Seymour Hicks is remembered as an apprentice of the Newlyn Industrial Class after WWI, and during the revival of the class by Tom BATTEN and Johnny Payne COTTON.
Amy Hicks was born at Devoran in Cornwall, and studied at Truro, Falmouth and Redruth Schools of Art, and in Norman Garstin's studio at Newlyn. Her speciality was flower painting in watercolour, and she also taught art. Hicks was living in Newquay when she exhibited with STISA in 1947, and was still resident in that town in 1961. Her work was shown at the Paris Salon in 1951.
Sheila Hicks (nee Warren) was born at Bosliven, St Buryan, in West Cornwall, and was educated at the West Cornwall School for Girls, and later at the Penzance School of Art. The family businesses aside from farming included connections with the local bakery chain, Warren's, which remains in operation.
She was quick to disavow that she had any right to the name 'Cavell' which she had adopted in her teen years because of her admiration for Edith CAVELL, the nurse heroine of WWI. Cavell herself was a watercolour artist of some skill, and had painted coastal scenery in North Cornwall on holidays, before going abroad to Belgium in the course of her nursing career.
Her favourite media, at which she excelled was watercolour, but she also designed programmes and demonstrated a lively sense of atmospheric colour. She was a long-time member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, and an immensely supportive friend to many. Amongst her wide circle of friends were the sculptor Barbara TRIBE, the painter John MILLER and numerous others.
She married farmer Roy Hicks in the early part of WWII and for many years they lived and worked at Tregiffian Farm, on the cliffs above Sennen near Land's End. Latterly, as a widow she moved into a flat at the historic Queen's Hotel, of which she was part owner with her daughter and son-in-law, and fortunate were her friends to be invited to have tea with her there overlooking Mount's Bay. One of her obituary articles was headed 'Artist was proud of Cornish identity; An artist who also had a special talent for radiating sunshine whatever the occasion has died aged 91.' This was without doubt the real Sheila, whose sunny disposition was her hallmark - and her artistic talents a bonus.
Sheila was a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Lywores Kernow by name (Painter of Cornwall).
June Hicks was born in Yorkshire and studied history at Leeds University, following this up with an MA from Queens University, Belfast. After moving to Cornwall in 1957 she studied at Penzance School of Art under Bouverie HOYTON and John TUNNARD. Later she turned to etching, training under Joan WHITEFORD.
Since 1987 she has worked from Trevescan Studio, near Sennen. Inspiration comes mainly from her surroundings, in particular her garden, farm buildings and animals. Sheltered aspects of the Cornish landscape such as footpaths, stiles and hedges, offering contrasts of light and shade, provide subject matter for her etchings. See www.trevescanstudio.com for further information.
Dan Hides is a potter with a studio and gallery in Newlyn. In 1989 he began a two-year apprenticeship at Dartington Pottery, followed by an HND course in ceramic design at Falmouth School of Art. Subsequently he worked as a production thrower at Willow Pottery near Bath, before running his own pottery in Bristol.
Listed as exhibitor in the 1909 and 1911 Show Days in St Ives, and mentioned in Whybrow's 1901-10 list of artists in and around St Ives.
American-born, he exhibited at St Ives Show Day in March 1912. At that time he was on his return from having spent some years in France and Munich, and was very much inspired by painting en plein air. In 1915 he moved to Taos, New Mexico and was elected to the elite Taos Society of Artists; he was admitted to the circle of friends around Mabel Dodge Luhan.
Bob Higgins' artwork expresses a quirky, humorous view of life, inflluenced by local observations.
Alex took her art studies at Falmouth College of Art, completing her MA with Honours in 2009. She works closely with the cooperative group of artists who manage and run the New Street Gallery, Penzance, and is employed part-time in Penzance's historic private lending library, the Morrab Library in Morrab Gardens.
Her working studio is in the complex of artists' studios at Trewidden Gardens in Buryas Bridge, west of Penzance, where she bases her drawings and illustrations on people and their stories in narrative-based or story-telling pictures. She exhibits at mixed craft and art shows around the peninsula, and is also a tutor at Newlyn School of Art.
The artist was born on 26 October 1873 in Birmingham, the only child of William J R Hill and his wife Julia. His father was employed as a lithographic artist, and had moved to Birmingham for employment from his original home in Gloucestershire. Julia had been born in Birmingham, and the couple settled there at 22 Bristol Road, Edgbaston.
He exhibited titles of Newlyn subjects at the RBSA in 1900, indicating that he had been in Cornwall prior to that year. However, family correspondence has revealed at least two paintings of Newlyn dated in 1905, so it is clear that he returned. His earliest exhibition date, as found so far, is from c1897. The 1901 Census finds Ernest living at home, age 27, with his parents, and his occupation listed as Art Master/School. Later he was to serve as a Vice President of the RBSA, and an associate of Professor Thomas Bodkin, the Founding Director of the Barber Institute at Birmingham University. His death certificate lists his occupation as Headmaster of Bournville Art School (retired).
