ABSTRACT
Alfred Wallis's paintings were much less influential on art in St Ives in the early 1930s, than the work of the artist, Stanhope Forbes, or of Borlase Smart and Leonard Fuller, who, in 1938, started the St Ives School of Painting. Adrian Stokes spent time with Lanyon in St Ives. He also spent time with Margaret drawing and painting at the Eagles Nest home in nearby Zennor of William Arnold-Forster who, if the model did not arrive, took off his clothes and served as model instead. In the upstairs corridor and bedrooms, overlooking a courtyard at Little Park Owles, Stokes and Margaret hung paintings by Alfred Wallis. In one of the rooms in the Kennedy-designed wing of the house they hung a white relief painting by Ben Nicholson. It was comforting living away from war-threatened London. It was also fun, it seems, visiting Alfred Wallis at his home in St Ives.
