Introduction to Public talks
Catherine Wallace has many years experience of giving art history lectures to a wide variety of groups, societies and Friends organisations including The Friends of Penlee House, Friends of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, St. Ives September Festival, Newlyn Arts Festival, the Friends of Dame Laura Knight Society and The Arts Society.
Catherine’s specialism is Cornish Art and crafts as well as Cornish garden history and includes:
A Christmas in Cornwall:
Christmas Scenes, Cards and Snowscapes by Artists in Cornwall 1880 – 1940
*Alfred De Pass (1861 – 1952) 50 years of philanthropy
*Alfred Wallis (1855 – 1942)
Artists in Falmouth : From Turner to the Present Day
Artists of Anchor Studio, Newlyn – From Stanhope Forbes to the Present Day
Artists of Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives – Part 1: 1890 – 1940 Part 2: 1940 to the Present day
Barbara Hepworth DBE (1903 – 1975)
Barbara Tribe FRBS (1913 – 2000)
*Charles Napier Hemy RA (1841 – 1917)
*Cornish Art 1940 – to present day (including painting, sculpture and printmaking)
Cornish Crafts (ceramics, jewellery, textiles, wood, metal work)
*Dod Procter RA (1892 – 1972)
Falmouth, Flowers, Fairies and Travels Abroad
Pioneer Women Artists in Falmouth (17th century to 1940)
Harold Harvey (1874 – 1941)
*Harold Knight RA (1874 – 1961)
*Henry Scott Tuke RA (1858 – 1929)
Laura Knight DBE RA (1877 – 1970)
*Laura Knight’s Models
*Munnings in Cornwall (1908 – 1917)
*Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1900- 1955
*Newlyn School Artists 1880 – 1930
*Rural Realism: The Influence of Jules Bastien -Lepage on the Newlyn School artists and their International Contemporaries
S.J. Lamorna Birch RA (1869 – 1955)
The Coast of Cornwall in Art Turner to the Present Day
The First Colony of Artists in St. Ives (1890 – 1940)
The History of Cornish Gardens, the houses and the families that built them
A Christmas in Cornwall: Christmas Scenes, Cards and Snowscapes by Artists in Cornwall 1880 – 1940The Nicholsons: An Artistic Dynasty including Sir William, Mabel, Ben ,Winifred and Kate Nicholson,
Stanhope Forbes RA (1857 – 1947) and Elizabeth Forbes (1859 – 1912)
The Art Collection of Falmouth Art Gallery
The Art Collection of Penlee House
*The Art Collection of Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854 – 1931)
*Turner’s Views of Devon and Cornwall
*Walter Langley Ri (1852 – 1922)
Women Artists in Cornwall 1880 – 1940
*Women Artists in Cornwall 1940 – Present Day
Catherine also gives lectures on
*Artists Gardens – Including Monet, Sorolla, William Morris, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, Barbara Hepworth and Derek Jarman
*Turner’s Legacy- Impressionists in Venice featuring Turner, Whistler, Monet, Manet, Sargent, H.S.Tuke, F. Brangwyn, F. Bramley, L.Suthers, Edward Seago, Ken Howard etc
*War Artists 1914 – 1919
*War Artists 1939 – 1945
*lectures available as live Zoom lectures or recorded online videos via this website
To enquire about giving a lecture to your group or Society please contact Catherine here catherinewallace2@icloud.com