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.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, the artist was most active in California, painting marines, murals and florals, and landscapes. With his wife and daughter, Helen, he visited in St Ives during the 1911-20 period, but no further local information about him is available at this time.
Francis Jukes was a prolific engraver who was chiefly known for his topographical prints, the bulk of which he executed in aquatint. He contributed numerous plates to various publications including Walmsley's Views in North Wales (1792-94) and Campbell's A Journey in Scotland (1802). He also collaborated on several projects with the engraver and publisher Robert Pollard.
The work of this artist, Penryn (2002) is in the collection of Penryn Town Council and Museum.
Cyd Jupe's sculptures of animals and human heads are inspired by ancient Celtic or Greek mythologies.
Rachael was born in Brisbane, Australia, the daughter of Noel Kantaris, author and lecturer, and his wife, the poet Sylvia Kantaris. The family moved to Britain when Rachael was four, and settled in Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth School of Art before going on to Brighton University, where she gained an MA in Fine Art Printmaking in 1992.
Travelling widely thereafter, she worked in studios in Berlin, Melbourne, and then in Manila where she exhibited printmaking and taught at the University of the Philippines. Now she is a full time artist/printmaker and works from Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. Her work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.
She lives in St Ives, and in 2001 she ran the Porthmeor Print Workshop. An excellent teacher, she is the tutor for 'Introduction to Printmaking', one of many courses offered by the Newlyn School of Art which opened in 2011 on Chywoone Hill in Newlyn.
Kaisa Karikoski's paintings possess a subtlety and sensuality, suggestive of a memory fading or coming into being.
The artist was born in Wiltshire. She completed her Arts Foundation studies at Trowbridge College, Wiltshire, before working for her BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology, Cheltenham (1984-87).
Her exhibitions began in 1975 in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, where she was teaching, first at the Salisbury College of Art, and then at the Trowbridge College. From 1992 she began to exhibit in Cornwall, her first mixed show being at the Contemporary Gallery, Penzance. Since 1993 she has also undertaken freelance art tutoring at Tate St Ives and the St Ives School of Painting, with an emphasis on individual personal development tutoring for her pupils.
Barbara's first solo show at the Victoria Studios, Penzance heralded an active exhibition programme in West Cornwall. From that time she has held frequent solo shows in various restaurants and gallery venues, in addition to the Geological Museum, Camborne, Cornwall (1998), Truro Cathedral (2003), St Elwyns Church, Hayle, and The Cowhouse Studio, Perranuthnoe. Her work also is shown in mixed selected shows too numerous to mention.
She is a member of STISA.
Alison Faith Kay is a mixed media artist based in Penzance. She works intuitively, using natural materials. She says: 'I am an artist working with nature, living life off the beaten track.'
Listed by M Smart in her catalogue for Borlase SMART's 1981 Retrospective Exhibition, as being a Founding Member of the Penwith Society. No further information at this time.
The would-be artist was an American (born Philadelphia) painter who first came to St Ives in 1904. Though he did exhibit a few landscape paintings, these seem to have been unregarded and there are no records of his work after 1910. However, he 'immersed himself in the life of the colony', according to Tovey 2009 (p168).
Keasbey is credited with creating the Island Studios in 1910 (which had ceased to exist as studios before the beginning of WWII). Tovey comments that this development 'was a unique instance of a visiting foreign artist making a large financial commitment to the colony. Unfortunately, it was ill-timed because he left for the USA as WWI approached, and demand for the studios fell off dramatically. He never returned to Cornwall, and at the end of their lease they were incorporated into the Cowley Estate. The story of this 'debacle' (despite his good intentions) is told on pp168-70 in Tovey's social history of St Ives (see his index for other refs).
Marie Keeling is a painter and printmaker who lives in St Ives. Sources for her work include engineering and architecture. She sees her work as an 'industrial landscape'.
Lesley-Ann Keen works from Krowji Studios, Redruth.
After training as a secondary school teacher, she studied at Falmouth College of Art and became the Education Officer at Newlyn Art Gallery. Subsequently she moved to London, where she became the Schools' Programmer at the South London Gallery. Later she was appointed at the Royal Opera House to work in back stage crafts education. In 2009 Lesley returned to Cornwall to work at Falmouth University, and she continues to teach in schools.
Currently exhibiting (2011) at Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro 16 April - 2 July, with her exhibition Fish, Grit & Guts.
Jo Kehyaian is based in Penryn. She works with natural and found materials in a variety of media.
