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James Dodds (Jardine Press)
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James Dodds was born in
Brightlingsea and trained as a
shipwright in Maldon before embarking
on his art education in Colchester,
Chelsea, and the RCA. His East
Anglian maritime heritage pervades
all his work, be it in the intriguing
curved perspectives of his linocuts
of coastal towns or in the rounded
figures in his paintings of
“things that interest me
– how things work, people,
boats, whatever.” He works
“with a constant feeling for
the continuity of the past with the
present – striving for a
balance between head, heart and
hand.” Since starting the
Jardine Press in the eighties, he has
published, and illustrated with
linocuts, over thirty titles, mainly
on a maritime theme. He has exhibited
in the USA and the former USSR, all
over the UK and East Anglia, in
Messums, Cork Street, and frequently
at the Royal Academy. In July 2007,
he was awarded an honorary doctorate
from the University of Essex in
recognition of his "distinguished
contribution to the local community
as an artist and defender of our
community and natural heritage."
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Tide Lines
Ian Collins
ISBN 978 0 95654 9532
240 x 300mm, 216pp
300 illustrations in
full colour
Publication date 4 October 2011
Edition of 200 special cloth-bound hardbacks
in slipcases, signed and numbered: £165.00 (including exclusive
hand-printed, signed and numbered linocut, worth £250)
Standard cloth-bound hardback edition with jacket: £50.00
In this richly illustrated volume Ian Collins
charts the voyage James Dodds has made both from the literal
to the poetic and from shipwright to painter, printmaker and
fine-press publisher.
Richly illustrated with pictures
spanning more than three decades of inspired endeavour,
the biography adds a supporting cast of artists, poets
and other nautical characters. It also includes a wider study of
"boats the sea has made" - vernacular vessels from the Shetlands
to the Scillies and across the Atlantic to New England which punctuate
the artist's intriguing story.
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River Colne Shipbuilders
A Portrait of Shipbuilding
1786-1986
John Collins & James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95520 3589
320 x 240mm, 300pp
over 350 illustrations printed in
full colour
Publication date 18 September
2009
Hardback: £85 (includes £10
additional P&P)
Signed Limited Edition of 250,
numbered with slipcase and CD with
details of 500 ships included
Paperback: £33 (includes £5
additional P&P)
John Collins' research of the
shipping registers has brought to
light this fascinating and almost
forgotten history and shown how the
shipyards of this small river have
played such an important part in the
affairs of the nautical world.
The Colne shipbuilders pioneered
new designs to produce some of the
fastest sailing cutters and schooners
ever built. The ingenious shipwrights
constructed specialist vessels,
destined for every corner of the
globe, including boats which could be
transported overland as kits for
reassembly in inaccessible places.
The book charts the history of the
shipyards and boat builders from 1786
to 1988 and follows the river,
flowing downstream from Colchester
Hythe, through Rowhedge and Wivenhoe,
and on to Brightlingsea. Each yard is
covered, from Stuttle's at the Hythe
to Aldous at Brightlingsea, from the
speedy racing cutters and schooners
of Sainty and Harvey to the
innovations of iron and steel from
Forrestt's and Rowhedge Ironworks,
and finally to the last yards which
closed in the late 1980s.
The generous co-operation of local
people, the Colneside museums, Essex
University and the Colne Maritime
Oral History Project (with Lottery
funding) have enabled the story to be
brought to life through a rich array
of illustrations and personal
accounts. Produced in full colour
with over 350 images of shipyards,
workers and vessels, the book is
replete with maps, photographs, lines
drawings and half-models and includes
ten linocuts by James Dodds.
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The Blue Lonnen
Katrina Porteous
with accompanying photographs by
Nigel Shuttleworth and paintings by
James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95520 3558
140 x 210mm, 48pp
Hardback with jacket
£10.00
"She is the last link of the
chain
That stretches away to sea, to the
horizon.
She is the ruled line. The end of the
line.
Without her
There is no reason."
The Northumbrian coble was built
for sail. Its lines developed over
many centuries to respond as
economically and efficiently as
possible to sea and wind, and
everything about it had a purpose.
Today, no new cobles are built in
Northumberland. The introduction of
engines changed the age-old relation
between boat and sea forever, subtly
altering the coble's lines and
ultimately rendering it obsolete.
Now, with every year, fewer cobles
remain. The Blue Lonnen is an
elegy in words and pictures for the
last working examples of this lovely
boat and for the traditions, culture
and community which it embodied.
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Ode to Joy
Charles Harker
Published by Jardine Press Ltd
ISBN 978 0 95520 3596
£8.95
Joy is a remarkable little boat
who tells her own story, from humble beginnings
working as a barge boat on the Thames
Estuary, to a workhorse in the oyster trade.
