Different Ways of Seeing: The Artistic Vision of Joan Gillchrest, Bryan Pearce and Fred Yates

First edition, first impression.  104pp, profuely illustrated in colour and black and white.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers.  4to.  Some gentle edge wear to lightly shelf worn card covers.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

From Alfred Wallis onwards, Cornwall has nurtured a number of idiosyncratic artists and painters, each producing works that could only be theirs.  In this study of three leading post-war artists Fred Yates’lush, vibrant colours, in thick impasto, are instantly recognisable – Victorian Aunts, mums with prams and little dogs, scences of local village life, Cornish cliff tops and beaches.  In stark contrast, Bryan Pearce’s niave paintings – cool, measured and tend to flat colour using both oil and conte crayon, depict parish churches, houses, harbours and seascapes from his beloved St Ives, as well as still life compositions.  Joan Gillchrest’s distinctive niave paintings recall Cornish fisherfolk from the rugged Penwith peninsula and its farmers and growers.  Like the Victorians before her, she told stories in paint, often with a wry, humourous slant.