Mary Taylor began her art career studying exhibition design in London. She moved to Cornwall in 1979. During the 1980s she ran her own interior design company which included painted furniture and murals. She attended Falmouth College of Art, attaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. A former member of Taking Space, she now works from her studio on the Lizard. Mary's work concerns the environment and the passing of the seasons.
Stanley Leonard (Buck) Taylor was born in London. After the family moved to Margate in Kent,Taylor studied briefly at Margate Art College. The outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies and led to service in the RAF and a ten year stint after the war as an RAF officer in the Far East. This experience is reflected in many of his paintings. After resigning from his post, he studied art at Cambridge Art College, moving to Cornwall in the 1960s. Living on the coast at Cape Cornwall, he became involved with the St Ives School of Art, devoting much of his time to painting. During this period he met such prominent painters as Peter LANYON, Bryan WYNTER, Karl WESCHKE and Francis BACON. Many of Taylor's paintings reflect the landscape of Cape Cornwall.
In 1972 Taylor moved to Munster in Germany, from where he travelled extensively, exhibiting widely in Germany and the Netherlands. Much of his work is held in private ownership or public collections in Munster. He died in Munster in 2012.
Sutton Taylor was born in Yorkshire. He trained as a teacher and worked in Manchester before travelling throughout Central America, Mexico and the USA. In 1970 he returned to Yorkshire, where he began to experiment with raku, and went on to develop the ancient Asian technique of lustre, which provides an iridescent metallic glaze.
Taylor first exhibited in 1976 in Leeds, then more widely. He was the joint winner of the Grand Prix de la Ville de Vallauris 9th Biennale in 1984. His pots have been displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He has become a widely respected ceramicist whose work is held in public and corporate collections worldwide.
He uses the landscape as inspiration for his work, and lives in Cornwall.
I am working on a research project based on the discovery, in the south of France, of work by the artist Bruce Taylor. The St Ives Archive informed me that they did not have any information though providing a 1962 photograph showing Taylor opening an exhibition with Barbara HEPWORTH. Nevertheless,following a chance encounter with works at an antique market, I found the village where Bruce Taylor spent the second part of his life. Soon after I was able to acquire a body of works (drawing, paintings, sculptures, photographs) which Taylor kept till he died; a body of work that represents a time capsule. I am interested in putting Taylor back on the artistic map; when looking at publications like St Ives Revisited and the Tate Catalogue of the exhibition of the St Ives School, I was surprised that he did not feature, except for a passing reference to him as becoming Chairman of the Penwith Society and having helped a colleague with his ceramics. If any reader is able to help this correspondent, write direct to the following address. He will be very grateful for your assistance.
Gérard Mermoz . The Experimental House . 7, Bexfield Close . Allesley Village . Coventry . CV5 9BG
Gerard has now visited St Ives (March 2014) and found a quantity of new information. See http://alostpageofbritishmodernism.blogspot.fr/
A student at Bournemouth College of Art, Abi Taylor went on to obtain a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chichester University. In 2008 she moved to Cornwall. She has a studio at Whites Workshops in Porthmeor Road, St Ives. She is represented by the Avalon Gallery in Marazion, and the Waterside Gallery, St Ives.
Don Taylor moved to Cornwall from Wantage during the 1970s. A self-taught artist, he lives near Helston. His sculptures are created from Serpentine, and his woodwork pieces are made from locally sourced native woods, driftwood and reclaimed wood.
He became a member of STISA in 2025.
American painter working in St Ives. No detail. He died in Wisconsin (Swamp Lake). The death of (?another) Horace Taylor, St Ives artist, is also reported in the Cornishman, in February 1934.
Mentioned in Whybrow's 1911-20 list of artists in and around St Ives; he died in the First World War.
Possibly the first wife, from Camborne, of Dr William Donald Glynn (aka Bill) Tellam (1899-2006).
As Kathleen Emily Temple, the artist was born at Ipswich, the daughter of Thomas Temple, a draper of 12 Strait Bargate, Boston, Lincolnshire, and his Ipswich-born wife Emily Ann nee Bird, who married at Ipswich in 1878. Her father then took a position as a draper's manager at Southampton where Kathleen was sent to school.
