The Lander Gallery in Truro lists Celia Jayne as a regular exhibitor in their shows (2011).
St Ives Exhibitor.
Wood notices a Miss J JEAYES who exhibited a watercolour, The Deserted Home at SS in 1872, from an address in London. J & G notes a Miss Josephine JEAYES from Southsea, Hampshire who exhibited 3 paintings at the Dudley Gallery in 1891. And there is also a Miss Constance JEAYES, a painter of interiors, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire who exhibited at the RA in 1930. Since all are possible candidates for a long-lived artist, it is not possible as yet to identify this painter.
Laura Jefferson grew up in the Sussex countryside. After completing a foundation course at Hastings College of Art, she graduated from the University College for the Creative Arts in Maidstone in 2005 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration.
Laura moved to Cornwall in 2014. She works from her home studio in Bodmin, and teaches painting workshops at Enchanted Valley Yurts, near Looe.
Rachel Jeffery graduated from Falmouth School of Art in the 1990s. She lives in Breage near Helston.
She has experience in teaching and curating, and her work has been exhibited widely in the UK.
George Jeffrey is a painter of landscapes and seascapes based in Liskeard.
Dougal Jeffries works from a garden studio in Constantine, near Falmouth.
Emma Jeffryes was born in Hertfordshire. She obtained a BA in Printed Textiles from Watford College of Art, going on to complete an MA at London's Royal College of Art. She began her career as a freelance textile designer in London, and moved to St Ives in 1997, where she showed her first collection of a dozen paintings in acrylic at the New Craftsman Gallery. The artist's work has also been exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance. Jeffryes names her favourite artists as Mary NEWCOMB, Bob BOURNE and Rose HILTON.
Wendy Jelbert was brought up in Cornwall and currently lives in Netherwallop, Hampshire. She exhibits regularly in London, Cornwall, Hampshire and Sussex.
The Western Morning News mentioned her as being from St Ives, with a weaving-room situated in the Harbour area.
Two coastal landscape paintings by this artist are included in the art collection held by the Newquay Hospital.
Cynthia Jenkin was born and brought up in St Ives. Moving to London, she trained as a primary school teacher, and subsequently taught art in Hertfordshire and South America. She then returned to north Cornwall, and after retiring settled in St Ives, where she is a regular exhibitor at the Arts Club.
Early paintings (2 illus) of the Cornish Mining Schools by this artist, form part of the art collection of the former Camborne School of Mines. They are interior paintings of the Chemistry Laboratory at Redruth School of Mines (1897) and the Assay Laboratory at Redruth School of Mines (c1897). They are detailed studies and of historic interest.
A correspondent was in touch in late 2025 to let us know that these two paintings were recently sold at auction, and may possibly now be in private ownership. A great loss to the history of the mining industry in Cornwall.
Following a career as a sound engineer for film and TV post-production in London, Naomi Jenkin moved to Cornwall and is based near Newquay. Since 2017 she has drawn hundreds of pet portraits for clients worldwide and has built up an impressive portfolio of wildlife drawings.
In 2022 she was selected as a finalist in the Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, run by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. Her art was featured on BBC Spotlight in August 2022.
Ceramist who set up partnership with Scott MARSHALL in St Just in Penwith. More research needed.
Jenkins was born in Cardiff, Wales and studied art at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, followed up with a teaching diploma at the Institute of Education, London University. In 1972 he came to Cornwall where he was Head of the Art Department at Falmouth Comprehensive School until his retirement in 1989.
Since 1989 he has painted full-time. He was an artist member of the NSA in the Centennial year of NAG (1995), and an associate member of the Penwith Society of Artists. In 2000 his work was selected for the Falmouth Art Gallery exhibition 20 Years of Contemporary Art. Like his wife, artist Jennifer JENKINS, he has exhibited his work at the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives.
Jennifer JENKINS was born in Cornwall. A fascination for the natural world developed into a career teaching Biology, and her paintings focus on the flora and fauna of the county. Like her husband the artist Derek JENKINS, she has exhibited her work at the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives. Her paintings and textiles have been sold widely in Cornwall and beyond.
The painter was a West Country artist who painted throughout Devon and Cornwall in both oil and watercolour. He is reported as an active artist between 1870 and 1910. From 1873 to 1880 he lived at 10 Saltram Terrace, Plympton, Devon near Plymouth. He also exhibited work painted in North Wales. For the most part his work has eluded the dictionary writers mainly referenced, and he and his son have come to our notice via auction catalogues.
He and his wife, Hannah had seven children, the second of which was named for him and also became an artist. Their subjects were topographical, mainly landscapes and seascapes, and their work is mainly distinguished from each other in the intensity of their colours. As stated in his entry in this index, George Henry Jr JENKINS used more vivid colours than his father, and some of his pictures were taken up as postcards in the Picturesque Devon series.
Though no biographical detail is currently known for this artist, he was the second child of painter George Henry JENKINS of Plympton. His baptism, and that of six other siblings, was undertaken at Plympton St Mary's parish church. His signature is considered to be very similar to that of his father, and his work distinguished by the use of more vivid colours, though the topographical subjects were similar.
The publisher Raphael Tuck took up some of his paintings as postcards in the Picturesque Devon series.
A correspondent (2017) reported that he has two paintings by this artist, one of which is entitled 'Kynance Cove'.
Arthur Henry Jenkins was a landscape and figure painter who was born in Galashiels, Scotland. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Art and Colarossi's in Paris. He taught art for many years and exhibited widely at the Royal Academy and the Beaux Arts Gallery in London. Other venues included the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Jenkins is known to have lived at various addresses in Scotland and the south west of England.
