Happy Products available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk
t: +44 1 926 430111
....insert a large chuckle here.....
Pomegranate has been publishing museum quality, modern and classic art based gifts since the 60's. Now in the 21st Century our range includes everything from Calendars and Diaries to Notecards and Jigsaw puzzles.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Monday, Monday...la la
Everyone needs a bit of fun on a Monday morning, here's yours:-
Happy Products available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Happy Products available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Monday, October 17, 2011
ATTENTION ALL BOOK LOVERS
You love books and there are some you will read again and again - they are the keepers and you may just decide to share certain books with those you trust. So why not keep your collection personal and grace them with a book plate?
We have a beautiful range of plates with 24 in a pack.
Available from: sales@pomeurope.co.uk
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
We have a beautiful range of plates with 24 in a pack.
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
localbookshops.co.uk
Pomegranate are pleased to announce that we are working with www.localbookshops.co.uk
supporting Independant Bookshops in the UK.
Here's our introduction in their latest Newsletter:-
Pomegranate Jigsaw Puzzles
Calling all bookshops looking for extra sales this Christmas, Pomegranate has a stunning range of Jigsaw Puzzles with titles to suit all interests. Don't underestimate the power of puzzlers, once they know you sell jigsaws they'll be back for more - honest!
Pomegranate is a leading publisher of art, be it in the form of stationery, books, calendars or gift products, we publish to museum standards and have been doing so for over 40 years. In 2010 we won the Best Retail, Best Fine Art and Best Animal Calendars at the National Calendar Awards. We have a number of fully illustrated catalogues which you can request direct from us at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or download from our extensive website at www.pomegranate.com We hope you find our site entertaining and illuminating, and that you experience discovery, delight, and surprise. Suggested starting points for exploration are the subject categories, available on the left side of all our web pages, or the artist galleries.
The full range of Pomegranate Jigsaws may now be accessed via the 'search' facility on your Admin site
supporting Independant Bookshops in the UK.
Here's our introduction in their latest Newsletter:-
Pomegranate Jigsaw Puzzles
Calling all bookshops looking for extra sales this Christmas, Pomegranate has a stunning range of Jigsaw Puzzles with titles to suit all interests. Don't underestimate the power of puzzlers, once they know you sell jigsaws they'll be back for more - honest!
Pomegranate is a leading publisher of art, be it in the form of stationery, books, calendars or gift products, we publish to museum standards and have been doing so for over 40 years. In 2010 we won the Best Retail, Best Fine Art and Best Animal Calendars at the National Calendar Awards. We have a number of fully illustrated catalogues which you can request direct from us at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or download from our extensive website at www.pomegranate.com We hope you find our site entertaining and illuminating, and that you experience discovery, delight, and surprise. Suggested starting points for exploration are the subject categories, available on the left side of all our web pages, or the artist galleries.
The full range of Pomegranate Jigsaws may now be accessed via the 'search' facility on your Admin site
'A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art'- Paul Cezanne
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Pomegranate Recommends....
Pomegranate Recommends this beautiful, astonishing and award winning movie:
Based on the true story of the life and art of a simple maid discovered by a German art critic in the French town of Senlis on the eve of the First World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séraphine_Louis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séraphine_Louis
Thursday, August 04, 2011
How's your Memory?
Here at Pomegranate we are pleased to announce a set of great new titles to our Memory Games range.
Below you'll find the 4 new titles, along with a brief description of how the games work...
Below you'll find the 4 new titles, along with a brief description of how the games work...
Friday, July 22, 2011
Lucian Freud
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| Realist painter Lucian Freud, one of Britain's most distinguished and highly regarded artists, has died aged 88. |
| 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HIS PAINTINGS |
By Florence Waters
The Telegraph
22nd July 2011
Almost all of us carry an image of a ‘Freud’ around in our minds – a gracelessly posed, grossly sagging woman, perhaps, or a face sculpted in paint that appears to fold and puff like a cauliflower ear. We all think we know his painting but, beneath the thick lashings of paint, there are a great many things to be discovered:
1. Freud’s paintings are autobiographical. Almost all the people he chooses to paint tell a story about himself and his values (he rarely worked on commission).
