Cornish Masters showcases the work of the leading British artists of almost a century when Cornwall was at the forefront of artistic development in the country; from the establishment of the Newlyn School of en plein-air painters in the 1880s to the rise of the St Ives School of abstract artists in the 1950s and 1960s.
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St Ives School
The Modernists-
Paul Feiler
1918 - 2013"The emptiness had a great effect on me. It was the visual experience that gave me the sense of reality that is so remote".
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Terry Frost
1915 - 2003"with the sea on three sides …. I can see the sun rise and the sun set from where I am every day. I’m with the gods".
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Peter Lanyon
1918 - 1964"I believe in the subject of awareness in myself of place and time and in abstraction as the process of making".
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Christopher Wood
1901 - 1930"... the coastline is arid with huge rocks and towering black cliffs, and little coves and creeks with the greenest water you ever saw".
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John Wells
1907 - 2000"... how can one paint the warmth of the sun, the sound of the sea or the journey of a beetle across a rock or thoughts of one's own whence and whither?"
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Adrian Heath
1920 - 1992“I was anxious to get away from what I was looking at … and to make the simplifications objective and not due to the whim of emotional mood".
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Michael Canney
1923 - 1999"The essential principle is that ... nothing extraneous is added. In this limitation lies the creative challenge”.
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Trevor Bell
1930 - 2017" ... not describing or alluding to anything else, but I wanted to re-create a strangeness and power of imagery I find in the North"
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St Ives School
The Impressionists-
John Anthony Park
1878 - 1962"the best of English colourists and unsurpassed as a painter of light. He painted like an angel".
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Dorothea Sharp
1873 - 1955"Dorothea’s pictures suggest a near perfect way of life which can be imagined to have existed before the First World War".
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Julius Olsson
1864 - 1942“He did more than any other painter to stamp St Ives as a British outpost of impressionism".
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Newlyn School
The en plein-air painters-
Stanhope Alexander Forbes
'Father' of the Newlyn School of Artists 1857 - 1947Paintings for sale by Stanhope Alexander Forbes 1857 - 1947, father of the Newlyn School of artists -
Harold Harvey
Most gifted Cornish-born Newlyn artist 1874 - 1941Paintings for sale by Harold Harvey, 1874 - 1941, of the Newlyn School of artists. Harold Harvey was the most gifted of the Cornish-born Newlyn artists and his ever changing style traces the progression of British art at the start of the 20th century. -
Walter Langley
Pioneer of the Newlyn Colony 1852 - 1922Paintings for sale by Walter Langley, 1852 - 1922, pioneer of the Newlyn School of artists. -
Edwin Harris
Pioneer of the Newlyn colony 1855 - 1906Paintings for sale by Edwin Harris, 1855 - 1906, pioneer of the Newlyn School of artists. -
Frank Richards
Founding member of the Newlyn School 1863 - 1935Paintings for sale by Frank Richards, 1863 - 1935, Newlyn School artist. -
Henry Scott Tuke
Founder of Newlyn before settling in Falmouth 1858 - 1929Paintings for sale by Henry Scott Tuke, 1858 - 1929, Falmouth artist. -
Henry Meynell Rheam
Hon Secretary of the Newlyn Society of Artists 1859 - 1920Paintings for sale by Henry Meynell Rheam, 1859-1920, member of the Newlyn School and one of its most gifted water colourists. Rheam was Honourary Secretary of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
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Falmouth
The Marine Artists -
Contemporary
Artists active post-1990
