Valerie Phillips - Alice In Londonland

Welcome to 'Alice in Londonland', Valerie Phillips' tenth book which marks a return to the single subject, but now presenting landscape as well as portraiture and published in a new format. Alice in Londonland is a step change for Phillips, an evolution of her art. Alice and Valerie take you on a journey through London, pie and mash shops, Victorian dinosaurs, Lycamobile branded shopfronts and dragons galore. This is what London looks like, really looks like. It is a break from the glossy tourist images of the Royal Parks, West London terraces, Beefeaters at the tower and the Royal Family. Alice in Londonland shows us the beauty and the bizarre in the corner shops, the "caffs", the back alleys, the pot plants, pubs and the peeling paint. Alice is dressed in London too - finding all her outfits in various charity shops - or pulled from Phillips' wardrobe.