2. Freud has only once ever, he recalled, completed a portrait of a person he did not like, a book dealer called Bernard Breslauer. He so disliked the model that he was deliberately unkind and over-egged the pudding of a man in front of him, making him “even more repulsive than he actually was”. The unhappy sitter, on acquiring the portrait, sent Freud a letter saying that he had “contravened an unwritten contract between painter and sitter.” The painting in question was destroyed by the model.
3. Freud did not begin to employ thick sculptural brushstrokes until later in his career, a decision which lost him some important supporters in the art world at the time.
4. Freud knew a great many artists but remained a great individualist and did not bow to other talent: he remembers Picasso as “absolutely poisonous”, Man Ray as “noisy and vulgar”, and German expressionist Max Ernst as a “heavy and stiff” dinner companion.
5. Freud had an almost visceral hatred of almost all art of the Renaissance. It makes sense: the Renaissance was the period, above all, during which man was celebrated as the crown of creation. Freud’s belief was the opposite: man, he seems to say, must never forget the fact that he is deteriorating matter. It was Kant who first observed that an aesthetic encounter can be one that is mixed with pain, and Freud proves it eloquently.
6. Freud disliked art that looks too much like art. On sitting for a Freud portrait the art critic Martin Gayford remembered that “the awkwardness that critics complain of in LF’s work is deliberate.” A 1950 painting in the Tate Britain called ‘Boy Smoking’, for example, is not a realistic portrait. The eyes are glassy and hollow, the face so flat you could tear it. But the flatness here tells us something of the boy’s circumstances: it is as if a hard expression has been ironed in place on his youthful skin. Freud met the boy, named Charles Lumley, when he and his brother were “in the act of breaking into his studio”. Freud was living in Paddington, a working-class area at the time, and he befriended some of his criminal neighbours
7. Freud famously painted a rather unflattering portrait of the Queen and celebrities like Kate Moss, but he also admired – and loved to paint – friends and scallywags, including a “very clever bank robber” (his words) who is now immortalized as a scar-faced man in a Lucian Freud called ‘A Man and His Daughter’ (1963-4). One’s overwhelming impression of that picture is that it was painted with a great deal of respect.
8. Freud used to say that time was his one great luxury in life. He took a great deal of time to get to know his subjects, and sometimes would be paintings them for years. He asks that of his audience too: every Lucian Freud portrait has a different presence, requires time to get to know.
9. Freud rarely talks about his art. He almost always refused interviews and, aged 81 at the time the conversations in this book were recorded (2003-4), it had taken him his 49 year career, he says, to “know that the main point about painting is paint: that it is all about paint.”
10. Freud saw every object in the world as possessing a unique character. Even into the sixtieth decade of his career, he still celebrates the unique history of each material thing he drew and painted. It is his acute sensitivity to the multitudinous variety of ‘being’ that kept him invigorated by his work.
3. Freud did not begin to employ thick sculptural brushstrokes until later in his career, a decision which lost him some important supporters in the art world at the time.
4. Freud knew a great many artists but remained a great individualist and did not bow to other talent: he remembers Picasso as “absolutely poisonous”, Man Ray as “noisy and vulgar”, and German expressionist Max Ernst as a “heavy and stiff” dinner companion.
5. Freud had an almost visceral hatred of almost all art of the Renaissance. It makes sense: the Renaissance was the period, above all, during which man was celebrated as the crown of creation. Freud’s belief was the opposite: man, he seems to say, must never forget the fact that he is deteriorating matter. It was Kant who first observed that an aesthetic encounter can be one that is mixed with pain, and Freud proves it eloquently.
6. Freud disliked art that looks too much like art. On sitting for a Freud portrait the art critic Martin Gayford remembered that “the awkwardness that critics complain of in LF’s work is deliberate.” A 1950 painting in the Tate Britain called ‘Boy Smoking’, for example, is not a realistic portrait. The eyes are glassy and hollow, the face so flat you could tear it. But the flatness here tells us something of the boy’s circumstances: it is as if a hard expression has been ironed in place on his youthful skin. Freud met the boy, named Charles Lumley, when he and his brother were “in the act of breaking into his studio”. Freud was living in Paddington, a working-class area at the time, and he befriended some of his criminal neighbours
7. Freud famously painted a rather unflattering portrait of the Queen and celebrities like Kate Moss, but he also admired – and loved to paint – friends and scallywags, including a “very clever bank robber” (his words) who is now immortalized as a scar-faced man in a Lucian Freud called ‘A Man and His Daughter’ (1963-4). One’s overwhelming impression of that picture is that it was painted with a great deal of respect.
