March 2023
Andrew Lanyon is an artist son of the esteemed St Ives and Newlyn artist of the St Ives and Newlyn’s artist George Peter Lanyon, and grandson of Herbert Lanyon, the important photographer-recorder of the St Ives colony of artists from the earliest days. Andrew wears this family mantel with great wit and charm, creating pithy and witty works of art in sculpture, found objects and collages, and tells their stories in fiction laced with allegory.
His work, both in books and in various media forms, is eagerly sought by collectors and museums. “Von Ribbentrop” in St Ives was an...