Linda Slade was born in London and grew up in south Wales. After having an artwork accepted by the Royal West of England Academy, she obtained art tuition and settled in Cornwall in 2012. She works from a studio in her house overlooking Mounts Bay. Her work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall.
Linda is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Jessica Slater was born in Penzance. in 2008 she obtained a BA from Cardiff University. She works from a studio in west Penwith. In 2012 her work was shortlisted for the National Open Art Competition. Her abstract paintings have been exhibited in Cornwall, Bristol and Bath.
Richard Slater was born in Tottenham and became a student at Hornsey College of Art. He taught for thirty years, retiring in 1980 to take up painting full time. He exhibited widely in Devon and Cornwall and further afield, and received many awards and prizes. His work was commissioned by companies in the UK and USA.
Born in the W Midlands, Steve was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. He left at 16 with eight O-Levels including art. At the age of 17, he had two terms of painting tuition with John MILLER. Self-educated from that time, he was employed by the civil service, then as a railway clerk. At 25 Steve became self-employed, beginning his painting career in earnest. He began selling his work in St. Ives in 1979 with Keith English. His paintings became more widely known in Cornwall and beyond. In 2009 his work was included in National UK Art A-Level syllabus, for students to study with regard to use of light.
Steve enjoys working alone, but he also paints collaboratively with Vincent RYMER. He is a regular exhibitor at Tregony Gallery on the Roseland peninsula.
The Penlee collection, Penzance, includes work from the early 1800s by such potters as 'Slooman of Penzance'.
Gary Trevenen Small was born in Cornwall. His varied career has included a spell as a mining engineer, a move to London to pursue life as a musician, and subsequently working as a chef.
In 1996 he returned to Cornwall with his wife and two children and obtained a Certificate of Education at Cornwall College. At the age of 60 he developed his artistic skills by achieving a BA (Hons).
His raku method of glazing and firing pots draws on his Romany background and Cornish roots in the tin mining industry. He conducts workshops from his west Cornwall studio.
It is believed that this artist had a studio in Looe in the late 1930s. He produced etchings which recorded local scenes in Cornwall and Devon.
Born at Kingsbridge, Devon, his studies were with F J Snell (1896), then at Plymouth College of Art (1897), Royal College of Art (1899) and under Julius OLSSON in St Ives (1913). The artist returned to St Ives after serving in the army in WWI and his drawings of the Western Front were purchased by the Imperial War Museum. He married Irene Godson in 1917, settled in St Ives (1919), and worked from The Cabin, 1 Porthmeor Studios and the Ocean Wave Studio (1929). In 1935 he was one of the St Ives group commissioned to do a poster, based on an aerial view, of St Ives for tourism purposes. He also designed another for the Southern Railway, and many others.
Though now he is mainly regarded as a coastal artist, his industrial and architectural drawings after WWI are among his most accomplished work (Wormleighton). The couple moved to Salcombe, Devon, in 1926, but returned to St Ives the following year. In 1929 he published a book on the technique of painting seascapes. In 1934-36, Peter LANYON was his pupil.
Works displayed at Newlyn included two studies of St Ives, The Steel Works, Lincoln; The Nitrate Works, Plymouth; The Old 'Implacable' in Dry Dock (1929) and Land's End (1937). During WWII he designed propaganda posters for the Royal Navy.
In the RCM, Truro are two of his coastal landscapes, Morning Light, St Ives (1922), and Cornish Cliffs, Zennor (1923).
Borlase Smart was instrumental in his final year of life in securing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariner's Church, St Ives. In 1949, a group of St Ives' artists banded together to become members of the Penwith Society, as a tribute to him. These included Herbert Read, Barbara HEPWORTH, Peter LANYON, Shearer ARMSTRONG, G R DOWNING, Bernard LEACH, Denis MITCHELL, Ben NICHOLSON, Misome PEILE, and Philip KEALEY. In that final year, his portrait was painted by the sculptor Allan G WYON.
In West Cornwall today, as administered by the Tate Galleries, are the artists' studios in both St Ives and Newlyn, carrying the joint name of the Borlase Smart-John WELLS Trust. These have been renovated to a high standard, and are made available to artists upon application.
Diggy Smerdon is an illustrator who has her studio in a disused fish factory in Cornwall. Her line drawn figures are creations of her dreams and subconscious.
Alex Smirnoff was born in London. He studied graphics at West sussex College of Design and then worked as an illustrator in London.
He moved to St Just in Penwith in 1987, after making a number of trips to visit previously. The ancient sites and stones and the folklore attached to them intrigues him, and there are various ways in which his self-expression feeds from them. He makes sculpture, he paints and he creates installations, as well as making music.
His work has been shown at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Born in East Moseley, Surrey, the artist's family moved to America. She studied first at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and the Philadelphia School of Design, and then returned to Europe to attend Colarossi's Atelier in Paris, taught by Eugene Delecluse.
