American painter working in St Ives. No detail. He died in Wisconsin (Swamp Lake). The death of (?another) Horace Taylor, St Ives artist, is also reported in the Cornishman, in February 1934.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives; he died in the First World War.
Based in Mylor Bridge, Di Taylor makes stoneware and also raku fired pieces.
Taylor came to St Ives in 1989, and some ten years later earned a degree in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art. She was born in Manchester and lived previously in London where she raised her four children.
In Cornwall she has worked with the PALP (Penwith Artist-Led Projects) group on installations, and contributed to other exhibitions in Newlyn, St Ives and Penzance (Rainyday Gallery).
She works from Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.
Peter Taylor was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire. He is very well known in his native county and spends a great deal of time painting in Cornwall, particuarly around St Ives Bay, generally between Hayle and Portreath.
Steve Taylor is a local artist and member of Lands End School of Art. He has become involved in many local community projects and more recently has become an art teacher.
Possibly the first wife, from Camborne, of Dr William Donald Glynn (aka Bill) Tellam (1899-2006).
As Kathleen Emily Temple, the artist was born at Ipswich, the daughter of Thomas Temple, a draper of 12 Strait Bargate, Boston, Lincolnshire, and his Ipswich-born wife Emily Ann nee Bird, who married at Ipswich in 1878. Her father then took a position as a draper's manager at Southampton where Kathleen was sent to school.
Later she then studied at the Slade School under Henry Tonks and Alfred Rich and also studied in Florence. At Kensington, London in 1911, she married Frank Frederick Bird, an insurance company manager, also from Ipswich, like her mother, and possibly a relative.
They moved to Canada where Kathleen was head of art at Havergal College, Toronto 1911-1913 but then returned to England before the Great War.
She became a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 1902-1911 where she exhibited regularly, while also exhibiting widely (as listed below) elsewhere. She seems to have had a lull in her exhibiting until 1927, when her 72 year old husband died at Fulham, only resuming her exhibiting in 1930, as Kathleen Temple-Bird.
At the outbreak of the Second World War she moved from Chelsea to live at 3 The Warren, St. Ives, Cornwall. By 1949 she had returned to London. She died in Surrey in 1962, aged 82.
Yasuo Terada is a Japanese ceramicist who has worked closely with Jason WASON. They first met in Japan in 2000. Subsequently Wason was invited to work with Terada at his studio in Seto, Japan's oldest centre of continuous ceramic history. Since then they have exhibited and worked together on many occasions, showing in galleries in Japan and London, and several locations in Cornwall. Together they have built a coal-fired kiln at the Leach Pottery.
In 2005, South West Arts and the Sasakawa Foundation Japan funded Wason to work for three months alongside Yasuo Terada at the Seihoji Ancient Kiln Park, as part of the EXPO international festival of Japan.
In 2017 Terada (together with Jason Wason) became LSG Withiel's first artist in residence.
Born in Hong Kong, Laura Terry worked there in the fashion industry, subsequently moving to London. She obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Kent. This was followed by a PGCE and a career as an art teacher. In 2020 she retired from her post as head of art, to move to Tintagel and focus on her own art practice, which includes painting and ceramics.
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Kate Terry is exhibiting at the Newlyn Art Gallery 19 July-27 Sept 2014 with Sophia STARLING and Sarah Kate WILSON.
A multi-talented artist in her own right, Denny has taken of late to 'curating' exhibitions on behalf of the NSA. In 2009 she and colleagues took a touring exhibition from the Newlyn Society to the RWA at Bristol, an exhibition which coincided with the launch of the Art Dictionary upon which this database is based.
Born in New England, the son of a physician, the artist studied at the Gerome Studio in Paris. He became good friends with Thomas Millie DOW, and in 1884 the two travelled to the USA where they painted landscapes together in the Hudson Valley.
After Millie Dow and his family had moved to St Ives in 1896, it is thought that Thayer visited them there, and while visiting in Cornwall he painted portraits of Millie Dow's children and several landscapes. While in St Ives, he lived and worked at 5 Bellair Terrace (1891) following the death of his first wife, and visited again in 1894.
Moved to St Ives from Bristol in 1931, living on his houseboat Hero. Exhibited previously at the RWA with landscapes and sculpture, and continued to exhibit at the Bristol Savages including marine and Cornish as well as Dutch landscapes.
Born at Pengam, nr Bargoed, South Wales, she studied at the Newport and Swansea Schools of Art, and with Stanhope FORBES in Newlyn. She lectured at the Carmarthen School of Art and exhibited at RBA. She lived in Carmarthen.
A nephew has kindly confirmed that Winifred Thomas died 18 February 1980.