Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft

Anna Mason's vibrant, detailed and uplifting watercolours have earned her worldwide recognition. In this, her second book, she goes beyond flowers to explore her inspirations from across the natural world, including fruit, birds and animals. The book gives you a very personal insight into Anna's ...

A Life's Work will span from Annemieke's first experiments with textile in the 1960s, through to the masterworks from the 1980s that catapulted her to international acclaim. The exhibition will showcase the full range of Annemieke's artmaking with three-dimensional sculptural works, drawings, ske...

Annie Leibovitz : Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark books, Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life 1990-2005. In this newest collection, Leibovitz has captured the world's most compelling subjects in the style that has distinguished her as one of ...

Decorative paint expert Annie Sloan's ultimate guide to using paint to transform your home. Annie Sloan's complete guide shows you how to use paint to decorate any of the surfaces in your home. Learn the basic skills for using paint on walls and furniture, alongside masterful techniques for paint...

Annie Sloan is a celebrated decorative painter and the inventor of Chalk Paint, with over a million followers on social media. In her new book, Annie introduces 30 brand-new sustainable upcycling projects to give old furniture a second life. The pieces in this book range from decorative items suc...

This remarkable and beautiful book brings together a collection of decorated papers dating from the 16th to the 20th century. They were produced for a wide variety of uses: as wrappers and endpapers for books, as the backing for playing cards, and even as linings for chests and cases. Some decora...

Presents complete instructions for a wide variety of edgy, offbeat, and quirky craft projects, including a black duct-tape corset, Tough Baby sweater, Dem Bones socks, Apothecary tote, and more, accompanied by more than three hundred photographs and intriguing sidebars containing recipes, trivia,...

Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide remains the essential and trusted guide to the antiques market. It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, the g...

"Dorothea Lange (born in Hoboken, New Jersey, 1895; died in Berkeley, California, 1965) documented rural poverty for the federal Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939, her images becoming icons of the era. She later photographed Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II ...

With this publication Aperture presents an elegantly updated and refreshed edition of the classic Henri Cartier-Bresson volume in the Aperture Masters of Photography series. With an introduction by notable curator Clément Chéroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chron...

Learn how to do quick and easy applique the Sew Quirky way for fun, sewn projects. This collection of 12 designs for bright and bold machine applique patterns can be used to create bags, pillows, quilts as well as to embellish clothes. Author Mandy Murray of Sew Quirky explains the fusible appliq...

A tribute to portraiture, as well as the artists and sitters, Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize marks 100 years of Australia's oldest and most-loved annual portraiture award. Curator Natalie Wilson unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks representing every decade. Ar...

Documents the history of the groundbreaking company Architectural Pottery, tracing its critical influence on midcentury design and its enduring appeal today.