Diana Hoyle was born in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was an established oil painter known for her Cornish landscapes. An early desire to study art was thwarted, but in her forties she was able at last to become a student at Redruth School of Art. Her work often depicted her life, and her family cherish the paintings they have inherited, which include scenes of Tehidy Woods, where she grew up.
Her landscapes appeared on the West End stage set of a 1990s production of 'The Sound of Music'.
Her work is listed as part of the permanent collection of art in St Michael's Hospital (SMH) at Hayle.
Born in South Africa, Helen Hoyle came to the UK in her mid-twenties and settled in Cornwall in 1993. In 2010 she graduated from Plymouth University with a BA (Hons) in Art History. Two years later a printmaking course with Rachael KANTARIS at Newlyn School of Art sparked a fascination for monoprinting.
In 2016 Helen became a member of Taking Space. She has been a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
She has written extensively about women artists in Cornwall (see link below). From 2011 to 2025 Helen was part of the CAI editorial team, initially as women's editor, then taking over the general editorship after Melissa Hardie's retirement.
Born in Lewisham, he studied etching under Stanley Anderson at Goldsmith's College. In 1926 he won the coveted Prix de Rome and spent the next three years at the British School in Rome, travelling widely in Italy, France, Greece and Spain. In the early 1930s, Devon and the West Country were a source of subjects for his works, although by 1933 he was living in the London area.
He became Lecturer in Engraving at Leeds College of Art in 1934, and in 1941 was appointed Principal of Penzance School of Art. He retired in 1965 to concentrate fully on his etching, and became Vice-President and Chairman of STISA, eventually stepping down in 1981.
Although he also painted in oils and watercolours, his etchings are considered his finest works. His wife, Inez, also an artist and teacher, first came to West Cornwall in 1942.
Born in Winchester, Hants and of Scottish-Dutch parentage, Inez first trained for the ballet on the advice of actor relative Frank Vosper, but was painting from the age of seven. She taught at Benenden School, Kent during the war, and arrived in Cornwall in 1942, dividing her time between painting, travelling and teaching at the Penzance School of Art alongside her husband, Bouverie HOYTON, who was Principal.
Andrew Hucklesby was born in London. During his childhood the family moved to Hertfordshire, where he studied Illustration and Graphic Design. Subsequently he had a career as a designer and art director in London. During that time he undertook tuition in watercolour from the leading British landscape painter James Fletcher-Watson.
Hucklesby moved to Cornwall in 2013. He spends as much time as possible painting out of doors, one of his favourite subjects being the coastal scenery at Polzeath.
A member of the Pure Watercolour Society, Hucklesby conducts workshops and demonstrations across Cornwall.
Delpha interprets and translates artistic meanings in various formats, working with arts organisations to facilitate creative behaviours - for people of all ages. There are several interesting entries for her on the web, related to her 'free-lance artist projects' and her abilities to teach in the creative context. Much of her work relates to a concentrated interest in 'the feminine' and what women value in terms of philosophy as well as objects. She is linked with KEAP, the Kernow Education Arts Partnership, and participates in various exhibitions and shows. Her work for the Art Now Cornwall exhibition at the Tate St Ives survey show of 2007 was about Barbara Hepworth, and the 'Miss-readings' of the sculptor's work and person, conducted as a tour around the Hepworth Museum as part of an artist performance.
Delpha is an engaging personality who is a great pleasure to meet: she exudes enthusiasm and positivity. This also comes through in her work. She works also as one-half of the arts partnership http://www.artsurgery.org/.
Her work, entitled I is mentioned by Ruhrmund in his 2011 review of the NSA exhibition, 'Uncharted Landscapes', held at the Mariners Chapel, St Ives.
Appearing on the website of the Jonathan Grant Galleries (19th & Early 20th century British) of New Zealand, and given to us as a record and image by the art historian Pamela Gerrish Nunn on a recent visit (2012) is a lovely painting by this artist. Entitled Interior of a Cottage, St Ives, Cornwall (oil on canvas, 74x56 cm), it formed part of her exhibition career, known to extend from 1883-1891 at the RA, and to include venues as listed below.
Christopher Wood notes her sending-in address as Bradford, Yorkshire in 1871 when exhibiting at the RA even earlier with The White Cottage and Schooners. Sotheby's listed A fishing village (oil, n.d.) for sale in 1993 (lot 981) but it is not known if any of these were also paintings depicting Cornwall.
More information about this artist would be welcome.
Jill Hudson was born and educated in Merseyside. After travelling in Africa she returned to the UK to study Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts. Since then, she has spent time in Peru, Mexico and Chile. Living in Cornwall, she enjoys sailing and strives to express the beauty of the ocean in her paintings. She has exhibited extensively in Cornwall and beyond.
