Knight was a Bristol-based artist, who made it down to Cornwall before the rail link was completed in 1859 and is one of the very few artists who painted in St Ives prior to this date. Born in Bristol, he went to sea before studying at Bristol Academy, where he was later elected a member. He enjoyed a distinguished career, exhibiting 34 works at the Royal Academy between 1857-1895 and is represented in several public collections. He was an early and regular visitor to West Cornwall, and showed watercolours of St Michael’s Mount at the Bristol Academy in 1852 and Coasters off St Ives in 1854, whilst his 1862 contributions included an oil of Hayle Harbour priced at £60. His exhibits at the Royal Academy included a number of Cornish scenes, particularly of Falmouth, and his 1873 submission, A West Cornwall Moor, has recently come on to the market. Whilst this did not arouse much interest, as it lacks a focal point, it confirms that he was one of the first artists to be interested in the moorland scenery around St Ives. A St Ives scene was included in the Bristol Academy loan show in 1878, and his last exhibit there in 1896 was After a three day gale at Zennor, West Cornwall. The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath has a Falmouth scene by Knight in its collection. [Information provided by David Tovey, with thanks]
Luke Knight's Cornish landscape painting 'Wish You Were Here' was a prizewinner at the Barcelona International Gallery Award in 2019.
Knight is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2021).
The daughter of the landscape painter Joseph Knight, Clara Knight married a fellow artist, Frank Beswick. They lived at Deganwy on the Conwy estuary in Wales. Her exhibits during the 1920s and 1930s at RCA, of which she was elected a full member in 1926, reflected frequent trips to Cornwall.
Graham Knight Sherring, an abstract painter, was a student at Falmouth School of Art from 1972 to 1975.
Stuart was born in Redruth, Cornwall, before moving to Amesbury near Stonehenge (which remains in his memory as iconic, much as St Michael's Mount does also). His art studies were undertaken at Farnham School of Art and Winchester School of Art, followed by postgraduate work at the Slade School, London. His fuller story is told well by Tom CROSS in his 2002 survey volume, Catching the Wave, Contemporary Art & Artists in Cornwall. Aside from painting, Stuart has also had part-time teaching positions at Falmouth College of Art, and works from his studio and home in Penwith.
'Considered one of Japan's most innovative ceramic artists, Koie has exhibited internationally and taken part in numerous residencies, workshops and conferences around the world...This third exhibition is the result of a residency at The Leach Pottery in St Ives, where he spent three weeks in June 2010.' (Work from St Ives, Galerie Besson, London 15 September - 7 October 2010)
'Born in Austria of Czech parents in 1886, Kokoschka is probably the most celebrated artist to have actually lived in Polperro, Cornwall. Regarded as one of the great Viennese artists, he came to England in 1938 after fleeing Prague and settled in Polperro the following year. He and his wife, Olda, spent nine months there, renting Cliff End Cottage. He produced a number of watercolours of the local scenery while his wife Olda ran a pastry shop.
Only a year later, however, the couple returned to London, convinced that their neighbours were suspicious of them. After the war, Kokoschka moved to Switzerland where he remained until his death in 1980.'
(Information given on www.polperro.org/artists.html)
Born at Clifton, Bristol, the son of Sir Cornelius Kortright, Guy was educated at Newton College in Newton Abbot, Devon before emigrating to Canada with his family. At age twenty, he decided to continue studies with Louis GRIER who ran a painting school at St Ives with Julius OLSSON.
In 1899 he shared a studio in Paris with two other St Ives art students, Norman WILKINSON and Hugh Percy HEARD. He then remained based in St Ives at St Eia Studio until about 1912 before going to settle in Wales. During WWI he served in the Army and became a Captain in the 21st Monmouthshire Regiment. He wrote on the subject of 'Decorative Landscape Painting' in The Artist.
Barbara Krasnodebska describes herself as an experimental abstract expressionist painter. She has a B Ed (Hons) degree in Art, Design and Education from Middlesex University and lives in Tintagel, north Cornwall. She has been an IB art examiner and has run art workshops.
Kimberly Kriete lives and works in west Penwith. She produces work based on the seen and felt experience of the Cornish landscape.
The artist was born in Sweden, and it is not currently known how long he remained in the Newlyn area - The Cornishman, using the name Boris Kronstadt (also seen as Kronstrand), recorded a visit from him in Newlyn as late as 1940.
