About the Author

Alice teaches life drawing and painting at St Ives School of Painting and is an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy. She is known especially for her still lifes in piercingly vivid colour. She has exhibited widely, both in London and Cornwall. Sansom & Co also published her book Alice Mumford: Colour from Coast to Coast Sue Leigh’s second collection of poems, Her Orchards, was published by Two Rivers Press in 2021. Her first book, Chosen Hill, was described by the TLS as ‘an intelligent and considered collection that pays homage to the act of paying attention’.  A pamphlet, Chalk, was published recently by Evergreen Press. She teaches at Oxford and runs her own poetry courses.