Penzance Past and Present (1880) gives the following entry: 'Market Jew Street, Edmonds, Eva, Painter & Earthenware dealer'.
A painting by this artist, Botallack Mine, is in the collection of the RCM, Truro.
The painting, Mount's Bay, by this artist, is in the collection held by the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance.
An art pupil who studied with Algernon TALMAGE between 1906-8; mentioned in Whybrow's 1901-10 list of artists in and around St Ives.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
His painting, Charles Causley (1917-2003), a full-length portrait of the Cornish poet, is one of the main highlights of the Town Council collection at Launceston, housed in the Lawrence House Museum.
Edwards is represented in London by the Hart Gallery, and in Cornwall by the Millennium Gallery, St Ives and the Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, as well as in New York by the Caelum Gallery.
In Cornwall he paints from Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, while making sculpture in his studio at Valley View, Lamorna, TR19 6XN. He is an active member of the NSA. He and his partner, Rachael REEVES, run short courses for limited classes of painting pupils. He is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art.
He was described in Cornwall Today as 'one of the county's leading landscape artists working today'.
Stella Mary Edwards (nee Harding) was born in Sutton, Surrey. In the 1937, 1938 and 1939 Electoral Registers, she is listed as a school teacher in Surrey. It is believed that she used painting as therapy for children with learning difficulties. In 1939 she married Percy Leonard Craig but they were later divorced.
In 1956 Stella married the painter John EDWARDS. From the 1950s she began exhibiting in both Devon and Cornwall, and remained active as an artist until at least the early 2000s. Under her painting name of Yram ALLETS she is listed as a member of STISA from 1959. Her husband attained membership a year later, while they were living in Pathfinder Village, Devon. During the 1960s she had her own gallery in Exeter, with a studio in Tedburn St Mary, where she taught art to the village children.
The couple moved to St Ives sometime during the 1970s. In 1996 they worked from 'Edwards Studio' which was situated in the High Street, St Ives. Both John and Stella Edwards are listed in the 2004-2005 Electoral Register as residing in Carbis Bay.
The above information was kindly provided in 2024 by a correspondent in the USA, who, while on holiday in St Ives in 1980, bought an original framed oil painting of St Ives Harbour signed 'Allets'.
A correspondent (2018) has been in touch to tell us of an exhibition at Lanhams/Studio 70 in St Ives dating from around 1984. A card in her possession promoting the exhibition is headed 'New Paintings by Allets', described as 'an exhibitor at RI London Guildhall, Society of Graphic Artists'.
A correspondent (2018) has advised us of an oil painting in his possession by this artist, 'Through the Pines' which was purchased in the early 1960s in St Ives for £25.
Adrian Edwards has lived in Cornwall since 1990, apart from four years in Nova Scotia. Prior to that he lived in various locations in England and Wales. He has a BA in Fine Art, an MA in The History of Modern Art & Design, and a PGCE. He describes himself as an artist draughtsman, who finds inspiration for his landscapes in locations such as Bodmin moor.
His work has been widely exhibited in Cornwall and Devon and beyond, and is represented in private collections in the UK, France and Canada.
Marianne Edwards has been a member of the NSA for more than 30 years, though she lives in Devon. Her major solo show at NAG was in 1981, and she remains in the NSA today (2010). In 1981 she was also chosen a Westward (Television) Open Award Winner for her simple, sparse, but very evocative paintings of lingerie, books, and other accoutrements of living. Their fragile, almost ethereal qualities draw immediate attention, and her paintings are in many public and private collections. Some have been reproduced as postcards.
John Edwards was born in Truro. Little is known of his early life. He was described in 1963 as a company director, and it is believed he was a self-taught artist.
In 1956 he married Stella Mary (nee Harding) who had been divorced from her first husband, Percy Leonard Craig. The wedding took place in Devon, their home during the 1960s. They were both active artists who became members of STISA (Stella, who used the name Yram ALLETS, in 1959, and John in 1960). Sometime in the 1970s the couple moved from Pathfinder Village in Devon to St Ives, Cornwall.
In 1996 they worked from 'Edwards Studio' which was situated in the High Street, St Ives. Both John and Stella Edwards are listed in the 2004-2005 Electoral Register as residing in Carbis Bay.
John Edwards died in St Ives in 2009.
The above information was kindly provided in 2024 by a correspondent in the USA.
A correspondent (2012) has told us of an original painting purchased in approximately 2000 by him and his wife from the Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, signed by John Edwards, of St Ives Harbour and the harbour wall. The following year, they purchased another from the same gallery, being a long distance view of St Michael's Mount and the village of Marazion.
In 2011, two Cornish paintings (landscape, one of a view of St Michael's Mount) were offered for sale by David Lay in his local/national art auctions, and earlier this year another signed original oil on board painting of the Cornish Countryside was offered on Ebay auctions as by the 'St Ives Artist John Edwards'.
