Following a career as a garden designer and portrait photographer, Maryanne Hawes became a self-taught abstract painter. She divides her time between the lower Wye valley in Wales and her family home in Cornwall. Her work was selected for the 166th RWA Open Exhibition of 2018. In 2020 she undertook the mentoring programme at Newlyn School of Art.
Her work has been exhibited widely within the UK and beyond.
Gabrielle Hawkes lived for many years in St Just, where she owned and managed an art gallery, 'Visions and Journeys'. In 2013 she and her partner, the artist Tom HENDERSON SMITH, moved to St Columb, where she continues to paint.
A self-taught artist, she has described her work thus: 'My paintings depict my lifelong adventures in the country of the psyche, a magical place of forests, lakes, ancient stones and secret hidden places, where things are not always what they seem ...'
Her delightful small paintings are sometimes made into greeting cards. She exhibits regularly with STISA.
In 2012 Hawkes and Frankie WEBB published a book entitled 'Between the Ocean and the Sky', a collaborative project for which Hawkes created the illustrations. In 2021 she published her first book of poetry, 'Compost'.
Swiss-born Therese believes in the traditional way of pottery, rejecting the pressures inherent in her training at Bristol Poly (1971-74) to produce artistic ceramic pieces. Instead she chooses to make pots that people can use and enjoy in everyday life. She admires the 'quiet strength' of stoneware pottery, and the delicacy of partly-glazed red earthenware pots that were a part of her childhood in Switzerland. Having moved to Cornwall in 1974, her love of gardening reflects and inspires her work, producing designs that harmonise with the natural environment, using quiet, subtle colours, with wax-resist, sgraffito or brushwork for decoration.
Chris Hawkins is a ceramicist who studied at Plymouth College of Art & Design, where he later worked as a part-time lecturer. He set up his first workshop in 1980. Since 1996 he has been based at Gunnislake on the River Tamar and has been making Raku pots since 2000. His partner is Chloe HARFORD.
Two paintings by this artist are in the collection of the Padstow Museum.
A recent correspondent (2012) wrote about this artist's work: In the summer of 1974 I purchased a painting (oil on canvas) by Mrs. Hawkins titled "Abby House" as seen across the Padstow quay. The same building forms the backgound in her painting of the Nonsuch. I returned to Canada in 1977 after completing a 2 1/2 year exchange tour with the RAF. Mrs. Hawkins' painting remains one of my most prized possessions.
Marc Hawkins was born in Birmingham but moved to Cornwall in 2005, settling in St Ives. He says: 'My paintings are influenced by personal observations on social, political and cultural issues, combined with views on advancements in industry and technology, and how these things impact on the environment and on us'.
A London artist, Hawksworth exhibited a painting depicting a local subject, The Coast near St Ives, in Spring 1920 at the RBA. He was a member of both the RI and the RBA.
A recent correspondent (2013) reports the holding of a large store of his work, and will be checking it for further Cornish subjects.
The artist exhibited between 1924 and 1928, and spent the 1926-27 period working in Lamorna.
The artist was a son of an architect and lived in Liverpool until 1912, moving thereafter to London. He was a member of the London Group and friend of Augustus Edwin JOHN. His wife was Enid, who also exhibited her work from their address in Cheshire; she died c1911 (J&G). From 1912 Hay moved to Chelsea.
According to Tovey, Hay claimed that his student time spent with Julius OLSSON at St Ives was among the most valuable of his lessons. As yet, it is not clear when this was or for how long he was in Cornwall.
Ann studied for a BTEC in Art Design at Harlow College, followed by a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the University of East London. Since 2003 she has engaged in performances in London and latterly in Cornwall, exploring identity, idiosyncratic, macabre and childlike behaviour. Her work is 'subversively disruptive, challenging the culturally acceptable'.
Born in Southsea, Portsmouth on 21 May, 1860 (GRO), she studied at St John's Wood and RA Schools, and exhibited from 1888 through to 1912, including Paris (1889), Southsea (1891), Italy (1892) and Great Marlow, Bucks (1912).
