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FORTHCOMING TITLES 

Rosemary Beaton 

Clare Henry, Alison Harper, Alexander Moffat 

This book celebrates 30 years of creative 

output from one of the new ‘Glasgow Girls’. 

Lavishly illustrated with over 150 illustrations 

of her highly distinctive landscape and life 

drawings, paintings, portraiture and environmental 

artwork. It includes illuminating 

essays by Clare Henry F.R.S.A, Alison Harper 

and Alexander Moffat o.B.E. R.S.A. 

‘We are all unique like the impossible 

snowflake, however, occasionally there 

are people who come to earth a little or 

a lot more unique than most. Artist 

Rosemary Beaton (b. Greenock 1963) is 

one such person. Beaton and her work 

are a force of nature, a fire to warm 

your hands by, a beating heart of pure 

instinct and energy connected to a 

visual poetic framework outside of 

words and reason.’ 

Alison Harper 2017 

Beaton shot to fame in 1984 whilst still a 

student at the Glasgow School of Art when, 

at the age of 20, she won the National 

Portrait Gallery’s coveted annual Portrait 

Award. Not only was Beaton the first Scottish 

recipient of the prestigious UK award 

she was also the youngest. Her commissioned 

portrait of the British political 

broad caster and commentator Sir Robin Day 

(1923-2000) is part of the contemporary 

collection in the National Portrait Gallery, 

London. 

Keith New 

Diana Coulter and Dr Robert Smith 

A significant and pioneering British modernist 

stained glass artist, Keith New (1926-2012) 

worked in the medium from the 1950s into 

the early 1970s, before turning to painting 

in later years. The first part of this monograph 

examines his career in stained glass, 

the second comprises a Catalogue 

Raisonné of New's known designs, both 

executed and unrealised. New is widely 

recognised as a skilful colourist and innovator 

in stained glass, particularly in glass appliqué. 

The 1952 Royal College of Art’s commission 

to design the nave windows for Basil 

Spence’s Coventry Cathedral launched his 

career, which maps onto the excitement 

generated by the 1951 Festival of Britain. 

New was brought to the attention of John 

Piper and John Betjeman as well as prominent 

architects, including Robert Matthew 

and Denys Lasdun. With a Foreword by 

Caroline Swash, herself an eminent stained 

glass artist, who knew Keith New over a 

period of several years, his position in the 

post-war emergence of Britain into a period 

of great optimism is fully explored. His 

legacy is a fragile art, and the book will 

deepen understanding of a fascinating 

creative period for art and design during the 

optimistic years in Britain following the 

Second World War. 

• First monograph on this pioneering 

stained glass artist 

• Includes photographs of his surviving glass 

and working methods 

• Key book for art historians, stained-glass 

practitioners and informed readers 

Clive McCartney: Passport to Paint 

Clive McCartney 

This is the first monograph devoted to the 

work of the artist Clive McCartney. It offers a 

review of his 30-year career and traces his 

artistic journey, from his early wanderings 

through Egypt and Sudan, Morocco and 

India, to the European capitals of Paris, 

Berlin, Rome and London, and finally his 

arrival in America. The book discusses the 

working processes involved in ‘series’ 

painting, in which works evolve into largescale 

projects. It also explores his fixation 

with the solitary and the existential nature of 

man, revealing a poignant area of work that 

examines figures set apart, but also 

together: the individual and the crowd, 

streets and interiors redolent of the past as 

well as what is about to come, empty corridors 

and parks that are more atmosphere 

than detail. With over 150 illustrations, 

McCartney shows the diversity of subjects 

he covers – still life, life drawing, landscapes, 

cityscapes, architecture, interiors, nocturnes 

and abstraction. 

•The first comprehensive study of the works 

of Clive McCartney 

• Reveals the variety of his subjects, making 

the book a visual feast not only for those 

interested in art, but also the nature of 

travel 

• Gives an insight into the artist’s creative 

methods 

192pp / 275 x 230mm 

hardback / £30 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-19-2 

Publication date: January 2018 

176pp / 270 x 210mm 

softback with flaps / £25 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-21-5 

Publication date: February 2018 

192pp / 265 x 225mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-24-6 

Publication date: March 2018 

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William Coldstream 

Catalogue Raisonné 

Peter TJ Rumley 

A leading cultural figure of his generation, 

painter Sir William Coldstream (1908-1987) 

lived life among the cream of Britain’s midtwentieth-century 

artistic elite, including Sir 

Kenneth Clark and W.H. Auden. His own 

artistic vision grew from a singular blend of 

precise measurement and experimentation. 

