Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John (2023)
This is my most recent book, a biography of the artist Augustus John - from his early life in Wales and his training and friendships at the Slade School of Art in London, through his rapid rise to frame in the early 1900s until the end of the First World War in 1918. My interest in particular is his relationship with the other artists and writers around him, including his sister Gwen John, Ambrose McEvoy and William Orpen, Jacob Epstein, Henry Lamb, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and W.B. Yeats, and the reasons why - despite probably being the most renowned British artist of his age - his fame has not endured
It is published by Lund Humphries, and has over 50 colour and black and white images.
This is my most recent book, a biography of the artist Augustus John - from his early life in Wales and his training and friendships at the Slade School of Art in London, through his rapid rise to frame in the early 1900s until the end of the First World War in 1918. My interest in particular is his relationship with the other artists and writers around him, including his sister Gwen John, Ambrose McEvoy and William Orpen, Jacob Epstein, Henry Lamb, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and W.B. Yeats, and the reasons why - despite probably being the most renowned British artist of his age - his fame has not endured
It is published by Lund Humphries, and has over 50 colour and black and white images.
This is my most recent book, a biography of the artist Augustus John - from his early life in Wales and his training and friendships at the Slade School of Art in London, through his rapid rise to frame in the early 1900s until the end of the First World War in 1918. My interest in particular is his relationship with the other artists and writers around him, including his sister Gwen John, Ambrose McEvoy and William Orpen, Jacob Epstein, Henry Lamb, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and W.B. Yeats, and the reasons why - despite probably being the most renowned British artist of his age - his fame has not endured
It is published by Lund Humphries, and has over 50 colour and black and white images.
This book features loads of interesting stuff about Augustus John and his young ceontemporaries, including his sister Gwen John.