Janet Shearer is a mural artist who moved to Cornwall after a visit in the late 1970s. She lives at Withiel, near Bodmin.
Shearer studied at Kingston Art School (now Kingston University). A career as a photographic model took her abroad and introduced her to the world of TV commercial production. Eventually she became a scenery painter, working in film studios in and around London. In 1983 she branched out into mural painting and has turned her skills to equestrian painting and portrait commissions.
Originally from Hertfordshire, Geoff Sheed now lives near Helston. He obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Norwich School of Art.
'Angelica was born and brought up in Cornwall and has lived in various places including Denmark. She obtained her BA Hons in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Norwich College of Art.' [from artist's statement, Falmouth Art Gallery exh 2000]
She produces abstract paintings which 'evoke the memory of past experience' and works from a studio in Constantine.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Exhibited (and sold) at NAG.
2015: A correspondent has written: I have a watercolour signed A Shephard, undated, but from the subject , a
Royal Navy destroyer, it must be from between 1895 and 1910. This may be the same artist as that of "A Schooner Leaving Penzance" exhibited and sold at the NAG. There is also a yachting book entitled "The Falcon on the Baltic"
by E F Knight with maps and illustrations by Arthur Shepherd published 1889.
An artist who flourished between 1800-1830. Imprints: Somers Cocks single prints
Michael Sheppard was born in Yorkshire and was a student at Wakefield College of Art, Leeds College of Art and Nottingham University. He works at the coastal edge of west Penwith where the ever-changing light visually dissolves forms by its intensity. He has exhibited at Penwith Society Gallery in St Ives, Lemon Street Gallery in Truro, and also in London and Nottingham. Sheppard's works are held in public and private collections in the UK, USA, Germany and Japan.
Mentioned in the Cornish Times as "Mr Sherard former resident of St. Erth & St Ives art colony". No other information has yet been found.
Based in London, at 7 Oxford Square, the artist exhibited with the Cornish group at Dowdeswell. This indicates her presence in West Cornwall prior to that date (1890) but there is no information locally.
She may be the sister of the writer R E Sherrard who visited and wrote about the town of St Ives at about the same time (R E Sherrard in Whybrow).
His father was Daniel Sherrin, also an artist. He was born at Seasalter, near Whitstable, Kent, on 5th April, 1891. Sherrin served in the First World War; in the Second he worked in a munitions factory in Rochester.
Finding that his pictures sold easily, he did not hold exhibitions of his paintings, and established his reputation with moorland and coastal scenes in gouache, in a style resembling that of Frederick John WIDGERY. He painted frequently in Cornwall. Sometimes he used pseudonyms, such as J WHITELY and DA NIEL. Sherrin moved to Devon in 1952, and died in 1971.
[Information from Viv Hendra, Lander Gallery, Truro]
Tristan Sherwood obtained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Fine Art at Canterbury. Since graduating and moving to Cornwall, he has combined his printmaking skills with a career as a lecturer.
He is represented by the Atrium Gallery in Truro.
Maud Sherwood (nee Kimbell) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Associated with Frances HODGKINS, she is presumed to have visited St Ives on a tour of southern England in 1912.
Any further information would be welcome.
Ilric Shetland was a student both at Goldsmiths College of Art and Hornsey College of Art. He has held solo exhibitions of his seascapes in the UK and Europe since 1972.
His work, which is inspired by Nicholas Montsarrat's 'The Cruel Sea', is represented by the Harbour Gallery, Portscatho.
Tony was born in Salford, coming to St Ives at the age of 20 (1938). He quickly established himself with fellow artist Peter LANYON, Roger HILTON, and Terry FROST, working squarely in the St Ives tradition of landscape, seascape and abstraction that he continued to pursue in painting.
In the late 1950s he travelled to France and Spain, where he began to develop his personal style. He married Christine Price and after the birth of his first son, the family moved to Carbis Bay, near St Ives. From 1959 Tony began to exhibit at both the Penwith and the Newlyn Art Galleries. Their second son was born the following year. (Twin daughters followed in 1962.)
In 1960 the couple bought The Cuddy, Westcott's Quay from the artist, Isobel HEATH. In the same year he exhibited in a three man show with artists Michael DEAN and Brian WALL at the Steps Gallery, St Ives, and then in 1961 took over the running of the Steps Gallery. He was elected to the committee of the Penwith Society. From that time he began to exhibit also in London and in mixed shows throughout the UK.
In 1963 Shiels moved to Gloucestershire, where he worked from a large farmhouse in Stinchcombe, and was visited by many Cornish artist friends, and his third daughter was born. During the following three years, he made regular visits to Cornwall and in 1966 moved back to the county to live at Ponsanooth, near Falmouth, where he was to remain for 20 years. From this time his work became increasingly surreal and he wrote three books on magic, created a cartoon strip and played music with two electric blues bands in addition to exhibiting. His writing, his exhibiting, and his sometime work as a professional magician and Punch & Judy professor led him more and more into theatricals, and the writing and producing of plays. A full time-line and bibliography of his work is included in his Limited Edition biography in 1995, by Associate Professor Steven Cousins of Cranfield University, a delightful work showing Tony's exuberance, his spirit and his poetic/artistic sense of place and line. That same year he exhibited at Newlyn in the show selected by Sandra Blow, RA and Mme Flowers.
"My work must surprise me but often I find it angers and frustrates me - it is a possession and an obsession." [from article 'Raw Visions'] Doc Shiels now lives in Killarney, Eire.
