Born: 1936 

Moved to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1974 

Member St Ives Society of Artists 1975-1979 

Principal of St Ives School of Painting 1977-2000 

Acting Principal 2003 - 

Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists 

Member of the Penwith Society of Artists (until 1992 ) 

Member of the Chelsea Arts Club, London 

Founder Member St Ives Tate Action Group (STAG) 

Founder member St Ives Archive 

Founder Member Porthmeor Printmakers 

Founder Trustee St Ives School of Painting Trust 

Founder Trustee Little Parc Owles Trust 

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 

1981 Salthouse Gallery, St Ives 

1981 Newlyn Art Gallery 

1983 Civic Centre, Enfield 

1983 Salthouse Gallery, St Ives 

1983 John Graham Fine Art, Harlow 

1984 Beaux Arts, Bath 

1984 Penwith Gallery, St Ives 

1985 ICAF 85, London (Beaux Arts) 

1987 New Craftsman, St Ives 

1987 Barratts Restaurant, Plymouth – Life Drawings 

1988 Salthouse Gallery, St Ives 

1988 Hofbauer, Geneva 

1988 Buchlandlung Palmer, Gstaad 

1990 Auvers-Sur-Oise, France – Van Gogh Centenary Festival 

1994 St Ives Pottery Gallery, with potter John Bedding 

1996 The Picture House, Exeter 

1998 The Salar Gallery, Hatherleigh, Devon 

2002 The Penhaven Gallery, St Ives 

2003 The King’s Lynn Art Centre 

2005 The Penhaven Gallery, St Ives 

2005 The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden 

2007 The Penhaven Gallery, St Ives 

2008 The Great Atlantic Gallery Falmouth 

2008 The Falmouth Art Gallery . (Evilution Project ) 

2009 Truro Cathedral (Evilution Project ) 

2009 St Ives Ceramics with potter Robin Welch 

2009 St Ives Parish Church (Evilution Project) 

2010 Coventry Cathedral (Evilution Project) 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

St Thomas’s Hospital, London 

Allied Irish Bank 

Falmouth Municipal Art Gallery 

LECTURES etc 

1978-91 Regular lectures to Art Colleges, Societies, and art groups from abroad Since 1985 has lectured regularly at the Tate Gallery, London, on various aspects of painting in St Ives from the 1880s to the 1980s 

1978-92  

Since 1983 Regular reviews in the arts and local media. 

Since 1985 Numerous contributions to TV and Radio programmes including  

1985 Painting the Warmth of the Sun Channel 4 documentary series  

1993 The Late Show BBC 

1993 Tate of the West WCTV 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Catalogue introduction to Geneva Exhibition, 1988, by Frank Ruhrmund 

Four works reproduced in Painting Abstract Pictures by Ronald Pearsall, published by David & Charles 1991 

‘Profile’ by Frank Ruhrmund, St Ives Times & Echo, October 1992 

‘Profile’ by Toni Carver, St Ives Times Times and Echo Tate Opening Supplement, 1993 

Creative Collages by Nina Leland and Virginia Lee Williams, 1994, North Light Books, Ohio 

Drawing Towards the End of the Century, published by Newlyn Gallery 1996 

Behind the Canvas by Sarah Brittain and Simon Cooke, Truran Publishers 2001 

Breathing Life into Material by John Charles Clark, published by Penhaven Publications 2002 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

Co-Author, with Henry C Gilbert and Colin Orchard of Art About St Ives July 1987 

Revised edition in colour 2006 

The St Ives School of Painting, A Personal Memoir. 2008 

‘Fragments of a Wartime Childhood’. Poems with installation at Falmouth Art Gallery. 2008 

 

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS ORGANISED 

1977-85 St Ives September Festival 

1982 ‘St Ives, The Sea and the Seeing Eye’ Penwith Gallery 

1983 ‘John Park - Painter of St Ives’ Penwith Gallery  

1984 Whistler Week (Festival) 

1985 St Ives Arts Centenary Festival 

1985 ‘St Ives Artists 1880s - 1980s’Documentary Exhibition, the Crypt, St Ives  

1987 Art About St Ives Festival 

1988 50th Anniversary of St Ives School of Painting 

1988 ‘Drawn from Life’ Penwith Gallery 

12008 70th Anniversary of St Ives School of Painting ( Exhibition ) 

 

 

HOME ADDRESS STUDIO  

Morwenna The Battery  

6 Carthew Terrace The Island 

St Ives St Ives 

Cornwall TR26 1EB Cornwall TR26 1SY 

Tel 01736 797174 Tel 07767 337 813 

 

 

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