Cornwall Artists Index

A landscape painting signed with the name Mason is part of the art collection of St Michael's Hospital (SMH) at Hayle, Cornwall.

Massey sent-in a watercolour, The Missing Boats, from Penryn to RI (1893), which suggests a local connection.

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Frederick Massey worked for Harrisons the well-known photographers in
Falmouth. He painted several watercolours of the Cutty Sark at anchor in
Falmouth harbour around 1920. I own two such paintings. He also painted in
oils 'Mackerel Fishing off Falmouth' being one. I own another, which is
unsigned, of two men in a rowing boat off The Manacles.

From a family of potters (thirty-nine generations), Matsubayashi was an engineer and kiln specialist.  He re-designed and then rebuilt the Japanese climbing kiln at the Leach pottery during his stay there between 1922-24.  At the 1924 Show Day at St Ives, he exhibited a study of a branch of Japanese medlars and two crabs at Lanham's Gallery.  Later that year he collaborated with Katherine PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE on the setting-up of her kiln at Coleshill.

NAG exhibitor

see Mrs Julia Beatrice IVIMEY

Maggie Matthews was born in Wales, and brought up in the Welsh mountains. She studied at Newport Art College, then Exeter College of Art and Design (BA, Hons).

She moved to West Cornwall in 1988, establishing her studio in Newlyn. She was married to the artist-craftsman Jonty HENSHALL and has exhibited work under this name. Upon their separation she has reverted to her maiden name Matthews.

She exhibits widely in the UK, in addition to locally in several private galleries, and her paintings have also been shown in New York and widely in the USA (1999-2000). Her work is represented in a number of collections. From 1996 she has exhibited regularly in mixed and solo shows at the Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery, St Just. From 2004 she has been showing paintings in group shows with Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly, and participating in the Affordable Art Shows in Bristol and London. Clifton Contemporary in Bristol and Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh have also shown her work.

She is primarily engaged with abstract works inspired by the meeting of sea and sky, usually of intense and vibrant colour.

Born in Birmingham on 27 September 1854 (GRO), Bednar has noted a Newlyn title by this artist in 1899, though it is unlikely that he did more than visit West Cornwall as his address from the early 1890s remained the same until 1911 (The Studio, Dashwood Terrace, Banbury, Oxfordshire), when it became The Studio, 9 Park Terrace, Oxford.  By 1917 he was living at Old Headingford, Oxford.

At the RBSA Autumn exhibition of 1900 he exhibited Evening: St Ives Harbour, Cornwall, which was priced at 8 guineas.

His titles included An Angler's Haunt, An East Coast Fishing Town and Sunset at the Pier Steps, Whitby. His death was registered as 25 January 1926 at Headington, Oxford, age 71.

Maugham exhibited and sold Preparing the Soil at NAG in 1907 to a purchaser from the Lake District, and Snow to a visitor from Farnham.  His home address was Millhouses, near Sheffield, and he exhibited from there at Leeds the following year.

Georgina Maxwell was a student at Central St Martins School of Art. After moving to Cornwall, she completed an MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University.

Her art practice focuses on the effect of pollution, such as plastics, on the marine environment.

Forbes, in A Newlyn Retrospect, remarked about May: 'On one occasion having heard of the arrival of a famous draughtsman, I called at the studio which I was told he had just taken. The first thing that caught my eye on the familiar walls was a huge and admirable caricature of my own face and figure. Quite unabashed its author rose to greet me, and this was my first introduction to Phil May.'

Born on 22 April, 1864, Leeds (GRO), at age twelve May became a scene painter in Leeds, joined a travelling theatre company, and later worked as an illustrator in London and then Australia (1885-88) and Paris before joining the staff of Punch in 1895. By 1893 he had produced Newlyn-based work. His lively and expressive style was worked mainly in pen, ink and wash. His best cartoons are of cheeky London street urchins. The artist died on 5 August, 1903 at the age of thirty-nine in London (GRO).

Dee May lives in Helston and is a member of Lizard Art Co-operative. She studied at Falmouth School of Art in the 1960s, subsequently working as a photographer in London. Since returning to Cornwall she has exhibited with the Three Spires and has had a solo exhibition at Helston Museum.

John May is a sculptor and photographer based in Crackingon Haven, north Cornwall.

A freelance artist and glass painter, Mayer exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851. 

It seems very likely that he toured the West Country  (and Penwith) in the year 1852, when he presented at exhibition a West Penwith subject. In 1853 he toured Wales and the Cotswolds with sketchpad and watercolours - Sept/October. He went into partnership with Thomas Baillie in 1854.  The firm produced several hundred stained glass windows throughout the UK as well as overseas.  

Mayer was also an early and keen amateur photographer and Photographic Society member from 1854.
 

Becky Mayes works from Krowji studios, Redruth. She graduated from Falmouth University in 2013 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art.