Associated with St Ives. Ritman is known to have exhibited at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance. Looking for detail.
A painter, engraver, illustrator and author, Elizabeth Rivers spent most of her life in Ireland.
She was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Goldsmiths College in London. Awarded a scholarship, she studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1926 to 1931, after which she moved to Paris to continue her art studies. She first visited Ireland in 1935. During World War II she lived in London serving as a fire warden during the Blitz.
She spent the years 1957 to 1959 in Cornwall, owning a cottage, Lantinning, in St Anthony-in-Meneage. She illustrated some of the books on Cornwall by Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan.
She died in her home in Dalkey, County Dublin.
Roberts was born in Brighton, Sussex, where she studied art initially, followed by studies at St Martin's School of Art. At one time she worked as an assistant to Cecil Beaton. She moved to St Ives in 1952, from where she travelled extensively and exhibited prolifically. She also gave lessons in miniature painting. Her subjects were landscapes and portraits.
The artist was born in London, the son of Thomas Edward Roberts. Between 1862-1886 he regularly exhibited at Suffolk Street, and at the Royal Academy (1882-1884) where he was an instant success. Roberts regularly used children as his subjects, and he would portray them in an almost comic manner. This style proved enormously popular with the Victorian public of the day, and his work is still widely admired.
Roberts is famed and popular for his delightful cat paintings, many of which have become greetings cards and postcards. His own black cats were his models. He came to Cornwall in the 1990s, remaining for almost a decade, before moving away again.
Ley Roberts is a member of Drawn to the Valley and also exhibits with Limekiln Gallery in Calstock. Her figurative pen and ink drawings, prints and etchings are inspired by the beautiful Tamar valley.
After many years in Gloucestershire, Swiss-born Isabelle Roberts moved to Cornwall in 2010. She paints intuitively in response to music, and her work explores the relationship of the body to space. She has also experimented with the movements made by musicians while performing, in a project she calls 'Soundtrace'. These musical 'portraits' were created using digital imaging. Her paintings can be seen at the Zeath Gallery, Polzeath.
Lesley Roberts lives and works in Mawgan, on the Lizard peninsula.
Andrea Roberts is a Newlyn based artist who uses acrylic inks to create her colourful landscapes and seascapes.
Frederick Roberts Johnson (Fred) rarely used his own name to sign his work. Occcasionally he used his initials, 'FRJ' but due to his admiration for the American Essex automobile, adopted the pseudonym 'Essex' or 'Sax'. During the late 1920s and 1930s he became a very successful illustrator, creating cartoons, caricatures and other 'funnies' for such publications as Punch, Everyman and Time and Tide - the latter being a weekly left-wing literary review magazine.
In 1924 he and his great friend, the artist Arthur WRAGG, visited Polperro for the first time and fell in love with the place. Frederick Thomas Nettleinghame, a publisher and 'tourist operator' had arrived in Polperro the year before, setting up a business dealing in artefacts for the tourist market. He found the two young artists to be enthusiastic assistants in the production of burnt wood designs, or 'pokerwork'. Subsequently Fred Roberts Johnson and Wragg rented a cottage in the village each summer. This continued throughout the 1930s, during which time they became integral members of the Polperro community. In addition, Fred acquired an old stone net loft in the village, for use as a studio. His friendship over the years with the local fishermen resulted in the creation of a group of fisherman's portraits, which were hung in the Polperro Museum.
His most well-known commercial art was a series of caricature portraits, signed 'Essex', for the Punch's People in Punch series in the mid-1930s. His most widely known advertisements appeared not only in periodicals but were on display in London buses and the Underground, promoting 'Abdulla' cigarettes.
Alarmed at the rise of Fascism, alongside Wragg, Fred became actively involved in the left-wing newspaper The Tribune, his political cartoons representing a considerable contribution to the early years of the publication.
Fred's family believe that the artist struck up a close friendship with the exiled Oskar KOKOSCHKA in Polperro, and indeed may have worked alongside him. During the war years Fred served in the Home Guard, and together with an engineer friend, made aircraft and weaponry parts, which exempted him from conscription.
His life was transformed when he met in the local pub a visitor to Polperro, Mimosa Wilson Cameron, known as Mosa. An aspiring opera singer, Mosa was in Polperro to join her father who had retired to Cornwall. She and Fred married in 1942, acquiring the property 'Westhaven', with its own separate studio. Their daughters Kirsten and Prudence were born in 1946 and 1948. The family moved to a bigger property, 'Chy-an-Kerris' on the Higher Warren, in 1949. In 1957 they moved to Totnes as their daughters were being educated at Dartington Hall, but they retained a property in Polperro, where they spent weekends and holidays.
While carrying out research for his book 'Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre' (see REFERENCES below) the art historian David Tovey unearthed around 250 beautifully executed easel paintings by Roberts Johnson, who evidently had no desire to exhibit or sell them. His marriage, and the success of his commercial work, had given him financial security, so it seems that he was able to paint purely for pleasure. He employed a wide range of genres, including still life, street scenes, fishing and harbour scenes ... even producing experimental paintings showing the influence of cubism and surrealism.
