This is the remarkable story of the colony of artists who were
inspired by the people, landscape and light of West Cornwall. Now
internationally celebrated, they are forever to be associated with
the small fishing ports of Newlyn and St Ives. Arriving from the
artists' colonies of France, the Barbizon and Pont-Aven, and the
painting schools of London and Paris, they set up their studios in
the cottages and net lofts overlooking the sea. Here they painted;
their subjects centred on the working life and conditions of the
people they lived amongst, and the stark beauty of the rugged
Cornish landscape. Challenging the accepted styles of the Victorian
masters, their bold work, full of light and colour, often drew upon
the working life of the fishermen and their families, recording the
tragedies and simple pleasures of their lives. In The Shining
Sands, Tom Cross records the life and work of these artists, from
the earliest arrivals in the 1870s through to the decade preceding
the Second World War. In this period the artists' colony grew into
one of the most significant art movements of recent times, the
influences of which directly inspired the post-war 'modern'
movements, and which reverberate even today. The Shining Sands
includes almost 100 colour pictures, and 200 images in all,
produced by such artists as Walter Langley, Frank Bramley, Stanhope
Forbes, Norman Garstin, Elizabeth Forbes, Lamorna Birch, Laura
Knight, Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood. The author describes
the events and circumstances behind the making of many of the
paintings, adding a further dimension to our appreciation of these
fine works.
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