She is represented by the Harbour Gallery, Portscatho, on the Roseland peninsula.
Alison Hughes questions the boundaries between fine art, craft and design through sculptures and installations with a strong nautical element.
Hughes' paintings on copper and canvas are a response to altered landscapes such as quarries, mines and saltpans. Incorporating natural materials into her work, she lets them flow and crack, crystallise and bleed, as they do in nature. Her work has been exhibited at the Limekiln Gallery in Calstock.
Born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, Andy Hughes graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 1991, moving to St Ives in 1995. He has worked with Surfers Against Sewage since 1991. In 1993 he was the first recipient of the Tate Gallery St Ives Artist Residency. His work was recently auctioned for the Marine Conservation Society at Deutsche Bank headquarters in London.
He teaches Foundation Degree Photography at Truro College, Cornwall.
A painter who lived and worked in Fowey, from his studio opposite the old bakery on the Esplanade. He was an accomplished private tutor in art, who displayed his landscapes and seascapes prominently in the lower windows of his studio.
The pre-Raphaelite artist and book illustrator, Arthur Hughes was born in London and educated at the Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School before attending the School of Design at Somerset House. Alfred Stevens was his tutor there and in 1847 he entered the Royal Academy Schools.
Winning the RA Silver Medal for Antique Drawing in 1849, he exhibited Musidora, his first picture at the Academy. His involvement with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was underway through his already developed interest in their work, and proceeded to exhibit his famed Ophelia in 1852. He was a model for Millais, and painted in Rossetti's studio. From 1855 his work as an illustrator became his driving force and in time this was to be his main claim to fame as an artist. He was to illustrate such classics as Tom Brown's School Days (1869) and the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
He married Tryphena Foord in 1855 and the couple had five children, three daughters and two sons. He continued to exhibit paintings regularly at the RA, exhibiting his last in 1908. A full profile of his work would be difficult to bring together due to prolific output, for which he undoubtedly deserved greater acknowledgement and admiration than he received. He was granted a Civil Pension three years prior to his death in 1915 at Kew, Richmond, Surrey.
Of special interest to Cornish students was the fact of his annual holidays which he and his wife spent in Cornwall, and the retrospective exhibition held in his lifetime (1900) at the Fine Art Society: Byways of Cornwall.
The information provided in this brief summary was brought to our attention by the art historian Geoff Hassell, when he discovered a recent internet article by William E Fredeman, Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia (referenced below). Many thanks!
After gaining a BA in Art & Design from Bradford Art College, followed by an MA in Interior Design from Manchester University, Clare Hughes set up her own business, working as an interior designer for the next thirty years.
In 2008 she moved to Cornwall and recently took the opportunity to return to painting. Using acrylics, she has developed an appreciative eye, not only for the drama of Cornwall's coastline, but also for the iconic remains of its tin mining industry.
Clare Hughes is a regular exhibitor at St Ives Arts Club, and also at STISA open shows. She joined Taking Space, a group of women artists, in 2017.
Herbert Hughes (of Dudley, Worcestershire) befriended JC BURROW (1852-1914), a professional photographer of Camborne, in 1892. The two subsequently toured Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly annually, recording and photographing its monuments and other geographical features. He died in 1937.
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society exhibitor who won Second Prize for his sketches in 1847.
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the child of West Country parents, Eleanor Waymouth visited Britain initially at the turn of the twentieth century. She studied art with C N Worsley (c1901-3) and attended the FORBES School of Painting for a short time.
In 1907 she came again to London from New Zealand, accompanied by her sister, to study at Frank SPENLOVE's 'Yellow Door Studio'. Prior to 1908, she drew and painted in Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, with a special interest in country trees. Wallace comments in the Exhibition catalogue for Women Artists in Cornwall (1996) that Hughes 'had a particularly delicate style which has been compared to that of Rennie Mackintosh'. From 1902 she exhibited as Miss E W Waymouth (until 1912 when she exhibited as Mrs Hughes). She was also an accomplished pianist.
From 1908 similar drawings appear in her sketchbook of Cornwall, probably signalling a recent return to the West Country. In Newlyn in 1907 she began to study under Stanhope FORBES and Elizabeth FORBES for the second time. There she met and married Robert Morson HUGHES in 1910, and together they designed and built their own home, Chyangweal, near St Buryan. Living and working in London in 1914, they returned home to St Buryan in 1915.
She and her husband were part of the inner circle of friends surrounding S J Lamorna BIRCH; this included the Harveys, the Napers, the Knights, and the Simpsons. She took up etching in late 1930s, a natural extension of her talent for drawing, but examples have been scarce until recently, when her niece has made the personal collection available. She sold up her studio in 1940 in aid of financing evacuee children. She died at her home in Lamorna in 1959.
