Borlase Smart

Robert Borlase Smart (1881 – 1947) worked as a journalist (art editor and critic on the Western Morning News/Illustrated Western Weekly News from 1901 to 1913). He is principally known as an artist, in which capacity he became a founding member of the St Ives School during the years following his return from the First World War.

Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon early on he studied with F J Snell in Devon and later with Julius Olsson. He joined the Artists Rifles and served through the war. In 1916 he met and established a lifelong friendship with Leonard Fuller while they were producing illustrations of the Lewis gun.

When the war ended he returned with his wife to St Ives where a school of artists formed around them. He exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London in 1921. Borlase Smart published a number of books on the techniques of painting, and was a key figure in establishing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariners' Church.

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