Alfred Wallis: ships and boats

Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) is one of the most original and inspiring British artists of the 20th Century. Promoted by the artist Ben Nicholson amongst others, Wallis’s paintings influenced the development of British art between the wars. The directness of Wallis’ vision reflected a lifetime of living by and from the sea. His paintings are of what he knew, remembered and imagined. Yet they are also timeless stories about survival and the nature of our relationship with the world. As Jim Ede commented “Wallis is never local.”

With over 70 illustrations, excerpts from letters and texts by Michael Bird, Ben Nicholson and Jim Ede, this book takes a fresh look at this extraordinary artist and his relationship to Kettle’s Yard. It includes some of Wallis’s best works, from ambitious paintings such as Saltash to what Wallis knew and loved best: ships and boats.

104 pages, 210mm x 170mm, 70 colour, 4 B&W illustrations
ISBN 978 1 904561 40 8

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Winifred Nicholson: Music of Colour

This book brings together some of Nicholson’s most eloquent essays with extracts from previously unpublished letters between the artist and Ede, and the words of their mutual friends, the poet Kathleen Raine and collector Helen Sutherland. With an introduction by Kettle’s Yard curator Elizabeth Fisher exploring Nicholson’s relationship with Ede, the book is richly illustrated and includes reproductions of all works in the collection, a biography and bibliography.

84 pages, 210mm x 170mm, 32 colour, 7 B&W illustrations
ISBN 978 1 904561 41 5

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ANDY HOLDEN - Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time

72 pages, 210mm x 167mm
ISBN 978 1 904561 39 2

catalogue out of print, however it is available for viewing on issuu

Helena Almeida: Inside Me

36 pages, 210mm x 167mm, 68 illustrations
ISBN 978 1 904561 35 4
£6.95 plus p&p - Friends price £5.90

'the roundhouse of international spirits'
Arp, Benazzi, Bissier, Nicholson, Richter, Tobey, Valenti in the Ticino

96 pages, 245mm x 210mm, 67 colour illustrations, 4 B&W
edited by Sebastiano Barassi
essays by Sebastiano Barassi, Matthias Bärmann, Peter Khoroche, Veronica Provenzale
ISBN 978 1 904561 32 3
£10.95 plus p&p - Friends price £9.30

RODIN: All about Eve

64 pages, 210mm x 170mm, 15 colour, 34 B&W illustrations
essays by Michael Harrison and Sue Hubbard, alongside Rodin's own account of his approach to making sculpture and press reaction to Eve when it was first exhibited.
ISBN 1 904561 20 9
£6.95 plus p&p - Friends price £5.90

starting at zero: Black Mountain College

120 pages, 152mm x 152mm, 56 colour illustrations, 105 B&W
essays by, Mary Emma Harris, Christopher Benfey, Eva Diaz, Edmund de Waal, Jed Perl
ISBN 0 907738 78 8
£14.95 plus p&p - Friends price £12.70

Douglas Allsop

24 pages, 200mm x 220mm,
13 colour illustrations of the exhibition at Kettle's Yard
essay by Alison Green
ISBN 1 904561 07 1
£5.95 plus p&p - Friends price £5.00

Ian McKeever

32 pages, 210mm x 140mm, 17 colour illustrations
essay by Jill Lloyd
ISBN 1 904561 06 3
£5.95 plus p&p - Friends price £5.05

Immaterial

92 pages, 220mm x 220mm, 52 B&W illustrations
essays by Sebastiano Barassi, Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder, Geraldine A. Johnson
ISBN 1 904561 04 7
£11.95 plus p&p - Friends price £10.15

Ben Nicholson - chasing out something alive

60 pages, 220mm x 220mm, 44 colour illustrations, 4 B&W
essay by Peter Khoroche
ISBN 1 907074 95 2
£10.00 plus p&p - Friends price £8.50