Lawrence Kell was born and brought up in Cornwall, where his father Ray Kell and mother Joy lived and worked in the catering world. His father taught and practiced cookery and restaurant management at Camborne Technological College at Pool, Cornwall, and the couple went on to purchase and run the Gurnard's Head Hotel and Public House near Zennor in West Cornwall. Laurence began his career as a portrait painter in a back room at the pub, and used the walls of the bar as his exhibition space.
After a Foundation course in Art and design at Falmouth School of Art, he went on to Leeds University.
In 2002 he began exhibiting by entering the Annual Exhibition at the Manchester Academy of Fine Art, and the following year he was selected for the BP Portrait Award exhibition, as well as exhibiting in the Not the Turner Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, where he was a Finalist. From 2005 he has shown regularly with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters to the present day.
In 2006, returning to live at home in Cornwall, he was given a show at the RainyDay Gallery in Penzance, and also exhibited in 'Mirror Image - Self portraits and portraits' at Artonomy in Truro.
Laurence, his wife, and child, now make their home in Bristol. He has had many commissions from both private individuals and public institutions, and approaches each project with great care, diligence, and enthusiastic commitment 'to describe the interests, loves and personality of the sitter.' His website gives further details.
Ann Kelley is a painter with a studio near St Ives. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Lee Kellgren was born in Manchester. After gaining an MA in computer graphics in London, Lee studied Fine Art at Bristol School of Art. She spent ten years printmaking at Spike Print Studio in Bristol. Her etchings are created from copper plate, and are hand inked and hand printed in limited editions. A contrasting technique uses ultraviolet light biting into Toyobo plates, to create photogravure etchings. Images are created from photographs, manipulated acetate positives, x-ray film or images drawn on translucent film. This produces etching prints with a delicate, other-worldly quality.
Lee Kellgren moved to Penryn in Cornwall in 2014. She has set up a studio in a converted chapel, and joined John Howard Print Studios at Jubilee Wharf.
Audrey Kellow is based in Helston. During the 1990s she completed an OND and HND in Illustration & Design at Falmouth University. Subsequently she obtained a Teaching Certificate and Cert Ed, and was an adult education tutor for a number of years.
Her work has been exhibited at several galleries in Cornwall and Devon, and has been sold in the UK and internationally. She was invited to take part in 'Cornish Perspectives' at the Thompsons Gallery near Marble Arch in London.
Kelly was born in Workington, Cumberland, and was one of twin brothers amongst a family of a carpenter father and a Scots mother. His talent was recognised early and allowed to flourish in a very religious family of Plymouth Brethren - Methodist persuasion. Due to the General Depression and the relative poverty of his family, opportunities for his art education had to be bypassed, and he left school at 14 to enter post office employment, where he rose to become a Postal and Telegraph officer in Kendal. There he joined the Kendal Art Society where he began to learn technique.
He served in the Army and also married his first wife (1942) who took over most of the family and wage earning duties from that time. He continued with the post office until 1958, when he quit that to take up odd jobs in sign painting, etc. and teaching. From that time he began to visit Cornwall each summer, teaching in the Holiday Sketching Group classes and summer schools run by Charles BREAKER, Eric HILLER and Marjorie MORT. Here in Cornwall he did a great deal of his own work, concentrating on boats and harbours.
Except for a brief excursion, with his second wife, hopefully to find a new home in Cornwall (impossible due to high costs) Kelly did not return to the county after 1965. His story is told in brief in brilliant new catalogue issued by Messum's (2011) by Chris Wadsworth, his biographer, and the gallery owner who rescued Kelly's work after his death in dire poverty in Norfolk.
A full biography is scheduled for publication this year (2011) also by Chris Wadsworth.
Born in London in December 1871, Kelsey was the son of a schoolmaster. His primary training was in dentistry, and his subsequent dental practice was located in Bristol.
Kelsey was a friend of Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH and also became a patron, trading dental work for paintings in Bristol. His wife Edith and their daughter Dorothy, along with Kelsey, invited Birch to stay with them when he was on one of his periodic 'sales trips'. Kelsey also asked Birch for lessons, and introduced him to other purchasers.
The description of their relationship is included in Wormleighton A Painter Laureate, and is briefly referred to in Painting at the Edge as being in the circle of painters around Birch, as Kelsey was invited to visit in Lamorna for further lessons after beginning these with Birch in Bristol. In the ArtPrice records (with inclusive dates 1870-1960), all of the paintings (30) noticed were views of France, starting in approximately 1929 and continuing throughout the '30s. All were drawings and watercolours, described as pastel on paper, and began to sell about 1994.