Description In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist\'s studio and sanctuary from the modern world.
His work includes Jerry Springer: The Opera and the BBC series Stewart Lee\'s Comedy Vehicle..
He was born in 1968.
Stewart Lee is an award-winning stand up comedian and writer.
These preoccupations are most observable in her writing, such as Goose of Hermogenes and I Saw Water.
Her work is informed by a profound understanding of animism, the esoteric and the occult.
Her phantasmagoric landscapes and penetrating portraits hang on the walls of major galleries across the UK.
About the Author Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was a painter and writer whose works contributed greatly to the British Surrealist movement before and after World War II.
Above all, Colquhoun connects us with the eerie, numinous beauty of the Cornish countryside, quietly insisting that we see the Cornwall she sees: an ancient land of myth and legend.
She paints a land of ghosts, pedlars, borrowed saints and holy sites, charmed wells and crumbling megaliths, and finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture.
Her finely wrought and learned observations of festivals, fairs and druidic rituals, quickly establish her as the reader\'s gnostic guide to the county.
Description In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist\'s studio and sanctuary from the modern world
