Martin Gayford

One of the greatest of all outsider artists: Alfred Wallis at Kettle’s Yard reviewed

The Cornish painter escaped the prison of artistic conventions by the simple expedient of not knowing about them

‘Two ships and steamer sailing past a port — Falmouth and St. Anthony lighthouse’, c. 1931, by Alfred Wallis. Courtesy of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
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