Anthea Bowen is a ceramicist who lives near Helston. She started pottery classes in 2003 and is a regular student of Richard PHETHEAN. She makes decorative smoke fired vessels and functional slipware, and has started to explore the process of raku firing.
Whybrow notices this American painter in St Ives during the second decade of the 20th century. She exhibited at the RA in 1916, and gave her address as Barnoon Terrace, St Ives when sending-in the painting. From 1912-21 she exhibited regularly in the Paris Salon. She was born in Rochester, Iowa and died in Paris, France.
Kel Bowers was born in Stoke on Trent, and his early life was devoted to athletics, with a preference on running. In the late 1960s he moved to Australia and began to move toward a career in art. In the 1970s he 'ran' the distance from England to Australia, and on his return to England enrolled at a local Polytechnic (Stoke).
In 1995 he came to stay in St Ives, and during that visit he held his first solo show at the Salthouse Gallery run by Bob DEVEREUX.
Jade Bowmer graduated from Falmouth University in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art.
Box was born at Fulham and studied at Cornwall College. Working for a period at the Celtic Pottery in Newlyn, Ian travelled overland around the world to India, Australia, and back to Cornwall. He attended Redruth Art School in 1971, and was offered a place at the Leach Pottery by Janet LEACH after she had viewed his diploma show in 1974. That secondment allowed him to gain the Licentiate of the Society of Industrial Arts and Designers in 1975.
Ian began his own stoneware pottery business in Penzance in 1976, and on selling it in 1982 he worked as a technician at Falmouth College of Art. From 1984 he taught ceramics and social education at the John Daniel Centre for people with learning difficulties. The Newlyn Art Gallery hosted a show of the students' work in 1999, which was brilliantly reviewed and well attended, virtually everything being sold.
Marianne Boxall was born in Croydon but moved to Newquay in 2006. She paints seascapes in watercolour.
Jamie Boyd presented an exhibition of paintings with the overall title, 'cold white envelope' at Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance in May-June 2011. This was a joint show with the sculpture of Antonio Lopez RECHE.
Alice Mabel Boyes was born in Leeds and studied at Manchester School of Art. She married Edgar Percy Bainbridge in 1893 and they moved to London where she had two daughters. In 1908 and 1909 her paintings were shown at the Royal Academy.
In 1911 Alice first visited Polperro, where she took a studio (Chapel Studio). She and Edgar were divorced in 1919 and she remarried the following year, to Brian Boyes, who was 25 years her senior. The couple lived in Yorkshire so her time in Polperro was restricted. After Brian's death in 1933 she spent a great deal of time in Polperro.
Predominantly an oil painter, her subject matter ranged from portraits and still-life to street and harbour scenes. Her work included a portrait of fellow artist Marian HARBORD. She was a member of the short-lived Polperro Art Society (1938-1939) and remained an integral part of the local community until 1957.
Benezit notices this painter as being from Greenwich, and exhibiting from 1884-1889 at the RA and Suffolk Street, London. In 1901 he worked from 5 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, and later gave addresses in not only Greenwich, but also Blackheath and Lewisham, London. His Cornish subjects are not currently known.
Bessie was the eldest daughter of a large family whose father was the Purser and General Manager of the local tin mine at Boswedden, St Just in Cornwall. Her talents lay in painting the coastal scenes around her, and sculpting in wood and local rock. She was also an accomplished organist. In 1901 she was living with her sister Gertrude at South Huish, Devon.
One of her characteristic paintings, Summer Weather, Sennen Cove (1898) is in the collection at Penlee House.
A correspondent (2013) sent in this useful information:
'I came across a report in the Exeter & Plymouth Gazette (18 Aug 1899) of the annual exhibition of Devon and Cornish Artists at Eland's Art Gallery, High Street Exeter and it referred to Bessie Boyns as the pupil of Henry Edwin TOZER. I also noticed that in Kelly's Directory of Cornwall 1893 the entry for St Just in Penwith lists Bessie Boyns as organist to the Wesleyan Chapel and Henry Edward Tozer as artist at Cape-Cornwall House.'