At Newlyn was exhibited in 1889 at the RA, with a Newlyn address from 1887. By the time of the 1891 Census she was living at Back Street, St Ives. She exhibited three paintings with the Cornish painters' colonies at Dowdeswell in 1890, one of which was Street in St Ives. Hayes also attended the Founding meeting of the St Ives Arts Club, becoming a member.
From 1894-96, she was working from Tuscany, Italy, and back in England lived in Great Marlow, Bucks from 1910, remaining there for many years. She died, aged 88 in Maidenhead on 19 October 1948 (GRO).
Hayes was born in Bristol on 7 June, 1819 (GRO), but spent his youth in Dublin where his father ran a hotel close to the quays and docks. He decided early upon art as a career, and was a student at the Dublin Society Schools. A keen sailor, he spent his time sailing around Dublin bay in his small yacht, and even made it as far south as Cork. He was later employed as a steward's boy on board a ship bound for America.
He first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1842, and contributed to all but five of the next sixty-three annual exhibitions, showing a total of two hundred and fifty-five paintings. He lived in Dublin for the next ten years, moving to London in 1852, where he apprenticed himself to Telbin, a scenic artist. Under Telbin, he worked on the scenery of the Adelphi and other London theatres. His first work shown in London was View of the River Liffey and the Custom House in 1854 at the British Institution.
The following year he sent his first work to the Royal Academy, and for the next forty-nine years he was a regular exhibitor there. In addition to painting the shores and harbours of the English coast (during which time he stayed in West Cornwall), he travelled widely to Holland, France, Spain, and Italy in search of new subjects for his work. An exhibition of one hundred and fifty pictures, the result of twenty years of work, was held in Messrs Dowdeswells in Bond Street, London in March 1888. On 7 November 1904, age 85, Edwin Hayes died.
Pool's Cornish Hand Wrought Copper was desgined and made by J & F Pool Ltd. of Copperhouse, Hayle. Still in the metal work business, the firm lost its world famous name when the company was taken over some years ago. (The Hayle site no longer exists.) At the time of the production of what is now known as Hayle Copper, the firm also had works at Roseworthy near Camborne (destroyed in WWII) where the well known Cornish Shovel was produced.
Hayle Copper, unlike Newlyn Copper, was not totally handmade. The main design was stamped out using zinc dies in large presses and the pieces were then hand finished. Primarily Art Nouveau in style the firm produced a wide range of products including overmantels, fire screens, clocks, hot water jugs, candlesticks, etc. though these were the same types of products as those made by the Newlyn Industrial Classes, Newlyn copper never reached the position of mass marketing and production.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Haylett moved with his parents back to Britain at the age of two and was brought up in Southend-on-Sea. He studied art there and at St Martins, London. A recent correspondent (2016) writes that she owns a portrait by Haylett which the artist painted of her father during the war (1944) while they were posted to India. He was primarily a portrait painter although he had a broad range of art and design skills, and was invited to St Ives shortly after the War by his friend the photographer Gilbert ADAMS.
He was so taken by the ambience of the town that he took a studio in Westcott's Quay on the spot. His fiancée Jean, a fashion student, joined him and they married in 1946. His favourite portrait subject was his wife, although he soon began to win commissions from the rich and famous. He was asked by one of the organisers of the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition to submit a design. His scheme was selected for the 1954 Exhibition and was such a success he was given the accolade of being selected the following year as well.
He also redesigned a number of shops in St Ives, was a design consultant for Plymouth Breweries, and designs for two of his homes were featured in Ideal Homes. Haylett also taught art at Redruth School of Art, the St Ives School of Painting and Camborne College.
In August 2011 an auctioneer selling one of his paintings came across a businesss card giving Haylett's address in 1950 as 'The Warren, St Ives'.
Hayman was born in London, and schooled at Malvern, before going to New Zealand for a decade where he began to paint at Dunedin. In 1947 he came back to England, finding a home in West Cornwall (1950) and moving around from Mevagissey to Carbis Bay ('Dunvegan') and St Ives before returning to London in 1953. In 1964-65 he spent a further year in St Ives, joining the Penwith Society.
His work was visibly influenced by that of Alfred WALLIS, and he participated actively in group and solo shows. Though he finally returned to London, Cornwall was always evident in his work and subject matter, and he continued to visit with regularity. His wife was Barbara, and good friends were many, including George Phil Whiting.
