The Flagstaff issue no 55 summer 2025

Review by art historian and author david tovey

"The story of Alfred Wallis fascinates many people. This hardback tome is an incredible piece of scholarship which will make it the definitive biography of Alfred Wallis."

The British Art Journal Volume XXV July 2025

Review of Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary by art curator and author James Scott

Review by author and art historian Sonia Aarons

biographer of artist, sculptor and writer Sven Berlin

Alfred Wallis Primitive by Sven Berlin

Review by Alfred Wallis's descendant Andrew Blair

in St Ives Times & Echo

"If you haven’t already had the opportunity to read this book, I commend it as the single most important work written about Alfred Wallis since Sven Berlin’s 'Primitive' (1949)."

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Review in the July/August 2025 issue of the St Ives Local magazine

Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary

Article on Alfred Wallis Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary in the July/August 2025 issue of the magazine St Ives Local