James Trollope

James Trollope is a former Television reporter who writes about cricket and art. He co-wrote 'The Bluffer's Guide to Cricket' and is the author of 'Slater's Sussex' about a colour woodcut artist called Eric Slater (1896-1963) who won international acclaim in the 1930s but died in obscurity. His next book, 'The Colour Woodcuts of Arthur Rigden Read', tells the story of the artist who taught Slater the Japanese woodcut technique. A companion volume to 'Slater's Sussex' called 'Short's Sussex' is about the printmaker Sir Frank Short RA (1857-1945) who, like Slater, had a home in Seaford on the Sussex coast. HIs latest book, 'Rudolph Ihlee, The Road to Collioure', tells the story of Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968) whose exile in the South of France in the 1920s and 30s led to a fine body of work much of which is reproduced for the first time.