About St Ives
Eric Ward
Catalogue cover: Towards St Ives Harbour Oil on canvas / 40.5 x 51 cm With reference to Borlase Smart
Eric Ward About St Ives 15 June – 4 July 2020
Belgrave St Ives 22 Fore Street, St Ives Cornwall TR26 1HE
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Mending lobster pots at St Ives (Eric Ward 2nd from right)
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Foreword Eric Ward was born in St Ives and has lived in the town for most of his life. After leaving school he worked as a fisherman, becoming St Ives Harbourmaster in 1985. Ward joined the RNLI in 1964 as a St Ives Lifeboatman, promoted to coxswain of the lifeboat in 1989. It is little wonder, then, that the artist’s primary subjects would become the sea, the harbour, and the town itself. Interested in art from an early age, Ward is a natural painter working in the tradition of the Realist, plein air painters, and can often be seen painting in St Ives using his trusted pochade painting box. Eric began painting in 1985 at the St Ives School of Painting and has been an active member of the St Ives Society of Artists for many years. As well as examples of his signature views of St Ives, for this exhibition we asked Eric to consider views of St Ives painted historically by some of the artists that have inspired him, including Arnesby Brown, William Cave Day, John Anthony Park, Leonard Richmond, Borlase Smart, W. H. Y. Titcombe and Terrick Williams, and to reinterpret those views in his own style.
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The artist painting at St Ives harbour
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Sunny Morning at St Ives Harbour in pochade box
Sunny Morning at St Ives Harbour Oil on board / 25.5 x 30.5 cm
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West Pier at St Ives Harbour Oil on board / 25 x 30 cm With reference to J A Park 6
Morning Tide at St Ives Harbour Oil on canvas / 51 x 61 cm
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Luggers Anchored at St Ives Oil on panel / 23 x 25.5 cm
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Morning Light at St Ives Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.5 cm With reference to J A Park 9
From Carne Glaze Place towards St Ives Harbour Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.5 cm With reference to J A Park 10
Bethesda Hill, St Ives Oil on panel / 40.5 x 30.5 cm
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Ebb Tide at St Ives Oil on canvas / 61 x 76 cm
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Drinks on the Terrace Oil on canvas / 51 x 61 cm With reference to Leonard Richmond 13
Evening Tide at St Ives Harbour Oil on panel / 23 x 25.5 cm With reference to Arnesby Brown 14
Towards West Pier, St Ives Oil on canvas / 23 x 25.5 cm With reference to William Cave Day 15
A Saturday Life Class at the St Ives School Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.3 cm 16
Custom House Lane, St Ives
The Sloop Inn, St Ives
Oil on panel / 23 x 14 cm
Oil on panel / 30.5 x 25.5 cm
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Low Tide at St Ives Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.5 cm
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A Summer Morning at St Ives Harbour Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.5 cm
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A Kitchen Still Life Oil on panel / 30.5 x 40.5 cm
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Barnoon Hill Oil on board / 40.5 x 30.5 cm With reference to W. H. Y. Titcombe 21
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Godrevy Lighthouse from the Studio
Gull Rock in September
Oil on panel / 14 x 23 cm
Oil on panel / 25.5 x 30.5 cm
Heavy Surf at Porthmeor Beach Oil on canvas / 61 x 76 cm With reference to Borlase Smart 23
New Pier at St Ives Oil on panel / 23 x 25.5 cm With reference to Terrick Williams 24
St Ives Island from Clodgy Point
The artist painting St Ives Island from Clodgy Point
Oil on panel / 20.5 x 25.5 cm
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Polly's Flowers at Belgrave St Ives
Still Life in the Studio Window
Oil on panel / 23 x 14 cm
Oil on panel / 23 x 25.5 cm
Still Life with a Hemy Catalogue Oil on panel / 40.5 x 40.5 cm
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Eric Ward
Born: 1945
Film and Television 2019
Studied
St. Ives School of Painting
Memberships St Ives Society of Artists and
1998
Midweek with Libby Purves, BBC Radio 4
1996
Oils and Oilskins, Video Diaries, BBC2. Featuring Eric’s life and a year
Chelsea Arts Club, London Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions 2020
About St Ives, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
Journey to Paradise on Earth, a Japanese film about art and St Ives
2000 TV Spotlight South West, BBC TV TV Spotlight South West, BBC TV in the making, the programme was acclaimed by The Times.
2019
Fowey River Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall
Bibliography
2015
Paintings of the Barbara Hepworth Gardens
Painting in Cornwall and Across the Tamar, Eric Ward, 2013
and St Ives Bay, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
Portscatho, A portrait of an Art Colony, Halsgrove, 2007
2009 Gallery Monma, Sapooro, Japan
St Ives 1975–2005: Art Colony in Transition, Peter Davies, 2007
2006 Waterside Gallery, River Fal, Cornwall
Eric Ward’s St.Ives: From His Studio and Beyond, Halgrove, 2003
Selected Recent Mixed Exhibitions
Review and photograph of London Exhibition, The Daily Telegraph, 1998
1998–2020
Mixed Exhibitions, Belgrave St Ives, Cornwall
2019
A Good Night: Nocturnes for Night Owls, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2018
Alan Coombe Fine Art, Hayle, Cornwall
2010–2012
Fowey River Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall Frost & Reed, London
2009
Eric Ward and Chris Insoll – Two Art Colonies,
Artscrafts, Paddy Burt, The Mail on Sunday, 1997 Portrait of the artist as a talented all-rounder, Matthew Bond, The Times, 1996 St. Ives Revisited, Peter Davies, Old Bakehouse Publications, 1994 St. Ives 1983–1993, Marion Whybrow, Antique Collectors Club, 1994 Studio Artists in their Workplaces, Marion Whybrow, St.Ives Printing and Publishing Co., 1994 A faceful of salt and a handful of paints, Peter Dunn, The Independent, 1992
Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall Walker Galleries, Harrogate Public Collections Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
Freddie
Penlee House Museum, Penzance
Etching / 10 x 15 cm Edition of 50
Grey College, Durham University Westfield School
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Launching the Lifeboat, St Ives Slipway / c1960s (Eric Ward far right at base of mast)
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