He first exhibited at NAG in 1926, and with Arthur HAYWARD in 1928 at the Porthmeor Gallery (Inaugural show), which suggests he may have been a pupil. He lived at Carthew House, St Ives, but his work is rarely mentioned there.
He is recorded as the purchaser of The Ancient Borough of Penryn by Stanhope Forbes RA in 1931.
Liverpool-born artist who died in Conwy, Wales aged 73 (GRO).
He became an associate member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1885, and was elected a full member in 1892.
In 1879 he exhibited a Newlyn title.
He exhibited a considerable number of paintings at the Royal Cambrian Academy Art Union's 10th annual exposition in 1892.
Alexandra Fowler is an illustrator and children's author living in Cornwall.
Steve Fowler has been a ceramicist since 2018. He works from a studio in Camborne.
Michael Aurel Fowler was born in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 2012 and lives and works in St Ives. His work documents his own personal experiences through his Romanian heritage, and also explores the past traumas of Eastern Europe's history.
Martin John Fowler was born and grew up in south Yorkshire where he studied painting and printmaking. He obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in Sheffield. Since the early 2000s he has spent most of his time in Cornwall, where his unmistakable style has gained significant recognition.
His 'The Prevailing Sense of Change' is an ongoing project in which he aims to capture the changes to Cornwall's working ports since his childhood up to the present day.
The Cornwall Polytechnic Society was founded as early as 1833 in Falmouth, the first polytechnic in the country and the brainchild of seventeen-year old Anna Maria Fox of Penjerrick.
Her family, Quaker industrialists and exemplary employers, were part-owners of the Perran Foundry near Falmouth. She knew that there were many intelligent men among her father’s workforce because she saw the numerous inventions and models that they brought to him, and realized “what an advantage it would be to those men if there could be some fitting arena provided for all this inventive talent…”
She was eagerly supported by her own family and by leading figures among the local gentry, including Lord de Dunstanville, the Society’s first patron, and Sir Charles Lemon, MP, its first president.
On Lord de Dunstanville’s death, the society invited William IV to become its patron, to which he willingly assented.' [Abstract from Ann Round, 'The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (Falmouth)' in Hardie 2009.]
Her own exhibitions and contributions to the RCPS activities throughout her long life are recorded in the Annual Reports of Proceedings of the RCPS 1833ff, as she remained an active member until her death. She was a painter and craftswoman, and the organiser of the Arts sections of the Annual exhibitions.
Caroline Fox, through her oft-quoted diary of a young Quaker woman growing up in Cornwall, has imparted much information contributing to a social history of the life and times of the rising middle classes in the county. Their travels, their pre-occupations, and not least their contributions to the institutions of 19th-century Cornwall in the form of learned associations and benevolent organisations, are the messages coming from readings of her journals. She and her sister, Anna Maria FOX, are acknowledged as the instigators of what was to become the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society of Falmouth, with its educational opportunities and exhibitions of the arts and sciences of not only their wealthy and sometimes aristocratic friends, but also the mass of working people employed in the mines and commerce of the area.
Round points out specifically, in her essay, that it was chiefly owing to Miss Fox's influence that the artistic side of the RCPS's work received due attention in relation to 'a certain tendency in those who concerned themselves with popular education to over-value physical science and to lightly regard those studies - whether in Literature or Art - which concerned themselves with the Beautiful rather than the Useful'. (RCPS Annual Report, 1897 in memorium). Because of this insistence on the part of Anna Maria, the Annual Exhibitions displayed both scientific and mechanical inventions and improvements, and also productions in the fine and useful arts, with prizes offered for those performances adjudged worthy of rewards. [abstracted summary]
The seventh child of a Jewish photographer in Australia, Fox began drawing classes young and entered the National Gallery School in Melbourne under O R Campbell and George Folinsby (1878-86). In 1887 he was in Europe studying at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1889). He is recorded as an early member of the New English Art Club (founded in 1886 with a number of Cornish-based artists) and was a member of the St Ives Art Club from his arrival in 1890, a year in which he also exhibited with the St Ives artists at the Dowdeswell show.
Fox was greatly impressed with Impressionism and the en plein air techniques of the Newlyn and St Ives artists. Though he returned to Australia after two years, he continued to send work into European exhibitions. With an artist colleague, Tudor St George Tucker, he established the Melbourne School of Art in 1893, offering outdoor summer classes nearby.
In 1905 in London he married the artist Ethel Carrick (1872-1952), and they lived in Paris until shortly before WWI, when they again returned to Australia. Said to be a quiet and unassuming man, he is nevertheless considered amonst Australia's most gifted colourists and portrait painters. His commission from the Gillbee Bequest in 1902 to paint an historically significant event resulted in The Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay 1770, which was exhibited at the RA in 1903.
Born in Dorchester, Dorset, this artist was boarding at 25 Fore Street, Marazion when the 1891 Census was taken. He had exhibited the previous year with the West Cornwall artists at the Dowdeswell show, with the titles St Michael’s Mount - Hazy Weather and A Cornish Lane. In 1894 he seems to have moved on, giving an address in Dover which remained the same until 1910, when he moved to Canterbury.
In 1917, he was still submitting to the RA from an address in Hythe. Whether or not he retained an interest in West Cornwall or visited is not known; however, an Ernest A Fox displayed Old Cliff Cottage at NAG in 1898, which was bought by fellow artist Frank BATSON, and this may be the same person. His RA exhibit in 1895 was St Michael’s Mount (The Year’s Art 1896).
Born in Remuera, New Zealand, the only daughter of the Rev Arthur Stewart Fox, the artist was educated at Lausanne University, Switzerland and served as a nurse during WWI. She was a friend of the artist Helen SEDDON, and exhibited with her at a St Ives Show Day in 1923 from Crab Rock Studio, The Warren.
