Books by Christopher Campbell-Howes

Fascinated in his childhood and youth by his aunt, the artist Evelyn Dunbar, Christopher Campbell-Howes has devoted several years of his retirement from teaching in Scotland to the writing of this definitive biography and memoir of a largely undiscovered but immensely rewarding British artist. Born in England during World War 2, whose women's home front activities were so tellingly expressed by Dunbar, Christopher Campbell-Howes has brought to bear an impressive but user-friendly scholarship to his biography, aided by a sharp acumen for research. The first draft of Evelyn Dunbar: A Life in Painting was almost print-ready when the discovery was made in 2013 of Dunbar's residual studio, hidden in a Kentish oast house since her early death in 1960 at the age of 53: some 800 pieces covering her entire career came to light, plus a wealth of documents and photographs, a once-in-a-lifetime biographer's benison. Christopher Campbell-Howes set to work again, with the result that he has accounted for some 80% of Dunbar's work . Author of several books about the south of France, where he lives, Christopher Campbell-Howes divides his time between writing, composing and making music, building drystone walls and cultivating strawberries.