Painting No 34: Reach in Reef Dreams (1994) is part of the collection of art formed by the St Agnes Museum.
Bran Blunsdon describes himself: 'Ancient artist hiding away from the real world in the the far west of the ancient country of Cornwall UK A mid-life crisis for most men is a younger woman, a faster car or some such change ---- for me it has meant leaving my job in management, selling my modern home and running away to the country and a 500 year old ruin of a cottage that was in need of serious work (and has taken me ten years to repair and restore) ----and of course my studio in hearing distance of the surf crashing on to the rocks and views from both sides out into the countryside. I may be poorer but I am a damn sight happier, painting as and when I feel like it or working on three dimensional works outside when the weather allows!
Most of my painted works are informed and inspired by the countryside around me, the ancient stone circles, standing stones and sacred places that resonate with mystery and power. Many of these paintings end up (around the world) in the homes or offices of people that understand or feel the power of these places so that inspires me even more.
Would I go back to my old life, never! My only stress now is the fear of the blank canvas if I take to long a break and that is a minor thing while I hide here away from the "real" world!'
The artist trained at the University of Plymouth and completed a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art and went on to an MA in Fine Art. Her art works are approached through the medium of photography, and she has had experience as a working photographer both in Cornwall and London.
Susan Boafo is a Senior Lecturer in the BA (Hons) Photography programme of University College Falmouth (UCF). Her primary interests are in the interface of surface realities and organic, microbial imagery. She is part of the RANE group which carries out Research in Art, Nature and Environment.
The artist is listed as a member of NSA (2010).
Boase Smith lived in Falmouth and was a member and judge for the exhibitions held annually by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. During the 1870s he was a visitor to Polperro. He advertised classes in 'watercolour and pencil drawing' and labelled himself a 'Professor of Drawing'.
In 1895, the Society felt "under obligation to Newlyn and St Ives" for their important contributions: thereafter they continued to contribute regularly. By that date J Philp (James George PHILP) had died, as recently had Boase Smith [sic: perhaps he was ill at that stage]: another constant contributor to the exhibition for over 30 years and a "conscientious judge of Amateur pictures".
A recent correspondent (2013) has written to say that a watercolour painting by this artist has been in his family for 80-100 years and that the subject is Helford Village.
Boden was born and lived in Lincoln and studied at the Lincoln School of Art, Colarossi's in Paris, and at Antwerp. Further to this educational record, he went to the Camberwell School of Art and John Hassall's Poster School in Kensington. Primarily a watercolourist, he also produced linocuts and black and white work.
From 1911-1938 his sending-in address remained in Lincoln, and from there he exhibited widely. His local associations were with St Ives (Tovey).
Born at Whatlington, near Battle in Sussex, Bodichon's unconventional background and feminist ideas have largely shaped our current laws and beliefs related to gender and enfranchisement. Though her permanent homes were in London and Hastings, she also kept a cottage at Zennor in Cornwall, which at her demise she left to her good friend, the garden artist Gertrude Jekyll.
All of her busy adult life she travelled widely and wrote prolifically on behalf of women and their property rights, career opportunities, higher education (she was co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge) and the Vote. Her circle of friends, politically and artistically, was influential, and included the famed flower painter Marianne North and many artists and writers of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, apart from MPs and political philosophers.
On her marriage certificate to the physician and Frenchman Eugene Bodichon (1857), who lived in Algeria, she listed herself as 'Artist', demonstrating the seriousness with which she treated her art as 'work' rather than simply an accomplishment of wealthy young ladies. She exhibited frequently, mainly in London. Her final illness struck while she was at Zennor, and she had to be transported by ambulance back to London.
Born in Penzance, Cornwall on 5 December, 1860 (GRO), he was married to Ester, sister of Caroline Burland GOTCH, with whom he had one son. Frank joined the Newlyn painters, staying at Mrs Maddern's (Belle Vue). After about two years with the Newlyn group he left to study Law. His painting subjects were genre and landscapes, and works include A Quiet Hour and A Street in Newlyn. Though his work met with some approval, he determined to forego art as a career.
He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple on 8 July, 1889, which precipitated his leaving Cornwall in 1889 to join the Civil Service in India. He later became a Judge in Calcutta, in the Colonial Service. On retirement he returned to Penzance, living with his family at Alverton Cottage. He died near Palermo, Sicily in Italy.
The St Ives Spring Exhibition in 1920 contained some of her needlework pictures, and she also exhibited in the first Craft Show at Newlyn in 1924. Her exhibits include miniatures and still life. The wife of M Arthur Bodilly, they lived at Rosemorran. Her daughter Vera Barclay BODILLY also excelled as an artist, with a specialty in portrait painting. The mother and daughter often exhibited together in St Ives.
Vera Bodilly was born in Penzance in 1894, but the family moved to St Ives around 1901. In 1911 she became an art student at St John's Wood Art School under Walenn, then won a scholarship to RA Schools. She exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Francais (1925, 1926), and her titles include: My Mother and Nasturtiums. She married Charles C Oxland in 1927. Tovey notes the use of one of the Malakoff studios in 1925 for the exhibition of art needlework by Mrs Lucy Bodilly and her daughter Vera, much admired by Borlase SMART.