2015: A new correspondent writes: `I have a palette knife oil painting of china clay heaps, pond, cottages, and road which was bought in Exeter in 1965 as a 21st birthday present for me by my father, at a cost of £25. I still like it very much. I also inherited a small oil of Tintagel, looking out to sea with the castle in the background.'
2021: A correspondent tells us of an oil painting by this artist, Edge of Dartmoor, dated 1989, in his possession.
2025: We have been told of a much-loved oil painting of Bodmin Moor, purchased by a correspondent from John Edwards' gallery in Exeter in 1964 or 1965.
Rebecca Eldred works from her studio near the village of Portreath.
The son of Henry and Margaret Elger of Falmouth, the 1891 Census lists him as a 'Scenic Artist, Sculptor' living in Prince Street, Falmouth. None of the standard reference books list him, and no further information currently available.
Angus Ellery was the father of artist-potter Peter ELLERY and the famed Cornish folksinger, Brenda Wootten. A signwriter by trade, he was very creative in his output of what his family teased him was 'chocolate-box art': boats, local scenes, etc. His technique was to build up in (marble) plaster on board, a simple scene which he would then paint in oils. His work was colourful and his paintings sold locally, though he never formally exhibited in galleries.
Angus worked with Peter and Brenda to set up the first Tremaen Pottery at Marazion, and continued to assist when the studio was moved to Newlyn.
Peter Ellery was born in Penzance, the son of signwriter and occasional artist Angus ELLERY and his wife. Always interested in art and especially in painting, he took classes first at the Penzance School of Art. His father noticed his talents and ensured that Peter, after a five year apprenticeship in signwriting, took up a place at the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham. Though his main interest remained with painting - and he took it up again in retirement, leaving a substantial collection behind him at his relatively early death - it was pottery that seemed to offer a future living. From his ceramist tutors at Corsham came the inspiration for Tremaen Pottery, which he and his father together with his sister Brenda Wootten, the Cornish folk singer, set up in Marazion, Cornwall in 1965.
In 1967 the pottery moved on to Newlyn with an increased work force, but within a decade the business had closed. Peter then took over a gallery space in the centre of Penzance (Tremaen's) which traded in arts and crafts of the area, and continued to sell pots there and at the Sloop Craft Market in St Ives.
Peter was an avid supporter of NAG, serving on the committee for many years, and then being chosen to the first elected Council of Management of the Newlyn Orion Company in 1977. He was always helpful, providing elegant decorations for arts club balls, or serving on sales committees when funds were low (frequently), and encouraging and inspiring greater achievements and co-operation within a sometime fractious group of artists. Twice he served as Chairman of the management council: 1979-85, and from 1993-94. By the time he died, he proved to be the longest serving member of both the Committee (from the Original in 1895 to 1974) and the Council (from 1974 to the present), having begun his association with the Gallery in the early 1950s. His widow, Mary continued this service for a number of years, acting as the Secretary to the Council in honour of his long association.
Jayne Elliott was born in Wales and moved to Cornwall with her family as a young child. She has worked at Tate St Ives and from 2011 to 2023 she ran her own gallery, the Summerhouse in Marazion. From 2020 she decided to devote her time fully to her art practice, which includes working both in porcelain and paint.
Worked in Porthleven during the period of the Summer Painting School administered by Michael CANNEY, and the Porthleven Group's exhibition at the Porthleven Gallery, an old china-clay warehouse on the quayside (c1965-6).
Hailing from London, Ellis exhibited in the NAG Christmas Exhibition 1926, and some woodcuts and other work at shows in 1930. According to Tovey, she appears to have moved on to St Ives, or was perhaps resident there.
An American painter (noticed by Tovey) who exhibited at St Ives Show Day 1919, and may be the Pensylvanian-born painter who studied with William Merritt Chase, and is perhaps the Mr Ellis who exhibited three paintings at St Ives Show Day 1923. No further information currently available.
Very little is known about this artist apart from their being British and painting local subjects c19th/20th Century. There are at least two W Ellis artists noted, fully a generation apart in terms of painting period, but as yet no major clues.
The youngest of a family of six boys and three girls in Penpols, Hayle (her mother had died when she was seven), the artist attended the Phil Whiting for several years during 1905-8.
She was a prolific and talented painter, showing particular skill in portraiture, but had to give up painting soon after 1908 due to family demands at home. During the First World War she served as a VAD.
Painting recently noted at auction by this artist, signed and dated 1903, is entitled Cornish Beach. This indicates that Ellis did 'touch down' here but we have no further details at present.
Carol Jane Ellis is a self-taught artist living in west Cornwall.