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Based on an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery in autumn 2024, this book collects together 30 original East London Group paintings that serve as inspiration for new works by contemporary artists including David Hepher, Doreen Fletcher and Tim Craven.

A sublime bedside poetry companion for every autumn evening.

An exciting new edition of a beautifully illustrated celebration of our favourite farmyard animals. This beautiful new edition of The Farmyard Set is bigger in size, ensuring a closer look at the world's favourite farm animals. Readers of The Country Set and Flying the Nest should dust down their wellingtons once again and come and meet The Farmyard Set. This handsome and lavishly illustrated gift book features 50 of farming's best-loved creatures, brought to life by award-winning artist Hannah Dale. Among them are old favourites, such as the Jersey cow and the Gloucester Old Spot, the Indian Runner duck and the Shetland pony, known for their charm and striking appearance. Alongside each illustration, Hannah Dale provides detailed descriptions and fascinating facts that help us learn more about the character and background of each beloved animal.

A practical guide to selecting the best move available, every time, from any chess position, packed with tips, tricks and shortcuts from the greatest chess players.

Learn the art of Himmeli in this captivating book in which traditional Finnish craft and modern design intertwine to create stunning geometric mobiles from rye straw.

An entertaining and enchanting collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding the seas, skies and woodlands that make up our natural world. Enter an enchanting world where the mysteries of the seas, skies and woodlands come alive through shared myths, legends and folk tales. From the majestic creatures that dance beneath the waves to the celestial beings that populate the heavens and the spirits that reside within the forests, The Treasury of Folklore offers a portal into the lore of the natural world that has been whispered through the generations.In this mesmerising compendium you'll embark on a journey through the rich tapestry of myths, legends, and tales that have been woven into the very fabric of our natural world. You'll tread mysterious waters and be beguiled by the sirens and sea monsters, soar to new heights with winged Pegasus and uncover stories of celestial beings, from thunder gods to constellations that have guided traveller's across the heavens. And as you wander through the ancient woods, you'll encounter spirits between the branches, insatiable cannibalistic children hewn from logs and the promise of the big, bad wolf.  The stories included here traverse countries and continents and have been carefully selected to highlight how humans are linked through time and place, with shared dreams, fears and ways of rationalising the unknown. Immerse yourself in the tapestry of tales collected in these pages, each story a testament to the enduring enchantment of the seas, skies, and woodlands.

Learn how to create beautiful, modern flower wreaths, not just for Advent and Christmas but throughout the year. Decorate your front door, walls and dining tables, and even your head with flower wreaths. Organised around the seasons of the year, this book has 40 flower projects for all occasions, from the first longing for spring and budding greenery via summer light and harvest time to Christmas and winter rest. All wreaths have clear step-by-step instructions in text and pictures. There are facts about which materials are suitable and sustainable for the different seasons, including which you can pick yourself from nature or your garden. Written by florist, photographer and writer Malin Björkholm, whose wreaths and flower arrangements have become famous on Instagram due to their simplicity and use of natural materials. Projects in this book include an enchanting bright yellow mimosa flower wreath for spring, a traditional midsummer Swedish flower crown, a striking circlet of dried flowers and berries for autumn and a classic door wreath with pine cones for Christmas. More luxurious and more modern than any wreath-making book you'll have seen before, these magical projects will provide endless inspiration for year-round decorating with flowers.

A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times. Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores:¿ How the restrictions and trials of everyday life can inform your textile work, enabling you to develop imaginative new approaches. ¿ The healing power of stitch to soothe and console, with the simple act of putting needle into fabric providing a mindful route to inner calm. ¿ Practical ways to continue with your textile art practice in the face of seismic life changes, finding creative opportunity in difficult situations. ¿ How to use found objects, repurposed threads and personal items to create deep emotional resonance in your own work. Both authors have recent lived experience of having to navigate new paths through big life challenges, making this book particularly heartfelt. It truly demonstrates how even in the toughest times, creativity in textile art can keep you afloat.

Published in partnership with the National Churches Trust, this fascinating book is a sumptuous and authoritative photographic history of churches in England told through the objects inside them. Arranged chronologically from Roman times to the present day, it covers a huge range of church objects including ornate fonts, beautiful stained glass windows, carved bench ends and rood screens, precious silverware and even church organs, and each piece has a fascinating story to tell. Within these pages, you'll discover:¿ The Hinton St Mary mosaic in Dorset, created in the early 4th century AD and showing the first depiction of Jesus Christ in Britain. ¿ The full Norman repertoire of abstract geometrical forms displayed in the Tower Arch, St John's Church, Northampton. ¿ The Becket pilgrims represented in glowing medieval stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. ¿ Exquisitely carved misericords showing scenes from spiritual life through the year in Ripple church, Worcestershire. ¿ Destruction and survival through the Dissolution of the Monasteries at Croyland, Lincolnshire. ¿ Works of art in glass by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in Brampton, Cumbria. ¿ Dame Elizabeth Frink's intimate 'Walking Madonna' statue outside Salisbury Cathedral. Among many other glorious treasures of England's Christian history, it's the perfect book for architecture enthusiasts, countryside explorers, dedicated churchgoers and anyone interested in the ongoing story of English churches.

