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    An edition from this publication is held in the Tate collection
  • Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003)

    Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003)

    Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA, was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art, renowned for his bold use of colour and shape, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall.

     

    Frost studied at Camberwell School of Art under renowned painters Victor Pasmore, Ben Nicholson and William Coldstream, before relocating to Cornwall. Here he was elected a member of the Penwith Society and worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth, hence he became associated with the St Ives group.

     

    Prints were an essential element of Frost's oeuvre. He believed that painting and printmaking were inseparable and that each medium informed the other.


    He was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize in 1965, became a Royal Academician in 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998. A retrospective of his work was held at The Royal Academy in 2000. His works are in public and private collections including Tate, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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  • Robina Jack

    Robina Jack

    Robina Jack creates both intricately patterned ceramics and paintings on found wood. Her work is informed by a childhood spent mucking around on an Oxfordshire farm and makes frequent nods to a vanished past.

     

    Jack’s work is predominantly populated by a menagerie of characterful animals, from wistful horses to purposeful hens. Often a ship in full sail cuts across the waves somewhere between the viewer and a distant horizon, a nostalgic allusion to her family’s maritime connections and to a great grandfather who captained a transatlantic clipper during the reign of Victoria.

     

    Robina Jack trained at the Central School of Art in London in the 1970s and has exhibited extensively in the UK, most notably at Messum’s on London’s Cork Street and St James. She has pieces on permanent display at Ham Yard Hotel, London and the Whitby Hotel in New York, curated by the renowned interior designer Kit Kemp.

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  • Carol Wainwright (b. 1943)

    Carol Wainwright (b. 1943)

    Carol Wainwright is a painter, potter and textile artist based in Yorkshire, England.

     

    Wainwright’s practice explores the relationships between form, colour, texture and pattern; often using unexpected combinations of glazes and oxides to create unique objects from functional ware to large sculptures.

     

    When it comes to painting, as with textiles, it’s the layering of materials which Carol is drawn to, her choice of paper and the qualities it possesses act as a starting point from which she builds upon through the use of paint and collage.


    Carol Wainwright studied Ceramics at West Surrey College of Art and has been a selected member of the Craft Potters Association since 1991, she was awarded the South West Arts Award in 1994/96 and has exhibited widely in the UK.

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  • Jack Penny (b. 1988)

    Jack Penny (b. 1988)

    Jack Penny was born in Chichester, UK and lives and works in Bosham, West Sussex.

     

    In his evocative figurative paintings, Penny depicts contemporary urban life from the perspective of a rural-dwelling outsider. His largely improvised and haphazard compositions question the sustainability of modern society, established systems, and the nine-to-five hustle of the blue-collar and white-collar workers as they go about their daily lives. Jack’s influences include the instinctive spontaneity of de Kooning, the palette of Diebenkorn, the vulnerability of Baselitz, and the vitality of Nick Cave.

     

    Over the past two years, Jack has had four solo exhibitions in London, Berlin, and Hong Kong and his works are held in private collections worldwide.

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  • Jessica Cooper (b. 1967)

    Jessica Cooper (b. 1967)

    One of Cornwall’s leading contemporary painters, Jessica Cooper lives and works in the south west of Cornwall, having studied at Falmouth College and Goldsmiths, University of London.

     

    She exhibits nationally, including at The Exchange, Newlyn Art Galleries and Tate St Ives. She is a Royal West of England Academician and a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. Cooper's work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide.

     

    'Her work is loaded with artistic integrity and an appreciation of simply being: her paintings conveying those overwhelming moments of understanding and feeling that life can occasionally dish up. In her subtle hands, less really does become very much more, the object a quietly poetic metaphor for human existence.‘ 

     

    - Elizabeth Knowles OBE, Art Historian and Curator

     
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  • Stephen Chambers RA (b. 1960)

    Stephen Chambers RA (b. 1960)

    Stephen Chambers RA is a British artist and Royal Academician who was born in London and trained at Central St Martins and Chelsea School of Art. 

     

    His work hovers between abstract and figurative, minimal and decorative, where colourful images of figures are held in a kind of suspended animation. His paintings speak of states of mind, behaviours and sensibilities which disrupt natural laws and fashion a very personal poetic language.

     

    He has exhibited widely, with more than 40 solo presentations and is held in many international collections including Arts Council England; Deutsche Bank, London; Downing College, Cambridge; Government Art Collection, London; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Pera Museum, Istanbul, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

     

    Stephen Chambers was elected a Royal Academician in 2005.

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  • Sandhills Studios

    Sandhills Studios

    Sandhills Studios is a collaboration between husband and wife duo Poppy Ellis and Marc Taylor. Based on the south coast of Kent, the artists work on the same canvas, drawing inspiration from the dramatic coastline and hinterland of Romney Marsh.

