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.
Walter Frank Kelsey, who signed his paintings as Frank Kelsey, was born in London. All of his census entries, however, give his name as Walter F Kelsey.
His dates have proved elusive for a long time, until recently discovered and added by George Bednar (2011).
An artist of unusual combination, both marine and floral, his subjects included shipping, coastal, harbour and river scenes as well as flowers. His known association was with Looe, Polperro and Fowey in Cornwall, but he may have painted elsewhere.
His addresses are listed as 9 Dennington Park Mansions, West Hampstead in 1892, and Ballinger, Great Missenden, Bucks from 1919. The artist died at Ballinger Common, Great Missenden.
After studying History (Hons) at Manchester University, Dorothy was teaching at Ecclesfield Grammar School in Sheffield when she took up pottery as a hobby. She was advised to come to the Leach Pottery as a student by Dora Billington, who taught ceramics at the Royal College of Art in London, and Kemp thus spent a short time with Bernard LEACH before WWII at Dartington, making slipware, subsequently coming to St Ives to work at the Pottery during the war.
Dorothy wrote English Slipware and How To Make It, a book primarily for secondary school students, instructing them in techniques and standards in pottery. She taught ceramics as part of the A-level Art curriculum at a time when it was first being introduced into schools, and set up a workshop at her home. She particularly enjoyed seeing a studio pottery at work: making and firing good pots. The V&A, London holds examples of her work (1950).
Described by Buckman as a sculptor and assemblage artist, Kemp was born in London, and grew up in Canada before joining the merchant navy. He studied art at Farnham and Wimbledon School of Art, then moved to west Cornwall near Land's End in 1975 to work in sculpting and the transformation of found objects. With great humour and wit, his creations - whether insects, mammoths, machine reconstructions, or domestic objects - are sought after for permanent public sculpture venues and celebratory events that require large and memorable pieces of work.
In 1995 his workshop suffered a devastating attack by vandals, who destroyed an immense amount of his work from the previous two decades. In 1997 a selection of his new sculptures was shown at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
In 2001, Brittain & Cook included in their profile of Kemp a statement of his general working philosophy thus: 'I started making things out of junk years ago because it was free and readily available. Our lives are full of things and what we throw away says as much about us as the objects we keep. The cluttered 'language of things' is full of clues that tell stories about ourselves and the way we live. I am very interested in finding ways of putting objects in front of people that might communicate ideas about the place we share. Some things are funny and some are frightening. The things that we make are changing the world.'
Kemp's work has been shown widely in Cornwall (notably at the Eden Project) and throughout the UK. In recent years he has found himself drawn to painting, though he remains a prolific and highly regarded sculptor.
Best known for her paintings of horses and riders, Kemp-Welch was born near Bournemouth, and first studied at Bournemouth School of Art before further training at the Herkomer School at Bushey (which she took over as Principal in 1907, and continued running it until 1926). She worked as part of the St Ives colony between 1901-10, having known a number of the artists there from Herkomer's.
In 1923, her painting Low Tide at St Ives was purchased by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Two of her paintings - Colt Hunting in the New Forest (1897) and Forward the Guns (1917) - were purchased by the Chantrey Bequest. A photograph of the artist appears in the Girls Own Annual (1901, p561), and a further article about her appeared in the Girl's Realm Annual (1905, p694).
Two of her paintings are reprinted in b&w in Sparrow's Women Painters of the World (1905).