Amelia Johnson is a printmaker who graduated from Falmouth University in 2022 and currently works in the printmaking department there. She specialises in reduction woodcuts of birds.
Lucy Joines is a ceramicist based in Mount Hawke. She became a member of STISA in 2023.
He was born in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a clergyman, and married Henrietta (originally from Llanelly, Wales). With their daughter, identified as TAG (Veronica), aged one, they lodged at Academy Place, St Ives in 1891, although they appear to have been in St Ives some time before that because Jolley had joined STIAC by September of 1890 and he had submitted one painting Feeding the Pigeons, as 'from Guilt Jolly' (sic) in the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890 along with the Cornish artists.
The family had been living on the Continent a couple of years previously, as Veronica had been born in Florence, Italy (overseas British subject). He was known to be interested in the square-brush technique of some artists in the West Cornwall art colonies of that time. The family moved on to Bushey, Herts in 1893, London in 1894, and back on the Continent by 1908 when Etaple, Pas de Calais, was given as their address.
Listed as Gwilt Jolley in The Year's Art 1896 and 1902, he was submitting paintings c/o R J Stannard in Great Russell-Street, London, and may have been travelling whilst exhibiting widely. By 1910, he was at 81 Charlotte Street exhibiting a painting at the RA, but is no longer traceable in the exhibition records after 1914.
He donated a painting entitled "Quasi Aurora Consurgans" , As the Morning Rising' to the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Penzance, in 1892. It was blessed in his presence by the Rev Dr Courtenay who preached a sermon on the virtues of the Virgin Mary.This painting hung in the church for over 90 years until it was reluctantly auctioned off between 1979 and 1982.
Liam Jolly graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 2001. Based in Cornwall, he is currently studying an MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice at University College Falmouth.
Rooted in the language of abstract painting, his concept driven multi-disciplinary works question notions of reality and identity through experimentation in process, exploring how this can reveal points where one thing becomes another. His work aims to exist within the divide between before and after, actual fact and performance.
Alongside his practice a fortuitous and extremely involved role within the world of music over the past 10 years as both performer and musical curator has seen his work become further influenced by ideas of performance as metaphor, the material of music and the deconstructed spirit of Rock & Roll.
He is also the founder of TARDIS Projects, an artist run project that launched in July 2011 with an exhibition of Martin Creed's Work No. 227 : The lights going on and off at Tardis House Truro. For more information visit www.tardisprojects.co.uk
Hugo Jones is a painter based in Penzance. His work has been shown regularly at Beside the Wave Gallery in Falmouth.
Brian J Jones was born in Kent. He was unable to fulfil his early artistic aspirations, training as a chef instead, and enjoying a successful career as head of a catering school. In the late 1990s he decided to paint full-time so he took early retirement and moved to Looe in Cornwall.
He is now a highly regarded marine painter, having undertaken commissions for the Royal Navy and for private collectors in the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East. His work has been published by Yachting Heritage and he regularly exhibits as a full member with the Royal Society of Marine Artists, exhibiting at their annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.
Helen Jones is a painter of landscapes and seascapes.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Jones was known to have travelled and exhibited work very widely, and his wife was also a landscape painter in watercolour. He brought his students from London to St Ives, where his studio was near Hyde Park, and the St Ives Times in 1913 reported that he had brought his class of about a dozen students to the town that year. Previously he had lived in Kent with a long exhibition record.
Jones works from the Trewidden Artists Studios at Trewidden Gardens, Buryas Bridge, and develops her limited edition prints and drawings from studies of plants.
This artist was listed as exhibiting at NAG in the Christmas Show of 1924
Charlotte Jones obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Studio Ceramics at Falmouth College of Art in 2001. She has exhibited extensively throughout Cornwall, and her work is shown regularly at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula. Her stoneware pots are created from local clay coloured with oxides.
Growing up on the Cornish coast at Newquay, Robert attended Cornwall Technical College and the Redruth School of Art before studying art at Falmouth, when there were only 65 students in total at the Art College. At that time, all of the tutors and staff were painters and sculptors, and he was greatly influenced by Francis HEWLETT and Robert ORGAN. A goodly range of studies, jobs, travels and marriage followed, with Robert meeting his future wife in Manchester College of Art, where lack of finance curtailed his studies. From there the couple spent months in Israel on a kibbutz, some time in Brighton, followed up by a teaching post at the famous Summerhill School (with A S Neill as head).
Returning to Cornwall on the birth of their first child, Robert took up fishing and crabbing as an occupation, with painting lurking in the foreground as to how he saw his future. His first solo show in Penzance in 1987 was followed by a solo exhibition at NAG in 1988, and Robert Jones, the painter, was well launched. His work has also been shown at the Rainyday Gallery, Penzance. In 1995 a series of his paintings was included in the Tate St Ives exhibition 'Porthmeor Beach, A Century of Images'. Jones is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula.
Latterly his part-time teaching commitments continued at both Penzance School of Art and Falmouth College of Art to sustain a living, but increasingly he was able to achieve the favourable position of full-time painting and writing. See FIRST LIGHT GALLERY website for Cornish artists and books published by Jones. He is both a writer and a visual artist, and excels at both.