As principal at the prestigious Slade Art 

School, and through his often-reforming role 

in various major arts bodies, he influenced 

generations of artists. Strange, then, that he 

has remained woefully under-appreciated for 

many decades. This volume aims to redress 

that oversight. Its detailed, beautifully illustrated 

catalogue raisonné, authorised by the 

William Coldstream Estate, offers up the 

artist’s entire oeuvre of oil paintings, including 

lost and previously unknown works. The 

inclusion of an extended biographical essay, 

along with penetrating personal responses 

to his life and work written by a selection of 

artists, means that William Coldstream will 

appeal to the curator, art student and 

generalist alike. 

• The first scholarly authorised catalogue 

raisonné of the artist, with comprehensive 

exhibition details and citations 

• Contains some 2 00 colour illustrations of 

the artist’s figurative painting 

• Includes important lost paintings and 

clarifies Coldstream’s artistic development 

Students of Hospitalfield 

Education and Inspiration in 

20th-Century Scottish Art 

Peggy Beardmore 

Each summer, for over half a century, the 

Scottish art schools sent their most promising 

painters to Hospitalfield in Arbroath. Living 

in the turreted sandstone manor house that 

was the ancestral home of the Fraser family, 

this community of young artists studied, 

exchanged ideas and found inspiration in 

the surrounding landscape. Their unique 

experience in art education grew from the 

visionary bequest of the artist and patron 

Patrick Allan-Fraser, who dedicated his 

fortune to founding an art college at 

Hospital field. Students of Hospitalfield 

provides the first dedicated study of the 

fascinating transformation of a private home 

into a college that proved a significant force 

in Scottish art. Featuring unpublished archival 

material alongside paintings, drawings and 

prints from public and private collections, 

this well-illustrated book reveals new connections 

between and insight into the work 

of well-known Scottish artists such as James 

Cowie, Joan Eardley, Ian McKenzie Smith and 

Gwen Hardie while also introducing the innovative 

work of their contemporaries. 

• Fills in a missing piece in the history of 

Scottish art. 

• Illustrates work from private and public 

collections 

• Essential reference for scholars, artists and 

curators 

Elsa Vaudrey 

Mel Gooding, Lucy Inglis 

This is the first monograph on the Scottishborn 

artist Elsa Vaudrey (1905-1990), whose 

career began in the 1920s as a student at 

Glasgow School of Art. Perhaps best known 

for her atmospheric abstract paintings, she 

also produced a large body of figurative 

work, mainly still lifes and landscapes, most 

of which have never been seen before. This 

lavishly illustrated book brings together 

both stages of her artistic journey for the 

first time. Informed by the Glasgow School, 

Fauvism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, 

Vaudrey’s vision was highly personal, and 

she developed an expressive and vibrant 

style entirely her own. Her paintings were 

often a response to her surroundings, to 

places such as Wookey Hole in Somerset 

(where she lived with her husband, the artist 

Peter Barker-Mill), Chelsea, the Welsh 

countryside and, further afield, Rome, Paris, 

Antibes and Jerusalem. During her lifetime, 

she exhibited widely both in Britain and 

abroad, most notably in a series of solo 

shows at the Redfern Gallery in London. 

The book charts chart key moments in her 

personal and professional life and documents 

her friendships with figures such as John 

Cowper Powys, Mary Quant, Ceri Richards, 

Eduardo Paolozzi and Erica Brausen. 

• Previously unpublished photographs and 

paintings 

• Considers both figurative and abstract works 

• Will appeal to those interested in twentiethcentury 

British art and society 

• Drawn from the Elsa Vaudrey Archive 

212pp / 284 x 264mm 


iSBN: 978-1-908326-79-9 

Publication date: March 2018 

176pp / 270 x 225mm 

softback with French flaps / £25 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-23-9 

Publication date: April 2018 

304pp / 260 x 260mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-07-9 

Publication date: May 2018 

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Edward Stott (1855-1918) 

A Master of Colour and Atmosphere 

Valerie Webb 

in relation: nine couples who 

transformed modern british art 

James Russell 

Conflicting Views: 

Pacifist Artists 

Gill Clarke 

Spanning over thirty years, this is the first 

monograph dedicated to the life and work 

of Edward Stott, A.R.A., who was born in 

Rochdale and died in Amberley, West Sussex. 

