Mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Recorded as a participant in the St Ives Show Day of 1923. Regularly exhibiting with STISA, she does not appear to have done so after 1932 when her address is given as Hampstead Garden City. She mainly produced coloured woodcuts, favouring castles, bridges and old houses.
Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951) was an artist, illustrator and writer. Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite. Smith was born in England to American parents, and grew up in Jamaica. She toured with the theatre company of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving in the late 1890s, where she joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and met Waite.
She also did a great deal of illustration work for William Butler Yeats and his brother Jack, but apart from this deck, her art found little commercial success. In addition to the tarot deck, Smith wrote and illustrated several books about Jamaican folklore, including Annancy Stories (1902) which were about Jamaican versions of tales involving the traditional African folk figure Anansi the Spider. As she approached the age of forty, Pamela received a small inheritance, and moved to the English coast to an artists' colony at the Lizard, Cornwall. Eventually, suffering from both physical problems and shrinking financial means, Pamela relocated to Bude, Cornwall, during WWII. Unfortunately, the original art work for her tarot deck has disappeared, and the original printing plates were destroyed during the bombing of London in the war.
Frances Tysoe Smith was a fine maritime painter whose work has been greatly underrated.
In 1914 this artist member of the Arts Club signed in the painter Thomas Hodgson LIDDELL as a visitor. The following year she exhibited at the Show Day.
At the 1923 St Ives Show Day, and in 1924 she exhibited from her own studio, showing a large landscape, 'marsh lands with water in the foreground, and a flock of sheep beyond', alongside two other paintings. She shared the Blue Studio with her sister Miss S FREEMAN.
Born at Warnbrook, Dorset, the son of a clergyman, Hely Smith studied at the Lincoln School of Art and at the Antwerp Academy. He worked abroad before being based in Looe for much of the 1890s, and, as he specialised in marine subjects, he may have studied under, or become friendly with, OLSSON at this time (Tovey). By 1899 he had moved to London.
A correspondent (2021) who is a great-great nephew to the artist, has written to offer additional information about him, provided by the correspondent's mother, who knew Hely Smith well. The correspondent is the proud owner of around 100 of the artist's paintings.
Apparently Hely Smith was friends with an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, with whom he went on painting expeditions. Smith was also acquainted with Vincent van Gogh. A letter written by Hely Smith in 1941 suggests he was very active and lucid until shortly before his death.
Born on 22 October 1879, Matthew Smith, was interested in painting and drawing from an early age and studied art at Manchester College of Technology (1901-1905) and the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1905-1908) - without, however, showing particular promise. He moved to France late in 1908, and in Etaples and Pont-Aven painted still-lifes and portraits that are Intimist in manner, showing attention to local color and modeling. After spending an extensive period in Paris, painting and exhibiting in the Salon he joined the London Group in 1920 after a long illness, and then spent the autumn and winter of 1920 in the village of St Columb Major in Cornwall. Between the wars he spent long periods in France and in Cornwall, later in the 1930s returning to London.
Smith applied dark saturated color and an increasing fluidity of construction to a series of Cornish landscapes, strongly Expressionist in character, the culmination of an earlier style. Smith was knighted in 1954, and died on 29 September 1959.
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.
She is recorded as a member of STISA in 1932 when she worked from Bluebell Studios.
Dutch painter of landscapes and florals, many in modern photo-realistic style, from Amsterdam staying at 14 Ayr Terrace (Feb 1915) with his wife.
In section 3.6 'The brief but productive visit of Dirk Smorenberg' in Sea Change (2010) Tovey adds significantly to our sparse knowledge of the artist's year-long visit to St Ives from 1915-16.
Born in Richmond, Surrey (1858), the artist emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and studied at the Art Students League in New York. He married English-born artist Florence Francis in 1888. It is believed that the couple first went to Bucks County, PA to visit the Lathrops in 1898. A member of the New Hope School's first generation, he became an eminent landscape artist, noted for his dock scenes of St Ives in his father's native Cornwall, although he painted many American subjects, as well.
A much loved instructor at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art and Design, from 1899 to 1943, Snell often took his students to St Ives in summer for painting holidays. The St Ives Times reports him as 'staying in the town at the moment' during July 1914; they mention that he is an American and has brought 20 pupils with him. A picture of the artist can be found on Bucks County Artists interactive database: James A Michener Art Museum library. He died on January 17, 1943 in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Update on former entry for: James Herbert Snell (1862-1935) Snell was a London-born landscape painter, who was an occasional visitor to the colony and whose work is represented in the St Ives Town Collection. He studied at Heatherleys and in Paris and Amsterdam, and was based for most of his career in London. He was a prolific artist, exhibiting 45 times at the RA, 47 times at the RBA, where he was made a member in 1890, and 118 times at ROI, where he was made a member in 1909. He was elected a member of the St Ives Arts Club on 16th January 1909 but resigned that June. Accordingly, his Academy exhibit of 1909, The Close of a Stormy Day, is probably a St Ives scene. The painting of St Ives Harbour owned by the Town Council probably also dates from this visit, as it shows the harbour beach before the construction of Wharf Road. He appears to have revisited the colony in the early 1920s, as Carbis Bay, Cornwall was hung at the Paris Salon in 1924 - he had won a medal there the year before. His final exhibit at the Salon in 1925 was Dawn. Cornish work is not common in his output, but various paintings of Padstow have come up at auction, which are dated 1933. St Ives Harbour (oil on canvas) is in the collection of the St Ives Town Council. He may be a relation of Henry Bayley SNELL, but as David Tovey writes, there is no firm evidence of this.
The son of William Henry (1866-1938) and Emily Jane (1858-1936), Snell was a well-known figure in both the local and artistic community of Newlyn. On leaving school he joined the family business 'W.H. Snell & Son, Sculptors, Carvers and Granite Merchants' (founded 1888), and learned the craft of monumental masonry. He also attended classes at the Penzance School of Art. From the start he loved the work; it became a consuming passion, more important to him than money, or even, at times, family life. His workshop was originally at the back of Foundry House, Newlyn and later moved to Gwavas Quay, near the Ice Works and Tom BATTEN's workshop.
Another workshop at Paul, near the Sheffield Quarry, was the granite source, and during the 1920s, when War Memorials were in great demand, a workshop was opened on the large site at the southern end of Alexandra Road. Among his friends were Stanhope FORBES, for whom he acted as model in his painting Fire at the Royal Exchange, John Drew MacKENZIE, Reginald Thomas DICK, Harold HARVEY and the GARNIERs, all frequent visitors to his workshop. Another friend was Alan Gairdner WYON, the Vicar of Newlyn from 1936, and an eminent sculptor and engraver.
Examples of Snell's work can be seen all over the United Kingdom and as far afield as Russia. He was also involved in the restoration of Madron Church in 1936, during which an 8th century inscribed stone was discovered, (now against the SW wall). During his career he produced many thousands of churchyard memorials throughout the country including those in Sancreed Churchyard to his friends from Newlyn - Geoffrey Sneyd GARNIER and Jill GARNIER, Stanhope FORBES and Maud FORBES, Thomas Cooper GOTCH and Gotch's daughter, Phyllis.
Angie Snelling was born in Cheshire and moved to Yorkshire in 1975 to study Art and Design. Since settling in Cornwall she has been working as a freelance artist and illustrator.