Stephanie Fraser lives near Liskeard and exhibits with Drawn to the Valley.
Antonia Fraser is a Bodmin-based painter whose bold, brilliant use of colour evolved from her travels in Africa and Italy.
Nikki Frater is a Falmouth-based artist who is also an art historian and writer.
Born in Leicestershire, Naomi studied art in Loughborough and Sunderland, with a specialty in sculpture and printmaking. In 1989 she came to St Ives and began her career in art in earnest, painting largely in acrylics.
Naomi credits the encouragement and teaching of Sheila OLINER in the latter's printmaking classes in getting her started back to work in St Ives. She is a member of the Porthmeor Printmakers, and leads workshops from time to time at the Tate St Ives, the St Ives School of Painting and in the St Ives Print Workshop.
Naomi works from the Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2013).
Naomi is married and has one daughter (2001).
An exhibition of a new series of prints by Naomi was held 'On the Ramp Wall' at the Exchange Gallery, Penzance in 2009, and her work appears regularly in mixed shows and galleries in West Cornwall, and widely elsewhere.
An abstract painting by Freebury, In Blues (1983) is included in the NAG collection (2007). His work has been exhibited at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance.
Mandy Freeguard is a printmaker living in south east Cornwall. She studied at Plymouth College of Art, graduating in 2023.
A student at Leonard Fuller's St Ives School of Painting, Freeman seems to have resided in the St Ives area only during the War years (WWII). The Review described her as a new associate member in STISA's Spring Show of 1940, whilst her title Morning was accorded a place of honour in the Autumn Show 1943.
Freeman's middle name has been spelt variously as 'Winifride', 'Winefride', 'Winnifred' and 'Winifred' in the records of her exhibits, but the artist is now usually known as Winifrid Freeman. [Note: Wallace, followed by Tovey, uses 'Maud' for her first name, but this is not on her birth certificate, which records her birth in Falmouth 26 April 1866 (GRO)]
Her family were the owners of the Freeman Granite Works, near Penryn bridge, and thereby wealthy, which meant her interest in art could be indulged, and she began exhibiting with RCPS in 1887. A younger sister, Amy Mary Freeman, became the second wife of the artist Charles Napier HEMY.
Her friends were Henry Scott TUKE and Maria TUKE, and through introductions by them and her brother-in-law, Hemy, she was living at Newlyn by 1897 and her work associated with the Newlyn School. In 1902 she enrolled at the Herkomer Art School at Bushey, and when this closed in 1904 she stayed on.
Her watercolour subjects were mainly interiors, portraits, landscapes and coastal scenes. She also exhibited embroideries. Her embroideries A Flying Dutchman and The Vikings were exhibited at the NAG Christmas Show in 1924 and drew special praise: 'the latter being an original design by this well-known West country artist' (WMN).
In 1926 she moved from Falmouth to St Ives, and lived at 7 Bellair Terrace, but does not appear to have exhibited with STISA after 1941. A devout Roman Catholic, she was also unafraid of shocking others by smoking in public and riding on her bicycle in plus-fours with paints and easel strapped to her back. She died 8 August, 1961, age 95, and is buried in the Freeman family vault at Swanpool, Falmouth.
Mentioned as sharing the Blue Studio at St Ives with her sister Frances Tysoe SMITH (fl1914-24).
Freeman was born in London and studied at St Martins & Harrow School of Art. He has also worked as a jazz pianist and composer, as well as a designer in London and abroad.
Freeman came to St Ives in 1989 and has been a member of both the Newlyn and Penwith societies of artists, exhibiting in many mixed and solo shows.
Ralph Freeman works from the Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (2013).
After study at the West of England College of Art and the Slade, London, Freeman returned to Falmouth where she was based at the School of Art in the mid-80s.
Part of her mission statements reflect concern with aspects of 'Being': 'my current work uses the figure, or parts of the figure, together with other elements as a way of exploring this. Each piece takes time to develop and is usually subject to many changes...The figures are modelled in clay, plaster or wax and cast into bronze or cement. Other components are made of wood, steel or some other material which is appropriate for the work.'
Frankie was active as an artist from 1940. She lived in Oriental Cottage in the Lamorna Valley and was a close friend of the Lamorna BIRCH family. Nothing is definitely known about her work, though she is noticed in NAG Minutes in the 1950s for being of great assistance to the Gallery, even down to offering to paint the front door giving on to the street, an offer the Committee gratefully took up.
