Susan Sobey was born in Surrey and received her education in London before studying painting, desgin and sculpture at the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham. She has lectured at several colleges including Westminster College and Chiswick Polytechnic, and travelled to exhibit her work in New York, London, Paris and The Hague. Commercial and private collections hold her work in Europe, Britain and America.
Her work was selected for inclusion in the exhibition '20 Years of Contemporary Art at the Falmouth Art Gallery' in 2000, from which this information is extracted. An update would be welcome.
After a career in journalism, Ingrid Sofrin moved to Cornwall in 2011. She is based in Ashton, near Helston.
Sorrell was born and brought up in a wholly artistic family, his father being Alan Sorrell, draughtsman and painter and his mother the watercolourist Elizabeth Sorrell. He studied first at the Walthamstow Art School and the Kingston College of Art before completing a Post Graduate Course at the RA Schools in 1972, where he also received Silver and Bronze Medals. Three years later he was elected to the RWS, and then became Vice-President 2002-5, and President 2006-9.
His work has been hung in the RA summer exhibitions since 1971, and his list of exhibitions is long and distinguished by its breadth, having exhibited in the USA, in the Society exhibitions to which he belongs, and throughout the country. His work is also in numerous public collections including the V&A, The National Trust, Museum of London, St Nicholas Abbey (Barbados) amongst others.
Richard Sorrell and his wife have recently (2008-9) established their home and Cornish studio at Gulval near Penzance.
Joseph Edward Southall was born in Nottingham on 23rd August 1861, the son of a grocer, Joseph Sturge Southall, and his wife Elizabeth Maria Baker, both from distinguished Quaker families. The elder Joseph died the following year, aged only twenty-seven, and his widow and baby moved to her mother's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
He attended the Friends' School at Ackworth and in 1872 the Friends' School at Bootham, York, where he was taught watercolour painting by Edwin MOORE, a brother of the marine painter Henry MOORE and the even better known Albert MOORE, whose stylish arrangements of classically-draped young women came to epitomise the Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s.
He travelled widely, working in Europe in many countries, and exhibiting even more widely. Henry PAYNE and Charles GERE, fellow members of the Birmingham Group, also painted murals for the Hall of Heroes. The interwar years were calmer, with a regular pattern of spring or autumn travels to France and Italy, interspersed with sojourns at Southwold in Suffolk, where they went every July, and on the Fowey Estuary in Cornwall.
His body of work is large and recounted in detail on the Victorian Web (website).
Southam has documented the work of sculptor Ray EXWORTH (The Circus) for a 2011 (Sep-Oct) exhibition, 'A Shutter Came Down', at Kestle Barton, Manaccan.
More information needed about this photographer-artist.
Richard Sowman studied at Byam Shaw School of Art in London, then Falmouth School of Art, from 1971 to 1975. His work has been exhibited at the Limekiln Gallery in Calstock.
Born at Hanley, Staffs, she studied at the Hanley School of Art before coming to the FORBES SCHOOL (1926-7). Subsequently, she lived abroad periodically and at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, exhibiting widely. She showed a selections of baskets in the Pictures & Crafts Exhibition at Newlyn in the Summer Exhibition of 1928.
A Falmouth-based ceramicist who has exhibited her work at the Alverton Gallery, Penzance.
When Anne was six months old, her father's career as a mining engineer brought the family to St Newlyn East. This was the start of her lifelong love of Cornwall. Following schooling in Rickmansworth, she trained as a nursery nurse. After marrying in 1968 she took up teacher training, when her tutor encouraged her in her discovery of textiles, with a particular focus on applique, embroidery and screen-printing on fabric. After teaching for a year, Anne took maternity leave, during which time she started to spin and to weave with Mike Halsey of the Handweavers Studio in North London. The birth of her daughter was followed by two more girls. Although she resumed teaching, she found little time for art over the next twenty years. On taking early retirement, Anne pursued the Illustration BA (Hons) course at Falmouth College of Arts 2000 - 2003. She has recently returned to her earlier love, by joining the Cornwall Spinners Weavers and Dyers Guild. Since then she has completed a work inspired by Chapel Porth, started in 1977, and has done three others based on the Cornish coast and her surroundings. in 2011 Anne completed a NCFE course L2 in Art and Design, in which she exhibited a piece of embroidered batik-work "Dandelion." In 2009/10 Anne attended NCFE Courses in Textiles and Mixed Media run by Hazel McGregor, in association with Cornwall College at Pool. Each year's course involved an exhibition of work at Cornwall College, Pool, Redruth. Anne joined Outhere and participated in Open Studios at Higher Stennack Farm, Higher Stennack, Troon, Camborne in 2011.
Joan Speight works from a studio overlooking The Mount in Marazion. She exhibits at the Market House Gallery in Marazion.
Born in Cookham-upon-Thames, he enrolled at the Slade in 1908, training under Brown and Tonks. Became known for his artistic drawing gift when he enlisted with the British Medical Corps in 1915. Spencer had a very limited connection with St Ives and probably visited only twice-during his honeymoon in June-July 1937, and then again the following year. Immediately he was offered membership in STISA which he accepted, keeping up membership in 1949.