Editor's note: Fellow participants in the 1899 Exeter exhibition referred to above included Boyns' tutor Henry Edwin Tozer. When Tozer's daughter Marianne married in 1896, Tozer's wife Louisa moved to London with the newly-wed couple. Louisa is described in the 1901 census as a widow, but it seems that she and Henry Edwin had separated in the late 1890s, and that he moved in to live with Bessie Boyns and her sister Gertrude at Galmpton, near Salcombe, Devon. Their last joint exhibition took place at Kingsbridge in 1912 and he died the following year. The two sisters, first Gertrude (1928) and then Bessie (1947) were buried beside him.
A correspondent (2020) has advised us of a Bessie Boyns painting which she found in a second-hand shop in her home town in Australia. The subject of this fine coastal view has been identified as being Cape Cornwall.
Stephen Bradbury was born in Manchester, England, the eldest of three sons to William and Doreen Bradbury. After attending Marple Hall Grammar School(1966–72) in Cheshire, where he studied art under the tutelage of Keith Stephens and the renowned potter and author, Harold Powell, he went on to do a foundation course in art at Bolton College of Art (1972–73), winning the Robert Fairthurst Prize, before doing degree work in Textile Design at Loughborough College of Art in 1974.
In 1973, Stephen Bradbury married Sue Goodricke; they have three children, Rachael, Hope and Jonathon and in 1988, the family came to Cornwall, where they still reside. In 1982 he was commissioned by art director, Gary Day Ellison at Pan Books to illustrate his first book cover The Many Coloured Land by Sci-Fi writer, Julian May.The distinctive artwork used on the series that followed helped catapult Bradbury's career in illustration, and in 1982, he was awarded the Pan Books, Artist of the Year award.
For the next twenty years, Bradbury illustrated over 300 book covers, for all the major publishers in the U.K. and around the globe. Authors included, Arthur C Clarke, Sheri S Tepper, Alan Dean Foster, Barbara Hambly, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rosamunde Pilcher, Barbara Erskine. Joanna Trollope, and many more. Mainly commissioned for his illustration and design work, his work has also appeared in galleries in the U.K. Most of his work in illustration was painted in gouache.
In 1996, Paper Tiger Books published, Reflections - The Art of Stephen Bradbury. Written by David J. Howe, the book contained well over a 150 examples of his book cover illustrations and private artwork and gave an exclusive look into his working methods and motivations.
Around 2000, Bradbury decided to give up doing commissioned work and to become a painter instead, painting large canvases in oils. As part of this process, Bradbury took a degree in The History of Modern Art, at Falmouth College of Art, where he had previously lectured. After a degree in the History of Modern Art, he started on a major series of paintings, which was to become the Facets Project. In recent years, Bradbury, with the help of master craftsman and church window restorer, Tony Fletcher at Porthleven Stained Glass Studio in, Porthleven, Cornwall has been making stained glass panels based on his own paintings.
A coastal painting by this artist is included in the permanent collection of St Michael's Hospital (SMH), Hayle.
Braden studied at the Central School and moved on to the Royal College of Art in 1921, where she specialized in painting, but recognized the difficulties of making a career as artist and transferred - 'as we were so poor' - to the pottery department (under William Staite Murray).
She was so impressed by a London exhibition of pots by Bernard LEACH that she persuaded him to take her as a student, following a glowing letter of recommendation from Sir William Rothenstein, Rector of RCA ('I am sending you a genius'). She studied under Leach from 1925-28, who described her as "the most sensitive and critical of potters."
Braden struck up a strong friendship with Katherine PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, and in 1928 joined her at Coleshill, Berkshire, staying there until 1936 when she returned to Sussex to look after her elderly mother. Her ideas were closely allied to Leach's, though her forms were less indebted to oriental shapes and more in tune with modernist ideas of minimalism and moderation. She lectured at Camberwell and Brighton Schools of Art (the latter until the late 1940s), and influenced a number of major potters, eg Henry Hammond, Paul Barron. Crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, which prevented her from using the kick wheels, she did not produce anything after the Second World War, eventually becoming an almost total recluse.
Alice Bradley studied Fine Art Sculpture at Manchester School of Art. She works from the Mag Studio within the Joel Gallery in Mousehole.
Born in Manchester, he studied at Manchester Regional College of Art, Manchester College of Fine Arts, and with Stanhope FORBES at Newlyn. He lived in Chinley, Derbyshire.
An attributed work is Kynance Rocks, Cornwall, owned by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, with this signature. Possibly indicated Samuel Bradshaw (fl 1869) who exhibited A Sketch near Cheltenham at Suffolk Street (Wood).
