Product Overview
Tony Lewery is acknowledged as an authoritative voice on all aspects of the 'roses and castles' folk art tradition of English narrow boat painting. This, a standard work on the subject, shows how the designs, proudly displayed on the narrowboats of generations of boat people, originated and evolved. The geomatric designs, painted flowers and romantic castle-and-cottage landscapes and vividly described along with pen portraits of the men who painted them.
