Charles Simpson. Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline and Moorland – Branfield, John Populair

Charles Simpson , in the early 1920s the leading figure in the St Ives art colony, produced paintings of great variety. In 1913 he married Ruth Alison, a promising student at the Forbes School and together they established the St Ives School of Art, where Ruth taught portraiture. Charles exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy: pictures of his wife and daughter Leonora students on the beach, huge impressionist canvases of the estuary in the early light. Simpson was known for his pastoral paintings and larg…