Felicity Robertson graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 1998. She has exhibited in various galleries in the south west including Bristol (Royal West of England Academy), Newlyn Art Gallery and the Millennium Gallery in St Ives.
Nancy Robertson gained a BA (Hons) from West Surrey College of Art & Design. Since moving to Cornwall in the early 2000s, she has focussed on local seascapes and animal portraiture.
Iain Robertson came from Edinburgh to live in Cornwall in 1999.
A painting by this artist, Mega Jazzy (2002) is part of the permanent collection of Cornwall Council. This became in early 2006, what the Tate St Ives have termed 'a pivotal multiple painting which set out to show something of his lexicon of individual forms': Mega-Jazzy 2006 consists of fifty paintings of one foot square. His work was selected by the Tate St Ives for their survey show of 2007, Art Now Cornwall.
Robertson works from Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2013).
Born in Sunderland, they obtained a BA in Fine Art from the Manchester School of Art in 2010.
Robertson works from Krowji Studios in Redruth. Their work explores the boundaries of the human body and its environment.
Their work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall, and is held in the collection of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the Hepworth Wakefield.
As part of Frieze Sculpture 2022, their new work Drench will be unveiled in London's Regents Park.
Stuart Robinson graduated from the University of East London in 2006 with a degree in Fine Art. He moved to Cornwall in 2008, and teaches Foundation Art & Design at Truro College. He joined the Fish Factory in Penryn in 2013, where he teaches photography, fine art and sculpture.
Robinson uses sculptural installation to investigate collective experience, creating immersive designs through innovation. In 2017 he was selected for the Southwest Showcase, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. He is a member of Back Lane West Associates, and is currently developing his research for a new project that explores travelling, reminiscent of his childhood visiting the coast.
Leana Robinson grew up in Lancashire but has moved to Cornwall. A self-taught artist, she undertakes pet portrait commissions.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Caroline Robinson works from Krowji Studios in Redruth. In 2023 she became a tutor at St Ives School of Painting.
Her work has been featured in 'The Auction Collective' and 'The World of Interiors' magazine.
Active as an artist in the 1920s, Barbara was the only child of Frederick Cayley ROBINSON and Winifred Cayley-ROBINSON, her early years spent between London and the friendly circle of artists at Lamorna.
Her painting Old Quay, Newlyn (1980) is part of the loan collection exhibited at the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth. A stalwart of STISA, Sonia visited Polperro regularly during the 1980s.
Born in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, the artist married the artist Maria D WEBB and the couple lived at Richmond Place, St Ives, where they were recorded in the 1891 Census. His original training was as a barrister.
In 1890 both of the Robinsons entered paintings for the Dowdeswell Show of Cornish Painters, as they did in the Opening of the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery (NAG) in 1895. His other avocation was music and he gave many concerts in St Ives for charitable purposes, arranging songs and conducting the orchestra. In his wife's death notice (STIT 9/07/1920 it states he was a J P)
Painter in oil and watercolour of genre and figure subjects, also murals, illustration and stage design
Born in Brentford, Middlesex, and educated at the Lycee de Pau, St Johns Wood School and RA Schools from 1884, and the Academie Julian (1890-92). From 1898-1902 he studied and worked in Italy, and then in Paris until 1906. After his studies in Paris, the Robinsons moved to St Ives where they stayed in the holiday cottages of writers Edith and Havelock Ellis.
Lived and worked in Lamorna for a year (1906) and became close friends of the Birch family. Wormleighton notes that Lamorna BIRCH, followed the guidance he had been given by Robinson. The latter who painted in flat tones in tempera and watercolour, concentrating on the rectilinear aspects of composition and often symbolist in style, had encouraged Birch in Cornwall to pursue the decorative approach to landscape work. Birch was a great admirer of Robinson's technique. The two men developed a strong understanding and shared confidences and the family were frequent visitors to Flagstaff. Robinson's gentle and generous character is well characterised in Laver's essay on the artist and his work.
When in London, and a bed was available in his studio, Birch would stay with the Robinsons in their Holland Park home, when visiting the RA or for other occasional events. Robinson was slow and painstaking, viewing life in soft neutral shades and according to Dr David Brown of the Tate Gallery, "almost consciously evading his own worldly success." Lamorna KERR in the narration of her childhood in the Lamorna Valley (Hardie), consistently spoke of Cayley-Robinson as the distinguished designer of the stage production of Maeterlinck's Blue Bird. He also illustrated a children's book with 25 coloured plates on the same theme. From 1910-14 he painted mural decorations for the Middlesex Hospital. Over the years 1914-24 he fulfilled the post of Professor at Glasgow School of Art, spending three months of each year in Scotland. He designed some posters for the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
In 1861 there was an outcome that the Polytechnic's Committee may not have fully foreseen, despite their custom of circulating the competition announcements widely outside Cornwall: 'Mr Gutteres entered more of his images, but they were eclipsed in public attention by a major display submitted by Mr H P Robinson of Leamington' (Henry Peach Robinson, from Leamington, Warwickshire, rapidly becoming one of Victorian England's leading romantic photographers).