Marie Magor works from Krowji Studios in Redruth. She works in a variety of mediums including stitched collage and blackwork embroidery. She also uses recycled and vintage fabrics.
Amy Mahala grew up in Dorset and studied textile design at Winchester School of Art. A teacher of textiles, she lives on the north coast of Cornwall. She says of her work: 'I creatively use stitch and mixed media to express the beauty and emotions of the sea.' She uses free machine embroidery as a drawing tool alongside paint and collage.
Her work can be seen at Zeath Gallery, Polzeath.
Mahoney is a multimedia artist working in drawing, silk screen, sound, video and installation. Before moving to Cornwall she lived and worked in London and Berlin.
Helen Mahood grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At school she showed considerable artistic promise and was encouraged to train as an art teacher. Subsequently she gained a qualification as a medical illustrator. A move to London led to a career in the world of commercial art. Now that she is settled in Cornwall, she enjoys the opportunity to spend more time on her first love, painting.
Helen Mahood became a member of 'Taking Space', a group of women artists, in 2018.
Born in London, Maidment was a student of the Royal College of Art in early years. With talents in draughtsmanship, he won a travelling scholarship.
Living first in Newlyn from before WWI, he worked and remained there until 1932 when he moved to St Ives, joining the St Ives Society of Artists (1932-59). In 1944 he moved to Helston and later to Torquay, in 1952; but he kept his working and exhibiting ties in St Ives.
Maidment is especially noted for his detailed paintings of the many quaint houses and byways of St Ives. He was included in the exhibition to celebrate the Centenary of Cornwall County Council: A Century of Art in Cornwall 1889-1989.
E E MAINWARING is one of the signatories of the Glanville letter of 26 November 1898 from members of the St Ives Arts Club to the Town Council (via Glanville) to voice their concern over proposed developments to the town; nothing further is currently known about this artist.
Valerie Mainwaring is a 'naive' artist whose work was selected for the 2010 Open Art Exhibition held at NAG for the 4th annual Newlyn Arts Festival. She works in a variety of media, creating pen and ink drawings and floral illustrations. She has started to produce work for the greetings card industry.
Katharine Mair is a self-taught painter who exhibits at the Cowhouse Gallery in Perranuthnoe.
Fuller Maitland was born in Berkshire, and studied at Oxford University prior to studying art at Bushey. He was a signatory of the Glanville letter of 1898 regarding the planned over-development of St Ives, and in 1899 he and his wife decided against moving to the town permanently, instead making their home in Rye, Sussex.
They did, however, remain members of the St Ives Golf Club until 1937, and visited the area with some regularity. [His wife, Gertrude MAITLAND (exh 1909-30), was also a landscape painter, and both exhibited mainly with Walker's Gallery, London.]
Isadora Malik was born in Lewisham and educated at UAL Camberwell and UCA Canterbury. In 2021 she moved to Cornwall, settling in Penzance.
St Ives-based Ann Manie studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School in Kennington from 1983-1987. In 2004 she obtained an MA Honours in Fine Art. Her work seeks to explore the underlying forces of nature, the juxtaposition of random objects, the passage of time, pattern, texture, movement and colour.
David Mankin is an abstract artist based in west Cornwall. His work has been exhibited widely in Cornwall and London.
Born in Birmingham, Mann died aged 82 in Porthoustock, Cornwall. He exhibited a Newlyn title in 1875. Nothing further is currently known about this artist.
A recent correspondent (2013) contributed further information about William Mann: ' I’ve just bought a little book by him called ‘Gouache Painting with Designer’s Colours’ (Winsor & Newton Ltd, 1964). The blurb on the back says that:
‘W. Mann, A.R.C.A. is Deputy Principal at Plymouth College of Art, and has taught painting and graphic design to full-time and part-time students. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal West of England Academy, locally in the West Country and in the Midlands.’ Here are some links that I turned up when I was trying to find out more about him: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/cornish-boats-plymouth-devon-49857 http://www.seapicturesgallery.com/Paintings/J_Pickup.html http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/william-mann-arca-1914-1980-gouache-on-card,-st-1-u-09210e3e83
Flight-Lieut William Mann, RAF, exhibited three paintings of Looe, Cornwall in the second exhibition of work by members of the Plymouth Society of Artists. His sending-in address at the time (Sept 1945) was Marlow, Bucks, but it is unknown as yet whether or not he was a native of Cornwall, and perhaps not yet de-mobbed. Further information welcome.
A correspondent in 2017 has contributed the information that he has bought at auction a work by Mann of Greenwich Park and the Isle of Dogs, possibly painted in Designers' Gouache around the 1960s. On the back, the artist's address is given as: 61 Powisland Drive, Derriford, Plymouth. The artwork was at that time priced at 25 guineas.
A London-based visitor to St Ives over many years, Manning was a landscape painter and printmaker held in high regard. He trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and was a student at Academie Julian in Paris (1892), where he probably met a number of artists who continued their acquaintance in West Cornwall.