8. Freud used to say that time was his one great luxury in life. He took a great deal of time to get to know his subjects, and sometimes would be paintings them for years. He asks that of his audience too: every Lucian Freud portrait has a different presence, requires time to get to know.
9. Freud rarely talks about his art. He almost always refused interviews and, aged 81 at the time the conversations in this book were recorded (2003-4), it had taken him his 49 year career, he says, to “know that the main point about painting is paint: that it is all about paint.”
10. Freud saw every object in the world as possessing a unique character. Even into the sixtieth decade of his career, he still celebrates the unique history of each material thing he drew and painted. It is his acute sensitivity to the multitudinous variety of ‘being’ that kept him invigorated by his work.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Today at Google
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| Austrian Scientist Gregor Mendel |
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
On This Day - Gustav Klimt
On this day in 1862 Gustav Klimt was born.
Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body.
The Pomegranate Klimt Collection
Emilie Floge Jigsaw Puzzle
Gift Wrap
Boxed Embossed Notecards
Just a few of the beautiful Klimt products we have available, others include:-
Calendars, Book of Postcards, Pocket Address Book, Notecard Folio, Boxed Thank You Notes, Boxed Invitations, Pocket Journal, Bookmarks.
Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body.
The Pomegranate Klimt Collection
Emilie Floge Jigsaw PuzzleGift Wrap
Boxed Embossed NotecardsJust a few of the beautiful Klimt products we have available, others include:-
Calendars, Book of Postcards, Pocket Address Book, Notecard Folio, Boxed Thank You Notes, Boxed Invitations, Pocket Journal, Bookmarks.
Friday, July 08, 2011
Visit our Art Nouveau Gallery
Bieres de la Meuse Postcard Art Nouveau is an international philosophy of style, art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1905.
A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it is characterised by organic - especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as very stylised, flowing curvilinear forms.
Art Nouveau is a philosophy of design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of ordinary life.
The style was influenced strongly by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, featuring Sarah Bernhardt.
It popularised the new artistic style and its creator to the citizens of Paris. Initially named Style Mucha, (Mucha Style), his style soon became known as Art Nouveau.
Art Nouveau was most popular in Europe and the British Isles, but its influence was global.
Job PostcardsVisit of Gallery of Product at http://www.pomegranate.com/artnouveau.html
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Thank You!
Ten 3½ x 5 inch blank notecards with "Thank You" printed on the front and white envelopes in an acetate-topped box.
For info on all titles contact sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Or call 01926 403111
Friday, July 01, 2011
Pet Week - well, not exactly a pet.
Today closes our Pomegranate Pet Week which showcases a few of our new range of Single, blank notecards.
Now whilst a sparrow is not an obvious pet, how many of us see sparrows in our garden especially if you regularly have bird seed on offer!
Sparrows and Bamboo
Ohara Keizan
[late 17th century-early 18th century]
For a fully illustrated catalogue of our Notecard range contact sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Or phone 01926 430111
Now whilst a sparrow is not an obvious pet, how many of us see sparrows in our garden especially if you regularly have bird seed on offer!
Sparrows and Bamboo
Ohara Keizan
[late 17th century-early 18th century]
For a fully illustrated catalogue of our Notecard range contact sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Or phone 01926 430111
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Pet Week Continues ....
...... with one of the most fascinating birds ever.
Barn Owl
Jeannine Chappell
For more information on Chappell's work visit - http://jeanninechappell.com/
To see the full range of our blank notecards [bagged & with envelopes] please contact at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or call us on 01926 430111
Barn Owl
Jeannine Chappell
For more information on Chappell's work visit - http://jeanninechappell.com/
To see the full range of our blank notecards [bagged & with envelopes] please contact at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or call us on 01926 430111
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Pomegranate Pet Week Continues
Rabbit and poetry, an unusual combination but we have it to offer.....
English Tabbit & Keats
Koo Schadler
'A thing of beauty is joy forever'
One of many new blank notecards from Pomegranate.
