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.
Born in Padstow, Derek Lindsey is a founder member of Padstow Art Group. His work consists primarily of seascapes in pastels.
Wendy Lindsey is a founder member of the Padstow Art Group. She works in pastels to illustrate the bird life of the Cornish coast.
Alice Mary Lingwood (nee Hunt) was born in Ipswich. In 1889 she was married at Maldon, Essex, to Edward (T or J) LINGWOOD, also listed as an Artist in the 1891 Census. In 1891 the couple were boarding in the Uren household at 76 Bellair Terrace, St Ives. They had three sons and were recorded as living in Suffolk in 1901. Edward pre-deceased Alice, who died in Sussex in 1941. She was buried beside her husband at Westleton in Suffolk.
Edward Thomas Lingwood was born in Barking, Suffolk, the third child and first son of Henry Lingwood and his wife Elizabeth Anne nee Roberts. In the 1881 Census he was listed as an 'artist, painting' lodging in Chelsea, and studying in London. That same year he was also a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club and was exhibiting his work at various venues with them from 1882-5.
In 1889 at Maldon, Essex he married a fellow artist, Alice Mary Hunt, and the two were listed in the 1891 Census as boarding at Bellair Terrace, St Ives. The following year the Lingwoods had moved to Ipswich, Suffolk, where Edward Thomas was working from Arcade Studio, Arcade Street. Their first son was born that year, and thereafter they moved to The Ferns, Dunwich, Suffolk where two further sons were born. Sending-in addresses include Needham Market, Suffolk (1884,1894), Dunwich (1894), Saxmundham (1896). They were listed in Dunwich again in the 1901 Census, the couple and their three children, though they had moved to Westleton by 1906.
Lingwood exhibited widely, but nothing more is known about his wife as an artist. The two were living at Farm Cottage Orchard, East Grinstead, Sussex in 1911. Their eldest son was killed in action in 1917. The artist died at Dunwich, aged 65 and is buried at Westleton, Suffolk, predeceasing his wife who died at Hastings, Sussex in 1941, aged 81 (also buried at Westleton).
[Information about this family researched by Tony Copsey, Suffolk, with many thanks!]
Linton was born at Beckles, Harlesdon, Middlesex and studied at the Herkomer Art School, Bushey for two years, having won a scholarship for this privilege (1907-09). She married William Evans Linton in Watford in 1911.
Her address in St Ives is listed from 1914, and then from 1916 in Bristol. She exhibited in her first Show Day in St Ives in 1914 as Miss Beckles, and thereafter as Mrs Evans Linton, and was described as a painter of horses and cattle.
Born at Portishead, Somerset near Bristol on 24 August 1878, Linton lived at Bushey (probably an art pupil at Herkomer's) in 1909, in Watford in 1911, and in Clifton, Bristol Clifton in 1913 where he was an art master at Clifton College. His exhibition record extends from 1909 to 1932, and three Cornish notices are found for 1909, 1914 and 1915 respectively.
His wife was Evelyn Lina LINTON (nee Beckles), whom he met at Herkomer's where they were art students together.
Formerly an illustrator, Sally Linton has turned to printmaking, offering workshops from her studio in Perranuthnoe, near Penzance.
The artist was born in St Albans, Herts, the daughter of Physician and Surgeon John T N Lipscomb and his wife. She never married and died in Canterbury. Both spellings of her surname are to be found in various references.
Lipscomb(e) studied at Colarossi's Atelier in Paris, and under Norman GARSTIN in Cornwall. At NAG she exhibited from as early as 1903 and is listed in the 1911 census as living in Penzance lodgings. During the war she joined the French Red Cross, serving as a canteen assistant in on-site holding camps for wounded soldiers. She was awarded a British War Medal and a Victory Medal for her services.
In Summer 1921 she exhibited again after the re-opening of the Gallery after the war (selling 4 pieces of work), and continued exhibiting until the Summer Exhibition of 1928, when she showed The English Channel.