She lived for many years in Bath, and was considered to be a prolific and talented artist. In 1950 she married Sydney James Lewis. Some years after her death (unspecified date) the Meltone Gallery in Bath mounted a posthumous show of her studio remains.
Roche Rock (1995) by this artist was part of the collection of Restormel Borough Council (now part of Cornwall Council).
Fox was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. He studied for his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Falmouth School of Art from 1979 to 1982. By his own statement his work has been strongly influenced by primitive and non-western art.
He is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and shows his work with them and in venues in Cornwall and London. He has also shown abroad in the USA and Italy.
The artist and his partner, Roselyne WILLIAMS, have initiated a contemporary 'primitive' gallery for exhibiting the works of fine artists who work primarily outside the mainstream art circles of West Cornwall. Their REDWING GALLERY is a pop-up community interest company (not for profit) which has joined with the Hypatia Trust to provide exhibition spaces for artists over short periods of time together with workshop opportunities for pupils of all ages.
Louise Fox was born in St Albans. She began painting at the Digswell Studios in Hertfordshire, where she was a Digswell Fellow. Since 1999 she has lived and worked in Cornwall. She studied for her MA in 20th Century Art & Design History at Falmouth College of Art. Together with Marilyn MIDDLEMISS she conceived the Salt Gallery, which was subsequently launched as an online gallery in the summer of 2013. A successful painter of the seaside, she describes her more recent work as 'less illustrative and more passionate'. She is in a civil partnership with Marilyn Middlemiss. She has exhibited at Beside the Wave in Falmouth, Dalkey Arts Dublin, Annyx Sag Harbour, New York, and Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.
Sylvia Fox-Strangways was born in Jubbulpore, Bengal, in India. After moving to England, she studied at Central School of Arts & Crafts, Camberwell Schools of Arts & Crafts, and at the Royal College of Art in London.
In 1926 she worked as an artist potter with Bernard LEACH at the Leach Pottery in St Ives. Leach recommended her for the post of Resident Artist at the Dartington Hall Estates, which involved drawing and painting as well as building a pottery workshop and kiln. Due to her hard work in St Ives, and during the years 1927 to 1929 at Dartington, her health declined, forcing her into early retirement in 1930.
She participated in the 13th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy in London in 1926. Fox-Strangways was also a poet. A collection of her poems was published by the St Catherine Press in London in 1950.
Items of her work - tiles and vessels - are on display at the Rufford Ceramics Gallery, Nottinghamshire, and many pieces of her pottery and decorated tiles remain in the Collection at Dartington Hall near Totnes, Devon.
Her 1926 address was given as Alvington, Lustleigh, Devon. She died in Plymouth in April 1975.
This artist was listed as exhibiting at NAG in the Christmas Show of 1926.
Fradgley moved from Burford (Oxon) to St Ives in 1923, living at 7 Albany Terrace.
She seems to have left the town in 1931. The addresses given for her exhibits for the next few years were listed as various hotels around the country, then Southampton in 1936. Latterly, she settled in Chilbolton, Hampshire in 1938.
One of her best works is considered to be a portrait of Kathleen BRADSHAW (1927) of St Ives days.
Cornish subject; no further information, other than the name of artist, to date available.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Following a career as a speech and language therapist, Mally Francis developed a reputation as one of Cornwall's best-known botanical artists and tutors. Becoming the Founder Chairman of the Eden Project in 2001, she was well placed to offer her expertise to Tim Smit's new venture, having previously been a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society.
In1997 she and her husband Charles had bought a house in the grounds of the Lost Gardens of Heligan. During the previous decade she had learned the art of botanical painting from Anne-Marie Evans. Soon after arriving at Heligan, she was commissioned by Tim Smit to paint 46 wildflowers to illustrate the book 'Heligan Wild'. The classes in botanical painting which she held in her studio became hugely popular, attracting artists from France, Switzerland and the USA. She was instrumental in raising awareness of the importance of botanical art, travelling to give courses in the subject and taking groups to visit famous botanical art collections around the country.
In 2012 she stood down as Chairman of the Eden Project, and was elected as a fellow of the Linnaean Society.
Michel Francois uses Cornish clay and porcelain to create pots using techniques which pay homage to the ancient Korean and Chinese pottery traditions. In 2012 he worked on a major commission to supply pottery to the Eden Project Bakery restaurant and shop.
Austrian by birth, Frank worked in Graz, Berlin, London and Karlsruhe. J&G give an address in Munich for him.
By 1901 he was boarding at Tregenna Place in St Ives, but it is not known how long he remained. He exhibited one painting at the Glasgow Institute and one at the International Society between 1904-06, but these may have been from his Munich address.
She attended the Slade School of Art, where she won the King George V portait prize x2.
Jilly Frank is a printmaker based in Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth. Her hand-made monoprints and relief prints often incorporate natural found objects.
Nan Frankel began painting late in life, living in St Ives for 20 years up until her death. She produced a large and impressive body of work, which was characterised by a fresh, often joyous and vigorous approach. Her subjects ranged from nudes to landscapes and her oeuvre encompassed not only painting, but also monoprints and lithographs.
Her work was held mainly at The Gallery, a small St Ives gallery run by the late Paul Vibert.
Originally from China, the artist graduated from the University of Exeter, and now lives in Cornwall. She has worked for the Education service in the South West, and enjoys the teaching of her arts as well as the practice of a pure Chinese style, mainly in watercolour.
Her work Chinese Landscape in Watercolour & inks, was selected for the Falmouth Art Gallery exhibition in 2000, '20 Years of Contemporary Art'.
Stephanie Fraser lives near Liskeard and exhibits with Drawn to the Valley.