Paintings and painting

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada's best-loved and most celebrated artists.

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada's best-loved and most celebrated artists.

The long-awaited biography of one of Canada's most intriguing and beguiling artists.

The long-awaited biography of one of Canada's most intriguing and beguiling artists.

The perfect antidote to his Black Dog, a depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to painting with gusto.

Learn to paint gorgeous watercolor flowers, houseplants, and arrangements with this inspiring guide that includes 30 step-by-step tutorials.

Embark on an underwater journey filled with light and love.

There is no doubt Margaret Biggs newest work Visions will touch many.

Becoming a parent is a blessing that forever changes lives.

Christmas evokes some of the most vivid memories we have.

A sister knows the heart of a sister like no other-and, sometimes, only the heart, mind, and hand of a sister will do.

The words of notable men and women from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to John F.

No holiday has the power to captivate our senses or dominate our memories quite like Christmas.

My mission as an artist is to capture those special moments in life adorned with beauty and light.

What I paint touches on foundational life values.

Creative recipes and celebrations of seasonal bounties-in the garden, in the kitchen, and on the canvas.

A new history of the techniques, materials, and aesthetic ambitions that gave rise to the radiant verisimilitude of Jan van Eyck's oil paintings on panel.

Spring 2008.

The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

WITH A FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRY Carola Hicks sets out to solve the mystery of one of art history s greatest paintings, The Arnolfini Portrait The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck in 1434 hangs in the National Gallery in London and remains a mystery to this day.

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over.

Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints.

Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life.

Ken White's career spans an impressive six decades.

Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years.

This delightful collection of pictures is a valuable record of many of the historically important buildings of the town of Stafford, a town which boasts a history of over 1000 years.

Harley Crossley paints for the major shipping lines, with his work adorning many cruise ships.

This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province.

This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province.

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings.

This long-awaited study, lavishly illustrated, tells the remarkable story of the work of one of Canada's great artists.

Let this innovative and indispensable book be your painting companion: simply dip in and out whenever you need advice and guidance from best-selling author, Matthew Palmer.

A visual feast celebrating the alluring power of bookstores68 paintings by illustrator Gibbs M.

The Art of the Bookstore is romantic, poetic, charismatic, and enduring, and independent booksellers around the world thrive on creating this unique culture and ambiance.

Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain.

In the late afternoon of Sunday, 20 August 1911, three men strolled into the Louvre museum in Paris.

The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George.

It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes.

This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality.

Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century.

The remarkable story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day'Enthralling .

For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon.

'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself.

'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself.