...drawing, and don't ask why...

Monday, 3 March 2014

Monday, 10 February 2014

a woman's shed

Here's a Press Release from CICO Books!

Not sure quite what has been written or which actual images have been chosen to be used. Wish me luck.

A WOMAN’S SHED

Spaces for women to create, write, make, grow,

think and escape

(....featuring Maddy Pikarsky...!)

by Gill Heriz

Hardback

"Why should men have all the sheds?"

"Every woman deserves a shed of her own, somewhere to retreat to for some quiet time, to create or grow, to write or paint, or just to contemplate the view.

Gill Heriz has interviewed over 70 different women, and Nicolette Hallett has photographed their sheds inside and out, to collect together this unique insight into why women have sheds, and what they do in them. There are sheds for puppet-makers, sculptors, and writers, as well as farmers, furniture-makers, and woodcutters. There are sheds that can be lived in, sheds that are full to the rafters, and sheds that are simply sheds, with the usual collection of gardening tools, lawnmowers, and seed packets.

Virginia Woolf once argued that, for women, writing fiction required “a room of one’s own.” These women have taken that premise a step further – to the end of the garden – to find their own very personal space.

Gill Heriz is an artist and writer who was once an interior designer, and has a passion for architecture

and design. She is also self-confessedly nosy, and loves nothing more than exploring other people’s

houses. Her interest in women’s sheds was first sparked by some fine examples in her local area, and

now extends across the world. Her current shed is a studio built from old flint, where she can work,

create, and relax. The author is based in Suffolk, UK.

Nicolette Hallett went from painting at art school to photography college, and a 30-year career in

commercial photography. She prefers observational photography, and has photographed everything from stone masons to stately homes. She has an “off the peg” shed, which is her painting studio in summer. The photographer is based in Norfolk, UK"

A Woman’s Shed is published by CICO at £19.99 & is available from all good bookshops from April/May 2014 or call 01256 302699.

For further information or a review copy, please email publicity@cicobooks.co.uk

For further details about CICO new titles, please visit our website www.rylandpeters.com and/or follow us on twitter @CICOBooks

Monday, 3 February 2014

Inspiration: I'm Not Dead Yet

http://imnotdeadyetblog.com/

On this blog you will find posts from the Norfolk based artist Malca Schotten, who drew the very much live and kicking subjects over the summer of 2013.

Watch the inspiring film of Malca and some of her wonderful portrait sitters on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvpwBHMA2do

Cecilia