Feargal Shiels was born in Dublin and graduated from Falmouth University in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Drawing. He lives near Penzance and has held two solo exhibitions at Penzance's Circa Gallery 21.
One of four artists from the MA Course in Art and Environment at UCF contributing to the exhibition, 'Sensing Earth, Art and Environment' at Kestle Barton (6-11 September, 2011). In October 2012 Shomalzadeh won the Young Marine Artist Award in London. She works on large scale drawings inspired by marine mammals and the ocean.
R E Shone was born in Wycombe, Berkshire. An associate member of STISA, he and his wife Mabel (Allnutt) SHONE lived at Talland Road. He was also President of the Arts Club in 1935. He died in Redruth, Cornwall.
Recorded as a STISA member in 1932, Mabel Shone was the elder sister of Emily ALLNUTT, and was born in Windsor. Her work is first referred to in a review of Show Day 1919, the first held since 1915. Again, in the 1924 Show Day review, she is noticed for her chief piece, When the Day is Over, termed a 'clever study' of the Eastern pier from the Malakoff. Another of her works was the stream at Zennor with the hills in the background. Mabel worked from Chy-an-Chy studios and was married to Captain Richard Edwardes SHONE (b.1866, d.1944). Mabel Shone died in St Ives in 1940.
Previous addresses known for Mabel are 57 Thames Street, New Windsor, Berkshire, 10 Clarence Crescent, Windsor, London, Paris and finally at St Ives.
Richard Short's grandfather, John Tregerthen Short, was a master mariner who had his own navigation school in St Ives. Richard had moved to Cardiff by 1881, working as a ship broker's agent. But by 1901 he had established himself as an artist specialising in maritime scenes. From 1891 he lived at 22 The Walk, Cardiff. The Museum of Wales holds five of his paintings.
Born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, the artist studied at South Kensington and Westminster Schools. Later he became the instructor and then the head professor of engraving at the Royal College of Art. Short was a widely respected teacher who had a far-ranging impact on the direction of English etching and engraving throughout the 20th century.
He was elected President of the Society of Painter-Etchers (RE) in 1910 and served for 28 years in the post. He was also treasurer of the RA from 1919-1932. Short was responsible for the revival of the mezzotint process in England, usually working his plates directly from nature. His addresses were in London and Seaford, Sussex, and he exhibited widely. He was knighted in 1911. He is known to have visited Cornwall in 1888, and was thoroughly familiar with its landscapes, producing nine etchings of Polperro harbour, and five of other Cornish subjects. His compositions consistently express the simple etched work of Rembrandt and WHISTLER and his interpretation of light through the mezzotint process has seldom been matched.
Short's etchings of Polperro can be found in museums around the world.
Joanne Short was born in Oxford. In 1997 she married the Falmouth-based artist John DYER.
In 1988 she became a student at Falmouth College of Art. This was followed by a degree in Fine Art and Decoration from the Academy of Fine Art in Frosinone, Italy. A painter of vibrant landscapes and still lifes in 'naive' style, she has achieved wide acclaim, with her work having been shown in Cornwall, London and Europe for more than 30 years.
Frrom 1994 to 1999 she was a lecturer at Falmouth College of Art and Cornwall College. In 2005 she was a featured artist in the ITV series 'The Painted Garden'. In 2006/7 she was resident artist at St Michaels Mount, together with John Dyer. She was selected as resident artist at Giardini Hanbury in Italy in 2007/8.
Joanne is represented by Galerie Monaco and the John Dyer Gallery.
Tony Shorthouse turned to painting in 1994 after a 30-year career as a police officer in London and then the South West. He lives and works from his home in Tresowes, between Helston and Penzance. He has exhibited in Cornwall and Brittany.
For the past ten years he has taught a group of local artists, Tresowes Oil Painters, who meet regularly at his studio.
Tanya Shymko was born and grew up in Ukraine. From an early age she took lessons in a decorative type of Ukrainian folk art. From her studio in Kyiv she created work which has been showcased in private collections throughout the world.
In 2022 she fled the war, moving to Cornwall with her young children. She is now developing her art practice in Truro and has embarked on charity work, raising funds for victims of the war from her art sales. She takes inspiration from nature and gardens such as Heligan, and has sold many bespoke pet portraits.
Tanya has started work on a series entitled 'echoes of the war in me'. She hopes one day to be able to return to Ukraine.
Stacey Sibley works from her studio in the village of Port Isaac on Cornwall's north coast.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Born in Munich into a family of professional artists (his father was Oswald Adalbert Sickert, a Danish landscape artist), Walter later moved to London in 1868. After first intending to be an actor, he studied at the Slade (1881) for some months, but after meeting JM WHISTLER there, he left to become his pupil and studio assistant, helping with his printmaking.
In the capacity of studio assistant Sickert came with his great friends Phil Whiting and Mortimer MENPES to St Ives in January of 1884. He married first Ellen Cobden in the summer of 1885, but they were divorced in 1899, by which time his association and friendship with Whistler had come to an end.
He married artist Therese Lessore in 1926, and they worked creatively together. His titles from the St Ives visit include Clodgy Point, Cornwall, an oil on panel which is part of the Hunterian Art Gallery Collections in Glasgow. Wilkinson notes that both Oswald and Walter's brother Bernard (also an artist) spent time in St Ives, although any fruits of their labours there are not specifically known. Walter exhibited prolifically in the Paris Salon from 1899, but not with any Cornish reference. A safe comment is that time spent in West Cornwall was only a footnote in his famous artistic and literary career.
Anna Sidney is a Truro-based textile artist with a background in theatre design.