Born in Kent and educated at Sevenoaks, he trained at Lambeth School of Art (where he was influenced by Buxton Knight) and the South London Technical Art School.
Hughes came first to Lamorna in 1905 with Charles Crimbie (popular illustrator), and became a friend of Lamorna BIRCH. He returned to Kent but came back to Lamorna in 1909, to attend Forbes School with Frank Gascoigne HEATH and Eleanor W WAYMOUTH. In 1910 he married fellow student Eleanor Waymouth at the Church at St Buryan, and they built their own home, Chyangwheal, between the Lamorna Valley and Boleigh Farm, where they remained together for the rest of their lives.
The St Ives Times reported his work extensively during the 1924 Show Day, his principal picture being the original study for a picture of the rhododendron dell at Kew Gardens, painted for Her Majesty, Queen Mary. This depicted a winding path through great masses of bushes of colour: 'Mr Hughes was commissioned to paint no less than eight pictures for Her Majesty...He also showed three oils, intended for the RA, one an evening effect in summer over St Ives Bay, the chief feature of which is the contrast of the patch of warm sand, on which the sun is concentrated with the intense blue of the sea and the greys of the sky.' His best works were his depictions of the rugged coastline near Lamorna.
Their close friends were the Birch family, the Leaders, the Napers, the Heaths, the Simpsons, and all of the talented, friendly crowd around the Lamorna Valley.
A craftworker who exhibited at NAG in 1937 in an Unspecified category.
A craftworker who exhibited at NAG in 1937 in an Unspecified category.
The artists was the son of William Hughes, still-life painter, and father to Blair Hughes-Stanton, engraver and illustrator. He was awarded gold medals at the Paris Salon (1907 and 1908) and knighted in 1923.
His association with St Ives, noted by Whybrow, was as a distinguished visitor to the area, most probably to visit friends.
Listed in the 1901 Census as an artist-painter, 32 years old, visiting Higher Lelant and from New Zealand. He attended the St Ives School of Art.
In 1884 she exhibited Newlyn titles at the West Cornwall Art Union: National Art Library exhibition (January 1884).
Cornish-born artist of genre, her maiden name was Dunn and she exhibited under this name at Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and Birmingham (1962-7), though later as Mrs T O HUME. She married the landscape painter, Thomas O HUME, and lived with him in Petersfield, Hampshire.
However, she returned often to Cornwall to visit relatives in the early days of the St Ives colony (1880s), and executed work there. She exhibited widely, especially at the RA, Glasgow and Birmingham. As yet no plates of her work have been seen, but the titles indicate that at least some may have Cornish loci.
She studied at the Charles Walter SIMPSON School of Painting, and although a founder member of STISA did not settle for any length of time in St Ives, instead contributing to shows for over twenty years from her Cheltenham home. Her addresses over the years included Liverpool (1915 and 1923) and Shropshire (1921). She exhibited also at the International Society, Walker in Liverpool and Manchester City.
Her portrait, executed by Ruth SIMPSON, was exhibited on St Ives Show Day in 1921.
Sarah Jane Humphrey grew up in rural Cambridgeshire. After obtaining a BA (Hons) in Scientific and Natural History Illustration, she went on to study Illustration at Falmouth University.
At the age of 21 her first book was published in New York, and she has undertaken commissions for clients such as the Body Shop, McGraw Hill and the Eden Project. In 2016 she was awarded an RHS Silver Medal for her botanical illustrations. She lives in Falmouth.
She has led workshops in Watercolour Botanical Illustration at Truro Arts Company (2018).
The artist is recorded with addresses in London (1881-1896), Wales (1886), and Falmouth, Cornwall from 1889. He exhibited widely and primarily at the RA. Wood lists his exhibition period as ending in 1899, whereas J & G extend this to 1916 with their findings.
William Humphris submitted a painting called Breton Immigrants to the Dowdeswell Exhibition of 1890. In the following year, the Census listed him as a Painter Artist originally from Herne Hill, Surrey, living with his wife Florence Humphris, from Brompton, Middlesex, and his mother-in-law Annie West (perhaps a short term visitor) from Glamorganshire at 5 Kimberley Place, Falmouth in Cornwall.
Hunt was reported in the St Ives Times as a RSW exhibitor at the Pall Mall Galleries in October 1920 with a Cornish subject. Born in Torquay, Devon, the barrister-turned-painter specialised principally in landscape watercolours, and he travelled and worked widely. He exhibited mainly at the Fine Art Society in London, where he showed some 369 paintings, but also at the Royal Watercolour Society where 220 paintings were shown.