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Cornish Art Lectures

Skip Navigation Links. David Tovey lectures extensively on Cornish art and holds day-long seminars on the art colony at St Ives.

He is included in the Directory of Lecturers approved by The National Association of Design and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) and lectures regularly to NADFAS groups and to other organisations, particularly Friends groups of Public Art Galleries.  He has taken part in a number of Symposiums organised by Tate St Ives.  Topics include

General Overviews

Exploding the Whistler Myth - The Dawn of the St Ives Art Colony

The Development of the St Ives Art Colony (1885-1914)

Sea Change - Fine and Decorative Art in St Ives 1914-1930

Creating A Splash - The St Ives Society of Artists (1927-1952)


Social History topics

St Ives - The Artists and the Community (1860-1930)

St Ives - The Artists and the Methodists

St Ives - A History of Artists' studios


Specialist Subjects

Masters and Pupils : Art Schools in St Ives (1895-1924)

Landscape and Marine Painting in St Ives (1885-1914)

The St Ives Fishing Industry pre-1914, as depicted by the Artists

Newlyn School depictions of the faith of the fisherfolk

The life and art of William Titcomb (1858-1930)

Wood, Wallis and the Nicholsons - A Re-Assessment

Bernard Leach and the dawn of the craft tradition in St Ives

Printmaking in West Penwith prior to 1950


International Aspects

The International Influence of the St Ives Art Colony pre-1914

American Artists in St Ives (1878-1948)

Australasian Artists in St Ives (1885-1939)

Cornish Art in Foreign Public Collections (pre-1914)

Cornish Art in Foreign Public Collections (post-1914)