Making Waves, by Ian
Collins
| Making Waves: Artists in Southwold by Ian Collins. Forward by Ronald Blythe - 2005 - hardback - 160pp - 258x285pp - 288 colour illustrations - Price £30 - ISBN 09549286-1-X "Southwold", wrote Nikolaus Pevsner,
"is one of the happiest and most picturesque seaside towns
in England." Over the centuries it has inspired a wealth
of artistic endeavour, much of it illustrated in this delightful
book. |
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"No
one reading Ian Collins's Southwold through artists' eyes
will ever view it as they did previously. He is great on colour,
a writer with his own palette, native when it comes to boats, careful
with facts and the best apologist imaginable for East Anglia. The
writing is fresh and eager 'coastal' one might call it
and is full of his love for artists past and present.' - Ronald Blythe |
| The
port-resort with brewery, pier and lighthouse at its heart is a
creative beacon: Philip Wilson Steer, fresh from France, virtually
invented British Impressionism in the adjoining artists' summer
colony of Walberswick from 1884 - the year pioneering photographer
P.H. Emerson moved to Southwold. Ian Collins also reveals how modern
British art so nearly had a Suffolk rather than a Cornish air. Most of all this book lovingly portrays a very special place through the eyes and lives of artists, both resident and visiting. It revels in waves of art taking in everything from serious treasures to cartoon postcards: an essential companion for all lovers of East Anglia's first resort. |
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