£30.00

For renowned British contemporary artist Kurt Jackson, the oak embodies beautiful fragility as much as gnarled, immovable permanence.

Each tree has a fascinating individual identity whilst part of an immense interconnected woodland world. The oak is a reservoir of great biodiversity, the tree itself an enormous life support system.

Jackson has spent a lifetime in studied observation to present the oak through his own techniques and gestures – relishing in the challenges of scale and form.

Softcover: 140 pages
Over 100 colour and black and white illustrations
Foreword by Aljos Farjon
Prose and poetry by Kurt Jackson
26.5 x 22.5cm

£40.00

From source to sea, artist Kurt Jackson's fascination with the rivers of the British Isles and beyond has endured throughout his life. This book explores, for the first time, Jackson's visual and written responses to the rivers that he has followed, from the continent of Africa to his home county of Cornwall.

The diversity of the waterways that Jackson has come to know through his travels is echoed in his images, which capture habitats rich in flora and fauna. We can also discern the changing face of our rivers - choked by pollution and straining to survive the abuses inflicted since industrialisation restricted the natural flow of the network of blue lines that trickle, meander and run through our lands. Celebrating those networks common to us all, this important publication reminds us of the splendours of our rivers - powerful and fragile in equal measure.

First book dedicated to Kurt Jackson's depictions of rivers.
Hardback: 192 pages
200 colour and 10 black and white illustrations
Foreward by George Monbiot
27 x 22.8cm

£40.00

Combining stunning imagery with commentaries and poems written by the artist, the book gives fascinating insights into the working life of one of the most popular and original artists working in Britain today, and makes a perfect companion to both Kurt Jackson (2012) and Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks (2012).

Hardback: 160 pages
127 colour and 18 black and white illustrations
Forward by Lord Krebs
Introduction by Charlotte Mullins
27 x 22.8cm

£40.00

For Kurt Jackson ‘Painting the sea could become an obsession, an entire oeuvre in its own right, an endless life absorbing task’.

And, as this book (the first dedicated solely to his depictions of the sea) attests, Jackson’s dedication to capturing its constant shape shifting – stillness to thundering force, shallows to mysterious depths – has brought forth paintings that communicate the sea's ebb and flow, its magic and elusiveness.

First book dedicated to Kurt Jackson's depictions of the sea.
Hardback: 192 pages
Over 200 colour and black and white illustrations
Foreward by award-winning art critic Julian Spalding
27 x 22.8cm

£28.00

For everyone with an interest in 21st-century British Art and the landscapes around us, Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks offers a rare and extraordinary insight into Jackson – artist, environmentalist and family man.

Paperback: 144 pages
Second Edition
Publisher: Lund Humphries
27.2 x 23 x 2.2cm

£30.00

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned.

£22.00

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Time to Act is a book of backstage photographs celebrating theatre as live performance, and provides a unique opportunity to see leading actors in the intimacy of their dressing rooms.It records actors' preparations for their appearance in the thirty-five minutes before they go onstage. These moments, rarely witnessed by anyone outside the profession, offer a fascinating glimpse into the theatre world behind the scenes.

Hardback | Pages: 256 | Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 24.99 x 2.44 x 29.74 cm

£20.00

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Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator. Their exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new Normandy drawings and paintings alongside works by van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others. We see how Hockney is propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for sixty years, yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him for decades: light, color, space, perception, water, trees. He has much to teach us, not only about how to see ... but about how to live.

£16.00

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This classic Bigjigs Toys wooden Games Compendium includes playing pieces and instructions for no less than four classic board games and each are educational yet fun. The wooden box neatly stores all the games together; it features a sliding lid with the Snakes and Ladders board on one side and the Draughts board on the other, plus a carry handle to make it the perfect travel toy. Made from high quality, responsibly sourced materials. Conforms to current European safety standards. 3 years +

Games Compendium product features: 4x wooden board games - Snakes and Ladders, Tic Tac Toe, Draughts & Tiddly Winks
Dimensions: 15cm L x 5.5cm H x 20cm W

£55.00

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