Celebrate all things love with this daily anthology of love poems. With one for every day of the year, from well-known classics to modern fresh takes, there's something for everyone to love. Love is such a uniquely human feeling that people have been writing about it since the invention of writing. There are many forms of this one word: do you think family, pet, home, romance, marriage? Everyone has their own attachments and associations, which makes a collection like this so fascinating. Among the 366 poems are Shakespeare's classic sonnets, Ocean Vuong's experiences of queer young love, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ode to her dog, Charlotte Mew dealing with loss, and much, much more. There is a wide range of voices from across the ages, expressing what love means to them. This is the newest title in Batsford's highly popular Poetry Anthology series, and is the perfect bedside companion for late night reading or morning meditating.

Calm Your Mind uses the power of art and ideas to quieten your racing mind and help you achieve a deep inner sense of stillness. This exquisite book, the second from the hugely popular online emotional wellbeing community Ravenous Butterflies, is the perfect companion for those times when you're feeling agitated, overstimulated and troubled by daily stresses and worries. It showcases a beautiful selection of 80 tranquil yet stirring landscapes, portraits and abstracts from artists and illustrators both famous and obscure, including Augustus John, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Emile Claus and Nikolay Nikanorovich, paired with inspiring quotations from authors such as Haruki Murakami, Rabindranath Tagore, Maya Angelou and John Berger. The contents page is artfully divided into 24 calming journeys that suggest routes in which to navigate the book to help you cope with different emotional situations. Feeling burnt out after a hard day at work? Struggling with sleeplessness? Unable to concentrate? There's an inspiring solution for all these issues and more within the pages of this wonderful book.

The remarkable story of how a group of untrained London artists became an art world sensation in the interwar years. Although the East London Group achieved commercial success and huge media coverage in the late 1920s and early 1930s, their story is relatively unknown today. Their atmospheric paintings depicting scenes from everyday life, their London surroundings and scenes from further afield are now highly sought after. Inspired by the charismatic teacher John Cooper, its artists, mainly working-class people with little art world experience, achieved shows at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Gallery, and around the UK. Then, amazingly, two of them reached the dizzying heights of the Venice Biennale in 1936. Their fans included such luminaries as Arnold Bennett, Joseph Duveen, Aldous Huxley, Ramsay MacDonald, Walter Sickert and Osbert Sitwell. This fascinating book is based on correspondence and interviews with the last, now-deceased Group members plus primary and secondary archival research over many years. It includes extensive artist biographies plus chapters covering the group's members' involvement in film, the stage and poster work, alongside stories of their mentor John Cooper's mosaic revival and his wife Phyllis Bray's huge murals for the New People's Palace in Mile End Road, London. From Bow to Biennale is the first study of this important group of artists, first published in 2012 but now expanded and updated with a new afterword on East London Group paintings that have recently come to light. Richly illustrated, the group's story is examined in captivating detail, with biographies of all the artists and a list showing where you can see their paintings today.

A brand new edition of this beautiful gift book celebrating 50 of our favourite pet dogs. Each entry is lovingly illustrated in Hannah Dale's inimitable, quirky style. The only thing better than dogs? More dogs! Updated in an exciting larger format, This new edition of A Dog's Life ensures a closer look at the world's best friend.This beautiful gift book features over 50 dogs painted by Hannah Dale in her uniquely quirky, characterful style. From the faithful Labrador and the bouncy Cocker Spaniel to the loveable Old English Sheepdog and French Bulldog, all our favourite dog breeds are delightfully brought to life by this award-winning artist.Each portrait is accompanied by insightful and entertaining text from Hannah, who is a trained zoologist as well as an artist. A wonderful reference and beautiful gift book for all dog lovers.

