Johnson & Greutzner mention one artist with this name, W J Evans (there are many W Evans) and this was the name of a Birmingham painter who exhibited there in 1897. Whybrow records the name as visiting the Arts Club in St Ives in the following decade. Nothing further is known at this time.
Evans was born in Richmond, Surrey, and his wife's name was Florence W Evans. It was not known until recently that he and his wife immigrated to the United States in 1909 and were resident in Manhattan, New York City in the 1910 US Census. How long they remained before returning is not known, except that the New York port authorities have the artist arriving on the Berengeria on 10 May 1924.
Nothing is yet known about his early training. Wilfred Evans gave the following addresses for sending in work to exhibitions and galleries: Bushey, Herts (1887), Richmond, Surrey (1899), Southwold, Suffolk (1907), and London (1908). Whybrow also finds him visiting in St Ives in her initial list of artists at the Arts Club starting from 1883.
He died in Dorchester, Dorset on the 15 April, 1947 and probate was granted in the London registry on 22 October of the same year.
Recent correspondence indicates that he produced paintings subsequently used in a published book for his niece. Further information awaited.
Studied at Falmouth Art College and Bristol University (1983-1985). Currently based in Mousehouse, Lizzie's early career as a painter of landscapes, street scenes and interiors has given way to a focus on films, media and the arts.
Bernard was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, and after National Service studied at Liverpool School of Art, followed by three years at the Camberwell School of Art, London, and then a teaching diploma. After more than a decade of teaching, during which time he was a Departmental Head at the Nottingham College of Education, with a family of five children and his wife Audrey he moved to Newlyn, Cornwall. Here he and Audrey M EVANS set up the Mounts Bay Arts Centre which operated as a residential school for outdoor painting in summers up until 2001.
Both engaged in all aspects of the management of the school - teaching and administration and domestic work - and exhibited regularly, mainly at NAG but also internationally and in mixed shows nationally. Bernard served as Chairman of the NSA and Council of Management member of NAG over many years. He and Audrey were also mainstays of the international charity AMNESTY over many years, organising fundraisers and exhibitions to draw public attention to the plight of political prisoners everywhere.
His work was carefully executed, representational in style, and often focused on the working port around him at Newlyn. As Cross points out in his 2002 book on the contemporary artists in Newlyn, he had then embarked on a series of large-scale paintings of the Thames and London buildings at various times of the day and night. Other paintings were done from sketches made from the London Eye.
Bernard Evans died in 2014.
Audrey met her husband, the artist Bernard EVANS, when they were both students working for their Diplomas in teaching in London. Together they have taught and administered the Newlyn Painting Classes at their spacious home in Newlyn. Both have been actively involved in the NSA and NAG through challenging times, showing unwavering support for the West Cornwall art colonies and its traditions.
Her work is primarily in painting landscapes and floral pieces in detailed and delicate style.
A largely self-taught artist and designer, Tara Evans moved to Cornwall in 2012 and was a member of Taking Space until 2015.
Gwyneth Evans is based near Truro. Her wide-ranging work takes inspiration from the local area and also the Isles of Scilly. Her creative practice includes working with living willow, having created living structures in schools in Cornwall, and in a large garden exhibition in Gloucestershire.
On first joining STISA his address was given as St Andrews, Fife, but by 1934 he and his wife Dorothy EVERARD had settled at 3 The Warren, St Ives. Everard worked from the Horse Shoe Studio, St Ives.
Married to the artist C S EVERARD, she lived with her husband at 3 The Warren, St Ives and worked from the Dragon Studio in Norway Lane. She specialised in portraiture, and Jimmy Limpotts (a well-known St Ives character) was one of her subjects (1937).
A correspondent (2013) describes a St Ives watercolour by Everard which she has inherited of a local harbour scene with soldiers, and families with children milling around, dated 1947.
A further correspondent (2023) has told us that she has in her possession a painting of her mother by Dorothy Everard, which was done in Radlett, Herts, during World War II.
Cornwall was an important influence for Everett, and he first visited in 1896. He stayed at St Ives with friends who were establishing the St Ives Arts Club, in order to pursue marine and coastal painting. His address was in London in 1900, and Co Wicklow, Ireland in 1904.
Following the end of WWI Everett went to Helston in 1919. He then moved on to Porthleven before renting a studio at Sennen, which he chose for its good view of the sea, staying there until May of the same year.
The artist was born in Melbourne, Australia and studied at the National Gallery school under Bernard HALL between 1893 and 1895. He exhibited in Sydney with the Victorian Artists Society and the Royal Art Society before leaving for the United States in 1898. Working mainly in New York, with frequent visits to Europe over a thirty year period, he established a good reputation as a painter with post-Impressionist affinities.
Originally his name was Myer BLASHKI, but he changed it in the US in the lead up to WWI. Essentially a colourist, he is recorded as exhibiting at the Show Day St Ives in 1911 as Blashki. In 1918-19 he exhibited from a studio in Chelsea, and showed at the International Society. He returned to Australia at the end of 1931 and worked for a year in Queensland. He then went to Sydney and Melbourne, holding exhibitions of his work, and died suddenly at Melbourne on 3 January 1939. He left a widow and one son, Philip EVERGOOD, also an artist, living in America.
Trained at Herkomer Art School, Bushey, Frances Ewan worked on the staff of an illustrated weekly newspaper before moving to London in 1896. She illustrated a number of books on a wide range of subjects.
By 1911 she had moved to St Ives, working from first 6 Porthmeor Studios, then from Number 2. Her early exhibits were aquatints and etchings, and later during the 1930s watercolours and oils. She produced some portraits and coastal and harbour scenes as well as flower studies in the 1950s. She was also a member of the Arts Club.