In her long and joyful retirement she is re-born
as a winklebrig and sails her home waters of
the River Blackwater, the Scottish waters of the Solway Firth,
the Cornish River Fal, venturing abroad to Brittany
and then finally, the Norfolk Broads. She
encounters many adventures, from being swallowed by
quicksand to being a film star.
This book is an ode to Joy from her devoted
owners Janet and Charles Harker.
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The Shipwright's Trade
Rudyard Kipling
2-colour linocuts by James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95092 7046
200 x 200mm, 32pp
Hardback
£10.00
"This poem is the second part of
The Truthful Song, first
published in 1910 in the children's
book Rewards & Fairies.
The poem brings back feelings of my
own youth spent in and around a
labyrinth of lean-to boat-sheds,
barges, blocks and spars, learning a
trade that has changed little since
the building of the Ark.
Themes associated with these
memories have filtered through my
work for many years. This collection
of eight images spans a five year
period, beginning life as individual
paintings and later becoming wood and
linocuts. The book provides an
opportunity for the images to create
their own narrative." James
Dodds
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Knock John Ship
Text compiled by James Dodds.
Linocuts by James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 9539472 2 5
148 x 210mm; 32pp
Paperback
£6.95
The Story of the Wreck on the
Knock John sandbank, Christmas 1848,
told through contemporary newspaper
reports and personal accounts.
"As a child in Brightlingsea I
always thought that our old German
piano came from the wreck on the
Knock John. However it is more
probable it came from the later wreck
of the Hawksdale in 1899, which was
said to have had 500 pianos on board.
My Great Grandfather William Pannell
would have purchased it at the
auction of salvaged goods. He even
built his house from the stone
ballast from another wrecked ship. It
would be interesting to know how many
items from the Knock John Ship
survive in Brightlingsea to this day.
Some forty odd years ago my
baby-sitter found a bale of military
cloth hidden under her floor boards.
Could this have come from the Knock
John?
I learnt to sail on an
ex-stowboating smack the Shamrock,
and while serving my apprenticeship
as a shipwright I illustrated several
books for Hervey Benham, a wonderful
local marine writer. Hervey's book
the Salvagers is were I started my
search for the true identity and date
of the Knock John Ship, with the idea
that she was carrying pianos.
Now a professional artist, I am
living back in Brightlingsea with my
family in a house built by my great
grandfather, and first owned and
lived in by the Captain of his smack
the Waterlily. This book marks the
return to my roots and the
fascinations of my youth. I hope you
will find the story of the Knock John
ship as fascinating as I do."
James Dodds
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The Song of the Waterlily
Martin Newell & James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95394 7249
200 x 200mm; 52pp
Hardback
£15.00
'A wooden boat, un-named,
untried
Lies moored and waiting for the
tide
With maiden voyage due next day
A light wind ushers night away.
As if to praise the shipwright's
arts
A hubbub rises from her parts
As one by one, each sings its song
To prove the previous singer wrong'
The Song of the Waterlily
describes the unity of a ship in a
storm; the message is one of
significance for us all as we
navigate the rough waters of life.
Martin Newell has written an
evocative poem that is illustrated
appropriately by James Dodds, whose
images have the happy knack of
capturing the essence and atmosphere
of seafaring.
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Wild Man of Orford
Alan Drummond
with wood-cuts by James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95255 9405
200 x 200mm
Paperback
£6.95
The Suffolk coast has a curious
history - much of it shaped quite
literally by the sea, for perhaps
nowhere else in the country has tide
and current changed and moulded the
shore so much. Whole towns have
disappeared into the sea leaving only
legends, whilst others - like Orford
- have become almost land-locked by
vast heaps and spits of shingle.
Orford, with its 12th-century castle,
can claim one of the coast's most
curious pieces of history - the story
of a wild man captured in the nets of
local fishermen.
Allan Drummond studied
illustration at the Royal College of
Art at the same time as James Dodds,
and has since built up a formidable
international reputation as an author
and illustrator of children's books.
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Here and There
Andrew Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95394 7263
152 full colour illustrations
240 x 168mm
Paperback - £15.95
Hardback - £24.95
This unusual travelogue of
landscape watercolours takes us from
the artist's beloved East Anglia to
further afield, and is accompanied by
an informative and witty text.
Andrew delights in detail and
architectural elements are drawn with
precision; the rigging of boats is
accurate; the twisted branches,
foliage and textured bark of trees
are closely observed to the extent
that an arborist could identify each
one; people are included so naturally
that they often recognise themselves
when seeing the printed version.
