Paintings of Cornwall and the Scillies

Arts & Photography

Kurt Jackson

History & Criticism

White Lane Press

The stunning new pictorial biography featuring more than 400 photographs from The Lenkiewicz Archive by Dr Philip Stokes. Between 19682002, renowned photographer Philip Stokes compiled a unique archive of images and biographical material about his close friend, the painter Robert Lenkiewicz. Dr Stokes' remarkable photographs offer a tantalizing glimpse into the life of Robert Lenkiewicz in a striking visual style which ideally complements the painter's own work. Dr Stokes recorded landmark public events in the artist's life as well as working practices in Lenkiewicz's studios with sitters for many of his most significant paintings. He was also granted unique access behind the scenes, capturing the artist in intimate private settings. The archive also includes a visual record of the development of the artist's magnificent private library. This large-format hardback book contains 180 pages and reproduces many images in full 11 x 8 ins size.

A Portrait of Robert Lenkiewicz

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Lenkiewicz

Francis Mallett

Andrew Gifford was born in Sheffield in 1970. He is recognised as one of the most innovative young landscape painters working today. 'Andrew Gifford' shows the full range of the artist's work, from paintings of urban cityscapes as diverse as gritty northern English towns, Paris and Berlin to the airy spaces of the French landscape, where he now lives. An introductory text by Elspeth Moncrieff also explores Gifford's motivations and approach to painting, as well as his large-scale 'Light Works' installations.

Andrew Gifford

Elspeth Moncrieff

Somerset: the Paintings of John Caple

Anon`

Gary Bunt: The Long Way Round

Alexandra Fielding

Zombie Love (Some Guy Upstairs—The Collected Poems)

Literature & Fiction

Lawson, Mr John K

Poetry

Robert Lenkiewicz sought the total fusion of life and art. Determined to make every day ‘an experiment in living’, he became notorious for his complex love life, faking his own death, and embalming the corpse of his regular model, the vagrant ‘Diogenes’ (Edwin Mackenzie). In a series of immense projects spanning forty years, Lenkiewicz combined visual art, philosophy, and social activism to illuminate the lives of those he called ‘society’s invisible people’.\nBorn in war-torn London to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, Lenkiewicz moved to Plymouth in 1969 where he kept an open studio with an ‘all are welcome’ policy. His vast Barbican mural soon became one of the city’s best known and most popular landmarks. Largely ignored by the art establishment, he created his own audience of ordinary people who would never normally set foot in an art gallery or museum. His work nevertheless confronted the most serious of themes: vagrancy, mental handicap, old age, suicide, addiction, love, and death – often with wry, mischievous humour.\nThis first volume of Mark D. Price’s two-part biography distils the contents of Lenkiewicz’s previously unseen private notebooks, diaries, and correspondence, and includes over a hundred interviews with partners, models, closest companions, family, friends, and children. The book tells the full story of Lenkiewicz’s controversial life and philosophy, as well as his paintings and thought-provoking projects.

LENKIEWICZ – The Life: 'All Are Welcome'. Volume I (1941-1979)

PRICE, MARK D.

Arts & Literature

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