For five years (1958-63) he edited The Painter and Sculptor, a magazine he established, and in 1988 his Painted Poems were published by the Louise Hallett Gallery. In 1987 his painting Events by the Sea (1970) was selected for the Looking West Exhibition organised by NAG with the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with the National Trust.
Keith studied at Harrow School of Art where he graduated with a BA Hons. He joined the BBC where he worked as a multi-award winning designer and director on some of the most important arts programmes of the past twenty years including: Arena, The Late Show and Rock Family Trees.
In 1993 some of his work was included in a ICA exhibition on avante-garde film and television. Much of his current work is based on an exploration of pop culture through the use of physical objects and mixed media presentation.
In 2013 he is exhibiting currently at the Waterside Gallery, St Ives. His work is displayed upon their website.
Jonathan Hayter's paintings aim to capture the atmosphere of hidden valleys and post-industrial sites in Cornwall.
He is also a poet, performance artist and puppeteer. His mixed media exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Gallery in 2021 included a performance of 'The Tower'.
Born at Southport, Lancashire, Hayward studied architecture at South Kensington but gave it up for painting, and subsequently studied at the Warrington School of Art and under Stanhope FORBES at Newlyn. During WWI he served with Royal Field Artillery, and returned to Newlyn, being addressed as Captain Hayward.
He joined the Committee of the NSA, serving specifically on the Entertainments sub-committee, as his organisation skills were well known. After working at Newlyn and Paul, he moved to St Ives, and established a St Ives School of Painting (c1924) of which he was the named Principal - not the same School of Painting now in existence, begun in the 1930s with Leonard John FULLER in charge.
He worked from Treveneth and Shore Studio (Illus, Tovey, p110), and played an important role in STISA. After 1932 he refused to have anything more to do with that organisation, but continued to play a part in St Ives and Newlyn's artistic life through the formation of an exhibiting set calling themselves the CORNWALL GROUP. The HARVEYS (Harold HARVEY & Gertrude HARVEY), the PROCTERS (Ernest PROCTER & Dod PROCTER), Hugh GRESTY, Alison ROSE and Midge BRUFORD were those who banded together for some years.
Haywood painted a portrait of Lady Jennifer Galsworthy, MBE in 1998 (acrylic on board) which is in the collection of the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. Lady Jennifer was the chairperson of the campaign to build the Mermaid Centre for cancer care, at the hospital in the 1990s, and an able, innovative leader in support of fine arts and gardening arts & crafts within the county.
The artist was born Jennifer Hayes in Wolverhampton, one of nine children. Though showing an aptitude for art, there was no encouragement or support for her interest, and it was not until she came to Cornwall for summer work that she experienced the milieu that would eventually give full rein to her talents.
She married local hotel chef Claude Hazel, who died when she was forty. Having three children to support, she again had little time for creativity, but by the late 1980s she had taken up the painting and sketching habit in a passionate way. With little money, she painted on all manner of objects - wood and wallpaper amongst them - and her subjects were the scenes around her in Penzance, Newlyn and Mousehole. A close friendship for twenty years with artist Rose HILTON, who employed her also as a model, reinforced her instincts to paint, and it was Rose who assisted her daughter Kate Hazel to put up an exhibition of Jennifer's paintings under the title Hidden Treasures at the Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery in February 2010.
The Beach (No. 2) by this artist (dated 1965) is included in the permanent collection of Cornwall Council.
The artist was the son of a merchant trader in the Baltic trading market, and was born and brought up in Bideford, Devon.
A student in St Ives with Norman WILKINSON, he visited Paris in 1900 with him and Reginald Guy KORTRIGHT. Tovey also records his social activities in St Ives in 1901, in the theatricals and choral singing. In 1907 he is also referenced as painting the scenery for the theatricals at St Ives (noticed as Hugh, and also Percy, in index)
His addresses for exhibiting purposes are the following: Swansea 1886 and 1892; Bideford, Devon 1891, 1896 and 1914, with London coming in-between at 1903. In this period his main exhibition venue was the Walker Gallery at Liverpool, but also a few elsewhere.
