Donations

With no shareholders, no owners to create profits for, every penny of income is ploughed back into the charity. Our aim is to enrich people’s lives by nurturing and enabling their creative spirit.

Everyone is welcome whatever their background or level of experience. We provide high quality tuition both in our studios in St Ives and online for you to watch at home or in your studio.

Registered Charity no 1146825

Your donation may help us replace an easel or fund a young person to attend our inclusion and open access youth projects. We subsidise a regular Sunday club for local youngsters and work in partnership with specialist organisations to provide life changing experiences for young people who may be excluded from school, living in poverty or too ill to attend regular school.

If you enjoy and value what we do, please give as much as you can afford so we can continue this valuable work, enriching people’s lives.

Support the Roy Ray Legacy Fund, providing bursaries for emerging young artists.

These are tough times for young people determined to pursue a career in the arts. Roy Ray, principal of St Ives School of Painting for thirty-five years who sadly passed away in May 2021, helped us launch a new fund. His ambition was to leave a legacy that will enable the School to support an age group he believes needs a helping hand, so they can pursue the dream of being an artist, even if the odds can seem stacked against them.

The fund will support bursaries and mentoring, helping young people to access workshops, support and contact with professional artists.

For Roy, coming to St Ives School of Painting many years ago as a student gave him the courage and inspiration to radically change his life and put art at its centre. This fund will help young people to keep that creative light burning. By donating you will strengthen Roy’s legacy and enable the School to deliver this ambition.

We have a limited number of bursaries offering 80% remission of fees for emerging artists aged 19-25, living in Cornwall.