Born in Sheffield, Fiona was a student at Bournemouth College of Art. She continued her studies in Frankfurt and has a studio in Mainz, but has recently settled in Prussia Cove, Cornwall.
Lever was born and grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He showed an early talent for art and devoted his attention to learning the craft during his school days, encouraged by his grandfather who ultimately left him a modest inheritance. This enabled Lever to travel to Europe in 1893, spending time in both Paris and London. He exhibited at the Paris Salon (1897-8), and by 1902 had arrived in St Ives.
Julius OLSSON and Louis GRIER became good friends in the town, and he was an organiser of cricket games along with John William ASHTON (Will). American artists occasionally visited St Ives, and Lever befriended Ernest LAWSON who admired his work. In 1911 Lawson persuaded Lever to emigrate to America, saying that he would have greater success there. Arriving in New York in 1912 with his family, Lever was fascinated and excited by the subjects totally new to his experience and titillated his imagination; he began to sketch everything in sight - the tall buildings, the great ocean liners on the Hudson River, Times Square at night, and Central Park - and snow, which he had rarely encountered in Europe.
Lever soon discovered the New England coast which reminded him of Cornwall, and began to paint the fishing fleets of Gloucester and the elegant yachts of Marblehead, producing scenes which became popular on the New York art market. Major galleries such as William Macbeth, Ferargil, Daniel and Rehn gave him exhibitions, and he continued to gather awards such as a Gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco in 1915. The National Arts Club honored him with Life membership, and he was elected as a member of the National Academy.
The influence of Vincent Van Gogh was strong in his later work. From 1919 until 1931 Lever taught life classes and still life painting at the Art Students' League of New York. He also maintained a summer studio in Gloucester in the 1920's from which he traveled to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and the Canadian maritime provinces, turning out scores of spectacular marines, which entered the permanent Collections of many important museums and those of eager private collectors.
An associate of St Ives, Levick was a Philadelphia-born painter who died in London. He exhibited one painting at the RA in 1898 entitled Brittany Peasant Girl.
Recorded in the 1891 Census as the forty year old, unmarried, Artist (Painter) visiting the Household of 5 Whitstone Head, Whitstone, in the Truro Diocese. A British Overseas Subject, she was born in Germany and was living on her own means.
Rachael Levine, the daughter of writer and poet Norman Levine, was born in Brighton, Sussex. The family came to live in St Ives in 1959. After her school years, she lived in various parts of England, before acquiring her first studio in St Ives in 1985. In 1989 Rachael moved into her current studio in the Penwith Gallery complex, and has shown her work in mixed shows in local galleries throughout. Over the years she has experimented with various styles and mediums. Between 1995 and 2001, she had four solo shows of work at the Plumbline Gallery, St Ives. She also exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.
Earlier her work was noted for its naive figurative shapes and brilliant colour ways. In 1997 she decided to return to her original-voice style, first established at the age of 14, which is to explore complex synaesthesic images both in colour and black and white. A large selection of these works were exhibited in the NAG exhibition entitled 'Obsession' in 2001. Her complex weaving of lines and colour are relatively small and intense in nature, deriving from long walks and the inspiration received from the natural world in all its tangle and undergrowth.
Since 2014 Levine has been represented by a Canadian gallery, Postma Fine Art. In November 2014 Postma showed her work at the Toronto Art Fair. Her online show with Artsy/Postma can be seen in May 2015 (see links below). In Cornwall, she continues to show her work as an associate member of Penwith Society of Arts, and she is a regular exhibitor at STISA open exhibitions.
Lewin was born in Manchester, and has become well known for his impressive landscapes of the cliffs, coastal scenes and the sea during extreme weather conditions. His work has been exhibited at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance. He is a regular exhibitor at Gallery Tresco, and also at Cornwall Contemporary in Penzance.
Lewin is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
A book entitled Zawn : Walking West Penwith - Cliff Edge Paintings by Paul Lewin with text by Paul Gough was published in 2016.