Tracing his artistic journey from his days 

as a student in Paris, to his exhibiting career 

in London, Stott’s under-researched contribution 

to the history of British landscape 

painting and images of rural life, is fully 

explored. Stott’s work matured from his early 

days as a Rustic Naturalist and his experimentation 

with Impressionism, eventually 

finding his own ‘signature’ style and defining 

subject matter during his time with the New 

English Art Club and the New Gallery. 

Achieving regular patronage, and exhibiting 

on a consistent basis, Stott’s work began to 

achieve critical attention which increased 

over time, as well as bringing him international 

recognition. In 1906 he finally 

achieved the status of Associate of the Royal 

Academy. This book seeks to re-introduce 

Stott to the history of British art and to 

place him alongside those of his contemporaries 

who received greater recognition. 

• Full colour illustrations of better-known 

works and rarely or previously unseen works 

• offers a complete history of his career and 

life, which draws on the Stott Archive and 

comprehensive material from the London art 

world at the time 

• Highlights the part he played in adding to 

the history of landscape painting, and the 

sub-genre of rural images 

• Includes his rarely-discussed later works 

This book explores the phenomenon of the 

‘artist couple’ in Modern British Art, focusing 

on the lives and careers of nine pairs of 

artists and designers – Tirzah Garwood and 

Eric Ravilious; Rose and Roger Hilton; Laura 

and Harold Knight; Dod and Ernest Procter; 

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; Ben Nicholson 

and Barbara Hepworth; the Two Roberts 

(Colquhoun and McBryde); Phyllis Barron and 

Dorothy Larcher; and Mary Fedden and 

Julian Trevelyan. It offers glimpses into the 

private world of artist couples and their 

families, and explores the influence these 

artists had not only on each other’s work but 

also on the art world more generally. 

Designed to challenge assumptions and 

inspire debate, this book will change 

people’s perceptions of twentieth-century 

British art. 

• This is the first book to compare and 

contrast the experiences of important 

modern British artists from this angle 

• It explores both artistic questions (influence, 

style) and social issues (gender politics) in an 

entertaining, informative way 

Marking the centenary of the ending of the 

First World War this ground-breaking and 

richly illustrated book explores the ways 

artists who were conscientious objectors 

and pacifists responded to conflicts, and 

provides new insights into their varied work, 

motivations and treatment. The focus is on 

British artists during two World Wars 

through to the work in the 1960s of Scottish- 

Irish artist William Crozier, who was greatly 

impacted by both wars and in particular 

seeing films of the liberation of the prison 

camps in 1945. Features work by, and 

discussion on, amongst others Mark Gertler, 

members of the Bloomsbury Group, Percy 

Horton, Sven Berlin, Kenneth Rowntree and 

John Tunnard. 

• Beautifully illustrated showing a range of 

artwork by both well and lesser-known 

artists 

• A significant resource for curators, scholars, 

collectors and enthusiasts while appealing 

to those with a broader interest in the art of 

the period 

144pp / 270 x 210mm 

softback / £25 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-22-2 

Publication date: May 2018 

80pp / 210 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-32-1 

Publication date: June 2018 

128pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-31-4 

Publication date: June 2018 

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Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye 

Helen E. Scott 

Edwin G. Lucas (1911-1990) was one of the 

most original Scottish painters of the 

twentieth century. Born and educated in 

Edinburgh, he was largely self-taught, his 

family having discouraged him from pursuing 

a risky career path. Despite this, Lucas went 

on to become a serious and prolific painter, 

who exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish 

Academy and Society of Scottish Artists and 

staged two solo shows at the New Gallery in 

Edinburgh. During the 1930s he encountered 

Surrealism, which had a lasting impact on his 

creative practice. Blending Surrealist influences 

with his own idiosyncratic vision of the 

world, he cultivated an original and highly 

imaginative style of painting that is richly 

colourful and fascinatingly quirky. Edwin G. 

Lucas: An Individual Eye is the first publication 

to focus on this unusual and enigmatic artist. 

Revealing the little-known story of Lucas’ life 

and career, it traces his development from 

the early watercolours of his adolescence to 

his boldly experimental oil paintings of the 

1940s and 1950s. It also explores the artist’s 

final, uncompromising works of the 1980s, 

which were produced after a break of 

almost thirty years. 

