Artist Focus: Alfred Wallis

Discover our ranges featuring the work of celebrated folk painter Alfred Wallis, including prints, tea towels, greetings cards and books.

Alfred Wallis was born in Devon. He was a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness. He was admired by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who came across his work when visiting St. Ives in 1928 and included it in the Seven & Five Society's exhibition of 1929. He died in Madron Poorhouse in 1942.