Sea Change - Fine and Decorative Art in St Ives 1914-1930

Written to accompany the 2010 Penzance exhibition of the same title, the book records how the St Ives art colony adapted to myriad changes during this difficult period and highlights how the town not only still managed to attract distinguished artists, but also inspired them to produce seminal works. An extraordinary diversity of work was produced in the colony in this period and artists featured include Frances Hodgkins, Christopher Wood, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Emile Fabry, Charles Simpson, John Park, Borlase Smart, Moffat Lindner and leading printmaker, Alfred Hartley. The 1920s also witnessed the dawn of the colony as a centre for handicraft, with the establishment of the Leach Pottery and the Cryséde hand block-printed textile factory.