She first came to St Ives in 1914, her initial success at RA in 1916 being St Ives Harbour. Concentrated on landscapes and townscapes in early years, and painted from 3 Porthmeor Studios by 1920. Moved to London 1921 to live with Dorothea SHARP in Maida Vale, but maintained her St Ives studio. She was invited to contribute a painting to Queen Mary's Doll House (1922).
In 1930s, she concentrated on flower paintings in oil, and increased the size of her canvases. One of these, Peonies, is illustrated in the Falmouth Exhibition Catalogue (1996) and three other titles exhibited were Magnolia Grandiflora, Anemones, and An Arrangement of Herbaceous Cut Flowers, all from private collections.
She lived in St Ives with Dorothea SHARP during WWII, and acted as a curator for Lanham's Gallery, organising exhibitions and running the shows. After the split of STISA, she returned to London, but continued to go back and forth between the two. She died in 1963 in St Ives at 1 Piazza Studios.
St Michael's Mount at Sunset (2000), a painting by this artist, is in the art collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Jayne Anita Smith was born in London and obtained a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth. She lives near Penzance and works from a studio at Trewidden.
Karen Smith was born in Essex and studied Textiles and Graphic Design in Southend. She moved to Cornwall in 1999. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Clement Church near Truro, occupying the Lychgate studio. In 2004 she became a member of Taking Space, an exhibiting group and a collective of women artists.
Her paintings are on permanent display at the Camelford Gallery (with the Cornwall Watercolour Society).
Nicholas Smith, son of landscape painter Caesar Smith, was born in East Anglia. He began his artistic career shortly after leaving school in Peterborough, creating watercolours inspired by the wildlife in his native fens. During the 1980s and 1990s he exhibited widely across the Midlands and in London. In 1997 he moved to Cornwall, making the transition to oils in order to portray the vast skies and rugged coastline of the south west. Smith works from The Bank Square Gallery in St Just.
Anthony Smith, a self-taught artist, spent his early years on the Gower peninsula in Wales. After moving to Cornwall he established Gallery Anthony near Mullion, on the Lizard peninsula. Since its opening in 2001 the informal atmosphere of the gallery and studio has played a considerable part in attracting a wide range of visitors. Anthony paints on Oriental and handmade papers and, together with Marjorie SMITH, he offers regular demonstrations which provide an insight into the techniques he has developed over the years.
Dick Smith lives in St Ives during the summer and Devon in winter. He exhibits his paintings at Imagianation, St Ives. A man of wide-ranging talents, he is also an actor who has performed at Cornwall's Minack Theatre.
Joshua Smith grew up in a rural Scottish fishing village. Currently living in Cornwall, he creates canvases which evoke the dramatic light of the landscapes around his home.
Marjorie Smith had a career as a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator before the job she took on as manager of Anthony SMITH's gallery in Mullion ignited a fascination for art materials. Having learnt to use water-soluble pastels on Oriental paper, she began to design stylised shapes based on organic forms. A solo exhibition followed, for which she produced large paintings in acrylic on canvas.
Victoria Smith is a member of Lizard Art Co-operative. She says: 'My paintings are a search for a balance, a stability of space and form fabricated by a process of layering and generating illlusionary depth.'
Smith was born in London, but has lived in Cornwall since 2001. His studies were at East Ham Polytechnic (1983-4), Norwich School of Art (1985-88, BA Hons) and then at the RA (1989-92, Postgraduate Diploma).
Jesse has travelled and exhibited widely - UK, USA, Germany - and has been greatly influenced by travels to Norway, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, Nepal and Italy. In 2007 his work was selected for Art Now Cornwall at the Tate St Ives. In 2010 he and fellow artist Richard BALLINGER worked as art tutors on a Norwegian cruise ship, and took great inspiration from visits to museums and working art colonies along the way. Briefly he has also served as chairman of the NSA (2009), but stood down due to lack of time.
Much of his subject matter has been in documenting family life (in his paintings) and especially the lives of his children and their manifest characters. Locally he is represented by Goldfish Fine Art, St Ives, Edgar Modern in Bath, and the Jill George Gallery in Soho, London.
The artist is a tutor on the course programme of the Newlyn School of Art, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn.
In 2012 he was part of a four-artist collaboration TAap-Chuan Xin with Sam BASSETT, Richard BALLINGER and Chris PRIEST, exhibiting at Cornwall Contempory, Queens Square, Penzance.
Leroy Smith was the curator of 'Edge of Dark', an exhibition of work by fellow members of NSA, planned for April 2020 at Tremenheere Gallery. This was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic until October 2020.
In April 2022, in collaboration with Creative Youth Network, he co-curated 'Unstable Monuments Bristol', a project to support emerging artists.