Fascinating and richly illustrated stories of insects in 366 daily entries, from dancing honeybees to the largest spider webs in the world.   In this beautifully produced guide, entomologists Gail Ashton and Dominic Couzens present a look at hundreds of insects, as well as what makes each one so important. With a fascinating, bitesize entry for every day of the year, you can learn all about insect behaviour, migration, protection mechanisms, their involvement in folklore, history, literature, and more. Learn what the scientific name for each bug is, find out what people have had to say about them over the years from poetry to scientific papers, and see what they look like for yourself with a detailed image to accompany each entry.Discover the story of the gnat, whose wings beat at 1000 times a second, the glowworm, who has captured the power of light, and the sacred scarab beetle, worshipped in Egypt thousands of years ago.Illustrated with stunning photographs and works of art, showcasing the colours, textures and strange and unique features of these fascinating creatures, this collection is a celebration of insects and their special place in our ecosystems and culture.

Dive into a world of warmth, comfort and style with Cardigans, a beautiful book bursting with inspiration that invites seasoned knitters and beginners alike to construct perfect cardigans from a selection of 20 projects. Dreaming of a stylish summer cardigan? Or snuggling into a plush winter cardigan as cosy as a warm hug? The stunning images in this book will guide you to these projects, and many more besides. Divided into seasons, there are gorgeous, comfortable knits designed to suit every occasion and all types of weather, all using wool or wool mixed yarns. Taking inspiration from Nordic pattern tradition, here are cardigans with a range of construction and design variations: multi-coloured cardigans, single-coloured cardigans, cardigans with braids or lace pattern. The patterns are available in a wide range of sizes, from XS to 4XL, and the instructions are offered in differing degrees of difficulty, perfect for novice and expert knitters alike. This book also includes essential knitting tutorials for various aspects of design and technique. Whether you're seeking to express your personal style, make unique, handmade gifts, or embark on a cosy new craft, Cardigans is the ultimate guide to creating a wardrobe full of knitted treasures, stitch by stitch. So, pick up your needles, unravel your yarn and get comfortable as you craft the cardigans of your dreams.

Chess is fun! This follow-up to the bestselling Batsford Book of Chess for Children is a lively collection of chess puzzles, games and activities, guaranteed to increase your child's enjoyment of the game while improving their skills and deepening their understanding. In conversational text aimed at children aged 7 and up, our two chess-obsessed heroes Jess and Jamie address the reader in a straightforward and relatable way, and this time they're joined by their friends Harry and Marnie, who are as mad about chess as they are!Explore fun problems and puzzles such as the Box 'Em In Challenge, easy chess variants such as Three Check Chess and Progressive Chess, a heap of guess-the-next-move quizzes, and revision pages to help remind children of the chess basics. This book works well as a companion to Chess for Children but also as a standalone activity book. Whether your child is just beginning to learn chess or already gripped by the game, Chess for Children Activity Book will help you encourage their interest and make learning chess a real pleasure.

This landmark book is a glorious celebration of the greatest gardens, parks and landscapes in Britain, with stunning photography accompanied by insightful text from leading garden historians and conservators. It is lovingly curated by The Gardens Trust, a prominent UK conservation charity dedicated to preserving, studying and spotlighting historic gardens.Arranged chronologically, it covers around 60 individual gardens, specially selected to give a broad historical overview of British garden design from the Early Modern Period up until the Millennium. Each chapter also includes an intruiging essay, exploring the wider changes in social context, taste and style in each period, mirrored with short gazetteer of gardens from each era throughout the world.Entries include:¿ Elizabethan splendour at Kenilworth Castle.¿ Spectacular landscapes by Capability Brown at Blenheim Palace and Stowe.¿ Birkenhead Park, the Victorian inspiration for New York's Central Park.¿ The classic cottage garden created by Margery Fish at East Lambrook, Somerset.¿ Ian Hamilton Finlay's modern Scottish masterpiece, Little Sparta.Go on a voyage of garden discovery with this beautiful book, and learn more about the gardens and landscapes that are a much-loved part of our shared national story.

A practical and inspirational guide to choosing, blending and spinning richly textured artisan yarn for weaving, knitting and other textile art applications. Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist who creates richly textured, highly tactile woven textile works from yarn that she spins and blends herself. In this elegantly designed book Imogen reveals the secrets of her practice. In evocative, engagingly written text accompanied by sumptuous images of her work in her studio throughout the year, she explains:¿ How to choose raw fibres for use in your work: the author's are ethically sourced from various ecologically responsible sources, including a rescue flock of sheep on the South Downs. ¿ How to put together different types of fibres - raw sheep's wool, plant fibres such as hemp, soya and wild silk, alpaca hair and much more - to create richly textured yarn. ¿ The delicate art of blending naturally occurring pigments, working with shade and tone to create subtle and nuanced colours, a process that Imogen likens to a painter mixing paints on a palette. ¿ The principles of hand-spinning, from a simple single spun thread to more complicated yarns such as triple-chain ply yarn, using a traditional floor spindle. ¿ How to skein, soak and wet-finish your yarn, and how to store your yarn stash. ¿ Ideas for taking your yarn into finished craft and art projects, with stunning images of the author's own work. With an emphasis on engagement with nature, the rhythms of the seasonal craft cycle, ethical making, sustainability and mindfulness, this book is ideal for weavers, textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn.