Carla Jennings is a painter who works from her garden studio near Liskeard.
Worked in Porthleven during the period of the Summer Painting School administered by Michael CANNEY, and the Porthleven Group's exhibition at the Porthleven Gallery, an old china-clay warehouse on the quayside (c1965-6).
Ashley Jennings is a painter based in Helston. He has led workshops in watercolour at Truro Arts Company (2018), and undertakes commissions.
He has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (Dundee University). In 2022 he obtained an MA in Authorial Illustration from Falmouth University.
Born in Grimsby, the artist began his studies in art at the early age of twelve years. His three mentors included Stanhope FORBES, with whom he studied between c1886-8 (exact time uncertain) whilst living in Lamorna, which he later memorialized by naming his first Lincolnshire home 'Lamorna'.
Subsequently, he undertook further study with Frank BRANGWYN and J M Swan at the Stratford Road studio in Kensington, London. In the 1901 Census he is listed with the occupation of Fish Merchant, it being a large family business, although family information suggests that he was (perhaps also) a partner in a cabinet-making company.
Jennison initially married Letitia Hollingworth (m 1895-1918), and then Elsie Grace Clifton, with two children born of each union. Regarded in art circles as specialising in oil portraits of civic dignitaries, he also painted still-life and landscape in watercolour. Some works remain within the family, including one painting I wish... painted with an accompanying poem for his young niece. He was a member of the Usher Art Gallery (Lincoln) Hanging Committee in 1933, and exhibited latterly at Liverpool and in county exhibitions around Lincolnshire.
Born in Raadvad, Denmark, the son of a blacksmith, Jensen's earliest training was as a goldsmith, with his spare time given over to modelling in clay and creating sculptures. He entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen with the intention of becoming a sculptor, and completed his training in 1892.
The difficulty of earning a living through sculpture caused him to start a small pottery workshop with a friend, Christian Joachim. In 1900 a large travelling grant allowed him the opportunity to visit Italy and France, and to consider new ideas and how to apply these to everyday objects (following Arts&Crafts principles).
By 1904, after working with a silver smith, he opened his own small workshop. He never followed fashion, but created it. Inspired by the dominant style of Art Nouveau, he began making fabulous jewellery employing favoured stones of moonstones, lapis, amber, onyx, cornelian and coral in free-flowing forms of silver mount. Later, as his name became synonymous with outstanding artistic and artisan quality, he was able to invest in quantities of raw materials, and to expand from one assistant to a staff of skilled designers and associates.
He exhibited cases of work at Newlyn from 1927-1930, and featured in Hardie (1995) is an illustration of a silver fruit-bowl by Jensen (p80), with grape motif that he used on numerous bowls, candlesticks and bottle trays at the end of WWI.
'My love and interest in ceramics began the first time that I was witness to the opening of a kiln. Amazed by the metamorphosis within fire of a lump of clay with the application of various chemicals to form, colour and a glaze have influenced my experimentation with colour and surface. A fascination, that feeds my thoughts and forms by this continuing metaphoric and metamorphic process. My work is multi-fired and multi-layered. The layers are built up with a combination of my own glazes, oxides and stains, commercial under-glazes and glazes, decals and lustres. I often combine ceramic with mixed media, for this body of work I have used silver and glass. I use an earthenware clay body, to hand-build, press-mould and slip-cast, which are bisque to 1120 o c, and glaze firings to 1060 o c. Next follows decal and lustre firings. I aim to immerse the viewer in a sensory and symbolic visual experience.'
Training:
2006-2008 B.A. Contemporary Crafts. University College Falmouth
2004-2006 H.N.D. 3D Craft Skills & Ceramics, Cornwall College.
Awards:
August 2010: Guild of Ten prize award for Innovation in Design and Making, at the Cornwall Design Fair.
January 2009: TSB/SDC Award for Excellence, and elected to full member, (MSDC).
Born on 1 March 1888 at Chislehurst, she came to Newlyn in 1907. Fryn shared Myrtle Cottage with her cousin Cicely JESSE, Mrs Shaw and her daughter, Dod (later Doris Shaw PROCTER), and another friend, Clare WATERS. Ostensibly she came to paint at the FORBES SCHOOL, but worked for the first year or so in charcoal, and simply enjoyed living in Newlyn independent of her family and with friends. Another pupil of the Forbes School, and son of the prominent artist and writer Norman GARSTIN, was the future novelist Crosbie GARSTIN, and he became seriously enamoured of Fryn, though ultimately their mutual attraction came to nought.
She wrote The Look Backwards in 1907, and at the request of her closest friend, Elizabeth FORBES, wrote a play to be put on at Christmas, called The Corpse, the Coffin and the Coughdrop, a Melodrama in Three Palpitations. In 1908 she began what became 'Her Intermittent Diary' (which only lasted for the year) and edited the two volumes of The Paper Chase, a journal of essays, poems and prints published by Elizabeth Forbes. It was Fryn who gave Elizabeth the nickname of 'Mibs' by which she was fondly known until her death in 1912. Fryn was based in Cornwall until 1910, but continued in close contact with the Forbes family (and visiting Mibs in France where she had gone to try and recuperate from a 'tubercular' condition, that was, in fact, a cancer).
Fryn married H M Harwood, was reviewed by Rebecca West to be one of the four most beautiful women in Britain, and wrote a number of successful novels in later years, including A Pin to See the Peepshow, The Lacquer Lady, The White Riband, and others. One of the earliest of her published novels, The Milky Way, was dedicated to her friend Elizabeth Forbes.