In 1929, with another artist, Bessie Holmes, she listed her address as Ninton, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
Born in 1970 Aylesbury UK. An early interest in expressionist art lead to evening classes in life drawing whilst still at school. Then began art college full time but found it a restricting and claustrophobic experience. ‘I was not suited to art college and it became the least creative time of my life. With the realisation that I was most creative during the evenings in the privacy of my own room, I decided to drop out of art education. I wanted to find a creative freedom away from the ‘guarded’ impersonal language of high art at the time.’ Litten traveled the UK to find inspiration within commonplace life, aiming to convey an emotive poignancy in figurative representations of ‘the ordinary’ and 'the everyday'.
During the early 1990’s, he began employment in photographic studios ‘finishing’ hand printed photographs. Employed in London and later in Oxford, where visits to Richard Hamilton’s studio encouraged a new phase of personal creativity.
Moved to Cornwall ini 2001 and began exhibiting in 2003 with DICK THE DOG, Penzance. Was included in an exhibition ‘Nudes’ (along with Epstein and Renoir) in New York City which was reviewed in the NEW YORK TIMES. He has been part of numerous international art fairs with JILL GEORGE GALLERY. During the week of Frieze Art Fair in 2007, Litten exhibited ‘Dog Breeder’ in LIME WHARF project space in Vyner Street, London . 'Dog Breeder’ was made with paint and pubic hair and is intended to be seen in the Dada tradition of anti-art, commenting on the absurdity of the contemporary art world and its hierarchies. Litten has exhibited in curated exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, London, Sienna, Edinburgh, Milwaukee and New York. Has work in the MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM, USA, SIENNA ART INSTITUTE, Italy and MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING, London. Was included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ an exhibition of independents in 2010 at TATE MODERN (turbine hall. Exhibited with WW GALLERY at the 54th VENICE BIENNALE.
Associated with St Ives: mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Little is mentioned by Tovey (p398) as a former Bushey student, who took part in the 1892-93 Carnival Masquerades in St Ives. She exhibited at the Show Day in 1895, and was noted as the rate-payer for a small studio on Harbour Beach until 1898.
Born at Orchard Hill, near Bideford, Devon, Littlejohns began as a pupil-teacher at the Bideford School of Art, aged sixteen. He married the artist Idalia Blanche Littlejohns, and worked from Brook Green, London.
Together with Leonard RICHMOND, the two would be a major force in art-teaching books for half a century. His books include Art in Schools; Sketching from Nature in Line and Tone; The Technique of Watercolour (with Leonard Richmond) and The Art of Painting in Pastel.
The artist, called a 'relatively unknown' one by Tovey, worked in a studio in Back Road West, St Ives, in 1893-94.
Llewellyn was born in Cirencester and began studying art in South Kensington under Poynter in 1879. In 1887 he made his first visit to Cornwall. The following year he spent some time in Polperro where his highly acclaimed work Twixt Night and Day - a Cornish Harbour was painted and shown at the Grosvenor Gallery and at Manchester Art Gallery. In 1927 it was presented to Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.
After continuing to visit Cornwall regularly, in 1893 Llewellyn married the miniature portrait painter Marion Meates, settled in London and became a highly successful portraitist. He was knighted in 1918, made a Royal Academician in 1920 and served as its president between 1928 and 1938.
A portrait of William Coles Pendarves, JP (b.1841), Chairman of the Council (1907-1919) was painted by this artist in 1918, and is part of the permanent collection of Cornwall Council.
Born in Swansea, Llewelyn's subjects were largely geological, with topics such as chlorite schist rocks, slate rocks, granite rocks and serpentine rocks - but occasionally he would photograph landscapes of places such as West Porch, St Paul's Church, and views around Kynance Cove, Cornwall were also worked up.