Two etchings were sold by this artist in 1902 at NAG, both to John Ross of Glasgow. Shown at Penlee House, Penzance in 2005 was a charcoal drawing of John Branwell (1902), the sitter being the eldest son of John Richards Branwell who built Penlee House, the Branwells being the Penzance family whose ancestors included Maria Branwell, the mother of the Bronté sisters.
A portrait in oils by the artist, of Mayor W J Bazeley of Penzance, is in the collection at Penlee House.
Tanya Krzywinska maintains her art practice alongside her position as a Professor at Falmouth University. She has a studio at Krowji Studios in Redruth.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Christina Kutter was born and raised in Stoke Newington, London. In 2001 she moved to Cornwall, where she has a studio on the edge of Bodmin moor. She works across many disciplines and says: 'My work often leans towards abstraction but is underpinned by an abiding interest in observational and gestural drawing.'
With a BA (Hons) in English & Philosophy from Middlesex University and a PGCE from the University of Exeter, the bulk of her work experience has been within adult education and the FE sector. Currently she is studying at Plymouth College of Art and working as an arts administrator for KARST, Plymouth. She has also worked as an art therapy volunteer for people with dementia, and as a workshop facilitator for a bereavement support group.
Helen Elizabeth Kuumbi is a painter and folk musician living in Millbrook, east Cornwall.
Anne La Bouchardiere was born in India and attended art school in Mumbai before moving to the UK in the 1950s. After a career in the theatre, she and her husband settled in Cornwall in 1991. She studied at Saltash College of Art and Plymouth College of Art and Design, gaining a Certificate in Art and Design as part of the University of Exeter BA (Hons) course.
Her work has been exhibited at London's Royal Academy, Foyle's Art Gallery, and throughout the UK.
La Thangue studied at the South Kensington and Lambeth schools before entering the RA from 1875, where he won the RA Schools Gold Medal 1879, and studied with J L Gerome in Paris for three years. Whilst in Paris he came under influence of the Barbizon and plein-air painters such as Bastien-Lepage and Dagnan-Bouveret.
On his return to London he exhibited widely, though not in Cornwall until the Newlyn Art Gallery opened in 1895. He lived at Bosham, Surrey and was a close friend of Stanhope FORBES, whom he met first as a fellow pupil at Dulwich College. He was greatly in sympathy with the aims and ideals of the Newlyn School, although his subjects tended to be farm workers and country life rather than fisherfolk. To show solidarity with Forbes, he sent his painting Clearing the Orchard to Newlyn in spring 1896; the WCAA holds a letter which asks politely for this to be packed and returned to him at Bosham, Chichester.
He is included here more as an influential force, and a name often mentioned in the history of the Newlyn colony, than because of time spent in West Cornwall.
Katherine Labo has lived in Cornwall for the past 20 years. Her paintings are a fusion of Malaysian and Cornish influences.
The Cornwall Polytechnic Society records: 'The fifty-fifth annual Exhibition was opened on Tuesday, September 6th, at the Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth... After refering to the various departments of the Exhibition, he remarked, with regard to photography, which was in the charge of Mr Brooks, who took a great interest in the Society, that this department was in advance of previous years in portraiture; J Lafayette having an excellent portrait of the Countess of Londonderry, to which has been awarded a Silver medal.'
Venessa Lagrand was born in Kent but studied Art & Design at Cornwall College, Camborne, and lives in Rame, near Penryn. Her subject matter includes the landscapes and harbours of Cornwall. Her work is held in private collections in St Mawes, New Jersey and Portugal.
Born in Penzance, Laity became a member of the Industrial Class before WWI. John Edgar Laity was the father of John Curnow Laity (born at Helston in 1898, and destined to become the eventual historian of Newlyn Copper). John Edgar continued to make copper objects of artistic and useful design, in his spare time, throughout his life.
A potter with Bernard LEACH. Dates as yet unconfirmed. More research required.
A painting by this artist, St Michael's Mount (1995) is in the art collection held by the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance.
Tim Lake is a potter based in Penryn, Cornwall. He was born in Surrey, and studied at Farnham (NDD), Plymouth (HND) and then at Falmouth where he completed a BA (Hons).
He is a full member of the Devon Crafts Guild.