Ian Heard was born in Cornwall. He studied in Falmouth and Camborne and worked as an artist and illustrator in Falmouth and Truro before moving to Oxford at the age of 28 to pursue a career in design. In 1993 he moved to Tavistock. He continues to exhibit in Cornwall and in 2014 created a series of painting workshops in conjunction with the National Trust at Cotehele. He has also written articles for 'The Artist' magazine.
Hearn was born in Chesterfield, near Sheffield, and comes into Cornwall's frame some 20 years ago (early 1990s) when he worked on his paintings from a studio on the Rame Peninsula. Leaving to paint - he is largely self-taught - on Jersey and in France, he has returned once more, an acclaimed abstract painter. His work has been likened to that of the modernist St Ives School of Peter LANYON, and Ben NICHOLSON amongst others, and claims an exemplar in Mark ROTHKO.
Now he works from Maker Heights on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall. His career and achievements in exhibition are well recorded on the web.
Lucy Heath is a painter and printmaker based in Cornwall and London. She grew up in Tunbridge Wells and was a professional cook for 15 years. In 2009, she became a student at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea.
Nowadays her paintings are done in oils, mainly on wood.
She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open exhibitions.
Born in Coulsdon, Surrey, Heath studied at South Kensington, Croydon and Westminster. He was also a student in Antwerp and at the Herkomer School at Bushey, in Hertfordshire, where he became an admirer of the work of Stanhope FORBES. It was that which brought him to Newlyn around 1901. Though he was not an enrolled student of the Forbes School, he evidently joined in many of the social events associated with the School. He lived and worked variously at Paul, Newlyn, and Lamorna. On his marriage to fellow student Jessica DOHERTY in 1910, the couple lived in Polperro, where their two daughters were born.
In 1912 they built their family home at Menwinnion, near Paul in Cornwall. Heath served with Royal Fusiliers in WWI, and suffered poor health and depression for the rest of his life as a result of being gassed in France in 1915. His closest ties were to Newlyn Society of Artists, and he exhibited with STISA irregularly.
Isobel Heath was born in Yorkshire, and studied under William Ritson, Robert Blatchford and at Colarossi's in Paris before going to Leonard FULLER's St Ives School of Painting in the late 1930s. She first exhibited on Show Day in St Ives in 1940.
She was married for a time to Dr Marc Prati, the political correspondent to La Stampa of Turin, whom she met when he was a prisoner of war. By him she had a son. Isobel painted in watercolours and produced some large figure paintings in oils; she also made a number of pencil portraits.
During WWII she worked for the Ministry of Information, drawing and painting factory workers in the munitions and camouflage factories. It was also at this time that she completed a number of pencil portraits of American troops and local characters. According to Tovey, these wartime works are some of her best.
In Cornwall, Isobel lived at Bosun's Nest, Carthew, near Clodgy, St Ives. Resigning from STISA in 1949, she became a Founder member of the breakaway group, The Penwith Society of Artists. Isobel did not remain for long, resigning in 1950 due to the A,B,C group system which she declined to join - alongside Peter LANYON, Sven BERLIN and others. She rejoined STISA in 1957, exhibiting with them for the rest of her life.
Her studio was in Custom House Lane, St Ives but she often spent days out on the moors painting, staying overnight in her van. She published three books: Passing Thoughts (1971), Love (1973) and Reflections (1978). She died in St Ives.
She was born in Bandon, County Cork, where her father had been Agent to Lord Bandon's Irish estates. Upon retirement, the family moved to Cornwall, buying 'La Pietra' on Paul Hill, Newlyn, the former home of Phil Whiting and his wife Constance Mary BIRCH.
Jessica was keen to learn painting and enrolled at the FORBES SCHOOL in 1901-2. She met Frank Gascoigne HEATH, an artist who had settled locally, having himself studied at the school, and they married in 1910. They set up their home initially in Polperro, and had two children by the time Jessica's father paid for them to build their own home, 'Menwinnion', at Lamorna in 1912. They subsequently had another two children.
In WWI Frank was seriously gassed and his health never fully recovered. With heavy family commitments, looking after their children and assisting Frank, she had very little time for painting, but she did exhibit in the mid 1930s.