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Alfred made his work using scrap everyday materials and he often used paint left over from the boating industry. Two-mastered ship was painted on the back of a Great Western Railway fair schedule, and Two Boats was painted on a Selfridges box.
Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British fisherman and artist known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes painted in a naïve style. Having no artistic training, he began painting at the age of 70, using household paint on scraps of cardboard.
Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Our Pick. By Edwin Mullins. The self-taught painter Wallis created exuberant seascapes and nautical scenes have energy and verve of modern art, with their expressionistic use of shape, color, and brushstroke.
- British
- August 18, 1855
- Devon, England
- August 29, 1942
Nov 4, 2019 · Painted on discarded wood and cardboard, Wallis's simplistic, childlike images of the sea became fashionable amongst members of the art elite of the 1930s, owned by everyone from the artist Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) to Jim Ede, director of the Tate gallery.
Aug 20, 2019 · What was paid for the works was not recorded, however, it is believed subsequent paintings were bought and sent off in the post for sixpence a piece – a price Alfred thought was ‘fair’. The paintings bought by Nicholson and Wood that day were the first Wallis had ever sold.
Alfred Wallis was a British fisherman and artist known for his depictions of the Cornish landscape adopting seafaring folk imagery and a distinctive style, which at the time was recognised as ‘naive’ but powerfully sincere as the subject matter of his paintings emerged from first-hand experience of life at sea.
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Alfred Wallis painted at the kitchen table of his home in St Ives. He used scrap materials that he found around him. He didn’t have much money, so he used bits of spare paint from the boat industry in the town. Shopkeepers’ would save old grocery boxes and crates for him to paint on.
