A batch of new prints, fresh off the press!

Winteringham Haven

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Portsoy

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Rochester

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Gloucester Marine Railways, with two Grand Banks Pilot Schooners

There was a good turnout for the launch of James’ new book Pearl River at St Mary’s church Wivenhoe, the church where most of the characters in his book were baptised, married and laid to rest. Organised by Sue Finn at the Wivenhoe Bookshop and with Phil Finn as chat show host, the main characters and many of the audience entered into the spirit of the evening by wearing eighteenth-century clothes. A good time was had by all!

photos by Robin Niedojadlo

Ian Collins’ biography of James Dodds, The Blue Boat, last night won the New Angle Prize and University of Suffolk’s Creative Suffolk Author Award: a literary award celebrating outstanding writing which contributes to Suffolk’s creative output. The prize aims to showcase the strength of diverse literary voices in the county and aims to reward the work of a writer who has made an important contribution to the literary landscape of the county.

Pearl River
a Wivenhoe Shipwright’s story
£8.99 [buy]

James Dodds’ historical novella Pearl River is a portrait of a maritime community through the eighteenth century, told by a father and son learning their trade on the river famous for oysters, shipbuilding and fast customs cutters.

“The story is woven from a few facts gleaned from wills and parish records, threaded through with my imagining of what their lives would have been like. Most events, names and dates are real; in tribute to the people whose lives I’ve enjoyed uncovering, their stories have been spun afresh with the help of my fictional William King and his son.”

Wivenhoe Artists 1946-1986 is a celebration of the artists who lived and worked in Wivenhoe in the post war years. Written by James Dodds, one of the next generation of artists, and richly illustrated showing the talent this town had to offer the art world.

Artists include Dicky Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller, John and Pam Dan, Roy and Gail Cross, Micheal Heard, Tony Young, John Meade, John Doubleday, Dicki Boardman, Ted Atkinson, Barry Woodcock, Louis and Jackie Claiborne.

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New book out: The Blue Boat by Ian Collins

978-1-8382272-0-3
£35 [buy]

New linocut “100 Years of Walton and Frinton Yacht Club”

And here’s how it happened:

A little tour of the studio gallery for Hayletts

JAMES DODDS – Linocuts and Paintings
Saturday 20th June
to Saturday 18th July 2020

 

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MALDON SHIPWRIGHTS

David Patient and James Dodds first met as shipwrights at Walter Cook & Son in Maldon, Essex in the 1970s before their lives took different paths, James to art and David to run his own shipyard.

‘Maldon Shipwrights’ combines their memories of working together on traditional wooden vessels of the Thames Estuary, David providing the narrative to James’s linocuts.

Jardine Press Ltd
ISBN 978-0-9934779-8-0
Paperback, 198 x 198mm, 36pp
Jardine Press 2020
Retail price: £10
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New linocut. Here’s a film showing three months condensed into one minute.

Free postage!

A lockdown special offer of Chris Dobrowolski’s fascinating book. Follow his ingenious making of vehicles of escape from a boat, hovercraft, car, tank, and plane made from the everyday things around him. All inspired by the attitude of “I can do it”, first stimulated by his childhood love of Ladybird books. Finally escape with Chris sledging in the Antarctic on a sledge made with gilt picture frames.

159 pages, hardback and only £25 with free postage!

The three Fs: Fascinating, frustrating and farcical. Warning: the book does contain a few expletives!

978-0-9565495-9-4
£25
go for it!

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