Mary Jewels
Mary Jewels (b.1886-1977) began painting in her mid-thirties after being given a canvas, a brush and four tubes of paint by Cedric Morris in 1919.
In an interview with a fellow Cornishman, Frank Ruhrmund, Mary insisted, "I am influenced by nobody and entirely self-taught. A true Celt, my loving my Cornwall, with its lovely stone hedges, and beautiful blue sea, puff-ball clouds and little fishing coves. What more could one wish for?" She dismissed the primitive label "an illiterate peasant". Frank Ruhrmund agreed, for him Mary's work was possessed with grace and skill.