Born in Penzance, Cornwall, Impey received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Newport. In 1997 he held a residency at the Kunstbrucke in Berlin.
In 1996 he participated in the NSA exhibition Drawing Towards the End of a Century at NAG, and proceeded to actively exhibit in many mixed and solo shows since, both in West Cornwall (Penzance, Newlyn and St Ives) and further afield (Canada, Germany, Wales, London). His solo shows again began at NAG in 2000, followed by three solos at the New Millennium Gallery, St Ives (2002, 2004, and 2007) as well as an exhibition in 2005 at OneOTwo Gallery in London.
An environmental artist and mariner, Sax Impey creates multi-scale paintings and drawings which, since 2005, are derived from his experiences at sea.
Sax Impey works from No. 8 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2013)
A generic term used to identify those artist-led classes in embroidery, enamelling, jewellery-making, copper and metal-craft described under specialty names with NEWLYN as a prefix. From 1896 the Newlyn Industrial classes were exhibiting at the RCPS at Falmouth in the Annual Exhibitions. From 1924 they were also able to begin exhibiting at NAG, in the Craft Sections opened that year. Meantime, they had found markets and buyers regionally and nationally.
See specialist subjects: Newlyn ART METAL, Newlyn COPPERWORKS, Newlyn ENAMEL Studio, and ART-NEEDLECRAFT.
Born in Preston, Lancashire, Ingham studied at St Martin's School of Art, London 1957-61, taught by Frederick Gore and A Ziegler. At the Royal College of Art from 1961-4 he worked under Carel Weight, and spent a year (1966) at the British Academy (Rome) on scholarships that he won.
In Cornwall he exhibited at the Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives (1976) and the Book Gallery, St Ives in the early 1990s. In between he also put in work to the mixed shows at NAG, and showed widely abroad (especially in Germany). In Cornwall he and his wife Aysel, a novelist, lived near Helston, on the Lizard.
Ingram was born in Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, Greater London on 27 April 1855 (GRO) - not in Glasgow, as often quoted, probably from biographies by Martin Hardie (1968) and Wood (even in 2008)! - the son of the Vicar of the parish, who was born in Glasgow and from which the confusion may arise (Ingram's birth certificate is lodged in the WCAA collection as researched and catalogued by George BEDNAR). As a young man, Ingram had a studio in Chelsea near his artist friend George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857-1929), who described Ingram as an energetic friend who had been to Australia.
Wood states that he had studied painting with John Steeple (fl1846-d1887) and A W Weedon, probably in London. In 1888 he became the President of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, and the founder and President of the Anglo-Australian Society.
From 1882, when in England, he made his home in Falmouth, Cornwall. Closely associated with the Newlyn Art Colony in both Newlyn and St Ives, in the 1891 Census he was registered as living at Wodehouse Terrace (no number) with a housekeeper to look after the daily duties. In the following year the Street directory for Falmouth states his home to be at No. 11 Wodehouse Terrace, though from that year until 1894, he is identified as living at No. 6. In 1896 (Cornish Echo) the newspaper announced his marriage to an American, Miss May Martha Fay.
The 1911 Census shows that the couple were living at Tregurrian in Falmouth, and the entry included mention of friends Harold KNIGHT and his wife Laura KNIGHT. In Falmouth he was considered the most energetic of the small artistic community there. His good friends were Henry Scott TUKE, and John Herbert Eva DOWNING (Jack). These three were all involved with the setting-up of the Falmouth Art Gallery in 1894, and Ingram was Vice-President of the RCPS (1902-04). He died in Falmouth on 20 March, 1913, age 58.
Reece Ingram's tactile sculptures in wood stone and ceramics can be seen at the Eden Project, Royal Cornwall Hospital and Heartlands, Pool. He is a regular exhibitor at Trelissick Gallery, near Truro, and Beside the Wave in Falmouth.
Lucy Innes Williams works at the intersection of painting, collage and textiles, taking inspiration from the sub-tropical gardens and cliff paths around her home in Falmouth.
She graduated in 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art. After a decade-long career working in exhibitions and artist management for public and private art collections, she returned to painting.
US Hudson River School painter (born in the USA), George Inness was one of the most prominent figures in 19th Century US art and best-known today for his poetic, highly expressive approach to landscape painting. After making trips to Italy (1851-1852) and France (1853-1854), however, he became deeply influenced by the serene, broadly-painted landscapes of Rousseau, Troyen, Daubigny and other members of the French Barbizon School.