Local meteorological conditions
– whether a rainy windswept
beach at Aldeburgh (itself painted
during the downpour!), or a
sundrenched view of a Mediterranean
harbour – are so vivid that one
can almost feel the extremes of cold
and heat. Above all Dodds respects
the working tradition of the
countryside, the rural and coastal
industries, with a regard for the
hands that shaped it.
Great art is about communicating
an individual's vision of the world,
of representing a truth. Based on his
lifetime's practice, Andrew Dodds
persuades the viewer to see the world
through his eyes, quietly and without
distortion, and we are all the better
for it.
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Peter Grimes
George Crabbe
with lino-cuts by James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95092 7008
150 x 210mm
Paperback
£6.95
The series of fourteen linocuts
from "Peter Grimes" formed the
backbone of James' first solo
exhibition after leaving college,
which took place at Aldeburgh's
Gallery 44 to coincide with the 37th
Festival in 1984. The linocuts were
used to illustrate the Festival
catalogue in following years. The
Britten-Pears Library bought an
entire set of the linocuts for their
collection at the Red House - and
Peter Pears attended in person! The
exhibition not only featured James'
prints but also his powerful
paintings. Since then James has
frequently held exhibitions at
Gallery 44 during the Aldeburgh
Festival.
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Ernie Turner, Wivenhoe
Artist
Richard Barnard
ISBN 978 0 95520 3527
148 x 210mm; 60pp
Paperback
£10.00
Ernie Turner started painting in
1964 when he retired from his job as
a shipwright in Wivenhoe. He captured
much of the Wivenhoe of the '60s and
'70s in his charming colourful naive
style. He has been dubbed Wivenhoe's
Alfred Wallis. With a biography by
Richard Barnard (Chairman of the
Nottage Management Committee), and
introduction by Professor Thomas
Puttfarken (Head of the Dept of Art
History and Theory, University of
Essex), this book was commissioned to
celebrate the largest exhibition to
date of Ernie Turner's work, all
generously loaned by local residents
and held at the Nottage Maritime
Institute in Wivenhoe. All profits
from this book go to the Nottage
Maritime Institute.
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London Then
Andrew Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95092 7084
Hardback - £18.95
Paperback - £11.95
A book of 530 pen drawings of
everyday London as observed and drawn
by Andrew Dodds over a period of 27
years. With a lively anecdotal text
by the artist. "The sketches draw in
streets, buildings, parks and people
with typical Dodds' precision -
providing an atmospheric record of
the cast and character of post-war
London." Eastern Daily Press
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ABC of Boat Bits
(An Introduction to Sailing a Winkle
Brig)
James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95394 7201
115 x 150mm; 36pp
Hardback
£8.95
"This book is all about the Winkle
Brig. The Winkle Brig or Bumkin is an
open clinker boat with a centreboard,
15ft to 18ft long, rigged with a gaff
on the mainsail and one headsail
called the Jib. This rig is called a
Gaff Sloop. There are several
variations on this rig. One is with
no bowsprit and the jib is attached
to the stemhead. Another, the
simplest of all is with a standing
lugsail with or without a jib. The
Winkle Brig is a strong forgiving
work boat with a simple rig: a great
boat in which to learn the rudiments
of sailing.
With children of my own, I wish to
teach them to sail and to share with
them the many secret places of my
youth. The Alphabet of Boats
and this book where firstly conceived
as an introduction for my children to
sailing and the sea." James Dodds
(Afterword)
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A~Z of Printmaking
(A Collector's Guide)
In lighthearted verse by Elly
Robinson
ISBN 978 0 95394 7218
115 x 115mm; 36pp
Paperback
£4.95
A beautifully constructed alphabet
of the essentials of printmaking, by
the director of PRINTWORKS.
Accompanied by many illustrations.
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Alphabet of Boats
James Dodds
ISBN 978 0 95255 946
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115 x 115mm
Hardback - £8.95
James Dodds' hearty linocuts show
in a very simple way the diversity of
different boat rigs.
This Alphabet of Boats started
life as a teething book for his son
and daughter: six local east coast
boats printed onto wood and bound by
a spliced rope ring. As his children
cut their teeth, so the idea of an
alphabet grew. Defining the
difference between a Smack and a
Bawley, a Ketch and a Lugger, from
Ark to Zulu, for young and old, this
alphabet will both amuse and inform.

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See also Cards
Cards
also (on the Martin Newell page)
Black
Shuck
A
Return To Flanders
Late
Autumn Sunlight
Selected
Poems
Wild
Man of Wivenhoe
Spoke
'n' Word
Spoke
'n' Word CD
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