Bring your personal story to life in colourful, vibrant textile art. Ailish Henderson is an exciting young textile artist whose work is fun, quirky, tells interesting stories and uses a diverse range of media, though always grounded in cloth. In this gorgeous book, she explains her working methods and how you can harness them in your own work to create unique, deeply personal textile art pieces. She encourages you to draw on your own personal memorabilia to create work that is meaningful to you - the intention is to capture a moment in time, a memory to treasure, a look on a face, a glance of love from a pet. Along with work from the author, the book also showcases work from textile artists such as Mandy Pattullo, Bridget Harvey, Jenni Dutton and the hugely popular Mr X Stitch (Jamie Chalmers). It includes:¿ Materials: where to source cloth, using found and recycled materials, curating vintage fabric, incorporating precious family pieces in your work. ¿ Processes: finding inspiration, creating mood boards, keeping sketchbooks, developing work from drawings, capturing character. ¿ Techniques: Screenprinting, hand and machine stitching, appliqué, mixed-media collage. ¿ Subject matter: the narrative line, self-portraits, family snapshots, history, identity, travel, favourite animals, even famous faces. Throughout the book the author encourages you to work with freedom, instinct and honesty, bringing in a wealth of different techniques to create authentic stories in cloth, and most importantly, enjoy yourself along the way.

A magnificent colouring book from the well-loved Maggie Magoo design house - inspired by the world of astrology. This beautiful book brings you many wonderful decorative designs to colour. It contains six different illustrations of each sign of the zodiac, in varying adorable design styles, so you can build up a glorious collection of colourful astrological imagery. And to finish, there are some general celestial images - suns, moons, stars - to complement the individual star signs. Once coloured, the pictures make ideal framed prints for the home - colour and frame your family's star signs, or one for a baby's nursery. Or you could colour the entire zodiac! The designs can also be used as creative templates for collage, embroidery or appliqué. Whether you're a cautious Virgo, a colourful Leo or a moody Scorpio, this gorgeous colouring collection will have you reaching for your pens and pencils to add a touch of colour to the whole range of star signs, in your own inimitable style.

Architecture and design specialist Dominic Bradbury draws back the curtain on the iconic South Bank, providing an unrivalled insight into the buildings that populate one of London's epicentres of art and entertainment. Encompassing an art gallery, theatres, festival halls and a cinema, the South Bank is a cultural hub in the heart of London. South Bank: Architecture & Design is a beautifully crafted celebration of its sublime, community-focused architecture. The book opens with an origin story, unravelling the evolution of this riverside enclave since the 1951 Festival of Britain catapulted it onto the scene and exploring the renowned architects and designers that have shaped this space throughout the mid-century and beyond. Much of the book is devoted to the buildings themselves, all of which are accompanied by Bradbury's authoritative text and richly illustrated with photography by Rachael Smith. The buildings include:¿ Royal Festival Hall¿ Hayward Gallery¿ Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Purcell Room¿ National Film Theatre/BFI¿ Royal National TheatreThis sumptuous book is an invaluable purchase for anyone intrigued by our built heritage and cultural spaces.

A joyful collection of 100 poems to provide a dose of happiness in times of need.

An inspirational and practical resource for any artist interested in going beyond the figurative and moving into abstract.

First published in 1956, We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, the leading gardener of the 1960s, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. This is now one of the most important books on gardening ever written. A beautiful and timeless book on creating a garden. Margery Fish turned to gardening when she was in her mid-forties and went on to develop the whole concept of a cottage garden. She had a love of flowers coupled with a passion for nature and made an intensive research into the traditionally grown plants with which cottage gardens in Britain were once so densely planted. In this classic owrk, she recounts the trails and tribulations, successes and failures, of her venture with ease and humour. Topics covered are colourful and diverse, ranging from the most suitable hyssop for the terraced garden through composting, hedges, making paths to the best time to lift and replant tulip bulbs. Her good sense, practical knowledge and imaginative ideas will encourage and inspire gardeners everywhere.

The 100 letters collected in this beautifully illustrated book demonstrate the power of the written word to inspire, astonish and entertain. Ranging from ink-inscribed tablets vividly describing life in the Roman Empire to remarkable last wills and testaments, passionate outpourings of love and despair, and succinct notes with deadly consequences.

A sublime anthology of nature poetry to enjoy on those long summer evenings, with one poem for every day of the season.

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books.