Nick Cudworth was a professional artist since 1978 who subsequently ran his own highly successful gallery in Walcot in Bath. He lived and worked off the street, in the true artisan Walcot tradition in a studio at the back of the gallery. In this space he gradually honed and refined his own technique and style in pastel and oil painting concentrating more and more on building his ideas incorporating the beautiful surroundings of the city of Bath. Since his death in 2021, his son and duaghter have been running the gallery. His first book BATH LANDSCAPES was published in 2008 as a private venture but this is the first book published by AKEMAN PRESS. Beautifully designed by award-winning designer Howard Brown the book includes works from 1996 to 2014 and detailed texts by the artist to accompany the full colour reproductions. Many people have painted Bath’s iconic buildings, but few have imbued them with the sense of drama they so eloquently demand. Leafing through this eclectic selection of images, there can be no doubt that Nick Cudworth not only took up the challenge but gave it a unique twist. From the interplay of light and shade to quasi-voyeuristic glimpses of hidden lives played out behind veiled windows, he is the master of the nuance, the ambiguity of the half seen, and the crepuscular borderland between reality and illusion. Nowhere is this borderland more explicit than in his paintings of paintings, where the spirit of Magritte hovers ineluctably in the background, in the same way that Hitchcock’s Rear Window – and all the subsequent cinematic homages to it – hovers in the background of his studies of lighted windows. At present at out of print, we look forward to it being republished.