Born on 9 January 1856 in London (GRO), Nora was the daughter of Dr John Locking. Nora Locking was the bridesmaid at the marriage of Mr and Mrs Stanhope FORBES in 1889, and that same year she exhibited work in the Newlyn studios.
Nora married fellow artist Alfred HARTLEY on 5 May 1896 in Hastings. Initially they lived in Dorset, but moved to St Ives in 1904 where they lived first at 4 Bellair Terrace, then at No 7. She joined the Arts Club in 1906, sold A Flower Garden and Garden at NAG in 1908, and showed an oil and watercolour sketches at the 1911 and 1913 Show Days respectively; she joined STISA in 1927. She also exhibited at the NAG Christmas Show in 1926 (no details).
For reasons connected with her husband's health, the couple moved to Llandrindod Wells in 1931. In 1938 she is recorded as living in Earl's Court. One of Nora's St Ives exhibits was a portrait of Ranee of Sarawak, who lived at Carbis Bay and attracted a circle of famous musical and literary figures, and was a keen supporter of STISA. Nora died, age 87, on 23 January 1943 in London (GRO).
Cuthbert Lockyer was born at Evercreech, Somerset on 13 April 1867 into a family with a long background in farming. He was educated at King's School, Bruton and the University of London and received his clinical training at Charing Cross Hospital. He became an eminent surgeon specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology particularly at Charing Cross Hospital but he was also a consultant at many other hospital. He wrote extensively on his specialism and also drew some of the illustrations for his books. He married Minnie Marie Coombs in 1899 by whom he had two sons and a daughter. She died in 1924 and he married for a second time in 1927, this time to Violet Gwendoline Morton. He enjoyed playing golf and coarse fishing and was a keen artist, exhibiting his oil paintings at R S M. After a distinguished career as an Physician, Surgeon and Gynaecologist he retired to Penzance with his second wife and there set up a studio over the garage of his house where they could both paint and etch together. They regularly exhibited at local art exhibitions and he was a NAG Exhibitor in 1937 along with his wife. He died on 28 August 1957 after a lengthy illness during which he increasingly had to depend on his wife.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Rose Lodge works from Krowji Studios in Redruth. In 2022 she completed an MA in Authorial Illustration at Falmouth University.
Anna Logan holds an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice from Falmouth University, where she now teaches. Based at CAST studios in Helston, she is an artist and illustrator whose practice aims to draw attention to the hidden, tangled connections between the human and non-human. A focus of her work has been the old gunpowder works at Kennall Vale in Ponsanooth. She is fascinated by its history and the speculation that it could be re-imagined as a site of renewable hydro power.
From a London address, Wood notes that Lomax exhibited three scenes of Venice at the RA (1889-91). He was the son of a Barrister at law who worked from London and Suffolk. Though a member of STIAC, extensive contact with Cornwall cannot realistically be shown. Correspondent Tony Copsey has provided a biography (2013), for which many thanks:
Born at Kensington, London in 1853, son of Thomas Lomax, a barrister, and his wife Ann née Chadwick, who married at Kensington in 1853. In 1861 the family lived at 15 Clarendon Road, St Mary Abbots, Kensington but by 1871 they had taken Grove Park, Yoxford, Suffolk when John was an undergraduate at Cambridge. In 1881 the family were still at Yoxford but John was not present but was of Yoxford when a member and exhibitor at the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1885-1916. In 1891 the 37 year old landscape painter, John was living at Grove Park with his parents, 65 year old Thomas and 64 year old Ann, both born at Rochdale and three of his siblings and they retained eight indoor servants. John, exhibited at Manchester City Art Gallery, New Gallery and the Royal Academy 1889-1896 from London in 1889 and Yoxford in 1891.
He married at St. George’s Hanover Square, London in 1897, Hester St. Clair B née Johnson, and is found in 1901 a 47 year old artist living on own means’ at Drinkstone House, Drinkstone Green, Suffolk with his 31 year old wife Hester, born China and their 2 year old son Cecil, born Knightsbridge, London and retained six indoor staff. In 1911 John and his wife were visitors to his brother, Charles Henry Lomax, a barrister, at his former parents' home at Grove Park, Yoxford.
Lomax died at Kensington, London in 1916, aged 63 and his wife died at Folkestone in 1962, aged 91. His son Cecil married Hon. Elizabeth Margaret Brand, daughter of the 3rd Viscount Hampden and daughter Pamela married Sir Robert Alexander Abercromby, 9th Bt. of Birkenbog
Claire London is based in St Austell, where she set up a studio in 2023.
Australian painter; mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives.
We are now awaiting further information from the Exhibition curator preparing a show of the work of this Australian artist, at the National Gallery of Australia.
One painting by this artist is in the collection of the RCM, Truro: Demolition of the Harbour Master's Office, Truro.
A multi-talented artist in her own right, Denny has taken of late to 'curating' exhibitions on behalf of the NSA. In 2009 she and colleagues took a touring exhibition from the Newlyn Society to the RWA at Bristol, an exhibition which coincided with the launch of the Art Dictionary upon which this database is based.
In 2011, Denny and the Chairman of NSA, Phil BOOTH, curated an exhibition for members (NSA) at the Mariner's Church, St Ives, at the invitation of the St Ives Society of Artists (STISA). The show is entitled 'Uncharted Landscapes' and comprises the works from 40 members of the NSA.
Gary Long studied art at the Birmingham College of Art and the Manchester College of Art, where he was supported on an Art & Design fellowship. He lived on the west coast of Canada from 1966-68, and for 25 years he worked as a freelance illustrator. Currently and since 1993, he is also a part-time drawing tutor at University College Falmouth. With his Canadian wife, Patricia, he lives in Lelant, nr St Ives.
