ISBN

9781805330974

Published

30th January 2025

Format

Paperback

Pages

240

A classic travelogue by Britain’s foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet

Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s, searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed-out London. So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain’s westernmost county, a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present.

Sacred and beautiful, wild and weird, Colquhoun’s Cornwall is a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore – and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond.

Reviews

Prodigious and inventive…all her life

Guardian

She thumbed her nose at convention

One of the most interesting and prolific esoteric thinkers and artists of the twentieth century