Candela : The Shell Builder

Written by Colin Faber  1st Edition 1963 Published by The Architectural Press. Owned and Signed by the Artist Denis Hawkins.Painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher who studied at Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1947–9, then Slade School of Fine Art, 1949–52, teachers including William Coldstream and Graham Sutherland. He was a member of the Printmakers’ Council and Midland Group of Artists. Showed at Gimpel Fils, AIA, LG, Redfern Gallery and New Vision Centre and International Print Biennales in Tokyo and Florence. Commissions included murals and bas-reliefs at New Hospital, Netheredge, Sheffield, and a series of panels for Royal Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Arts Council, Victoria & Albert Museum, provincial art galleries, education authorities and overseas galleries hold Hawkins’ work. He became director of art at Repton School, living at Repton, Derbyshire. This rare book carries about 500 black & white photographs, drawings and plans illustrate the book. Bibliography. Essay by Candela on hyperbolic paraboloids. 11" high X 10" wide, 240 pages. Large heavy book well used by the artist with mylar jacket