She was so useful, in fact, said the then Chairman Lamorna KERR, that she should be co-opted onto the Committee (agreed). Though quite a private person and in later years something of a recluse, she was perennially interested in NAG, and placed on loan a painting from her own collection by John Rutherford ARMSTRONG RA, who had lived in Oriental Cottage before her.
Whether or not she exhibited her work other than at NAG and in local Lamorna shows, is not known.
David French was born in Morecambe but currently lives in St Ives. He completed a foundation course in Art at Preston Polytechnic in 1981 but went on to work as a joiner in the construction industry. He lectured in joinery for 12 years while developing his aspirations to paint full-time.
He has exhibited widely throughout the UK including the Manchester Art Fair and London's Mall Galleries, and his work can be found in collections throughout the UK and Europe.
Rosie French grew up on the Rame peninsula and is based in Torpoint. She trained as a graphic designer and runs a community art studio, Awenek Studio CIC, which delivers creative workshops around south-east Cornwall.
Born in Persia, the artist studied at Alexandra College, Dublin, and Julian's Atelier in Paris. She was an illustrator for Wonder Book for Children, and signed her work 'Monica MacIvor'.
She married the painter Frank P FREYBURG and lived with him in London, visiting Cornwall on occasion.
The artist studied at the RA School, and during 1910-11 worked and exhibited from Piazza Studios, St Ives. At the March Show Day 1911 he exhibited A Yorkshire Quarry, Washing Day and a highland scene. In 1913 the artist moved to London, living at Westbourne Park. He married Monica MacIVOR, and the couple continued to live in London, visiting Cornwall periodically.
An artist photographer, who set up a photography company in Reigate, Frith took advantage of the arrival of the national railway system which made cheap holidays widely available, and his photos in post-card or folio format made popular souvenirs, such as Chapel Street Penzance (1860).
Frith was one of the finest landscape photographers of the 19th Century, and an astute businessman whose photographic printing firm remained in business for over a hundred years - and continues today as an archival source for pictoral representations of places, people and equipment. The books including the work of his photographic teams remains an impressive record of the development of Britain for over a hundred years, as shown in postcards and reprints, and are collected today.
This latter achievement has perhaps tended to make historians dismiss him as a commercial photographer, but his own work, and business were both founded on paying attention to detail and working hard to produce the best possible results. He began photography in the early days of the collodion or wet plate process, which could produce finely detailed images that in some respects are superior to modern images where the gelatin emulsion limits the performance.
The painter was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Having been born into WWI, he took up painting and the desire to become a full-time artist during WWII when taken as a prisoner of war at the invasion of Crete. On an ex-serviceman's grant, he studied first at the St Ives School of Painting from 1946 and then Camberwell School of Art (1947-49), largely by members of the Euston Road Group. His earliest exhibition in Cornwall was at Downing's Bookshop, St Ives in 1947. In 1951 he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth, and began to show his joyous and colourful abstract work in mixed shows, often with other artists working from Cornwall. In 1952 the Leicester Galleries, London presented his first one-man show.
He and his wife Cath moved permanently to West Cornwall (St Ives) in 1957, however in the interim years aside from exhibiting widely, he was employed as lecturer and artist in residence at a range of institutions including Bath Academy (Corsham) and Leeds University (Gregory School of Painting). In 1965 he was appointed a full-time lecturer in the University of Reading, Reader in 1970 and finally Professor of Painting (1977-81) then Professor Emeritus. His growing family remained in West Cornwall throughout, but in 1974 the Frosts moved home and studio from St Ives to Newlyn, Penzance, the whole of the area inspiring his work, and becoming his canvas.
There are long lists of his exhibitions on the Web, and a recital of them here would be unwieldy and disproportionate, but it must be said that Terry and Cath brightened anyone's day upon meeting, and though his circles, swirls, and blocks of colour are not to everyone's taste there is no doubt whatsoever that Frost was to become one of the leading international abstract artists of his time. His works are held in corporate, public and private collections throughout the world. In 1992, he was elected an RA, and following the choice of his designs to decorate one of the liveried passenger jetplanes of British Airways in the 1990s, he received a Knighthood in 1998.
