An artist’s memories of a Yorkshire fishing village, its extraordinary characters, its tragedies, and the people who helped her find her way as a painter. Today, Staithes is admired for its colourful cottages, steep winding streets and beautiful coastline. But when the young artist Laura Johnson arrived in the village in the late nineteenth century, it was a very different place from the one we know today. Fishing was a dangerous and uncertain livelihood, storms could bring d