From the biography of a living artist 'what emerges are the psychological motivations and deciding factors that turn a human being into an artist'. In this richly illustrated volume Jenny Pery presents the life and work of the British landscape artist Alan Cotton (b.1938). Tracing his career from an early interest in painting as a child in Redditch, the book looks in particular at the travels in France, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland and Morocco that have inspired Cotton's art.

Alan Cotton on a Knife Edge

Jenny Pery

Biographies & Memoirs

Halsgrove

Daphne Todd is one of Britain's foremost figurative painters. Best known for her portraits, her work also covers a wide range of genre, still-life and landscape painting. Always working directly in front of her subject, she misses nothing and is able to incorporate many different moods within one image, exploring the landscape of a face in the same way she examines the face of a landscape. In over two hundred portraits of some of Britain's most eminent men and women, she brings a fresh, contemporary view to an ancient tradition. Through her teaching at Heatherley's Art School and her Presidency of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Daphne Todd has also been an important force in promoting representational art in Britain. This amply illustrated book explores the art and life of a painter now at the height of her career.

Daphne Todd

David Messum Fine Art

Alan Cotton: Giving Life a Shape

Halstar

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