• Richly illustrated with many of Lucas’ most 

important drawings and paintings and rare 

archival photographs 

• New research draws on archival material 

from the artist’s estate 

• Accompanies a major retrospective 

exhibition at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh 

(4 August 2018 – 10 February 2019) 

John Edgar Platt: Master of the Colour 

Woodblock 

Hilary Chapman 

John Edgar Platt was one of the leading 

lights of 1920s and 1930s printmaking. This 

is the first book to consider his place in 

British twentieth-century printmaking and 

investigate the influence of Japanese woodblock 

printing on the output of Platt and his 

contemporaries. It features colour illustrations 

of all his printed work and two essays 

by print expert Hilary Chapman. A master of 

the colour woodblock print in the Japanese 

style, Platt combined eastern technique with 

a western design sensibility. His use of bold 

colour inspired one critic to praise the 

'gamut of singing hues' found in his prints. 

Fellow colour woodblock artist Allen Seaby 

acknowledged that ‘There is no doubt that 

in your hands the wood print has been raised 

far above its former status’. The fusion of 

traditional European subject matter with the 

Japanese woodblock method enabled Platt 

to create some of the most original images 

in British printmaking. He found subjects to 

inspire him among the harbours and fishing 

boats of Cornwall and Devon and in warmer 

climes at St Tropez. During the 1930s he 

adopted a spare style based on blocks of 

flat colour to create strikingly modern works 

including Horse (1934), Lapwings (1936) and 

his masterpiece, the triptych The Plough 

(1937). 

• First in-depth study of Platt’s prints 

• Fully illustrated in colour including variant 

states of some prints 

• New essays by Hilary Chapman, an authority 

on both the career of Platt and on Japanese 

woodblock printing 

John Blackburn: 

The Human and the Abstract 

Ian Massey: with additional contributions 

from Christopher Johnstone, Andrew 

Lambirth, and Furse Swann 

The first monograph of British artist John 

Blackburn (b.1932). In a major essay, Ian 

Massey traces the stylistic and technical 

development of the artist’s work from the 

‘Encaustic’ paintings of the early 1960s to 

the present day. He considers Blackburn’s 

wide-ranging output, of work produced 

both in England and in New Zealand (where 

the artist has for decades spent a part of 

each year). Massey considers the artist’s work 

in an international context; one that encompasses 

St Ives modernism, art informel, arte 

povera and the Gutai movement; also taking 

into account key influences such as Bacon, 

Fautrier and Tàpies. In doing so he describes 

the artist’s often intensely physical methods 

and incorporation of found materials – their 

usage informed by a humanist philosophy 

that stems from Blackburn’s early experiences 

and from what he describes as ‘the 

brutality of being alive’. This substantial 

publication firmly establishes Blackburn’s 

significance, and positions him within the 

history of post-war abstract painting. 

It includes additional texts by writer and 

critic Andrew Lambirth, art historian and 

former director of the Auckland Art Gallery 

Christopher Johnstone, and the artist’s longtime 

friend and collector Furse Swann. 

• Draws on original interviews with the artist 

in his studio, and on previously unpublished 

archival material 

• Lavishly illustrated, showing work from the 

whole of the artist’s career and previously 

unpublished documentary photographs 

80pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-20-8 

Publication date: July 2018 

72pp / 200 x 200mm 

softback / £12.50 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-30-7 

Publication date: September 2018 

184pp / 265 x 250mm 

Hardback / £40 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-27-7 

Publication September 2018 

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Bath: Paintings by Peter Brown 

Alfred Stockham 

Seven decades of painting 

Robin Philipson 

Elizabeth Cumming 

Peter Brown is a unique artist and a familiar 

figure on the pavements of Bath where he 

paints cityscapes from life, earning him the 

nickname ‘Pete the Street’. This book 

chronicles Peter’s work over two decades of 

painting the city that inspired him to return 

to painting, and that he calls home. over 

130 of Peter’s oil paintings and charcoal 

drawings are included in colour, accompanied 

by his anecdotes and experiences of 

painting in amongst the public on Bath’s 

streets and hills. It offers an insight into his 

method of working while dealing with all 

that plein air painting entails – all in Peter’s 

often humorous voice, always down-to-earth 

voice. A companion to his book of London 

paintings, this is coffee table book is the 

perfect gift for Bathonians, tourists and the 

many admirers of Peter’s work. 

Spanning seven decades, this is the first 

published work on the paintings of English 

artist Alfred Stockham. Whilst admired, 

collected and loved by generations his 

passionate works are not so widely-known 

to the British public. 

