Jayne Anita Smith was born in London and obtained a BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth. She lives near Penzance and works from a studio at Trewidden.
Karen Smith was born in Essex and studied Textiles and Graphic Design in Southend. She moved to Cornwall in 1999. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Clement Church near Truro, occupying the Lychgate studio. In 2004 she became a member of Taking Space, an exhibiting group and a collective of women artists.
Her paintings are on permanent display at the Camelford Gallery (with the Cornwall Watercolour Society).
Nicholas Smith, son of landscape painter Caesar Smith, was born in East Anglia. He began his artistic career shortly after leaving school in Peterborough, creating watercolours inspired by the wildlife in his native fens. During the 1980s and 1990s he exhibited widely across the Midlands and in London. In 1997 he moved to Cornwall, making the transition to oils in order to portray the vast skies and rugged coastline of the south west. Smith works from The Bank Square Gallery in St Just.
Anthony Smith, a self-taught artist, spent his early years on the Gower peninsula in Wales. After moving to Cornwall he established Gallery Anthony near Mullion, on the Lizard peninsula. Since its opening in 2001 the informal atmosphere of the gallery and studio has played a considerable part in attracting a wide range of visitors. Anthony paints on Oriental and handmade papers and, together with Marjorie SMITH, he offers regular demonstrations which provide an insight into the techniques he has developed over the years.
Dick Smith lives in St Ives during the summer and Devon in winter. He exhibits his paintings at Imagianation, St Ives. A man of wide-ranging talents, he is also an actor who has performed at Cornwall's Minack Theatre.
Joshua Smith grew up in a rural Scottish fishing village. Currently living in Cornwall, he creates canvases which evoke the dramatic light of the landscapes around his home.
Marjorie Smith had a career as a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator before the job she took on as manager of Anthony SMITH's gallery in Mullion ignited a fascination for art materials. Having learnt to use water-soluble pastels on Oriental paper, she began to design stylised shapes based on organic forms. A solo exhibition followed, for which she produced large paintings in acrylic on canvas.
Victoria Smith is a member of Lizard Art Co-operative. She says: 'My paintings are a search for a balance, a stability of space and form fabricated by a process of layering and generating illlusionary depth.'
Smith was born in London, but has lived in Cornwall since 2001. His studies were at East Ham Polytechnic (1983-4), Norwich School of Art (1985-88, BA Hons) and then at the RA (1989-92, Postgraduate Diploma).
Jesse has travelled and exhibited widely - UK, USA, Germany - and has been greatly influenced by travels to Norway, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, Nepal and Italy. In 2007 his work was selected for Art Now Cornwall at the Tate St Ives. In 2010 he and fellow artist Richard BALLINGER worked as art tutors on a Norwegian cruise ship, and took great inspiration from visits to museums and working art colonies along the way. Briefly he has also served as chairman of the NSA (2009), but stood down due to lack of time.
Much of his subject matter has been in documenting family life (in his paintings) and especially the lives of his children and their manifest characters. Locally he is represented by Goldfish Fine Art, St Ives, Edgar Modern in Bath, and the Jill George Gallery in Soho, London.
The artist is a tutor on the course programme of the Newlyn School of Art, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn.
In 2012 he was part of a four-artist collaboration TAap-Chuan Xin with Sam BASSETT, Richard BALLINGER and Chris PRIEST, exhibiting at Cornwall Contempory, Queens Square, Penzance.
Leroy Smith was the curator of 'Edge of Dark', an exhibition of work by fellow members of NSA, planned for April 2020 at Tremenheere Gallery. This was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic until October 2020.
In April 2022, in collaboration with Creative Youth Network, he co-curated 'Unstable Monuments Bristol', a project to support emerging artists.
Trained by the Plymouth figurative painter, the late Robert O Lenkievicz, Smith moved to St Ives in 2013. He started printmaking in 2015 and is a member of Porthmeor Print Workshop. His current focus of interest is collagraph printmaking. He works from a studio in Towednack, St Ives.
He is also a maker of Spanish classical and flamenco guitars.
Simon Smith was born in Cornwall and on returning to the county settled in Porthtowan. His paintings have been exhibited at Galleria St Ives.
Born in Sturgis, Michigan, USA, Hassel Smith's life story in both England and America is well rehearsed on the internet on sites referenced below.
He first came to Britain in 1962 with his wife and four sons, at the suggestion of the Gimpels of Gimpel Fils Galleries, London. Their suggestion was Mousehole, Cornwall and the family stayed for one year, making many friends locally. They returned to the USA to various teaching posts and exhibitions, and in 1966 Paul FEILER invited Smith back to teach as a Senior Lecturer at the West of England College of Art. Remaining there until 1978, Smith spent a further period teaching as Principal Lecturer at the Bristol Polytechnic and Cardiff College of Art. His local connections remained strong through his friendships with Patrick HERON, Paul Feiler, Michael CANNEY and Peter LANYON amongst others who also taught art in the West country and lived part-time and long-term in West Cornwall.
Returning to work in the States, where he exhibited widely, Smith was to receive many honours and awards, and also taught at various art schools, Smith returned in later years to live in Britain. He died in Sutton Veny Nursing Home nr Warminster, Wiltshire in 2007.