After studying at Harrow School of Art in the 1960s, Sue worked as a freelance illustrator. She moved to Cornwall in 1975, teaching printmaking at Penzance School of Art. In 1989 she moved to St Martins on the Isles of Scilly where she had her own gallery. Since 2006 she has lived in West Penwith. Her ink-and-watercolour sketches of local scenes have great popular appeal. A great number of her journals and sketches have been published in book form and are widely available in bookshops and art galleries throughout Cornwall and Devon. She says: 'I want to record the experience of living on the edge of the land, whether in Scilly, Penwith, or my new-found love and inspiration, Shetland.'
Sue runs a variety of courses and workshops covering a wide range of media.
Listed in the 1901 Census as a visitor and 'Branch of Art Artist', staying at Higher Lelant near St Ives, 37 years old and from Hastings.
Lewis exhibited a landscape painting at the 1895 Opening Exhibition at the Newlyn Art Gallery, and involved himself as a Guarantor in the setting up and running of the new venture as a whole. (Leonard is not to be confused with George Lennard LEWIS, as listed in Wood Victorian Painters).
The Obituary was announced in the St Ives Times of the 'Death of a Cornish Artist. Mr Lowry Lewis'.
He was a well known seascape artist and native of Falmouth, who died at Redland on the 14th June and interred at Ridgeway Park Cemetery, Fishponds.
Exhibited at St Ives in 1913 at Lanhams, showing two oils of St Ives street scenes.
Born in South Africa, Lewis was educated there and later at the Slade School in London. He studied with Stanhope FORBES at Newlyn c1910-14, and married a fellow student from Ireland. In WWI he served in the armed forces in France, Belgium and Italy, and during WWII was an official war artist for the South African forces.
His first marriage broke up in 1922, and he was left with three small children. He sent his two sons, Tom and David, home to Cape Town for relatives to raise, although he visited regularly. His daughter, Catherine, remained in London with his ex-wife. He married Vera Player in 1933, and they settled in Chelsea with the return of one of his sons from South Africa. He frequently painted black South African subjects.
The art critic, curator and writer David Lewis first came to Cornwall in 1947, when Dolf RIESER in a London pub gave him the keys to his cottage at Bosporthennis, near Gurnard's Head, Zennor, and told him that he could stay there for the winter.
In his 'St Ives, A personal memoir, 1947-55' within the Tate's excellent book on St Ives 1939-64, Lewis then tells the story of the modernist movement and its progress through the town - and thence to the world - driven by his first friends, John Clayworth Spencer WELLS and George Peter LANYON, and the circle of artists that they introduced to him. He became 'legit' initially - though he had arrived knowing no-one - because his father, Arthur Neville LEWIS, had studied with Stanhope FORBES before WWI and before emigrating to South Africa.
Later he became the husband of Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM. This essay is a must for the understanding of St Ives in the twenty-five year period it covers. Tom CROSS, in his Introduction to Catching the Wave (p6), quotes the following from this essay:
'Looking back, none of us were aware that these years were historic or unique. None of us realised that on this small Land's End peninsula called Penwith, jutting out into the Atlantic, with its ever-changing moods of earth and sea and sky, an evolution in the modern movement of art was taking place, the importance of which is only beginning to be realised forty years on.'
A Canadian potter who travelled to St Ives as an apprentice to Bernard Leach from 1961-1963.
F Leyton is an artist whose works are found frequently at auction in Cornwall but about whom very little is known. His first name is believed to be Frederick or Fred. He does not appear to have exhibited but is understood to have had a studio in Newquay in the 1930s and to have worked for the tourist trade, his subject matter being principally beach scenes in Cornwall and Devon. Further information about him would be welcomed.
A correspondent (2014) has informed us of a painting of the Newquay Headland, which belonged to her father, by F Leyton.
A further correspondent (2018) has told us of a watercolour of Fistral Head, Newquay, by F Leyton, purchased 40 years ago and currently in Northern Ireland.
A correspondent in 2019 has advised us of a watercolour by F Leyton entitled The Bishops Rock. He is aware of two other versions of the same subject, one in Newquay and one in BC, Canada.
