Ithell Colguhoun | The Living Stones

9781805330974

30/01/25

PB

240 pages

A classic travelogue by Britain’s foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet

Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s, searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed-out London. So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain’s westernmost county, a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present.

Sacred and beautiful, wild and weird, Colquhoun’s Cornwall is a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore – and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond.