Expanded Fourth Edition Original insights into the sources of Wallis’s imagery and research into his seagoing days and life in St Ives, with a foreword by Jovan Nicholson. High quality 256 page production in both hard-cover and soft-cover versions. Over 260 illustrations of paintings and period photographs. Includes images of paintings from public collections and little-known paintings from private collections. Original interpretation of the sources of Wallis’s imagery drawn from the Cornish landscape and coast; from ports he knew and events he had witnessed. An understanding of merchant shipping and the Cornish fishing industry of the period. The author questions the perceived view of Wallis and gives a fresh insight into the artist’s character through correspondence and transcriptions from recorded memories of people who knew Wallis. 


Great reviews have been received about this book

“This enthralling book by the Cornish painter Robert Jones unlocks the private world of Wallis. In this beautifully produced volume Robert Jones examines Wallis’s life and work as a fellow painter with sympathy and understanding. He tells the tale factually and straightforwardly, without critical comment. But he nevertheless makes a compelling case for Alfred Wallis, whose unique artistic innovations have earned him a place him among the modern masters.” Jenny Pery, October 2018 

"This is the best book I have discovered whilst researching Alfred Wallis, the author goes into such details and it is full of wonderful colour imagery of many of Wallis' works – many of which I was not aware of. The book will be signed by Robert Jones. Free UK postage and International buyers are charged postage to cover part of the cost.

About the Author Robert Jones 
(extract taken from his website)

Artist and author Robert Jones was born in Cornwall; the beaches and cliffs of Newquay were his childhood playground. His seascapes and marine subjects are particularly well known. 

He studied painting with Francis Hewlett and Robert Organ at Falmouth College of Art and continued to paint whilst teaching in various schools including three-years at A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School. On returning to Cornwall, he continued to draw and paint throughout a spell as skipper of fishing boats, working around the Cornish coast before becoming a part-time tutor at Penzance Art School and Falmouth College of Art.
He spent seven years fishing around the coast of west Cornwall, which gave him an intimate knowledge of the sea. His paintings are concerned with atmosphere, changing weather and light conditions on land and at sea.
Robert spent a number of years teaching in schools, but a successful exhibition at Newlyn Orion Art Gallery encouraged him to concentrate on his painting and reduce his teaching commitments.


His paintings have been widely exhibited throughout the UK and abroad.


A series of his sea paintings was included in the second exhibition at Tate St. Ives. He is represented in a small number of galleries in Cornwall but has recently acquired a small gallery space/showroom in Hayle - Carnsew Studio.

In 1995 he began researching the life and work of the artist Alfred Wallis, and in 2000 his book, ‘Alfred Wallis Artist and Mariner’ was published to critical acclaim. This fourth enlarged and expanded edition was published in 2021.