Contact us for a Notecard Catalogues sales@pomeurope.co.uk
For more info on Koo Schadler view http://www.kooschadler.com/
English Tabbit & Keats
Koo Schadler
'A thing of beauty is joy forever'
One of many new blank notecards from Pomegranate.
Contact us for a Notecard Catalogues sales@pomeurope.co.uk
For more info on Koo Schadler view http://www.kooschadler.com/
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Pet Week at Pomegranate
Cat day today and who hasn't see THIS face on THEIR cat?
L'ile d'Abel by William Steig
Find our more about this artist at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Steig
Just one of our new, blank notecards. Contact us for a catalogue at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or phone: 01926 430111 OR you can have one straight away by downloading from www.pomegranate.com/printcatalog.html
L'ile d'Abel by William SteigFind our more about this artist at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Steig
Just one of our new, blank notecards. Contact us for a catalogue at sales@pomeurope.co.uk or phone: 01926 430111 OR you can have one straight away by downloading from www.pomegranate.com/printcatalog.html
Monday, June 27, 2011
Pets We Love Notecard Week at Pomegranate
We love out pets, oh yes we do so all this week we are going to feature images from our brand new range of Single Notecards.
Starting with these 2 cards from artist Judith Sparks:-
True Gold
Topaz
For our Notecard catalogue email: sales@pomeurope.co.uk or phone 01926 430111
Or download it now from: www.pomegranate.com/printcatalog.html
Starting with these 2 cards from artist Judith Sparks:-
True Gold
Topaz
For our Notecard catalogue email: sales@pomeurope.co.uk or phone 01926 430111
Or download it now from: www.pomegranate.com/printcatalog.html
Friday, June 17, 2011
This is how it's done...
Watch this ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9AlhXpVy2E
Then read this:
Then colour this:
Then play:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9AlhXpVy2E
Then read this:
Then colour this:
Then play:
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
All aboard!
Railways, a subject of interest for many, but few more so than the National Railway Museum in York.
Published in partnership with the NRM, Pomegranate is proud to introduce 4 new railway poster colouring books. Covering the railway posters of England, Scotland, Ireland and America the fantastic line drawings in these books allows any crayon wielder to replicate some stunning designs!
Right behind the outstanding success of our England by Rail and Scotland by Rail calendars (available also for 2012) these colouring books are perfect for any train afficionado young, or old.
Featuring specially selected paper which even the thickest of felt tips can't soak through, and only the most beautiful and interesting posters these colouring books are the perfect way for a railway enthusiast to while away an afternoon, sampling the scenery of a long train ride around the Country.
These 4 new local interest titles really shine along side our booming range of 40 stunning colouring book titles.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Who Is This - Competition Time!
Win superb and fun time Knowledge Card Deck: Who Am I? A Name Game of Literary Stars.48 card and on the front of the cards are factual clues to help you guess their pen name. The back reveals their aliases along with biographical sketches.
You can study the cards solo or us them as a quiz game for reading in writing groups.
If you would like to win this Knowledge Card deck, just work out who the following writer is from below, send your answers to sales@pomeurope.co.uk or tweet them to twitter.com/Pomeurope
The first correct answer pulled out of the bag, will win the deck. Good luck!
For a catalogue showing our complete range of Knowledge Card Decks please contact:
t: +44 (0) 1926 430111
Friday, March 11, 2011
Too. Much. Product!
Charley Harper is by far our most successful new artist of the last couple of years, taking our range, and our clients by storm.
Harper can always be found at the top of our sales charts, no matter what product group and his works are always a favourite of our customer base both new and old.
We have however been launching TOO MUCH Charley Harper product to keep a catalogue up to date, so we have done the supplimentary sheet below.
Now, the specialist Harper catalogue (which can be found here:http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/pomegranate/catalog-jan2010-harper.PDF) along with the 2 pages below, cover our entire Harper product range, and will do so until the next batch of stunning product arrives!
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Another bird ..... of a kind!
Following today's bird theme, this is not really what we had in mind but we can't leave out KlibanCat can we?
Cat Wearing Bird Disguise B.Kliban 1935-1990
We have a HUGE range of Kliban product ranging from notecards, Jigsaw Puzzles to Address Books, Memory Games and Calendars.
Have you checked out: www.eatmousies.com?