‘Alfred Stockham’s paintings are pure 

poetry. A master of colour, his oil paints 

glow like gold, the colours responding to 

one another in dynamic relationships. 

Reducing his abstract or figurative forms 

to merest suggestion, blocks of manylayered 

colour, his simple yet perfect 

compositions sing with a kind of narrative 

tension.’ 

• First published work on Alfred Stockham 

• Cross-over between figurative and 

abstract works 

In the third quarter of the twentieth century 

Sir Robin Philipson (1916-92) ranked as one 

of the best known and most prolific artists of 

what became known as the Edinburgh 

School. He spent his working life as an art 

school teacher, heading the Drawing and 

Painting School at Edinburgh College of Art 

for over twenty years. He served as Secretary, 

then as President, of the Royal Scottish 

Academy. This new study discusses his 

double commitment to traditional teaching 

practice and to the wider encouragement of 

art across society. Robin Philipson was 

always fascinated by colour, material and 

process, and this new study, while exploring 

a long, active career in painting and printmaking, 

also sheds light on his involvement 

with a Borders textile company and the 

international Dovecot Studios. Philipson was 

highly ambitious for his own art. He engaged 

with the drama of human experience in his 

painting, and worked on specific themes 

such as cockfights and war imagery with a 

keen, raw expressionism. Two particular 

series, Threnody and Humankind, were key 

to his paintings of the 1970s. Later, his 

painting achieved a remarkable lyricism in a 

series of large, bold paintings of poppies 

which today have almost become his trademark. 

• Major reassessment of the life and art of a 

painter at the heart of the Scottish art 

establishment 

• Provides for the first time a complete 

account of the artist’s career 

• Generously illustrated throughout 

• Draws on previously unavailable archives 

156pp / 250 x 300mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-28-4 

Publication date: october 2018 

80pp / 283 x 232mm 

softback with flaps / £20 

iSBN: 978-1-911408-33-8 


244pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-908326-93-5 


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Albert Irvin and American Abstract 

Expressionism 

Published to coincide with a major retrospective 

of Albert Irvin’s (1922-2015) work at 

the RWA, Bristol, this book discusses the 

artist’s career from the early 1950s up until 

his death in 2015. It also includes a sixtiethanniversary 

celebration of the Tate’s seminal 

exhibition ‘The New American Painting’; this 

show was an epiphany for Irvin and his 

development as an artist, redefining what 

was possible for a generation of significant 

British artists, as they began to question 

existing European models and challenge 

ideas relating to scale, gesture, meaning 

and materiality of paint. 

• Lavishly illustrated 

• Will appeal to those interested in abstract 

expressionist art 

TITLES UNDER CONSIDERATION 

2018/2019 

128pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-29-1 

Publication date: december 2018 

Robert Blomfield 

British Lithography 

Victoria Crowe 

Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite 

Art of Edward Robert Hughes 

Jeremy Gardiner 

Tessa Newcomb: Familiar Fields 

Carol Peace 

The Perseus Series: 

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 

The Silent Heart: W.G. Simmonds 

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NEW TITLES 

Roger Cecil: A Secret Artist 

Peter Wakelin 

Roger Cecil (1942-2015) has been described 

as one of the great abstract artists of his 

generation. In his lifetime he was hardly 

known yet collectors rushed to acquire his 

work and, among curators, he was a 

legendary figure. 

Marj Bond 

Martine F. Pugh 

Spanning fifty years, this is the first 

monograph dedicated to Scottish painter 

Marj Bond, an intuitive and passionate artist 

best known for her striking paintings of 

deities and Inca warriors and her use of 

handmade paper. 

Silent Witnesses: 

Trees in British Art, 1760-1870 

Christiana Payne 

This groundbreaking book, the first to look 

systematically at the place of trees in British 

landscape painting, offers new insights into 

the work of, amongst others, Paul Sandby, 

John Constable, Samuel Palmer, Edward 

Lear, John Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites. 

160pp / 283 x 232mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-08-6 

120pp / 275 x 275mm 


iSBN: 978-1-908326-92-8 

176pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-12-3 

Geoffrey Clarke: A sculptor’s materials 

Judith LeGrove 

The first monograph to address the full 

range of the artist’s work: stained glass, 

sculpture, jewellery, textiles, land art and 

medals. Geoffrey Clarke (1924-2014) came 

to international recognition in 1952 as one 

of the British sculptors who exhibited at the 

Venice Biennale. 