Long was one of the five Gallery Tresco artists to take part in 'the Venice Collection' painting project and exhibition in 2004. Six of his oils on canvas were included in the resulting exhibition on the Isles of Scilly. His work is also fully illustrated in the 2010 Exhibition Catalogue prepared by Gallery Tresco for the group of artists exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair, London.
In the spring catalogue of 2012, Long's work is represented by six stunningly coloured landscapes, after a further visit to the Scillies. Besides landscape painting, representing the human figure is also important to his art practice.
http://www.riversidegallery.co.uk/pages/cornish_artists.htm#garylong
A portrait by this artist is part of the art collection of Newquay Hospital. It depicts Mr P B Wallace, President of the League of Friends.
Sue Lord came to Polperro more than 20 years ago (2011 comment on web) from a teaching post in the East End of London. She became Head of Art at Looe Community School.
She is a designer of scenery for the stage, as well as a painter of harbour scenes and large seascapes. Cornwall and Western Australia provide the subject areas for her landscape painting.
Debbie Lord was born and raised in Scotland. She studied in London and now lives in Penzance. She translates images of coastal villages into fused-glass pictures. She has exhibited at the Waterside Gallery, St Mawes.
Amanda trained at Winchester School of Art, taking her MA in Fine Art and Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art, London. Living in Cornwall since the mid-1990s, she has taken an active part in many community exhibitions and events, showing her wonderful creativity and expertise in projects like the Monday and Saturday Art Clubs that were run at NAG for some years for school-age children. Her work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.
She has also been a leader every year with the design and making of spectacular large puppets and floats, banners and filming of fairs and Golowan Festival events. From 2000-3 she was part of the Penzance Artist-Led Projects team with Tessa GARLAND, Susan BLEAKLEY, Gillian COOPER and others.
Currently her work is focused on video, sound, installation and living art, and as a consequence of a commission in 2009, she participated in the exhibition 'Gloria', mounted in London locations for seven visual artists by the Sustain Studios.
Karen Lorenz is based in Mousehole. Her work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall and throughout the UK.
Lorrayne was educated in London, where she studied Display and Exhibition Design. She has many years' experience working as a designer artist in Cornwall. exhibiting widely in the south west. Her work is held in a number of private collections, and the Arts Council collection. Private commissions include the painting of screens of wildlife in exotic habitats. Recent paintings, inspired by the religious iconography of the Far East, incorporate alchemical and magical symbolism.
Loudan was born in London and had a brilliant career, first at the Academy Schools and later in Paris, studying under Bouguereau. His Polperro painting 'Fish Sale' was his first major success, and was later engraved for a large illustration in the Illustrated London News. He went on to produce a series of sketches for the same publication, of life in Polperro. Loudan exhibited A Cornish Fish Market at Whitechapel's Cornish exhibition in 1902.
Elizabeth Loveday's paintings are created on a surface of handmade gesso. She says: 'My subject matter is primarily portraiture and narratives, characters within folklore and my own life intermingled with magic realism.'
Born in Truro, she grew up in a small village in Cornwall. She spent a year at Goldsmiths College in London, studying Fine Art, and then three years studying Illustration at UWE, Bristol, graduating with a BA (Hons). She works from a studio in Carn Brea, near Camborne.
Kathryn Loveluck grew up in Wales and studied in Bristol, gaining a BA (Hons) in Fashion. She moved to St Ives in 2003. She is a member of St Ives Arts Club.
Embroidery was exhibited at NAG's Summer Exhibition of Art and Crafts (1928) by this artist. Identified only as I Low, the artist also exhibited as early as the Winter Exhibition of 1926.
Rose Lowcay was a landscape artist from Adelaide, Australia. She was one of the first of a long line of Australian artists who were encouraged by Sir William Ashton to paint in Cornwall. In her early teenage years she was already the recipient of a number of art awards and left home in 1908 for three years of study overseas, during which time she trained in London with Algernon Talmage, at Newlyn under Stanhope FORBES, and in St Ives and Lamorna with John Noble BARLOW, where she made friends with a fellow-student, the American Anna Althea HILLS.
Rose returned to Australia in 1912. The paintings of Cornwall which she had sent home were highly praised, and she was elected a Fellow of the South Australian Society of Arts.
Lowdon was born in Edinburgh and studied there at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1950-54, adding a teaching diploma in painting and drawing the following year. After doing his National Service in the Army Educational Corps, he first came to Cornwall in 1957 to be the art master at Wadebridge. Not there for long, he took up work in advertising and photography while also continuing to paint and exhibit his work.
In 1975 he decided to return to Cornwall and work full-time on his art. From 1979-83 he made a number of painting trips abroad, travelling to Greece a number of times, and also to Portugal and France (Provence). His work has been exhibited widely, especially in the West Country.
He was a founder member of the North Cornwall Seven Group of artists, and is also an honorary member of the Cornwall Watercolour Society, formed in 2005 at Camelford. Their annual exhibition was last held in March-April of 2011.
Neill acknowledges his epilepsy as a factor in the way that he paints, and credits his pieces as 'vehicles for feeling'; his colour sense is rich and deep.
'Over the years what I see in front of me has changed more than the handwriting of my pictures. My vision is very much linked to being an adult, so, in my opinion, it is my handwriting that lets me down, not my vision.' (Artist's statement, Falmouth Art Gallery Exhibition catalogue, 2000).
Jackie Lowman lives close to Bodmin Moor and exhibits with Drawn to the Valley. Her work has also been shown at the Bridge Gallery near Cotehele.