Later she then studied at the Slade School under Henry Tonks and Alfred Rich and also studied in Florence. At Kensington, London in 1911, she married Frank Frederick Bird, an insurance company manager, also from Ipswich, like her mother, and possibly a relative.
They moved to Canada where Kathleen was head of art at Havergal College, Toronto 1911-1913 but then returned to England before the Great War.
She became a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 1902-1911 where she exhibited regularly, while also exhibiting widely (as listed below) elsewhere. She seems to have had a lull in her exhibiting until 1927, when her 72 year old husband died at Fulham, only resuming her exhibiting in 1930, as Kathleen Temple-Bird.
At the outbreak of the Second World War she moved from Chelsea to live at 3 The Warren, St. Ives, Cornwall. By 1949 she had returned to London. She died in Surrey in 1962, aged 82.
Yasuo Terada is a Japanese ceramicist who has worked closely with Jason WASON. They first met in Japan in 2000. Subsequently Wason was invited to work with Terada at his studio in Seto, Japan's oldest centre of continuous ceramic history. Since then they have exhibited and worked together on many occasions, showing in galleries in Japan and London, and several locations in Cornwall. Together they have built a coal-fired kiln at the Leach Pottery.
In 2005, South West Arts and the Sasakawa Foundation Japan funded Wason to work for three months alongside Yasuo Terada at the Seihoji Ancient Kiln Park, as part of the EXPO international festival of Japan.
In 2017 Terada (together with Jason Wason) became LSG Withiel's first artist in residence.
Born in Hong Kong, Laura Terry worked there in the fashion industry, subsequently moving to London. She obtained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Kent. This was followed by a PGCE and a career as an art teacher. In 2020 she retired from her post as head of art, to move to Tintagel and focus on her own art practice, which includes painting and ceramics.
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Kate Terry is exhibiting at the Newlyn Art Gallery 19 July-27 Sept 2014 with Sophia STARLING and Sarah Kate WILSON.
A multi-talented artist in her own right, Denny has taken of late to 'curating' exhibitions on behalf of the NSA. In 2009 she and colleagues took a touring exhibition from the Newlyn Society to the RWA at Bristol, an exhibition which coincided with the launch of the Art Dictionary upon which this database is based.
Born in New England, the son of a physician, the artist studied at the Gerome Studio in Paris. He became good friends with Thomas Millie DOW, and in 1884 the two travelled to the USA where they painted landscapes together in the Hudson Valley.
After Millie Dow and his family had moved to St Ives in 1896, it is thought that Thayer visited them there, and while visiting in Cornwall he painted portraits of Millie Dow's children and several landscapes. While in St Ives, he lived and worked at 5 Bellair Terrace (1891) following the death of his first wife, and visited again in 1894.
Martina Thomas was born in north London and studied at St Martins School of Art. Though she never lived in Cornwall, she was a regular summer visitor to the county over many years. She and her husband, Eric James Mellon (an artist and ceramicist) and their children spent many happy holidays exploring the coastline of west Cornwall. During the winter months back home at her studio in Bognor Regis, she would work these sketches into fully composed paintings. While her early paintings were characterised by muted earth tones, visits to the south west, Spain and Italy resulted in a brighter palette and her later works possess a shimmering vibrancy reminiscent of Van Gogh or Cezanne.
Throughout the 1950s Thomas was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, but by the next decade commercial galleries began to favour abstraction. She did not change her style and so her work never gained the critical recognition which it merited. She and her husband continued to run a summer school for artists at Slindon in west Sussex. She died from breast cancer in 1995.
Six oil paintings by this artist are in the permanent collection of Falmouth Art Gallery, and were photographed for the Public Catalogue Foundation's 2007 survey. A further three of her oil paintings can be found in the collection of Penlee House Museum.
In 2024 we were contacted by Martina Thomas's son, who has listed and photographed over 600 of her artworks. The website (see link below) was created by him to commemorate what would have been the artist's 100th birthday.
Bev Thomas was born in Hayle. He worked in the tin mining industry and as a property developer before retiring in 2007 to take up painting full-time. He is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
Louise Thomas is a painter who divides her time between Berlin and her home town of Penzance.
She is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2017).