- Rabelais And Cervantes On The Road To Cornwall – article by Des Hannigan.The coach stops, the ornate door opens and out step famous authors Miguel de Cervantes and François Rabelais – in Devon and Cornwall, on the loose, in their youth, before literary fame engulfs them. This is the basic premise of writer and artist Andrew Lanyon’s new book Rabelais And Cervantes On The Road To Cornwall, in which both authors are lifted out of their respective time ‘zones’ – both belonged to the world of 16th century Renaissance literature, but Cervantes was aged six when Rabelais died aged sixty-three. Yet, here they are as young contemporaries in late 18th century Devon and Cornwall, on a tour of the region’s tin mines but discovering, more importantly, that they are writers. Hold on to your hats…This is Andrew Lanyon at his creative best.
- Von Ribbentrop in St Ives – review by PAUL NEWMANIt is easy to work up a smile while writing about Andrew Lanyon. To anyone vaguely familiar with his work, he invokes predecessors that invite the offhand and maybe patronising classification of ‘artist-eccentric’. One thinks of Lewis Carroll with his madcap humour, verbal ingenuity, interest in photography and the absurd; Heath Robinson with his stupendously… Read more: Von Ribbentrop in St Ives – review by PAUL NEWMAN
- Man Ray’s favourite portrait of himself by Lanyon auctioned
Andrew Lanyon’s photograph of Man Ray against the chess board on which he played Marcel Duchamp 1964 was declared by Man Ray that it was his favourite portrait of himself. A print of it owned and inscribed by Man Ray, given in 1966 to Jean Petithory (owner of a bookstore and publisher of Mannequins, a… Read more: Man Ray’s favourite portrait of himself by Lanyon auctioned - A Review by Jane Griffiths of a series of books on accessing the imaginationThis review covers Von Ribbontrop in St. Ives, The Daughters of Radon, The Only Non-slip Dodo Mat in the World, Bifurcated Thought, The Musings of Creatures in a Barren Land. Read it here. One of the many remarkable things about Andrew Lanyon’s series of books on accessing the imagination is how perfectly their form and… Read more: A Review by Jane Griffiths of a series of books on accessing the imagination
- ‘The Discovery of Alfred Wallis by Ben Nicolson & Christopher Wood in 1928 ~ 50 years after’
‘The discovery of Alfred Wallis by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood on a visit to St Ives in 1928 ~ 50 years after’ Oil on board. 20.6 x 33.4cm. 1978-9. © Andrew Lanyon. Tate collection T15121. Presented to the Tate by Sarah and Sir Alan Bowness CBE, in honour of Chris Stephens 2018 . - ‘The Photographer’ 1978.
‘The Photographer’ Oil on board. 23 X 19cm. 1978 © Andrew Lanyon. British Council Collection. - ‘Wartime Abstracts. The paintings of Peter Lanyon’‘I must congratulate you on a magnificent example of book production. Setting, binding and the unique use of colour reproductions have amazed the Australian friends who have now seen it.’ – Arthur Wilson.
- ‘Peter Lanyon, Pottery & Postcards’ by Andrew Lanyon‘Delightfully irreverent’ – Jennifer Martin. ‘Superb book. I chuckled and admired every page of it. My favourite I think, is Roger on one leg’ – Nancy Wynne Jones. ‘Another very fine book…the postcards themselves are fascinating, many having a tremendous feeling of a Lanyon painting.’ – Sue Larkin. ‘Word for word, picture for picture it… Read more: ‘Peter Lanyon, Pottery & Postcards’ by Andrew Lanyon