Re-inventing the Landscape: contemporary painters and Dorset

Please note there are now only 40 copies left of this book

Author: Vivienne Light

Preface: Simon Olding, Director of the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

Book Design: Sarah Jane Jackson

Publisher Canterton Books, paperback

Published November, 2001

ISBN 0-9541627 - 0 - 6

Retail price: £14

This book explores the way in which the landscape of Dorset has influenced the work of eleven contemporary painters: Martyn Brewster, George Dannatt, Vanessa Gardiner, Brian Graham, John Hubbard (Jerwood prize winner), Peter Joyce, Alex Lowery, Padraig Macmiadhachain (Laing prize winner), Alastair Michie (Royal West of England Academician) Robin Rae and Robert Woolner.

Photographer : Martin Hampton, Leica Academy, Greece.

Richly illustrated with 58 colour images and dramatic landscape photography, this book is for all who love Dorset and are interested in contemporary art.

REVIEWS

Dorset Echo It is no accident that some of the finest contemporary artists working in Britain today draw inspiration from the Dorset landscape and coastline…. Re-inventing the Landscape examines the work of eleven contemporary artists whose work reflects the extraordinary sense of place…

Vivienne Light's keen understanding of the work of her chosen artists is instantly evident. Her words also convey much about the personalities behind the paintings…who offer a new way of seeing the Dorset landscape through their work.

Enjoying this book is akin to experiencing the county afresh through the artists' eyes.

Martin Hampton has provided some emotionally charged photographic images which evoke Dorset in yet another dimension, and Sarah Jane Jackson has pulled all together with subtle, authoritative layout design. Jeremy Miles, January 24, 2002

Evolver : In Book Review for Don Potter: an inspiring Century the Reviewer also referred to Re-inventing the Landscape in which Light ‘treats names such as Martyn Brewster, George Dannatt and Vanessa Gardiner with a level of seriousness and reverence that their Cornish neighbours at St. Ives have long enjoyed'. Emma Dolman , Arts Council, Southern