A correspondent (2020) has written to tell us of a watercolour in his possession of a Devon headland, dated 1929. A further correspondent has told us of a watercolour of Newquay headland by F Leyton, formerly owned by his grandparents.
A correspondent (2023) has written to say that she has acquired an untitled watercolour, by F Leyton, of St Ives, showing St Nicholas' Chapel from the vantage point of Man's Head, and a further one entitled Bishops Rock, Newquay.
We have been told (2025) of the discovery of a small watercolour entitled Curling Wave,Fistral Bay by Frederick Leyton.
Taking over from Francis G WOOD as Headmaster of Penzance School of Art, Lias was to remain there as its moving force until his sudden death at age fifty-five. Much loved and respected, he had begun life classes at the school, and also taught art out of doors. He exhibited illuminations between 1918-19 (many now at Penlee House, Penzance), and also at the RA.
Multi-media artist Malcolm Lidbury was born in Middlesex. He moved to Cornwall in 1977. Writing under the pen-name 'Pink Pasty' he is also an equality campaigner for HIV/AIDS sufferers and gay rights in Cornwall, and on the internet.
Since 2004 when an (unsuccessful) attempt was made to prosecute him for the content of his paintings, he has not been able to continue painting due to panic attacks/stress. Some of his work may be seen on the internet on various websites and blog spots listed for his name.
Liddell travelled extensively in Britain, coming to St Ives in 1914 where he was signed-into the Arts Club by Frances Tysoe SMITH. The St Ives Times commented that he had been in the town 'during the past few weeks' working on two canvases, one of the Cotswolds, the other of Bantry Bay. He also displayed a watercolour of a Chinese scene at the studio where he was working.
Benezit lists him as a painter from Worcester (born in Edinburgh) with dates as above. In 1907 the artist exhibited The Valley of Evesham at the Paris Salon. As yet no Cornish subjects known.
Caroline Liddington describes her paintings as 'semi-abstract narrative images forming sequences'. Much of her work explores the theme of childhood toys and dreams. She is a former member of Taking Space.
Peter Liddle was born near Darlington and began painting in Cornwall while still living in London. He spent the years from 1965 to 1970 living in Cornwall and returns regularly to the county to paint and sculpt. While in Cornwall Peter established a lifelong friendship with eccentric adult educationalist Frank Turk, who contributed greatly to the burgeoning spirituality in Peter's work.
Liddle has shown his work at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, and has been a regular exhibitor with the NSA and Penwith Society of Arts. He has also exhibited with the Ruralists.
Peter attended the Nottingham College of Art in the late 1950s, studying drawing, art history and silversmithing. His dramatic landscapes are often woven with allegory and based on a lifetime's exploration of Britain's coasts and high places.
Anthony Light is a self-taught painter. Although his work is abstract, his inspiration comes from the landscape of Orkney and Shetland, and the scorched terrain of Morocco and Spain. His love of jazz bestows a certain rhythm to his artworks.
Depictor of West Penwith subject; no further information currently available.
Jason Lilley was born in Cornwall. He studied at Falmouth School of Art, and lives and works in Truro.
Born in Birmingham on 22 April 1850, Lillingston came to Newlyn in about 1890, and was exhibiting from a Newlyn address from 1891. He had already exhibited at the RA in 1878, but more regularly at the RBA (SS) and elsewhere.
He remained in the Penzance area for about twenty years, departing in the early 1910s. He lived variously in London and Leamington, and was living in Plymouth by 1922. At the Opening exhibition of NAG in 1895, he exhibited The Seaweed Gatherers (which was sold), and the following year his two exhibits The Trawler and The Mount, which also sold.
At the RA he exhibited Mackerel Fishing and Early Birds That Get the Worms (1878), and Newlyn Boats (1899). In 1901 at NAG he showed Showery Weather, Scottish Moors and Newlyn - St Ives Boats, Skye (all sold), and in April 1906 A Small Catch with The (Pilots) Return later the same year. In 1907 he sold Laid Up Fishing Boats and Newlyn Slip, others in 1908, and A Busy Day Newlyn, Pilchard Boats and Fishing Boats in 1910.
