
Eighteen essays about art, in particular the arts of sculpting, painting, and writing, by a renowned novelist and sculptor. Reviews Jones' life and times, beginning with his father's war diary at Gallipoli, and continues through Jones' working class childhood, his own war diary as a field medic, and his struggles with TB and as an artist in postwar Wales. Among the essays are five portraits of notable creators: Huw Weldon, John Cowper Powys, Clough Williams Ellis, Richard Hughes, and Bertrand Russell, the result of conversations while the subjects were sitting for busts by him.