Solo exhibitions for Frost at NAG were held first in 1977 and then in 1995, the centennial year of the Gallery, a major exhibition entitled 'Terry Frost - New Work at Eighty' showcased his amazing talent for vigorously renewing the brightness and vitality of his shapes, forms and colouration. This was followed up by the RA which staged a major retrospective of his work in 2000: 'Terry Frost, Six Decades'. At that point, as the marketeers went into overdrive, the Frost tee-shirts, mugs, and wrist watches using his designs, joined the posters, pencils, prints and postcards that have become part and parcel with cultural life today. Without doubt he left his mark.
Anthony Frost was born in St Ives, the son of artist (Sir) Terry FROST and his wife Kath. Always amongst artists from birth, he studied painting and design first in Banbury, Oxfordshire, where his family was living at the time, and then at Cardiff College of Art 1970-3.
In 1974 he returned to Cornwall, setting up his own studio and home with his wife Linda. Aside from his own devotion to colours and shapes (the chevron being the shape that comes readily to mind), Anthony's outgoing and generous personality has meant in the communal sense that he shares his work with others, young and old, and speaks through his work and teaching of the intense passion that art is for him. Often a painting from him arrives encased in a box decorated similarly to go with it, the extra measure that he gives.
For many years Linda Frost has been Head of the Arts Development team at the John Daniel Centre for people with special needs; some of their pupil artists have achieved semi-professional status in their annual craft and painting exhibitions, also due to the time and attention given by the couple. His use of strong primary colours is a hallmark of his abstract work.
An amusing mis-spelling of FORTESCUE (Census-takers!!) See William Banks FORTESCUE.
Miss A J Fry is noticed as exhibiting in the London Salon and at the RA from 1908-14. An artist of the same name, if not the same person, exhibited The Zionist at NAG in 1937.
Edith Fry has come to our attention due to her name appearing in the list of pupils who studied at the Newlyn School of Painting (Forbes School) in the 1920s (no specific dates known).
Edith May Fry was an expatriate Australian artist and author, born in Copeland, New South Wales. She was educated at Sydney Girls' High School, and then the University of Sydney, where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in 1904. She initially studied art in Sydney, but then went on to complete her training in Paris (including a stint at the Academie Colarossi). In the years following World War I, Fry moved to London, where she gravitated within expatriate art and literary circles.
During the early 1920s her works appeared in exhibitions in Paris and London, and at this time she also contributed occasional articles to magazines such as Studio, Connoisseur, Drawing and Design, Art in Australia, and also the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1924 she helped organise the 'Australian Artists in Europe' exhibition in London, and she was for a number of years the motivating force within the Panton Arts Club, which held exhibitions and literary events in London. She appears to have held editorial positions with Panton Magazine, and subsequently the British Annual of Literature (which featured her critical articles, poetry and reviews), and also the British Authors' Press.
One of her sisters was the Australian feminist, teacher and social worker F. M. (Mildred) Muscio (1882-1964), who obtained a BA degree in 1901. Another sister, Eva Fry, was for a number of years mathematics mistress at Ascham School, in Sydney.
Further biographical details are yet to be established.
A correspondent and relative of the sisters was in touch (2021) to clarify some dates, which have been amended above.
*Take care not to confuse Edith May Fry (b. 1883) with Edith Ada Fry (1858-1940), a prominent Australian feminist.
Paul Fry was born in Somerset and studied at Falmouth College of Art. His abstract paintings and drawings explore the local landscape. Fry works from Trewidden Studios, Buryas Bridge, near Penzance,
David Fry is based in Cornwall and exhibits with the Sprindrift Gallery in Portscatho.
Fuller came to St Ives from Fife in Scotland in the early 1890s, and in his painting engaged with the many moods of the sea, often in an Impressionist manner. His work showed his interest in J A M WHISTLER.
The 1901 Census lists he and his wife Emma living at the House on Cliff at Lelant near St Ives. He exhibited locally at Lanham's, the Arts Club and from his own studios at Barnoon and Dunvegan, as well as nationally. A full-page caricature drawing by Fuller was included in the St Ives Times (12 Nov 1910) to advertise the forthcoming local theatrical production Don't miss comin' to see Mrs Cummin.
He was responsible for the execution of the beaten copper plaque for the St Ives Arts Club Memorial to the artists of the town who lost their lives in WWI, working to a design by Borlase SMART. A close friend was the artist Fred MILNER.