For more information on B.Kliban product contact:
Pomegranate Europe Ltd
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Cat Wearing Bird Disguise B.Kliban 1935-1990We have a HUGE range of Kliban product ranging from notecards, Jigsaw Puzzles to Address Books, Memory Games and Calendars.
Have you checked out: www.eatmousies.com?
For more information on B.Kliban product contact:
Pomegranate Europe Ltd
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
In Flight - Pomegranate Notecards
Geese and the Moon by Ohara Koson [Shoson) 1887-1945Spring is almost here and we turn to the skies for more sunshine and depending where we are, we may just catch a glimpse of some of these spectacular birds:-
Black-Capped Chikadee by J.Fenwick Lansdowne 1937-2008
Yellow-Throated Warbler Photographed by Dave Welling
Blank Notecards from Pomegranate
Contact us for a Notecard catalogue:-
t: +44 (0) 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Dolls Domain, Leamington Spa, UK
It's a big thanks to Dolls Domain in the Midlands who have a whole room devoted to jigsaw puzzles and whom are doing so well with the Pomegranate Puzzle range. So well that they have devoted a front window to our Puzzles!
Their shop is a delight and they also offer a mail order service for Jigsaw Puzzles:-http://www.dollsdomain.co.uk
For a fully illustrated catalogue showing our range of 1,000 piece puzzles, 300 piece Children's Puzzles and our brand new Block Puzzles please contact us at:
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
Monday, February 14, 2011
The Google Art Project
http://www.googleartproject.com/
An easy way to navigate your way round the worlds Museums from your armchair!
An easy way to navigate your way round the worlds Museums from your armchair!
Thank You All Visitors
..who visited our stand at last weeks NEC, Spring Fair. It was a fast and furious week and we would like to say hello to all our new customers, thanks you to those who placed orders and who showed interest in our range.
It was the last time for us in Hall 3 where we have been for many years but we are looking forward to seeing you all in Hall 4 next year where we will have a brand new stand design.
All the best for the rest of 2011.
Available now 2011 catalogues:
Book
Calendar
Coming soon:
Boxed Notecards Sets
Notecards
Speciality [including Jigsaw Puzzles]
Xmas Range
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
+44 (0) 1926 430111
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Like puzzles? Enjoy jigsaws? WIN SOME!
To celebrate the new partnership between Pomegranate and the Official UK Puzzle Club we're giving away 5 of our most popular 1000 piece jigsaws!
(designs will vary, will supply requested titles where possible)
All you need to do to be in for a chance at winning one for youself is to make sure you're following @Pomeurope on twitter, and retweet:-
@Pomeurope Artpiece Jigsaw puzzles now available
from the UK Puzzle Club! Retweet me for your chance to win one!
from the UK Puzzle Club! Retweet me for your chance to win one!
(Tweet will also appear on the @Pomeurope Twitter feed for easy retweeting)
Winners will be picked randomly on Friday (11th Feb 2011), so you've got 48 hours to get tweeting!!
The Official UK Puzzle Club & Pomegranate...
...a match made in heaven!
Pomegranate are pleased to announce a partnership with The Official UK Puzzle club. The fantastic puzzle range is now available from the club so all you Pomegranate Puzzlers out there should have a one stop shop for all your puzzling needs!
From the responses in their Newsletter you can tell, the Puzzle Club customers are just as happy as we are about this new connection too!
To sign up for the UK Puzzle Club's newsletter, please visit their site here:-
Monday, February 07, 2011
Thursday, February 03, 2011
And if snow doesn't do it for you..
How about these:
Carl Larsson
Edward Gorey
Something a little bit different in our Christmas Boxed Notes from Pomegranate.
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Carl Larsson
Edward Gorey
Something a little bit different in our Christmas Boxed Notes from Pomegranate.
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!
...thought the header may grab your attention. We know some of you are busy buying for Xmas 2001 so would now be a good time to remind you of our beautiful range of Boxed Christmas Cards?
To get you in the mood, think snow...
Just two of our Sierra Club Christmas Cards available in boxes.
Xmas Catalogue available soon, contact us for your copy in advance.
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
To get you in the mood, think snow...
Just two of our Sierra Club Christmas Cards available in boxes.Xmas Catalogue available soon, contact us for your copy in advance.
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
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