In honour of the new major exhibition at Tate St Ives, we thought we’d highlight some of the current titles relating to artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun.

Whilst many titles relating to Ithell can prove hard to get hold of, if there are any in particular which you would like us to try and order in please do get in touch!


The Living Stones Cornwall – Ithell Colquhoun

Finally reissued is this new edition of a cult classic!

Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s, searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed-out London. So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain’s westernmost county, a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present.

Sacred and beautiful, wild and weird, Colquhoun’s Cornwall is a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore – and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond.


Ithell Colquhoun – Emma Sharples

A brilliant introduction to Colquhoun this is the latest addition to Eiderdown Press’ Modern Women Artists series.

The MODERN WOMEN ARTISTS series of collectable books reveal an alternative history of art, telling the stories of important female artists whose work might otherwise be overlooked, overshadowed or forgotten. Read together, these books begin to redress the untold history of modern art.


Ithell Colquhoun – Between Worlds

The title which accompanies the Tate’s landmark exhibition. It showcases over 200 artworks and archival materials tracing Colquhoun’s evolution, from her early student work and engagement with the surrealist movement, to her fascination with the intertwining realms of art, sexual identity, ecology and occultism.

It culminates in a room dedicated to Colquhoun’s interpretation of the Taro deck – her most accomplished fusion of her artistic and magical practice. Explore Colquhoun’s enthralling, multi-layered universe through writings, drawings, paintings, early theatre projects and mural designs, many of which have never been shown publicly before.