Cornwall Artists Index

She exhibited handprinted silks and stuffs at NAG in the Christmas Show of 1925.

Roy Stringfellow was born in Portsmouth but lived for most of his life in Looe and Polperro.

Aarron Stroud was born in Surrey. He studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art. He is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Falmouth.

The St Ives Times records Miss Stuart as a participant in the St Ives Show Day of 1923.

Stubbs was born in Crowlas, near Penzance, where she spent her early childhood, before the family moved to Hertfordshire where she was educated. In 2007 she obtained a BA (Hons) in Art & Visual Culture from the University of the West of England in Bristol. Stubbs has exhibited widely in Bristol and Cornwall. In 2010 she returned to her Cornish roots, settling in Newlyn, where she pursues her art practice alongside her career as a writer.

Her artwork is inspired by a love of the natural world. In 2001 she was presented with the Wessex Watermark National Award by David Bellamy for her environmental mural 'Yesterday, Today, the Future'. Stubbs' owl collage 'Night Flight' took her to the finals of the 2009 BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year Award.

This landscape painter is identified by Wood as the brother of Frederick 'Fred' Clive NEWCOMBE, who adopted a pseudonym to distinguish himself from his father, John SUKER, and his brother, Arthur, both of whom were also artists.Not only was Arthur Suker brother of Frederick Clive Newcome, he and "Fred" were first cousins to the well known artist and illustrator, Walter Crane (1845-1915).

Phil Whiting was born in mid 1857 at Tranmere, Cheshire, the son of John Suker, a landscape painter and his wife, Elizabeth. By 1871 he is living with his large family in Birkenhead and is recorded as a scholar in art. It would appear that he married Emily Tomlinson early in 1881 and at the time of the census they were boarding at a lodging house in Whitby.  In their early married life they appear to have moved around many times, living in Chester 1882, Liverpool 1883, Merton, Surrey 1886, before settling in Cornwall by 1890. Arthur is listed in the 1891 Census as an 'Artist-Landscape Painter', married to Emily, and their home was at Tregiffian Vean, St Just in Penwith.  He exhibited By the Western Sea at the RA (1886).  His sending-in address was Lands End, Cornwall (1890), but by 1895 this had changed to Teignmouth, Devon. By 1901 they had moved to Brixham and were still there in 1911.

He is probably the Arthur Suker whose death is recorded in the Totnes RD in 1940 aged 85.

Mentioned in Whybrow's 1921-39 list of artists in and around St Ives.

An oil painting that appears to be of Cornwall and entitled Beach Scene, by this artist, is in the art collection of St Michael's Hospital, Hayle.

Tessa Sulston studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art, then taught art in London, Australia and more recently at Magdalen College School in Oxford. She moved to Cornwall in 2006 to set up Callington School of Art.

Maurice Sumray took up engraving first, and when he was 29 he won a scholarship to Goldsmith's College. He claimed that his earlier work was far better than anything he did later, perhaps because of the influence of the engraving. the British Museum purchase of two of his works encouraged him greatly and he began to exhibit internationally.

Born in London, Sumray and his wife Pat returned to her native Cornwall in the late 1960s where they lived and he worked in a flat overlooking Porthmeor Beach, St Ives. Maurice was an irascible, intriguing and unpredictable artist who worked from a studio in his own home, and took meticulous care and immense time over his paintings, always working with a small, thin brush, taking up to a year to complete any painting. Always symbolic in presentation - apples, baskets, tin and paper figures representing circus performers, flowers, birds (The Little White Dove an example) - were combined and re-combined in painting after painting. However, the meanings were to him alone, and these he never explained.

Major retrospectives of his work were mounted at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives in 1984, and at the Falmouth Art Gallery in 1997 to great acclaim.  Though often dismissive of both his admirers and his critics, the latter exhibition brought him great pleasure.

In 2001, when Brittain and Cook profiled 40 of the major artists of the area, he made the following statement: 'My work is the type you either love or hate and the people who love them must see their sensuous side. Painting is a passion but for me there are other passions, one you love it, the next you hate it. I'd sooner play a game of poker.' And that he did with frequency, taking the opportunity whenever he sold a major painting, to flee to London where a not infrequent partner at poker was the Egyptian actor Omar Shariff. In London he would stay until he had lost the money he had made.

Gathered together on the Fal at Lambe Creek in 1937 were Roland PENROSE, Aileen AGAR and Joseph BARD, Nusch ELUARD and Paul ELUARD (whose wife Gala became the Muse of Dali), Max ERNST and Lee MILLER, Ady FIDELIN, Man RAY, Leonora CARRINGTON and E L T MESENS.

St Ives exhibitor.

Heather Sutcliffe met her future husband, Charles H THOMPSON, when they were both studying at the Herkomer School in Bushey. A portrait of her by Charles was shown at the RA in 1894. 

A TB sufferer, he left for a sojourn in South Africa, where it was felt that the warmer climate might help his condition. Heather could not afford to go with him. Charles missed her so much that he decided to have the portrait of her shipped over. The ship sank and her cargo was lost, so Thompson was paid compensation - which was enough to pay for a ticket for Heather to join him. They were married in South Africa in 1896 and their only child, Lorenz Sutcliffe Thompson, was born there in 1898.  

They moved to Cornwall in 1903, moving from Newlyn up into Oakhill Cottage, at the top of Lamorna, on the through road near Trewoofe. Both of them captured the beauty of the landscape in a series of canvases that are unexpectedly impressive. 

In 1905 Thompson was appointed the first curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Guildford (created in memory of the famous Victorian artist George Frederic Watts).  It was a prestigious post. Heather managed the pottery, which was very busy, while Charles oversaw the construction of the sculpture gallery and looked after the great Watts legacy. One aspect was a school and workshop for clay sculpture. Students for this were based at The Hostel at Compton. The Thompsons lived on site in the house, which is still used by the curator today. They remained there for a decade.

IN 1915 they moved back to the far west of Cornwall. They set up home at Chyvarrian, on the road beyond Lamorna, leading towards Lands End, above the beautiful Penberth Valley. She continued to paint under the name of Heather Thompson. She was noted for her miniatures and exhibited at NAG (1924). Heather suffered for many years from severe rheumatoid arthritis and died in 1936. 

In later life Charles became a familiar figure, walking around the area in an distinctive old felt hat. He died in 1949 while staying at Worthing. His body was brought back for burial at Sennen.

The wife of Lester SUTCLIFFE, Elizabeth was also the sister of the artist Edward TREVOR.  Bednar comments: 'Although three sources state that Lester Sutcliffe was living in Newlyn in 1887, I could find no evidence of a visit to Newlyn by Elizabeth Trevor.  They married in 1891, in Wales.'  It is nonetheless clear that her brother Edward had been to Newlyn earlier (unless this was another artist of the same name.)

A letter written by Stanhope FORBES and postmarked 20th October 1887 noted 'We were all of us round at Sutcliffe's last night.' Also, Iris Green notes that the couple lived for a brief period after their marriage in a cottage called 'The Bridge' in the centre of Newlyn village.