A Coming of Age: Celebrating 18 Years of Botanical Painting by the Eden Project Florilegium Society. Ed. Ros Franklin
Two Rivers Press
Category Archives: Books
Victoria Fishburn: Ancient and Modern
Ancient and Modern: The Role of a Berkshire High Sheriff, by Victoria Fishburn & Jenny Halstead
Victoria Fishburn
Ancient and Modern is an account of Victoria Fishburn’s year in office as High Sheriff for Berkshire 2016–2017. Brought to life with paintings and drawings by artist Jenny Halstead, it celebrates the historical and contemporary role of England’s High Sheriffs and the part they continue to play in our modern civic society.
Meriel Darby: Springhill
Springhill, by Meriel Darby
Self-published
‘I grew up in Scotland, a long time ago …’
Springhill is the autobiography of the acupuncturist Lady Meriel Darby, daughter of the former Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
Tim Sharrock: The Rabbit Who Lost His Tail
The Rabbit Who Lost His Tail and Other Stories, by Tim Sharrock
Robert Gillmor
This collection of gentle bedtime stories by Tim Sharrock is beautifully illustrated by Robert Gillmor, one of the UK’s best known and most prolific illustrators and printmakers.
Steven Matthews: On Magnetism
On Magnetism, by Steven Matthews
Two Rivers Press
David Cliffe: Reading’s Cinemas
Picture Palace to Penny Plunge: Reading’s Cinemas, by David Cliffe
Two Rivers Press
Duncan Mackay: Whispers of Better Things
Whispers of Better Things, by Duncan Mackay
Two Rivers Press
The fascinating story of how Octavia Hill and the Hill family created a legacy that still resonates today, including the creation of the National Trust, Green Belts, access to land and new commons.
David Smith: The Journeyman
The Journeyman, by David Smith
Self-published
Ray Atkins: The Reading Years
Exhibition catalogue for Ray Atkins: The Reading Years
Reading Museum, Reading Foundation for Art
Ray Atkins has been painting outside, often on a monumental scale, since the 1960s, and exhibiting nationally, undistracted by calls that painting was dead in the 1970s or that conceptual art was the only way forward. Today his painting is inspiring a new generation of young painters.
He lived in Reading from 1968 to 1974 while the town was changing radically. The Inner Distribution Road swept through the town centre, medieval streets made way for civic buildings and a shopping centre an on the outskirts the M4 was built. Ray observed them all.
‘Ray Atkins uses the outside world as a studio. The landscapes emerge from day to day involvement with an ever changing subject which is finally committed to a specific visual experience. I have admired these extraordinary paintings for many years.’ – Leon Kossoff, 2003
Kathy Kibbee Paterson: Vignettes
Vignettes, by Kathy Kibbee Paterson.
Edited by Janet McCue & Jo Kibbee
Self-published