His exhibiting dates extend to as late as 1946 from a sending-in address listed as Holmleigh, Langley Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. His landscape and coastal subjects show that he travelled far and wide in Britain to paint - Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and other English locations. From paintings noted to date he was adept at both watercolour and oil. A painting entitled An Impressionist Landscape (oil on canvas, 1929) from its content of thorn trees re-shaped by the winds, could also be of Cornwall, and he may well have returned more than once.
Most of his exhibition work was hung in Birmingham, that famous place that was supposed to have invented 'the Newlyn school' (See p42 in Hardie 2009 'Who originally composed the Newlyn School?' from The Magazine of Art 1898). Though Hill was not one of the original Newlynites, he was clearly of the group that implied that in order to be a well-educated Birmingham artist, one must at least take a look-see at Newlyn. See BIRMINGHAM ART CIRCLE.
Hill was married to Catherine (undated marriage photo found) who survived him, and he died on 4 September, 1960 (GRO), at the age of 86. At the time of death the couple remained living on Langleys Road, Birmingham.
The son of a Judge, he was educated at King's College School and read history at Balliol College, Oxford. He began training as an architect, but this was interrupted by the Great War, after which he trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1923. He was immediately appointed Assistant Manager of the UK Chamber of Shipping, becoming Deputy in 1938 and General Manager from 1941 until 1950. From 1933 he began painting, studying art in both London and St Ives, and exhibited at a number of leading art societies.
He also designed a poster of Polperro for the Great Western Railway Company. A devout Catholic, he and his wife, Megan Rhys, painted the panels of Christ and the Twelve Apostles and the four Doctors of the Church which used to hang on the front of the organ loft at St Ives RC Church. In the 1950s he exhibited at St Ives Show Days from the Piazza Studios. When he died he had just completed a new translation of the Greek poet Sappho being printed by Guido MORRIS; he passed away the night before the advance copy was delivered.
A craftworker who exhibited at NAG in 1937 in an Unspecified category.
A portrait by this artist of the last Mayor of Fowey, Mrs J A Hill is part of the Fowey Museum collection.
This could be Stella HILL of Olton, Birmingham who, according to J&G, exhibited from 1898 until 1905, with nine works at Birmingham Art Gallery and one at the Walker in Liverpool. A beautifully executed painting of a Breton maid - a fisher or farm girl, signed and dated 1905 - might be by this artist, although Brian Stewart of Falmouth Art Gallery has suggested that it may have been painted by a student from Bushey Art School in Herts. Investigations are underway.
E G Hill was born at Haverstock Hill, London, the daughter of Frederick Hill, an Inspector of Prisons, and his wife Martha Cowper Hill. Her father later became the General Secretary of the General Post Office, which allowed for a comfortable living for the family. Ellen remained a spinster of independent means, and died 30 March 1928 at Grove Cottage, Frognal, London.
She exhibited Newlyn titles at the West Cornwall Art Union's National Art Library exhibition in September 1877, indicating early visits to Cornwall.
Carrie Hill trained as a graphic designer and has worked as a college lecturer and also as an illustrator for book and magazine publishers. Her paintings have been shown by the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters and the New English Art Group in London. In Cornwall she has exhibited at the Penwith Gallery, Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, and the St Ives Arts Club, to name a few.
Greg Hill was born in Birmingham but his association with Cornwall began in early childhood. He lives in St Ives and his love for the town is reflected in his paintings of local street scenes.
Tony Hill was born in London. He studied architecture and sculpture and makes experimental short films which he describes as 'somewhere between sculpture and cinema'. Hill has worked as an independent film-maker since 1973. He also works with installations, photography and sound. His work has been seen at art galleries and film festivals worldwide and his award-winning films have been broadcast on network television in many countries. He has also undertaken commercial work.
Hill taught film and video from 1982 until 2002 at the University of Derby, becoming Professor of Film, and at Plymouth College of Art from 2004 until 2011. Currently he is an associate lecturer at Plymouth University. He lives in east Cornwall.
Co-director, with Charles BREAKER, and working with Marjorie MORT, he ran the Holiday Sketching Group for many years (c1949 photo, p98, Hardie) based at their home at Gernick Field Studio, Newlyn. Their prospectus was printed by friend Guido MORRIS.
Their contribution to the life of the art community was great, and they were at the centre of a large and active social scene, organising and taking part in festivals, balls, and fancy dress parades. Hiller and Breaker were popular and well-liked by all.