Capture The Castle: 

British Artists and the Castle from 

Turner to Le Brun 

Sam Smiles, Tim Craven, Steve Marshall, 

Dr Anne Anderson, Dr Andy King 

Showcasing the finest historic and contemporary 

castle artists and combining history with 

art, Capture The Castle conjures the mystique, 

power and prestige of the castle from 

Iron Age hill forts to Victorian reproductions. 

Stanhope Forbes: 

Father of the Newlyn School 

Elizabeth Knowles 

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947) has 

always been known as the Father of the 

Newlyn School. Painting en plein air Forbes 

led the way to a new appreciation of real 

people in their everyday lives – a new 

authenticity in art. 

224pp / 275 x 230mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-11-6 

176pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-05-5 

128pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-06-2 

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NEW TITLES 

‘The Holy Box’ The Genesis of Stanley 

Spencer’s Sandham Memorial Chapel 

Amanda Bradley and Paul Gough 

Air: Visualising the Invisible in British 

Art 1768-2017 

Albert Reuss in Mousehole: 

The Artist as Refugee 

Susan Soyinka 

For five years Sir Stanley Spencer R.A. C.B.E. 

toiled in the chapel at Sandham, in his 

moving monument to World War I. The 

resulting murals are extraordinary; they 

stand comparison with the great painted 

chapels of early Renaissance Italy. 

Air explores the tradition in British art of 

finding inspiration in the air around us and 

skies above us. Intertwining art, science and 

philosophy, this beautifully illustrated book 

includes a number of insightful essays. 

Albert Reuss (1889-1975) was a painter in oil 

whose work defies categorisation, but bears 

some elements of Impressionism and 

Surrealism. Born in Vienna, he emigrated to 

England in 1938 following Hitler’s annexation 

of Austria. His work in exile reflects the 

trauma of losing his family and his way of life. 

200pp / 260 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-09-3 

144pp / 210 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-13-0 

224pp / 244 x 172mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-16-1 

New Forest Birds: 

Sculpture by Geoffrey Dashwood 

With text by Chris Packham 

The Drawings of Roger Hilton 

Adrian Lewis 

Peter Hide: Standing Sculpture 

With an essay by Sam Cornish 

A unique collaboration between internationally 

renowned sculptor Geoffrey Dashwood 

and popular naturalist and TV presenter 

Chris Packham. In typically eloquent and 

passionate style Packham guides us through 

the characteristics of over forty birds, discussing 

the modelling skills and powers of 

observation that make Dashwood’s sculpture 

such a uniquely ravishing phenomenon. 

Abstract painter Roger Hilton (1911-75) is 

generally considered the best British postwar 

abstract expressionist. This book – the 

outcome of over four decades of research – 

focuses on his drawings and stakes a claim 

for Roger Hilton being the most inventive 

draughtsman that Britain has produced 

since 1945. 

The first publication to survey the upright, 

monolithic constructed steel sculptures Hide 

has been making since the mid-seventies. 

Richly illustrated, it charts the development 

of this important body of work and situates 

it within the recent history of sculpture in 

Britain. 

120pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-18-5 

224pp / 270 x 210mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-17-8 

64pp / 300 x 220mm 


iSBN: 978-1-911408-10-9 

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INDEX OF ARTISTS 

Beaton, Rosemary 1 

Blackburn, John 4 

Bond, Marj 7 

Brown, Peter 5 

Cecil, Roger 7 

Clarke, Geoffrey 7 

Coldstream, William 2 

Dashwood, Geoffrey 8 

Forbes, Stanhope 7 

Hide, Peter 8 

Hilton, Roger 8 

Irvin, Albert 6 

Lucas, Edwin G. 4 

Mackie, Charles Hodge 9 

McCartney, Clive 1 

New, Keith 1 

Philipson, Robin 5 

Platt, John Edgar 4 

Reuss, Albert 8 

Stott, Edward 3 

Stockham, Alfred 5 

Vaudrey, Elsa 2 

General 

Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017 8 

Capture the Castle: British Artists and the Castle from Turner to Le Brun 7 

Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists 3 

In Relation: Nine Couples who transformed Modern British Art 3 

Silent Witnesses: Trees in British Art, 1760-1870 7 

Students of Hospitalfield: Education and Inspiration in 20th-Century Scottish Art 2 

'The Holy Box: The Genesis of Stanley Spencer’s Sandham Memorial Chapel' 8 

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