Work by this artist is included in the art collection of University College Falmouth (UCF).
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk and brought up in Constable country, Exworth studied at Ipswich School of Art (1951 ff) and Royal College of Art from 1955, for three years. His parents were Charles William Exworth and his wife, Ivy Elsie nee Bennett. In Suffolk he noted the artistic influence of church sculpture and architecture.
In 1959 he married Susan Kalman in Kensington, London. The couple arrived in Cornwall in the early 1960s: 'Perhaps in Cornwall one can still be truly remote and independent.' Ray Exworth started the sculpture department at Falmouth School of Art (now part of the University of Cornwall).He did not believe in art for art's sake, but that 'sculpture should have some social context and not be impersonal.' He received Awards from the Arts Council in 1975, 1977, and 1984 and a South West Arts Fellowship in 1985.
His work was regularly on show at the Plymouth Arts Centre and the Royal Cornwall Museum.
A remarkable discovery made by Tovey in his social history of St Ives, when studying the ratepayers accounts for properties associated with the artists residing there, was the Ratebook entries for the Piazza Studios. From these, it was found that Nicholas F was a ratepayer for No 5 in 1914 and 1917, and for No 1 in 1925. Tovey goes on to explain (pp158-9) his interest in art and photography, following the opening by his father Carl Faberge of a London shop, for which his son was sent to assist in the running. He was drawn to St Ives in the years immediately before WWI. Photography became the galvanising force in his life.
The St Ives Times in March 1916 announced he was painting in St Ives and that he was to remain for the duration of the War. A refugee from Belgium and a highly regarded symbolist painter, Fabry had been commissioned by University College, Cardiff to paint two canvasses, War and Peace. Tovey in his latest historical review of artists in St Ives, Sea Change, treats the reader to a section on 'The symbolist works of Emile Fabry' (Chap 3, section 3.3.)
After the Great War he was asked by Belgian Government to help design a Victory Monument/Memorial.
A Mr Faed is listed as a pupil in the FORBES SCHOOL in 1927, and in the summer exhibition of NAG in 1928 the artist exhibited a painting, A Spring Watercolour.
The following summer he exhibited two etchings. He is probably the son of one of the four Faed brothers of Kirkcudbrightshire, distinguished artist sons of their equally, if not more, distinguished father John FAED (1820-1902), a painter of historical genre (primarily Scottish).
Kate Fairbairn is based in Mevagissey. Her love of the natural environment is reflected in paintings of marine life and coastal scenes.
Ann-Marie Fairbrother works from Trewarveneth studios in Newlyn. A geography graduate with an MA in Art, she describes herself as a 'psychogeographical adventuress' whose work is linked to natural processes. She makes installations, interventions and interactions using mixed media.
There are three Miss Falcons in Johnson & Greutzner, one each from London, Milverton (Somerset) and Cheltenham. Only Miss Maud FALCON is noticed by Wood as flourishing 1888-90 with two flower paintings (GG), and she was a NAG Exhibitor in October 1898.
Annie Falkner was the sister of the novelist John Meade Falkner. She never married. She and her partner Leslie HERVEY associated themselves with the St Ives colony in 1907, and took over one of the Piazza studios during WWI. Originally from a clergy family in Dorchester, she is said to have trained at the Slade in 1889. Records show that she exhibited in London in the 1890s from an address in Bedford (1893) and from addresses in Berkshire (1900, 1908) before finally settling in St Ives. She also exhibited frequently at the Beaux Arts, where a joint show with Leslie Hervey was held in 1926.
Their final Show Day in St Ives was in 1916, and sometime thereafter the pair appear to have moved on to France, with Annie exhibiting with frequency during the 1920s at the Salon d'Automne, where she also served as Secretary.
In an article written for the Western Morning News (May 5,1972), Frank RUHRMUND writes:
'An exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Conor Fallon is now being held in the one-man showroom of the Newlyn Art Gallery. A painter whose work has impressed in mixed exhibitions in recent years, this is his first individual show there and possibly his last, unfortunately, as he is shortly returning, I understand, to his native Ireland. He will be missed, for he is a painter with a very personal style and vision...He is a painter with ideas and courage; he demonstrates his versatility and puts himself at risk by including four Maquettes for Owls, a series of plasters for bronzes; hollow-eyed, white, yellow and orange, they are a delight...' (reprinted in Hardie (1995, p135)
He was married to the painter Nancy WYNNE JONES.
Robin Falvey is an artist, writer and journalist who works from his studio gallery in Penryn. His paintings are inspired by his experiences as a lifeguard, surfer and sailor.
The artist studied at the Slade School, and with Julius OLSSON at St Ives.
She worked for a period in Paris, and before marriage lived in Putney as a teacher of art at the Richmond School of Art. She also lived at Datchet, Bucks (1902-1911), and in London at Redcliffe Square (1913), and Chelsea (1917). Her exhibition record is extensive.
Faraday attended Winchester School of Art and Croydon College of Art in the late 1960s. Subsequently she completed her BA degree and PhD at Essex University, and then a Fine and Applied Arts (ceramics) course at the City Lit, London in 1991.
Since then she has exhibited widely in galleries and exhibitions, mainly in London, but also around the country and abroad, and the south-west. In Cornwall she has exhibited at several venues (listed below). She sells her work through shops and galleries and by commission.
Baroness and Mr Raffash FARINA are mentioned in Whybrow's 1883-1900 list of artists in and around St Ives.