     

    With a background in Art Direction and Antiques, the pair work as a duo, taking turns to work on the painting, actively responding to each other's progress and perfecting the art of knowing when to stop. The collaboration allows them the freedom to explore genres outside their usual portraiture and still life repertoire.

     

    Sandhill Studios paintings are held in private collections worldwide.

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  • Mary West (b. 1980)

    Mary West (b. 1980)

    Born in London, Mary West graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2002.

     

    West paints abstract landscapes that take on a life of their own. Curious cacophonies of flora and fauna blur the lines between colour and form. Veering between abstraction and figuration, the initial marks and drips of paint provide a framework from which the painting emerges. Mary works intuitively, often using her hands to smear on the paint and encourage gestural marks.

     

    Her work is in private collections in the UK, USA, Denmark, Hong Kong and Australia. Recent exhibitions include A Room of Her Own at Irving Contemporary in Oxford and Works on Paper at Blue Shop Cottage in London.

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  • Nicola Tassie (b. 1960)

    Nicola Tassie (b. 1960)

    Nicola Tassie initially studied painting at the Central School of Art but took up ceramics soon after completing her BA, establishing a studio in Hoxton in the 1980s. Her practice encompasses both wheel-thrown editions of functional pots as well as more sculptural works which explore the expanding precincts of ceramic form.


    Her works have been exhibited at the London Art Fair; Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design; Fog Design Fair in San Francisco and Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Cornwall. She was selected for the Crafts Councils A Future Made programme and exhibited during Miami Design Week, 2016.

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  • Henrietta Dubrey (b. 1966)

    Henrietta Dubrey (b. 1966)

    Born in Sussex, Henrietta Dubrey studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. Drawn to St Ives, with its rich artistic heritage and, in particular, the middle-generation artists such as Roger Hilton and Terry Frost, she relocated to Cornwall and now lives and works in St Just.

     

    Working in both figurative and abstract genres she thrives on the diversity that such a discipline provides. Her abstract canvases use bold lines and colour to communicate space and physicality. Spontaneity and gesture are also an important feature in both styles.

     

    Henrietta Dubrey has exhibited widely in the UK and her works are held in collections including De Beers, London; The Old Bank Hotel, Oxford and the Twofour Group.

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  • Daisy Cook (b. 1965)

    Daisy Cook (b. 1965)

    Focusing on the interactions of the elements, where the sky meets the land and the land meets the sea, Daisy Cook's abstract imaginings capture the essence of a place, rather than providing a realistic representation of the place itself. Daisy’s paintings explore the beauty of nature in a refreshingly unusual way. Concerned with the energy and harmeous meetings of shape, colour and form, Daisy creates work that embodies the singular spirit of a place.

     

    Cook's works are in collections including the Bank of England, Heckfield Place, The Great Eastern Hotel and the Royal Free Hospital, London. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Mall Galleries and Pump House Gallery among others.

     
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  • Tamsin Relly (b. 1981)

    Tamsin Relly (b. 1981)

    Tamsin Relly is a London-based artist whose work includes painting, printing and drawing. After establishing her practice in her home of South Africa, she moved to London and completed her Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011.

     

    Relly’s practice explores the effects of contemporary consumer-based lifestyles on the balance of the Earth’s ecosystem. Drawing from snapshots of day-to-day life, nature and images found in the media she works with the fluid and unpredictable qualities of her materials and processes, to present impressions of urban and natural environments in states of uncertainty or impermanence.


    Relly has shown in group exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sid Motion Gallery, London, among others and has had solo exhibitions at the House of St Barnabas, The Place Downstairs and Brocket Gallery in London. Her work is held in collections including Simmons Contemporary, Hogan Lovells, and National Maritime Museum in London.

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  • Richard Ballinger (b. 1957)

    Richard Ballinger (b. 1957)

    Richard Ballinger is a landscape painter who explores the theme of solace, but from memories of a child’s perspective. Although made in Cornwall, and occasionally informed by drawings, his series of exotically coloured, beautiful landscapes are symbolic meditations on formative experiences of a happy, carefree childhood in idyllic, rural Gloucestershire.


    Ballinger’s images, constructed with often thickly-impastoed interlocking shapes or blocks of colour, nod to the symbolic style of such post-Impressionist painters as Paul Gauguin. His varied treatment of the painted surface, from meticulous application of small brushstrokes to vigorous scraping away and scoring, evidences the painting process over time.

     

    Richard Ballinger has lived and worked in Cornwall since 1999 and has exhibited extensively in the UK and been a member and a Vice Chair of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

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    Hallway: Family Gallery Wall