Ginnie Bamford has been a long time potter working from the Sloop Craft Market in St Ives, producing beautiful, simple tableware, hand turned and decorated in quiet, floral designs. Though working and exhibiting from her Pottery workshop until retirement in 2004, her commissioned work has meant travelling around Cornwall for exhibition and display in museums and galleries. Her table settings have been used for museum purposes such as the dining room at Pendennis Castle, and in National Trust Properties. Simone Slater took over her workshop in 2005, selling a variety of ceramics and some jewellery.
In Truro in the 1980s and '90s she was part of the exhibition and sales group of the Guild of Ten craft workers. She married in the late '80s and is now known as Ginnie Harrison. At that point her pottery mark changed. (Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics)
Rose Bamford is based in Bude, north Cornwall. The subjects of her oil paintings include landscapes, birds, fish and boats.
A painter of landscapes, of Heanor, Nottinghamshire in 1921 (J&G), the coastal painting of St Michael's Mount, dated 1921, indicates that he was working in the area at this time, or shortly before.
Bampfield was born in Kidderminster. Circumstances prevented him from gaining an art school education and he entered the local carpet industry. In 1966 he moved, first to London and soon after to Cornwall, making his home on the north coast. Fascinated by the sea, he began to develop his natural artistic ability and rapidly built up a considerable reputation. He has exhibited at the Camel Valley Gallery in Wadebridge.
Ysobel Banfield lives in Cornwall's clay country where she makes art about landscape and nature. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Sunderland University in 1995. Since then she has exhibited across the UK including London and Birmingham. She has also sold her work internationally, and takes part in Open Studio events.
In 1997, Serena Banham paid homage to her native home with an exhibition entitled 'Land's End: A Collection of Landscapes', shown in London at The Gallery, Portobello Road.
Her work was shown in a solo exhibition in November 2001 at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
The National Maritime Museum of Cornwall at Falmouth gave Banham their first commission to photograph and exhibit her photographs. 'The Sea' was executed during 2003-4.
The essence of Claire Banks' painting is colour and energy inspired by many sources including her travels.
Name referred by Great Atlantic Map Works, St Just, as a painter-artist who exhibits with them. She was an Artist in Residence at Cape Cornwall over the years 2002-9, and now lives in Hereford.
Born in Nova Scotia of British parentage, she was the daughter of the Governor General of the province, A G Jones. She studied painting with Forshaw Day before marrying the landscape painter Hamlet BANNERMAN and coming to Europe with him. By 1891 they were living at Holbein, Alexandra Road, Penzance. She exhibited at both the RA and the RBA.
Her titles include Grandmother's Treasures (1891) and Edge of the Woods, both of which may have been painted in West Cornwall. Later she is reported as living in Great Marlow and in London, where she died.
Born in Marylebone, London, the 1891 Census lists him as an Artist Painter living in Penzance. Benezit notices only his work prior to this move to Cornwall, giving dates of fl 1879-81. By 1890 Bannerman and his wife were living in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. His style of social realism fitted well into the Newlyn style of story-telling paintings.
An oil painting of The Cathedral, Truro, executed in 1996, by this artist, is part of the collection housed by the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
Born in Leicester, the artist is known to have worked in Birmingham and later in Chelsea, London. A Newlyn subject is found, dated 1884, by Bednar. Barber died in London on the 12 June, 1892, age 56 (GRO). His exhibition dates were given as 1880-89 (Graves). Tovey reports two of his paintings to be of St Ives subjects in his Study Day Notes (2006).
Portrait of a Boy (after John Opie) by Barber is part of the art collection at the Lawrence House Museum, Launceston.
Hanna Barber grew up in north Yorkshire. After a career in nursing, she moved to Cornwall. where her love of the coast around Gwithian and St Ives finds expression in her paintings.
He is listed as an Artist subscriber at NAG in 1920. No further information currently available.
Born in Edinburgh, he began work as an engraver, then became a student at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools in 1908, winning the Guthrie award (c1911) and a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship.
Barclay moved to Cornwall in 1935, living at Zennor, and was known for his decorative and mural paintings. "A sincere impressionist", French Impressionism was a great influence on him. He was a versatile artist, also producing woodcuts and book illustrations, and his work included landscapes, London parks, Cornish harbour and moor scenes.
Barclay rejoined STISA after WWII and was elected to its Council, becoming the Secretary in 1959 and retiring shortly before his death. When assisting Fuller at the St Ives School of Painting, he proved to be a kind critic and encouraging to newcomers.
Rachel Barclay was born in Falmouth and is known to have resided at Carenver, Stracey Road, Falmouth, in 1901. Earlier addresses include Helston, Carwinnion Cottage in Mawnan Smith, and Bideford (Devon). She had two sisters, Georgina and Isabella, the latter having been an art student.