A Bristol artist, with many Cornish titles to his name, Reginald Smith is not to be confused with Arthur Reginald Smith 1871-1934, a Yorkshire artist. A recent correspondent (2014) has stated that the artist was born at Batheaston nr Bath Somerset. And his later residence was at Oakfield Grove, Clifton, Pembroke Rd Bristol.
Jane Smith grew up in the Midlands and was a student at Dartington College of Art. Subsequently she obtained a BA (Hons) in Ceramics and Glass from Birmingham City University. She has been working with clay since the age of ten. She spent 25 years as a teacher of glass and ceramics but currently works full-time as an artist, while running her own business, Jane Smith Glass.
Her work is sold through several galleries including Cornwall Crafts Association, Trelissick and Trelowarren, and the Poly Guild in Falmouth. She undertakes both private and public commissions. Smith says 'My work is now heavily influenced by the dynamic landscape of Cornwall and my passion for the patterns formed in the natural and man-made environment.'
He exhibited for two years sending in from The Hut, St Levan, primarily to Liverpool where he exhibited 8 paintings in 1909.
An amateur artist who was possibly an illegitimate daughter of the Prince Regent and lived at Ince Castle, near Saltash, Cornwall. Her only significant known work is at the Whitworth.
She is recorded as a member of STISA in 1932 when she worked from Bluebell Studios.
Dutch painter of landscapes and florals, many in modern photo-realistic style, from Amsterdam staying at 14 Ayr Terrace (Feb 1915) with his wife.
In section 3.6 'The brief but productive visit of Dirk Smorenberg' in Sea Change (2010) Tovey adds significantly to our sparse knowledge of the artist's year-long visit to St Ives from 1915-16.
Born in Richmond, Surrey (1858), the artist emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and studied at the Art Students League in New York. He married English-born artist Florence Francis in 1888. It is believed that the couple first went to Bucks County, PA to visit the Lathrops in 1898. A member of the New Hope School's first generation, he became an eminent landscape artist, noted for his dock scenes of St Ives in his father's native Cornwall, although he painted many American subjects, as well.
A much loved instructor at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art and Design, from 1899 to 1943, Snell often took his students to St Ives in summer for painting holidays. The St Ives Times reports him as 'staying in the town at the moment' during July 1914; they mention that he is an American and has brought 20 pupils with him. A picture of the artist can be found on Bucks County Artists interactive database: James A Michener Art Museum library. He died on January 17, 1943 in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Update on former entry for: James Herbert Snell (1862-1935) Snell was a London-born landscape painter, who was an occasional visitor to the colony and whose work is represented in the St Ives Town Collection. He studied at Heatherleys and in Paris and Amsterdam, and was based for most of his career in London. He was a prolific artist, exhibiting 45 times at the RA, 47 times at the RBA, where he was made a member in 1890, and 118 times at ROI, where he was made a member in 1909. He was elected a member of the St Ives Arts Club on 16th January 1909 but resigned that June. Accordingly, his Academy exhibit of 1909, The Close of a Stormy Day, is probably a St Ives scene. The painting of St Ives Harbour owned by the Town Council probably also dates from this visit, as it shows the harbour beach before the construction of Wharf Road. He appears to have revisited the colony in the early 1920s, as Carbis Bay, Cornwall was hung at the Paris Salon in 1924 - he had won a medal there the year before. His final exhibit at the Salon in 1925 was Dawn. Cornish work is not common in his output, but various paintings of Padstow have come up at auction, which are dated 1933. St Ives Harbour (oil on canvas) is in the collection of the St Ives Town Council. He may be a relation of Henry Bayley SNELL, but as David Tovey writes, there is no firm evidence of this.
The son of William Henry (1866-1938) and Emily Jane (1858-1936), Snell was a well-known figure in both the local and artistic community of Newlyn. On leaving school he joined the family business 'W.H. Snell & Son, Sculptors, Carvers and Granite Merchants' (founded 1888), and learned the craft of monumental masonry. He also attended classes at the Penzance School of Art. From the start he loved the work; it became a consuming passion, more important to him than money, or even, at times, family life. His workshop was originally at the back of Foundry House, Newlyn and later moved to Gwavas Quay, near the Ice Works and Tom BATTEN's workshop.
Another workshop at Paul, near the Sheffield Quarry, was the granite source, and during the 1920s, when War Memorials were in great demand, a workshop was opened on the large site at the southern end of Alexandra Road. Among his friends were Stanhope FORBES, for whom he acted as model in his painting Fire at the Royal Exchange, John Drew MacKENZIE, Reginald Thomas DICK, Harold HARVEY and the GARNIERs, all frequent visitors to his workshop. Another friend was Alan Gairdner WYON, the Vicar of Newlyn from 1936, and an eminent sculptor and engraver.
Examples of Snell's work can be seen all over the United Kingdom and as far afield as Russia. He was also involved in the restoration of Madron Church in 1936, during which an 8th century inscribed stone was discovered, (now against the SW wall). During his career he produced many thousands of churchyard memorials throughout the country including those in Sancreed Churchyard to his friends from Newlyn - Geoffrey Sneyd GARNIER and Jill GARNIER, Stanhope FORBES and Maud FORBES, Thomas Cooper GOTCH and Gotch's daughter, Phyllis.