New edition of the classic study of the St Ives art colony in the 1950s. Written from the inside, this long out-of-print book is an intimate portrait of the artist community in perhaps its most celebrated period, the two decades following the Second World War. Traditional painting, epitomized by the glowing canvases of John Park and Charles Simpson, still flourished alongside the innovations of the modernist school led by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Pottery and other crafts are also covered.