Rachel first identified as an artist while staying in St Ives in 1911, and exhibited from then until 1916. She is known to have shown 98 paintings of gardens and landscapes at the Walker's Gallery, London.
According to the Falmouth Packet & Cornwall Advertiser, and the Royal Cornwall Gazette in September 1888, Rachel Barclay's ornamental flower designs were shown at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. She was also an accomplished needlework embroiderer, and her name is recorded in the Cornish Telegraph of September 1908 as having exhibited at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in Camborne.
The Barclay Home and School for Blind and Partially Sighted Girls was founded in Brighton in 1893 by Gertrude Campion, to provide industrial training for blind women. By 1905, there were nearly 40 residents.
The Barclay Workshops for Blind Women, a weaving industry, began in 1905 in premises in Praed St London in order to give employment to women trained in the Barclay Home in Brighton who wished to live in London. The Workshops occupied a number of premises before moving to 19-21 Crawford St in 1919. The Barclay Workshop was taken over by the London Association for the Blind in 1941. It is not known why or how these weavers came to be showing their work in Cornwall, or in what connection with the Newlyn Art Gallery.
Joseph Bard was an expatriate Hungarian writer known for a novel Shipwreck in Europe (1928) and short stories written in English, and as a literary editor. He settled in the United Kingdom where he was later known as Joseph Bard. His background was Jewish and Croatian. He was married to Dorothy Thompson from 1922 to 1927, and later married Eileen AGAR in 1940.
He was a friend and supporter of Ezra Pound, with whom he corresponded when Pound was confined to hospital. Recorded as staying at Lamb Creek, The Fal in 1937 in Surrealists in Cornwall (1937): gathered together were Roland PENROSE, Eileen AGAR & Joseph Bard, NUSCH & Paul ELUARD (whose wife Gala became the muse of Dali), Max ERNST and Lee MILLER (the photographer), Ady FIDELIN, Man RAY, Leonora CARRINGTON, and E L T MESENS.
Pip Barfield has lived in Cornwall since 2018, when she embarked on a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Since graduating in 2022, she has exhibited her work widely in Cornwall.
West Penwith subject. No further information available at present.
The artist moved to Newlyn in 1947 and remained six months before moving to nearby Zennor on the north coast. He returned to London at the end of 1948, and then moved to USA where he stayed 1949-53. In 1953 his address was Petworth, Sussex.
Born 25 May 1858 at Wolverhampton, the artist exhibited two paintings at Birmingham in a RBSA exhibition that indicates his having visited in Cornwall, possibly in 1895 (Bednar). These were Church Lane, Newlyn (1896) and The Lizard Point from Kynance (1897). He worked as a sub-postmaster in Birmingham, and subsequently died there on 19 May, 1911, age 53 (GRO).
Ben Barker is a ceramicist working from a pottery in Cusgarne, near Truro. His current work is mainly hand thrown, reduction fired porcelain, and is both functional and decorative.
Barker offers Raku workshops.
A ceramicist based in Penzance, Katharine Barker creates abstract sculptural pieces which evoke coastal themes.
In 1977 she graduated from art school with a degree in Textiles and Fashion Design, and worked for most of her career in textile conservation. During this time she gained a BSc from the Open University. In 2013 she joined a ceramics class, later purchasing her own kiln. Currently she is developing a range of small ceramic sculptural pieces following coastal themes.
Her work has been widely shown in Cornwall and Warwickshire. She is a regular exhibitor at STISA open shows.
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).
The Manchester-born artist, with a father of the same name, was one of five sons and three daughters. He trained in Paris (where he also exhibited at the Salon), Belgium and Holland. At the age of 24 with the intention of furthering his artistic studies in Rhode Island he sailed to America, where he also met his future wife, Elizabeth Johnson; he took out US citizenship in 1887. In 1891 he married Elizabeth Johnson, and the couple had two sons. The Barlows lived first at Holly Dale in Lamorna for a year, then at 9 Barnoon Terrace (1894-), Carrack Dhu (1898-) and 25, The Terrace (1901-1908) successively in St Ives (Tovey 2009, p42).
His style was to paint atmospheric landscapes in the Barbizon tradition, and was much influenced by Corot. He tutored many painters at Lamorna from 1893 - 1917, and partnered Louis GRIER in managing the St Ives School of Art. Amongst his pupils were Charles Walter SIMPSON and Charles Garstin COX. He continued to exhibit at the RA and the RWA till the end of his life. He died in Penzance.
A painter born in Colombo, Ceylon (Benezit). A recent correspondent (2014) has provided further information and retains a number of her paintings (in the family). She worked from the Puffin Studio, St Ives, in later life, and died in Bromley, Kent. Her strengths and interests were in marine paintings and landscapes.