This prolific painter (also erroneously named as Walter Stuart Lloyd, or W Stuart Lloyd) was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1879, at the age of 21. He continued to exhibit there until 1924. His work was also shown at the Royal Academy.
An artist and illustrator based in south east Cornwall, Biddy Lloyd has a BA (Hons) and MA (RCA) in Animation, and a PGCE in secondary Art. She also has a foundation certificate in Art Therapy and offers a variety of educational and therapeutic workshops.
At the Twelfth Exhibition of NAG in 1900, she exhibited and sold The Willow Tree.
She exhibited at SWA 1909, from a Penzance address (and may have been a pupil of Stanhope FORBES).
Secretary of the St Ives Art Club c1913, the St Ives Times reported that he had returned to the town from Switzerland where he had been with Paul DOUGHERTY.
The son of Mrs Frances LLOYD, he was later to become President of STIAC.
Born in America, the daughter of the portrait artist William Henry Powell, Fanny came first to West Cornwall in the 1890s. Previously she had studied under Henri Lucien Doucet in Paris (1883) and married a fellow pupil who was a retired English naval officer. With Walter Lloyd she had two children. Walter died in 1889 of cholera, leaving Fanny a widow with a young son (an earlier child, Eugene, had died at the age of two). Fanny decided to bring up her son in his father's native country, where his family had homes in Yorkshire and Cornwall.
She exhibited first with the RCPS in Falmouth in 1900 and later in St Ives, before returning for a 5-year period to the States. She again came to Zennor and according to Tovey (Sea Change, Sec 3.5 'The swansong of Frances Lloyd') spent most of the WWI years there.
Having been adversely influenced by the death of her first child, Fanny turned to theosophy, and her spirituality comes through her paintings both in subject and title. Louis RECKELBUS gave her lessons and is considered to have been a particular inspiration by changing her palette of colours. Emile FABRY's symbolist paintings inspired her to express her own spiritual thoughts through her choice of subject.
In the possession of the George Lloyd Music Library in Kendal, Cumbria: Two miniatures, of Mrs Constance Lloyd and Mrs Frances LLOYD, as painted by Mabel Maud DOUGLAS.
Born on 4 July 1855 in London - and dying there 89 years later on 1 July, 1945 (GRO) - Lloyd's first name was not Robert but Richard (Bednar has been responsible for this discovery, as many references have previously indicated otherwise). Also, the date usually given for his demise (1899) is considerably askew and probably reflects Woods' fl dates of 1879-99. In the Edgbastonia (Ref: Edwin HARRIS biography), it is noted that Lloyd shared a house in Newlyn with Harris and eight other artists in 1881.
Lloyd concentrated on coastal areas including Devon, Kent and Cornwall, and is enjoying something of a current revival. His address for the RBA in 1881-82 was in Newlyn, and his View of Penzance (watercolour, 1880) was gifted in 2000 to Penlee House, Penzance. Another of St Michael's Mount was sold at Sotheby's in 2000. Two of his titles at the RA were The Coast of Cornwall and A Squally Night.
A correspondent in 2019 has advised us that the RBA list of exhibitors gives R Malcolm's address as 4 Essex Villas, Ravensbourne Park, Catford Bridge, London at the time he was in Newlyn (see above). This suggests he was visiting Newlyn rather than resident there.
Ray Lloyd is the 'Guest Artist' for 2011 in relation to the Annual art and craft exhibition in Cape Cornwall School. It is organised by the St Just and District Committee of Cancer Research UK for which Ray is also a member of the Organising Committee.
He is know for his Cornish harbour and boat studies, and exhibits regularly at the Cape Cornwall exhibitions (each summer). His painting, End of the Line, Penzance, is illustrated on the exhibition catalogue (2011).
Rachael Lloyd-Philips is a Camborne-based artist who studied art at Falmouth University. In March 2016 her painting of St Michaels Mount was selected as the winning entry in the Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm competition to illustrate the label of a new range of cider.