In St Ives, Spencer rented a cottage from the artist John Anthony PARK. Produced six canvases of St Ives, one of which, The Harbour, St Ives, was included in the 1987 Looking West Exhibition. Involvement with STISA after 1938 was minimal. He was Knighted in 1959.
An oil painting by this artist of Wheal Owles, Botallack, Cornwall (tempera on board) is in the fine art collection of the RCM, Truro.
Shadows and Reflections (Botallack Mine) 1959 is the title of an oil painting (canvas mounted on board) by this artist, in the collection of the RCM, Truro.
Christine Spencer-Green was born in Vienna. She moved to the UK in 1981 and settled in Cornwall in 1992, founding the Treruffe Art Studios in Redruth. She studied at Falmouth College of Art and has exhibited widely throughout Cornwall, York and Bristol. Christine's art is influenced by the quality of light and space unique to Cornwall. Her paintings evolve, dreamlike, changing mysteriously and almost finding their own way through reveries of visual moments in her studio.
Selected for the Open Art Exhibition (2010) held at NAG to launch the fourth annual Newlyn Arts Festival.
Born Nancy SHARP in Truro, she attended the Slade School of Art, where she met her first husband, William Coldstream, with whom she had two daughters. In the late 1930s she had an affair with Louis MacNeice, illustrating two of his books and partially inspiring Autumn Journal.
During the Second World War she worked as an ambulance driver, and married Michael Spender, brother of the poet Stephen Spender. Their son Philip was born in 1943. Michael was killed during the last week of the war, and Nancy never remarried. She worked as an art teacher after the war.
The son of John Francis SPENLOVE-SPENLOVE (Frank), he was identified in his father's biography as 'John' Francis, and listed as a member of STISA. His wife, Billie, was also his model. The Francis Raymond Spenlove who was a member of STISA (1927-28) and exhibited a series of drawings of Old St Ives in 1922, also exhibited at the 1924 Show Day, and was a founder member of STISA (1927-8). He served on the STISA Committee in St Ives.
In a 1924 Show Day news item the reviewer comments that Mr Francis Spenlove was not showing as he had already sent his pictures to London: "He has made rapid strides during the past year." F R Spenlove is also listed as exhibiting at NAG in December of 1925 and July 1926. Whybrow comments that he signed some of his work in the name of Francis Raymond, and Tovey explains that up until 1923 this signature was to distinguish himself from his father in terms of exhibiting. He and his wife, Billie, used the FR signature for these purposes, and then progressed this to Francis Raymond Spenlove.
He stopped painting altogether in the early 1930s to create a horticultural centre at nearby Madron, where he employed Conscientious Objectors as assistants.
Born in Bridge of Allan, nr Stirling, Scotland on 24 February, 1864 (GRO), he studied in London, Paris and Antwerp, and his landscapes were often of subjects painted in Suffolk, Holland, or in Kent where he established the Spenlove School of Modern Landscape Art in 1896 (known as the Yellow Door School, Beckenham), where he offered both private tuition in the studio, or by correspondence.
Later the School moved to Victoria Street, London (c1919). From 1885-93, his sending-in address was Shortlands (Kent), his subject 'figures', and he had exhibited 57 works in that period. (Graves). Before his School opened, he must have spent some time in West Cornwall, as Bednar finds a painting with a Newlyn title in 1894. The artist married Clara Florence King, and had three children, Adelaide, Theodora and Algernon Francis Raymond SPENLOVE-SPENLOVE, the latter becoming an artist called Frank SPENLOVE as well. There is an article about the much better known Frank Spenlove, Senior, in The Artist (1932), a few months before his death; by this time, his son had quit painting. Frank died on 30 April, 1933, age 67 (GRO) in London.
Sally Spens studied at Goldsmiths College before working as a print designer in the UK and Japan. Her work has been shown in London, New York, Milan and Hong Kong.
Frances Spice is a ceramicist working from the summerhouse in her garden in Cornwall. After working as an apprentice to a potter in Somerset, she went on to study ceramics and design at Cornwall College.
Diane Spiers is a visual artist and member of Lands End School of Art, with an extensive background in Community Arts, Health, Education and Heritage Interpretation. She is a trained teacher, therapist and facilitator with experience of working with a broad range of ages and abilities, and has specialist skills in working with mental health, disability and inclusion. Diane offers courses ini printmaking, drawing, painting and heritage linked arts and crafts.
Spittle came from Birmingham to Cornwall in 1913. Working previously as a figure painter, when he moved to Carbis Bay near St Ives, he turned his hand to marine painting. His working studio was 6, Piazza in St Ives, and he engaged in community art activities (see Tovey).
At Show Day March 1914 the St Ives Times reported that the artist had engaged in figure work before coming to the town. He exhibited at the 1916 Show Day as well.
His early death at the age of 59 came suddenly and unexpectedly, and the artist is buried at St Uny churchyard, Lelant.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-39 list of artists in and around St Ives.