He was certainly in the town in 1896, visiting Albert Julius OLSSON at the St Ives Arts Club. His aquatints in black and white were among his most successful pieces, and his work appears in many public collections. The Aquatints of W W Manning was published by Colnaghi in 1929.
When internationally recognised artist Denise Manning moved to Cornwall she married a local farmer. She continued to paint whilst working on the farm and raising a family.
In 1989 she was invited to paint all the rare farm breeds of the UK, and the resulting collection was exhibited by the Royal Albert Memorial museum, Exeter in co-operation with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. The exhibition toured all over the country in 1991-92, including the Falmouth Art Gallery, and her paintings have been [subsequently] acquired by public and private collections. [Text from Falmouth Art Gallery Exh Cat 2000].
Her exhibition piece, in the group show entitled '20 Years of Contemporary Art at the Falmouth Art Gallery' in 2000, was Sequestered Sun, based on a two year study of a neighbouring farmer's field.
Born in Devon to authors George and Ruth Manning-Sanders, Joan spent her early life in Sussex, France, Devon and Cornwall. She was educated by her governess, Miss Florence Bridge, who encouraged Joan and her younger brother David to visualize their history and Bible studies, and to put down their images on paper.
At the age of twelve she was asked by Bernard WALKE to do a series of watercolours of the New Testament for his church at St Hilary near Penzance, Cornwall. Realising her talent, her parents arranged for her to have a studio at Sennen Cove. In 1927 she exhibited two paintings in the Daily Express Young Artists' Exhibition at the RBA Galleries, not realising that the qualification for entry was age 18 and over. Her work was so good the organisers thought her age to be 18 and not the 13 as stated on the entry form.
In 1928, at sixteen years of age, she came to national prominence as the youngest person ever to have a painting hung at the RA, receiving universal praise. In 1929 Faber & Faber produced an illustrated book on her art, and a similar book was produced in New York the following year. She then went on to study at the Chelsea School of Art and continued to exhibit at the RA until 1935.
During WWII she became involved with STISA, and was raised from Associate to full Member in 1944. Shortly after this she married, becoming Joan Floyd, and after the birth of her sons Christopher and John moved to Canada. On returning to the UK, she helped her mother, Ruth Manning-Sanders, with research for her many books of folk and fairy tales. Her home was in Penzance, Cornwall, where she died.
Anika Manuel obtained a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011. Her portraits have been shown widely in the UK and abroad. She was one of twelve artists chosen to take part in 20:12, an exhibition celebrating the Olympic Games in which she was commissioned to paint a team GB athlete.
Now based in Cornwall, her first solo show took place in the Crypt Gallery in St Ives.
She exhibits internationally and has worked on commissions for clients all over the world.
Felicity Mara was born in London. She gained a degree in Fine Art from Camberwell School of Art and Crafts and moved to Cornwall in 1994. Her work has been exhibited in Cornwall and beyond, and is held in private collections both in the UK and Europe. Local exhibiting venues have included the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance and Belgrave Gallery, St Ives.
In 2013 Felicity began working from Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.
Jo March was brought up on a family farm in south east Cornwall. After graduating from Sheffield University she returned to Cornwall to embark on a career as a self-taught artist. Her work reflects a fascination for the eccentricities which lie just below the surface of rural life. In addition to her skill as a landscape artist, Jo is also an accomplished figure painter. She was commissioned to paint the winner of the English and Scottish Greyhound Derby in 2003 and 2004. Her work has been exhibited at the Limekiln Gallery in Calstock.
Maris works from her studio at Sheffield, near Penzance, and can be contacted via her website at www.stellamarisartist.com. Her work has been shown at the Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.
Born and brought up until the age of nineteen in Falmouth, Markey often returns to Cornwall from his current home. His painting Falmouth 1998 was selected for the Falmouth Art Gallery exhibition 20 Years of Contemporary Art in 2000.
Peter Markey was born in Swansea and studied at Swansea School of Art. His first teaching post was in London, where he met a potter called Beryl Owen. The couple were married in 1956. In 1971 he took up the post of teacher of art and humanities at Trescobeas Secondary Modern School in Falmouth (now Falmouth School).
In 1980 he left teaching and began to sell automata at a shop, Cabaret, in Falmouth High Street. This moved to Covent Garden in 1985, becoming known as Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, which still has permanent and touring exhibitions. In 1986 he and Beryl left Falmouth for Wales, subsequently settling in Somerset to be closer to family.
Markey is considered to be the 'father' of the Falmouth automata makers, and brought many followers into the fold. His work is represented in the Falmouth Art Gallery Automata Collection.
Sam Marks is a second generation potter, specialising in wheel thrown ceramics. He studied and trained to be a product designer before turning his hand to ceramics in 2016. He left London in 2019, moving to Falmouth, where he runs workshops from his studio.
Fran Marks works from a studio in her garden in Delabole, north Cornwall. She uses references from nature to create abstract and semi-abstract pieces in both oils and acrylic. Her work is experimental and she is interested in the effects which result from using copper and iron powders.
In 2023 she joined Prime Women Artists, a supportive and creative network for women artists of all disciplines in Cornwall.