Mike is a figurative painter whose work meditates on mortality and life’s transience by focusing on the lives of historical figures and abstracts found images into original artworks using depth, colour, texture, and light.
I paint stories, emotional, visual memories of my life.
I work intuitively, the paintings tend to reveal themselves to me.
Narrative, humour and atmosphere play a large part of explaining the situation.
My inspiration comes from the surrounding countryside,particularly the woods,rivers & streams.
Seb West is a St. Ives born artist who has spent over 30 years producing vivid, contemporary paintings of the Cornish landscape from his own unique perspective. Initially recognised for his painted linocut reliefs, Seb has since diversified across a wide range of media and styles. Since 2012 he has been creating mainly abstract and semi-abstract works which incorporate heavy textures and a variety of patinas including metallic paints and metal leaf.
Born in Leamington Spa, Mary undertook her art education at Mid Warwickshire College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. She taught art and crafts in London before moving to Cornwall in the early 1970s. Since 1998 she has been involved with the Rambert Dance Company during their visits to the Hall for Cornwall, working with them during rehearsal. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Bob Dawson’s work has been inspired by environmental and maritime issues taken from studies of the South West coast line.
John Emanuel (1930-2024) was a giant on the St Ives art scene, creating work from his Porthmeor Studios space since the 1980s. We were and remain very proud to have had John as an honorary member of the St Ives Society of Artists from 2023 until his passing in 2024.
Peter Wray was trained as a painter, extending his practice into printmaking in the early 1970s, after being exposed to the richness and unique expressive power of the intaglio surface.
With his background in painting, and being largely self-taught as a printmaker, the integration of painterly methodology into the graphic process was a natural development, and it is this combination of approach which gives his work its distinctive style:- “prints about painting, and paintings about prints”.
‘Eric Ward’s pictures continue the best traditions of the St Ives School of Painting exemplified by the great artists of the past, among them Borlase Smart, Louis Greer and John Park’