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Porthmeor Studios, first occupied by artists in 1904
© Marion Whybrow
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The St Ives Art Colony: 1880-2004 |
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St Ives, at this time, provided just one local commercial exhibiting space: Lanhams Gallery in the High Street, opened in 1887, where paintings could be framed and art materials acquired. The artists were accepted by the local fishing community and their paintings hung in the local public houses, such as the popular Sloop Inn on The Wharf.
Porthmeor beach from the Tate |
By the end of World War I, a generation of painters had died or moved away. In order to revitalise the colony the St Ives Society of Artists was formed in 1927 and a gallery space set up in one of the large studios along Porthmeor Beach. The organisational efforts of the Society’s energetic Secretary, the artist Borlase Smart (1881-1947), ensured that St Ives was again nationally recognised through regular exhibitions he organised for members at provincial galleries around the country, including one of the most highly respected artists of the day, the English Impressionist John Anthony Park (1878-1962). The art world came to play an important role in the burgeoning tourist industry. Between the war years the major railway companies commissioned St Ives painters to produce colourful posters advertising the holiday destinations on their routes.
At the same time, in 1920, St Ives became the home of the studio potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979); the pottery he founded with Japanese potter Shoji Hamada, is still open on the outskirts of the town. And in 1938 Borlase Smart invited the painter and teacher, Leonard Fuller, ROI (1891-1973) to leave London and open a School of Painting in one of the Porthmeor Studios.
Words: Janet Axten
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