We’ve lived in Hayle for forty years. Two months or so ago I had the opportunity of hiring a gallery space here. It’s not a large space but we can display over forty paintings on the wall. It’s only manned occasionally, but as we are only a few minutes away we are...
View the conversation here Alfred Wallis spent most of his life as a seaman and fisherman in Cornwall, only turning to painting at the age of seventy. Although he painted from memory, his evocative images of ships, fishing vessels and the Cornish landscape were...
16 June 2021, 6-7pm Join Robert in an online conversation exploring the life and work of Alfred Wallis, inspired by our current exhibition Alfred Wallis Rediscovered at Kettles Yard Alfred Wallis spent most of his life as a seaman and fisherman in Cornwall, only...
I have been asked to participate in an online event for Kettle’s Yard which will involve me talking about the paintings in their Alfred Wallis collection. The event will be in mid June – please check back for more information soon.
Robert Jones is featured in the Channel Five show The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. A trip through Devon to the tip of Cornwall, going back in time to recapture the golden age of luxury train travel. Travelling in the elegantly restored Statesman,...
Expanded fourth edition by artist and author Robert Jones.
Original insights into the sources of Wallis’s imagery and research into his seagoing days and life in St Ives, with a foreword by art historian Jovan Nicholson.