Inness produced his most original and visionary work during the last decade of his life when he painted Off the Coast of Cornwall, England (1887, oil on canvas). In the American Art Annual of 1900-1901, this painting is entitled Off Penzance, Cornwall, England (20x30). In paintings such as Sunrise, he explored mood and feeling through color, diffused light and a limited number of softly defined forms. He travelled to Europe again in 1894, visiting Paris, Munich, and Baden. He died in Bridge-of-Allan in Scotland that same year.
Chris Insoll attended Chelsea School of Art and Falmouth School of Art before moving to the Roseland peninsula in 1984, where he founded the Portscatho Society of Artists. The following year he established his own gallery in Portscatho, moving to larger premises at the New Gallery in 1997. This is an artist-run space specialising in showing the work of established West Country-based artists.
In 2001 he had a retrospective exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery. His work has been shown at London's Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.
Examples of his paintings can be seen in the Gerrans Heritage Centre, the permanent collection of the Falmouth Art Gallery, and the Royal Cornwall Museum.
In 2018 he was elected as an Honorary Member of the St Ives Society of Artists (STISA).
Andrea Insoll works from a studio in Portscatho on the Roseland peninsula. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
An American artist who visited and worked in St Ives and the surrounding area, and from whose journal lodged in the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, Tovey (2009) has been able to extract some interesting observations and accounts of artists and their practices in the colony. Irvine, like John DOUGLAS (another artist of St Ives), was interested in photography, and bought the three books that Douglas had illustrated with photos for Alan Gardner FOLLIOTT-STOKES about the Cornish moors and coastline, books that he could transport home to America to help him complete his marine paintings.
Irvine and his wife rented a cottage near Zennor in 1923, and he worked at several places around the area. 'Certainly, Wilson Henry Irvine was told in 1923 that an artist had been thrown into the harbour for working on the waterfront on a Sunday' (Tovey, p296), ensuring that the American did not take up the disgraceful habit of desecrating the Sabbath. Irvine was also the artist in 1923 who espied the work on the pub walls in St Ives by his fellow American George BRUESTLE, and Richard Hayley LEVER who had immigrated to America and achieved much greater success there than previously he could in England. A summary of his stay in St Ives in the spring of 1923 does not reflect well on the artists left in the community at that time, post war and in the midst of a depressed art market, though the honesty and kindnesses of the fisherfolk shine through. (pp366-7).
Irwin was primarily known as a landscape and figure painter. His permanent home was in Leamington Spa in 1940, but prior to that time he had studied at Academy Julian, Paris and at the Academie Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was made a member of RBA in 1934, exhibiting regularly there, and also at the Royal Academy from 1936. His addresses were in London (1933), Ewell, Surrey (1935) and then in Warwickshire (1940). He was well regarded during his lifetime, but is now little known.
He suffered a bad spinal injury while serving with the South Lancashire Regiment on the outbreak of World War I and was taken prisoner until 1917. He endured great pain for the rest of his life.
His connection with Cornwall and STISA was in the final year of his life, though Whybrow had noticed his presence earlier in her 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives. He painted a number of Cornish ports including Polperro. Irwin was well liked for his camaraderie, enthusiasm and cheerfulness and it was a great shock when in 1947 he took his own life.
Linda Irwin was born in Launceston. She studied art at Falmouth School of Art then obtained a degree in Fine Art in Winchester. She lives in north Cornwall where she paints landscapes and seascapes.
Irwin's art work, Night Garden, is mentioned by Ruhrmund in his review of the NSA exhibition held at the Mariners' chapel, St Ives entitled 'Uncharted Landscapes.' His work has also been shown at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-39 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-39 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Henry Israel studied at South West Essex and Chelsea School of Art in the 1950s. In 1961 he moved to Cornwall with the painter Caeria STRONG.
He taught painting and drawing at adult education classes throughout north and mid Cornwall for 35 years. He was on the panel of lecturers for South West Arts, and a member of the Camel Arts Society in Wadebridge.
His early works were abstract but in later years he allowed figurative forms to emerge. He became interested in the possibilities of black-and-white photography but the paint itself was always a hugely important aspect of his working practice, becoming 'a metaphor for visual experience ... not limited to description or imitation'.
He exhibited drawings and black-and-white photographs together with Richard Meyer in Camelford in 2005. Meyer regarded him as his mentor - a stern but enormously kind teacher.
He exhibited in solo and group shows throughout his life, and formed a group with shared ideas known as the North Cornwall Seven group of artists.
A self-taught painter in watercolours who exhibited in London and Paris from 1893, when her sending-in address was Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey. From 1904 this changed to Newquay, Cornwall. In 1912 she was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colour (RI), where she exhibited 22 paintings. She also showed work at the RA and Liverpool amongst other venues.
A painting by her of a woman in the role of Carmen displeased Ezra Pound in April 1918 (Mod Journals Project). She was the wife of Francis Fairfax IVIMEY, exhibiting at NAG at the same time in 1937.
He lived at The Fort, Newquay, contributing to a number of STISA shows. In 1937 he exhibited three paintings at the NAG Exhibition.
Francis Fairfax Ivimey and his wife, Julia Beatrice IVIMEY, had been at The Fort some six years when he purchased the cannon from the Quay Yard and placed it in his own grounds in 1906. The Quay Yard closed that year with the death of Thomas Clemens II, grandson and namesake of the founder of the local Shipbuilding family.
Mrs Izard was a student at the FORBES SCHOOL in 1937, and later at Leonard John FULLER's St Ives School of Painting. She specialised in flower paintings and portraits.
She exhibited at the summer exhibition of STISA in 1956, with the titles Tulips and Freesia. She lived at Moor Cottage, Rosewall, St Ives.
The St Ives Times described him as the Canadian Government War Artist, well-known in the town. Born 15 February 1866 in Sunderland, he studied at York School of Art, winning a National Scholarship to the RCA in 1886 and a Travelling Scholarship in 1888. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and Atelier Colarossi under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury.
On his return to London in the early 1890s, he worked for a time on the staff at The Idler and for Cassell's as a black-and-white artist. He exhibited at the RA from 1893, also at the New Gallery and abroad, being awarded a Silver Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900, and at Pittsburgh in 1914. He painted portraits of King George V and Queen Mary at Windsor, and interiors of Buckingham Palace. From about 1930 he worked in Canada, where he painted landscapes as well as portraits, dying in Montreal on June 29th 1952.
Susan Jacks gains inspiration for her paintings from Bodmin Moor. She has exhibited at Camel Valley Gallery.
The son of potter Paul JACKSON, Jethro spent his childhood on the edge of Bodmin moor. He attended school in Bodmin and went on to study at Falmouth College of Art. A degree in Illustration followed, in Manchester, and he subsequently returned to Cornwall to work as a landscape gardener. Alongside this he developed his pottery skills.
In 2010 he opened Porthilly Gallery, near Rock, and decided to move away from pottery to focus on landscape painting. A sculpture garden adjoining the gallery and studio is due to open in April 2019.
Kurt Jackson MA (Oxon) DLitt (Hon) RWA was born in 1961 in Blandford, Dorset. He graduated from St Peter’s College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology in 1983. While there, he spent most of his time painting and attending courses at Ruskin College of Art, Oxford. On gaining his degree he travelled extensively and independently, painting wherever he went. He travelled to the Arctic alone and hitched across Africa with his wife, Caroline. This has given him a broad experience of environments and cultures which has enriched his work with a unique insight and an attention to detail. He and Caroline moved to Cornwall in 1984, where they still live and work.
A dedication to and celebration of the environment is intrinsic to both his politics and his art and a holistic involvement with his subjects provides the springboard for his formal innovations. Jackson's practice involves both plein air and studio work and embraces an extensive range of materials and techniques including mixed media, large canvases, print making and sculpture.
He has been Artist in Residence on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, at the Eden Project and at Glastonbury Festival since 1999. He has an Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from Exeter University and is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford University. He is an ambassador for Survival International and frequently works with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WaterAid, Oxfam and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. He is represented by Redfern Gallery and The Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. He is an academician at the Royal West of England Academy.
An exhibition at the Jackson Foundation in St Just, scheduled to open in March 2020, entitled: Art.Music.Activism : Kurt Jackson, Glastonbury Festival and Greenpeace was postponed due to the coronovirus pandemic.
The sister of Caroline JACKSON and Enid JACKSON, she arrived in St Ives in 1926 from Birkenhead. Although not a STISA member, she did exhibit with them on one occasion; Alice was more a stalwart of the Arts Club, where she acted in many productions.
Her sister, Caroline, exhibited a sculpture of Alice in the STISA 1934 Summer Exhibition.