Always well represented in the NAG Sales records, his final sale before WWI closed the exhibition schedule was Gorse, sold to a purchaser from Hyde Park, London in December 1913. He died on his birthday in Plymouth, Devon, 82 years later, in 1932 (GRO).
October 2012: Recent information has come to light suggesting he was painting in Newlyn earlier than 1891. A work in Hayle Gallery entitled 'Old Newlyn' is signed and dated 1883.
A K Baird Smith was a signatory of the Glanville Letter of 1896 from the artists protesting the over-development of St Ives. She had arrived in St Ives to live with her mother and step sister, Ethel KENNEDY. Both of the daughters were to meet and marry their husbands there.
'Gussie' was introduced and signed into the St Ives art colony by Julius OLSSON in 1896. She met and married Moffatt LINDNER and they had one daughter, Hope. Her portrait was painted by Philip Wilson STEER in 1900, and she was also painted by Marianne L M STOKES. A painting of her with her family, by Frances HODGKINS, is owned by the Dunedin Art Gallery in New Zealand. In the 1924 Show Day she exhibited two dainty pictures of flower vases, daffodils and other blossoms.
The couple lived at Chy-an-Porth, a large house on the terrace with views over the bay. After her husband's death in 1949, she moved from St Ives and went to live with her daughter, Hope, first in Northamptonshire and finally in Devon.
Born in Cheltenham, Daphne was the daughter of Murray Lindner, a Manufacturer, and niece of Moffatt LINDNER. Educated privately, she went on to study at the Cheltenham School of Art before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, going on to win a Robert Austin prize and a Silver medal.
Born in Birmingham into a wealthy family, Moffatt Lindner studied at the Slade under Alphonse LEGROS, and at Heatherleys in London. He married Augusta BAIRD-SMITH ('Gussie'), and was a key figure in success of STISA, commanding great respect in St Ives (and nationally and internationally). In 1932 he invited Membership from all artists who lived, or had lived, in the area. He only retired from the presidency of STISA when he was ninety-three years old, and throughout his life he promoted the interests of STISA and supported it in every way.
From 1889, he exhibited at the Paris Salons, an early painting, Saint Ives Trawlers (1895), depicting his engagement with Cornwall. He won the Medal of Paris in 1900. His final submission (11 in all) to Paris was in 1929, and that was Eaux dormantes, Saint Ives.
A great interest of Lindner's was fly-fishing, a passion he shared with Lamorna BIRCH. He also sent-in work to be exhibited at NAG in the 1930s; At that stage, STISA numbered some one-hundred strong and included many RAs.
He painted in France and Italy in addition to London and Cornwall, and his watercolours, with their atmospheric effects, were both masterly and influential. His paintings in watercolour of Venice are especially noteworthy.
Cheshire-born Alasdair Lindsay came to Cornwall in 1996 and studied at Falmouth College of Art. After graduating he decided to remain in Falmouth where the boats, docks and shipyards are obvious influences on his work. Now he resides with his family in Hayle, also an historic working port.
His paintings are based on what he sees everyday. He studies places regularly, sometimes sketching on site, although Alasdair usually painting from memory and through experimentation. His studio work is down to decisions based on instinct rather than theory. Often the subject of his paintings becomes secondary to the emerging pattern of abstract areas, which he says, must be evaluated and perhaps edited for the sake of the overall composition.
Alasdair’s paintings have been garnering increasing acclaim and in 2002 he was commissioned to produce 12 paintings and 312 prints of those paintings for permanent display on the luxury Cunard Line Queen Mary II.
In 2004 he was awarded second place in the prestigious Hunting Art Prize and was also selected to exhibit in the Hunting Art Prize in 2000, 2004 and 2005. In 2007 his work was exhibited in the Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition at Mall Galleries, London.
Lindsay's work was featured in BBC1's 'Escape to the Country' on 14 February 2022.
His painting 'Cafe at Night' was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025.