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London in Poetry and Prose

Edited by Anna Adams

Drawings by Neil Pittaway

First Published in 2003 by Enitharmon Press, 26b Caversham Road London NW5 2DU

ISBN 1 900564 03 3

This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, opressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and -gardened, London is a microcosm of the world.' These words, from Anna Adams' foreward, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated antology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including 'The Weather in the Streets', 'The Poor and the Rich', 'The Countryman in Town', 'The Recent Wars' and - unavoidably- 'London Transport.'

WRITERS INCLUDE: Anna Adams, Fleur Adcock, W.H. Auden, James Berry, William Blake, James Boswell, Robert Bridges, Alan Brownjohn, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, Amy Clampitt, John Clare, Arthur Hugh Clough, David Constantine, John Davidson, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, D.J. Enright, U.A. Fanthore, John Greening Thomas Hardy, James Harpur, John Heath-Stubbs, Stuart Henson, Francs Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Samuel Johnson, John Keates, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Lamb, Louise MacNeice, Glyn Maxwell, Felix Mendelssohn, Grace Nichols, William Oxley, Peter Phillips, Ruth Pitter, Thomas De Quincey, Kathleen Raine, Carole Satyamurti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jon Silkin, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Anne Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Hylda Sims, Vernon Watkins, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Kit Wright and Benjamin Zephaniah.

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Watercolour Masters - Then and Now

First Published in Great Britain in 2006 by Cassell Illustrated, a division of Octapus Publishing Group Limited

2-4 Heron Quays, London E14 4JP

This book is available in all good bookstores and is also distributed throughout Canada and the U.S.A.

Neil has contributed in writing and through selected images that are based on selected work from the Royal Watercolour Society's Diploma collection.

This lavish publication is a visual dialogue between past and present RWS members using works from the Diploma collection.

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The Royal Watercolour Society, The Watercolour Expert - insights into the working methods and approaches

First Published in Great Britain in 2004 by Cassell Illustrated, a division of Octapus Publishing Group Limited

2-4 Heron Quays, London E14 4JP

This book is available in all good bookstores and is also distributed throughout Canada and the U.S.A.

Neil has contributed in writing and through selected images to this RWS Society group publication. This book discusses aspects of watercolour painting by members of the Royal Watercolour Society.

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Printmakers: the directory

By The Royal Society of Painter-printmakers (RE)

RRP £14.99

Published by A and C Black, London, 2006
ISBN 9780713673876
Format Paperback, Other book format or binding 160 pages. 216x138 mm.
Illustrations 320.

From the publisher:

Printmakers the directory is the essential guide to over one hundred of the UK'S leading artist-printmakers as well as significant artists from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canda, the Czech Republic, Iceland, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and the USA. All are elected members of the historic Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE); Their highly individual works expertly utilize the diverse aeshetic qualities of printmaking to convey a wealth of equally diverse imagery.

Essential reading and reference for artists, art lovers, print collectors and curators alike, its full-colour reproductions of each artist’s work will also provide the aspiring art student with a rich demonstration of the power and potential of printmaking today.

Neil's work is represented in this vibrant publication.

To order this book visit:http://www.acblack.com/Catalogue/details.asp?sku=1422574&dept%5Fid=4&mscssid=4M1VCP1J6RMC9JL9H937HS6XHJ701X12

Spanning The Thames

The river and surroundings from the barrier to Teddington Lock

RRP £12.95

Hard cover

ISBN 978-0-9558343-0-1

Commentary and stories by Michael Harrison

First Published in 2008 by Artists' Choice Editions, 31 Ennismore Avenue, London W4 1SE

For more information or to order this book email: art.photo@lineone.net

From the Publisher: The Thames has always fascinated artists and writers. Canaletto, Whistler and Monet's views have not changed much despite the passage of time. Authors from Pope to Dickens, as well as today's Peter Ackroyd, have also been inspired by the river.

This book's eclectic collection of paintings, drawings and prints of the bridges and buildings along the Thames are the choices of twenty contemporary artists, who were commissioned to choose their favourites and illustrate them. The result is dynamic view of the Thames in the twenty-first century.

The illustrations are supported by either a story or historical commentary by Michael Harrison, who was a Thames-side dweller while teaching at Westminster School.

He has written a number of children's books and edited a series of Anthologies of Poetry for Oxford University Press.

About the Artists in the book: Twenty artists, aged from twenty-five to eighty-five were commissioned to illustrate their favourite bridges and buildings along the Thames.

A variety of media was used - linocut, etching, pastel, oil, collage and digital enhancement.

The arists included are:

Sarah Adams, Kelly Allen, Michael Bennallack-Hart, Jason Bowyer, Janet Brooke, Paul Cox, Alfred Daniels, Mick Dean, Anthony Dyson, Francis Farmer, John Griffiths, Frank Kiely, Stuart Kolakovic, David Mann, Luke Martineau, Chris Orr, Neil Pittaway, Andrew Turnbull, Roy Willingham and Joseph Winkelman.

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Printmakers Secrets

Neil is one of the contributing artists' to this lavish full colour illustrated book which was published on the 30th May 2009 by A&C Black, London.

Further information about the book:

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Printamkers Secrets

Edited by Anthony Dyson

RRP £29.99
Published 30th May 2009
ISBN 9780713689112
Format Paperback 160 pages. 276x219 mm.
Illustrations 160 full colour.

This book comprises contributions from individual printmakers, richly illustrated with examples of their work and studios. It offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the way that individual printmakers work — the role of drawings in their work, unique problem-solving strategies, the interdependence of ideas and techniques, influences and inspiration. An exhibition related to this book ('Out of the Sketchbook') will be held at the Bankside Gallery in London to coincide with the book's publication. This is a valuable resource for students, practising printmakers, and collectors of artists' original prints.