Tom CROSS, in his excellent magazine review of contemporary artists in Cornwall, Catching the Wave, comments 'RJ belongs to a long line of sea painters working in Cornwall, a tradition that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century.... he has made the sea his subject.'
Linda Mary Jones grew up in Kent and has spent time in Canada, Scotland and Texas. In 2009 she obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Falmouth. She lives in St Austell. Human interest lies at the heart of Linda's work. She describes her paintings as 'occupied landscapes'. In 2011 two of her paintings were accepted for the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy.
She became a member of Taking Space in 2024.
Sally Jones was born in the Isle of Man. She moved to London and then Cornwall, where she has lived since the early 2000s. Based in Bodmin, her work frequently depicts country life. As a judge of sheepdog trials, she is often commissioned to undertake portraits of pets. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, Switzerland, Australia and the USA.
Sally Jones holds classes in oil painting at her home, and has undertaken a pastel workshop hosted by Stable Art at Fletchersbridge near Bodmin.
Swedish painter working at St Ives School of Painting during the 1921-1939 period.
Possibly a pupil of the FORBES SCHOOL, of no fixed date; no further information currently available.
Cheltenham-born, this painter in watercolours was a member of the Ntional Society of Art Masters, indicating that he had been a teacher of art prior to coming to St Ives with his daughter, Phyllis Tiel JORDAN. For the STIAC records, their Cornish address was given as Flagstaff Cottage, Lamorna (where they may have been lodging with the Birch family for at least some period of time).
His work is first mentioned in St Ives in 1929, and in 1931 he was one of only twenty-two artists invited to represent STISA in their show at Plymouth. Jordan was a good friend of Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH, George BRADSHAW and Borlase SMART, and appears to have fitted well into the colony, but left the area after suffering a heart attack. By 1932 he was living in Newcastle, Staffordshire. Only his daughter is noticed in Johnson & Greutzner (British Artists 1880-1940).
Her address for her RA exhibit of 1928 records her as working at Darlington, although she applied for, and was elected to, STISA in June of 1930, when she had come with her father, Joseph Tiel JORDAN, to work in St Ives. During their stay, their address was listed as Flagstaff Cottage, Lamorna, indicating that they were staying with the Birch family at the time.
Like her father, she was one of the twenty-two artists invited to represent STISA in their show at Plymouth in 1931. The two departed St Ives in 1932 due to his ill health, though she continued her membership until 1938, by which time Phyllis was living in Leicester and ceased her STISA membership shortly thereafter.
Born at Ajmeer in India of British parents, Agnes Hope lived variously at Zennor and Paul in West Cornwall, in Paris and Angers in France, as well as London and Ashstead, Surrey in Britain. She studied at the Forbes School, and at NAG in 1903 she exhibited and sold Newlyn, and in 1908 A child's head and By the Sea.
However, from 1905 through 1930, she spent at least a half - if not more - of her time in France, exhibiting frequently in the Paris Salon where her listed works include 38 paintings of topics such as flowers, gardens, Notre Dame, Quimperle, Concarneau, and quay-side scenes. One of her woodcuts was contributed to Elizabeth FORBES's journal, The PAPER CHASE.
This artist, from Kettering in the Midlands, was a regular visitor to Cornwall during the 1930s, spending much of his time in Polperro and Mevagissey. He managed to develop his art practice alongside his career as the managing director of a boot factory in Kettering - a failing business he had inherited from his father. After many years he became the managing director of the Carrington Shoe Company.
Jowett successfully exhibited an artwork at the Royal Academy in 1915. He was able to indulge his passion for art during his holidays, frequently spent in Cornwall. He was well known and respected amongst the Cornish artistic fraternity, with several of his paintings being acquired for Mevagissey Town Hall.
Over the years he had the odd painting hung at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, at RBA, RI and RWS, Liverpool and Birmingham. In 1932 he had a solo show at the Alfred East Gallery in Kettering and in 1935 was appointed Chairman of the Kettering and District Art Association. By 1937 he was Chairman of the Midlands Federation of Art Societies and by 1938, Vice-President of the Midlands Sketch Club.
From a Polperro perspective, he is best known for a series of etchings that he did of the village, which were reproduced as postcards by E T W Dennis & Sons.
A posthumous display of his work, which was planned before his death, was hung at Northampton Art Gallery in November 1943.
A British-born abstract artist working from Maker Heights on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall's so-called 'forgotten corner'.
For one year he attended (1975-1976) the Cardiff College of Art, and then received his BA from Exeter College of Art, Devon in 1979. In 1980 he received the MA in Fine Arts (Painting) from Chelsea College of Art. For at least 30 years Joy has travelled widely and exhibited his work in museums and galleries all over the world, where his highly-regarded work is also represented in permanent collections.
Janet Judge obtained a Fine Art degree in Sculpture and Etching at Bath Academy in the 1970s. Following a successful teaching career, she became a full-time painter. Alongside her art practice, Janet runs short courses for adults, and holds workshops for local schoolchildren.