A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more
A charming self-published book about Great Bardfield, the Essex village that became home to several artists, including Ravilious and Bawden; like a picture within a picture, it's also about ... read more
A beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... read more
A survey of this pioneering and serene colourist (1885-1965), who eschewed '-isms' and quietly got on with his work - much of it plein air. Early impressionistic impastos quickly give way to... read more
A re-issue of Leach's book, first published in 1978. Born in Hong Kong, he later lived for many years in Japan where he trained as a potter; eventually he settled near St Ives, built a Japan... read more
Carves out a space in modern British art history for Helen Sutherland, Myfanwy Piper and a host of lesser known female collectors, gallerists and friends.
A short catalogue of the small but perfectly formed Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings, of flowers, leaves, his Zimmerlinde, tatty buddleia-filled back ... read more
AdeC is a superb social historian and here she has found a subject supremely worthy of her skill. Her cast here comprises Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Arago... read more
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... read more
This staggering account of corruption in the art world began when RD was approached in 2003 by Hockney, who had recently had two Warhol pictures denounced as fakes.
Edie's older sister attempts to understand how her younger sibling progressed from an isolated, privileged Californian childhood to become Warhol's muse.