Born in Manchester, she studied at the Spenlove School of Art. Her earlier works were still-lifes but she became primarily a landscape painter in oils. She moved to Bickley in Kent, but was a regular visitor to Cornwall as many of her works show.
Constance Bradshaw was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Women Artists (SWA) from 1899 until her death. This included a period as SWA President.
Bradshaw was born in Ulster and served in Submarines as a Lt Commander during WWI and awarded a DSO. He settled in St Ives c1921, when he studied under Charles Walter SIMPSON, and met his wife Kathleen Marion SLATTER whom he married in 1922.
The artist worked pre-war from Carrack Dhu and Ship Studio, Norway Lane, St Ives, and was appointed by the Simpsons as an assistant in the Simpson School of Painting. After WWII he returned to St Ives and remained active and dedicated to the welfare of the Artists' Society - though times had changed art so radically that he was virtually a forgotten and obliterated artist; he became financially straitened as modernist artists began their days of glory.
He died, after an operation, at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary at Truro.
Born in Rhodesia, the daughter of a big game hunter, she was sent back to England after his death and put into the care of a great aunt, Lady Couchman in Gloucestershire. She attended Gardenhurst School, near Burnham on Sea in Somerset, and then the Simpson School of Painting in St Ives.
There she met the artist George BRADSHAW, and despite a seventeen-year age-gap she and George were married, living in the Ship Studio. Two children, Robert and Anne, were born of the marriage, Robert in St Ives and Anne in Sunderland during WWII. Her time for painting was seriously limited, but she made notes in her sketchbook and worked these up into paintings at home. After Bradshaw's death in 1960 she remarried (Bailey) and gave up painting shortly before her death.
Janet Brady lives near Bude. She uses landscape to express emotions in paint.
Born on 6 May 1857 in Sibsey, nr Boston, Lincolnshire (GRO), he studied at the Lincoln School of Art and Antwerp Academy, and spent a year in Venice before arriving in Newlyn during the winter of 1884. He was considered to be a leading figure of the Newlyn School along with Stanhope FORBES and Walter LANGLEY. Though he was a founder of New English Art Club, he resigned in 1890 following a scathing attack on his work by Walter Richard SICKERT.
Before marriage (1891), his home and studio were at the corner of the Rue des Beaux Arts in Newlyn. In 1886 he produced Domino using the square brush technique. This painting was Bramley's only exhibit at the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890, and regarded as the first substantial interior scene by a Newlyn artist. His work is know for its social realism, which Wood described as that 'of Courbet and Millet, combined with the plein air landscape of the Barbizon painters.'
From 1893-97 the Bramleys lived at Orchard Cottage (then Belle Vue Cottage), and then in 1889 at Belle Vue House. In 1895, he served on the provisional committee of artists supporting the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery at Newlyn, and in the Opening Exhibition exhibited three pieces, the sketch for his large painting Saved being purchased by Elizabeth FORBES.
The couple then moved to Droitwich that same year (1895) and on to Grasmere in 1900, spending the last years of their lives in London. His major painting A Hopeless Dawn was purchased for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest. He died on 10 August, 1915, age 58, at Chalford, near Stroud, Gloucestershire (GRO). Phryne comments that Bramley was 'Newlyn School's answer to Moore and Whistler'. His colour harmonies and adroit arrangements reflect the Cornish ambience strongly.
Bramley was born in Yorkshire, and worked first in a steelworks in Sheffield. His next work was with the Forestry Commission through which he gained an understanding of trees. In 1959 he moved to Nancledra in West Cornwall to take up life as an artist.
The son of an illustrator, Lez Bramwell was born in Birmingham. He first moved to Cornwall in the 1940s and was professionally active in Penzance in the 1970s and 80s. He was educated in Camborne, Harrow and Birmingham. Influenced by the Newlyn School, he painted in a traditional style, placing his subjects in settings reminiscent of the Victorian era. His wife, Audrey Iris (nee Audrey HARPER) was also a painter. The couple had one son. His work, which included seascapes and landscapes, was sold throughout the UK and abroad. Bramwell was also a highly successful art tutor and writer of short stories and poems.
His musical play about Van Gogh, 'V.artist', was recorded professionally and released in 2023 (Amazon, Apple etc) ready for staging later.
A memorial art exhibition of Bramwell's work took place at Himley Hall, Dudley, in early 2025.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-1939 list of artists in and around St Ives; no further information currently available.