Bodilly died in the St Ives area in 1974.
John Bodilly joined the Lamorna Pottery as an apprentice to CHRISTOPHER JAMES LUDLOW in 1953. During the 1960s the business deteriorated and Ludlow, suffering from mental health issues, handed over the management to George and Margaret Smith, a couple from London. This arrangement was shortlived and after Ludlow's death in 1969 the pottery was bequeathed to his sister, and to John Bodilly.
John was reluctant to run the pottery on his own, so it was acquired in 1961 by PETER BROWN.
Jane Bodle works from a studio in Penryn. Her paintings of local landscapes and flora are executed on Yupo paper, which enables her to achieve more movement and colour.
Peter Boex is an artist carver in wood and stone, inspired by the islands of the Mediterranean, beaches of the Caribbean and the Cornish landscape. Working from Salena Stamps Cottage near Helston, he has created a sculpture garden where he encourages visitors to use their sense of touch to experience the textural variations within his organic forms.
This artist is buried in the churchyard at Church Cove, The Lizard. As Nicola Bollen, she was a student at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
An installation artist, her last exhibition was 'The Wolf at the Door' in Penzance, shortly before her death in 1991.
Paula Bolton is artist-in-residence at Goonhilly Earth Station. She graduated in 2017 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth University, and is developing her practice as a freelance fine art print maker.
Her work has been exhibited throughout Cornwall.
Bomberg's early years were in Birmingham where he was the fifth child of a Polish leather worker. He was to grow up in Whitechapel, London and was an apprenticed lithographer. In the evening he attended evening classes at the City and Guilds Institute (with Walter Bayes) and then with Walter SICKERT at Westminster Art School (1908-10). From there he was enabled through sponsorship to study at the Slade School of Art for two more years. He associated himself with the Vorticist movement of Wyndham LEWIS and was a founding member of the LONDON GROUP.
The details of his middle years can be found on-line (ART/4/2DAY) which outlines the progression of his work and his painterly response to landscapes in Scotland, Spain, Morocco, Greece and Russia, and his teaching experiences at the Borough Polytechnic, London. In the 1940s he made working visits to Devon and Cornwall, as well as Cyprus.
Valerie Bond is known to have studied with Bernard LEACH from 1945-46.
Nicola Bond was born in Cornwall. She completed an Art Diploma at Cornwall College and then went on to study Printed Textile Design at Loughborough College of Art & Design. After completing her degree, she moved to Oxford, then worked as a freelance textile designer before getting a job at the Bodleian Library.
She moved back to Cornwall in the 1990s, where she started to paint. Her still lifes have been exhibited at several galleries in Cornwall.
Henry Bone, the internationally famous enamel painter/miniaturist, was born in Truro, Cornwall. He was the son of a cabinet maker and when his family moved to Plymouth in 1767, Henry was apprenticed to William Cookworthy, a well-known druggist. The latter mixed Cornish granite with clay to create hard-paste porcelain and founded the Plymouth China Works. Taking that forward to expand he took Bone with him to Bristol and established the Bristol Porcelain Works.
With meticulous attention to detail and much hard work, Bone perfected his own skill with enamels, creating faces for watches, spokes for ladies' fans and ultimately miniature portraits. He went on to become the enamel painter to George III, IV and William IV.
His portrait was painted by the Cornish Wonder, John OPIE RA in 1799 (NPG, Wikipedia). His work was exhibited at the RA, a notable portrait being of his wife Elizabeth Vandermeulon. He was elected an Associate of the RA in 1801 and RA in 1811.
Of particular note is his Royal Collection with over 100 pieces of exquisite work. Many images of his work are available on-line.
Imogen Bone is a painter of landscapes who is based at Krowji Studios in Redruth but lives in Marazion. Previously she spent ten years on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.
One of the artists in the exhibiting group brought together by Gallery TRESCO on the Isles of Scilly, Bone's work was taken in 2010 to the Affordable Art Fair, London by the Gallery, and included in their exhibition catalogue (6 paintings, oil on canvas).
She is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2016).
Bonney was a plumber in St Columb Major, who retired to Treyarnon Bay. He exhibited at St Mawes and Truro Art Societies' exhibitions, usually marine paintings of the sea and cliffs.
In 2004 Natalie Bonney graduated from Falmouth College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Studio Ceramics. She has had a studio in Penryn ever since. She creates stoneware pots for everyday use.
Booth works from Hawkwood, Lamorna, Penzance TR19 6NY. For a number of years he taught on the art faculty of the Falmouth College of Art.
The artist remains listed as a member of NSA, though he has been working in Japan for the past decade, as he was in 1995 (Hardie, p196). Currently (2011) he serves as Chairman of the NSA and is living in Cornwall.
With colleague Denny LONG, Phil has co-curated an NSA Exhibition, Uncharted Landscapes at the Mariners' Chapel, St Ives, that includes the work of 40 members of the Newlyn Society of Artists, hosted by STISA.