Fantatsic Video: Women In Art

This is simply beautiful, brew a cuppa and take 5 minutes out to enjoy!

Select this link, copy it and then paste into your browser:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

The Lindisfarne collection

Pomegranate publishes a great range of spiritual and metaphysical products, including our lovely set of Lindisfarne products including the 2011 Calendar which is published with the British Museum. Our Lindisfarne range is perfect for Cathedral's and Religious gift shops.


Whether your speciality is fine art, spirituality, the natural world or personal wellbeing, Pomegranate has just what you need.

Happy Birthday Mr Rockwell!

3 February 2010: The American cartoonist and illustrator, whose works featured on 322 Saturday Evening Post covers over 47 years, was born on this day in 1894.

Pomegranate has long published a generous range of Rockwell's striking images on a variety of social stationery and giftware.

See our Norman Rockwell Gallery for the full range. Happy Birthday Mr Rockwell!

...and there's more!

Our Colouring Calendar range doesn't stop with Larsson's fine art and Harper's busy birds, it also includes Kliban's comical cats (always a Pomegranate favourite), Norman Rockwell's vibrant Saturday Evening Post images and Michael Hague's beautiful fairies.

So if you fancy something a little different this year, a brighter more colourful calendar, or just something artful to keep the little people busy, look no further...

Georgia O'Keefe

                              Here's a great photo of artist Georgia O'Keefe

Pomegranate Europe has lots and lots of  O'Keefe products, check them out at www.pomegranate.com Just put O'Keefe in the Search box and see what happens!

More ways to colour your year...

Our stunning colourable calendar range for 2011 includes six fantastic titles from some of our most popular artists.

Including Charley Harpers interesting, unique, geometric take on the animal kingdom, and Carl Larsson's classicaly beautiful works.

So whatever your artistic persuasion there's a title that you'll love and plenty of colouring for you to do in each!

Keep your eye's on the Pomlog for further details on the rest of the range!

Colouring? and Calendars? Never!

Stop the presses! They come together beautifully!

After seeing great success in the recently launched colouring books, Pomegranate has decided that 2011 should have a more "colourful" Calendar range than previous years. With that, we are proud and excited to introduce our Colouring Calendars for 2011, allowing budding young artists and creative grown up's alike to colour their very own year.

Featuring the same crayon, pencil, felt tip and paint friendly paper as our Colouring books. Each month shows a beautiful image from your artist of choice, stripped down to the simple yet detailed line drawings. These fun filled alternative calendars are ready for you to replicate or even create your own interpretation of the original, the whole Calendar is colour-able even the day numbers!

Keep your eyes peeled for the 2011 Colouring Calendars as they will be in the shops later this year, although with them being so bright and colourful, you're hardly going to miss them!

For 2010 it's all about CATTITUDE

With the first week back clearing the decks [or is it litter trays?] Pomegranate launches it's New Product with Cattitude by introducing you to the marvelous and spectacular Charley Harper.

Charley Harper (August 4, 1922 - June 10, 2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. In a style he called "minimal realism", Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements.

"When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I don’t see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe. "

Check out the wondrous array of product we have by downloading our brand new, 12 page, Harper catalogue at: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/pomegranate/catalog-jan2010-harper.PDF

Limp on a Limb
Charley Harper notecard

New Product Flyers

It starts now! If you want a sneek peak at what's new for January from Pomegranate, check out our New Product Flyers at:

http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/printcatalog.html

It's official, 2010 will be the year of Charley Harper. Check out our Charley Harper gallery at:

http://www.pomegranate.com/artofchha.html

Charley Harper Dolphin Postcard

Pomegranate Calendar Nomination

Pomegranate's Best Selling 2010 wall calendar 'England by Rail' has been nominated for an Award in the 2010 National Calendar Awards. The actual Award will be announced at the Presentation evening on the 12th January 2010 which will be held at the Stationers' Company Hall, London.Our calendar will also be eligible for the Award,The Peoples Choice. This Award is the result of the votes cast by those attending the Presentation evening.

We are really excited!

The National Geographic Store's bestsellers are....

...Pomegranate's Postcard books!

The National Geographic store in London informed us today that the following Pomegranate postcard books are now their best selling products! Right before placing another huge order.

The Quest for the South Pole
Mapping Curiosities
The Quest for Mount Everest


This is brilliant news for us and it's always nice to know that any retailer is doing so well with our products.

Have your own Pomegranate success story? Sell a huge amount of one of our fantasic lines? Please let us know!

sales@pomeurope.co.uk.

Some kind words.

.... From our South East rep:-

Thought you might like to hear feedback regarding Pomegranate jig saw puzzles.

Several customers of Francis Iles in Rochester Kent commenting about the wonderful quality of the pieces, and also how reasonably priced they are..

And their not fibbing, over 30 titles and only £9.99!

To all the staff in Borders Branches

It's been quite moving reading all the Tweets from and to the staff at Borders and Pomegranate would like to wish you all well in whatever the future may hold. We're sending you a Christmas Card from us:-



From the Pomegranate
2009 Christmas Card
Range

Name The Song competition

Answer the below question and receive an early Christmas present from Pom!

Send your answers to sales@pomeurope.co.uk

"Hollywood has a long screen tradition of casting popular singers in screen-acting roles. The 2 songs below were sung by 2 contemporary singers who also starred in the films which the songs came from. Can you name the films?"

'I Will Always Love You " -Whitney Houston

'We Don't Need Another Hero' - Tina Turner

Taken from BLACK FILM: A Quiz Deck on African American Movies, Actors & Directors.

2011 Is Nearly Here!

                             Big Tree Christmas [Pomegranate Xmas card]
                                                                      Cliff McReynolds
      

Oh yes it is. Pomegranate's 2011 range of Wall calendars, Diaries, Day By Day, Mini Calendars and Postcard Calendars are just weeks away from bursting into the retailing world. AND we have a brand new Calendar format, it's unique and it's fun and you'll have to wait a while to know more. Tease or what?

It will be worth the wait and you'll hear about it here first, well here or on Twitter.

Follow Pomeurope’s latest news on: http://twitter.com/Pomeurope

Shop of The Month!

We would like to feature a 'Shop of the Month' on our blog giving you free advertising:

All we need is a picture of your shop front, what you sell and anything else you might like to add, opening times etc.

Conditions are: You are a Pomegranate account holder and you give us a 2 line endorsement, i.e. what you like about Pomegranate product etc.

Easy eh? If you would like to feature as our 'Shop of the Month' for free, let us know at sales@pomeurope.co.uk

We Love Him!

EDWARD GOREY

Born in Chicago in 1925, Edward St. John Gorey reputedly began drawing at the age of eighteen months. Some time later, he was drafted into the army and assigned to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. His job there, he says, was to test poison gas.

In 1950, Gorey saw his art in print for the first time--as the September cover for the "Harvard Advocate," his college publication, and endpapers for Merrill Moore's "Illegitimate Sonnets."

A founding member of the Poets Theater (with Frank O'Hara, V. R. Lang, John Ashbery, and Alison Lurie), Gorey designed sets for the first play the group presented--O'Hara's "Try, Try" (1951). Between 1953 and 1963, Gorey worked as a staff artist and art director for Doubleday and Random House. His "Doubtful Guest" was published by Diogenes Verlag of Zurich, the first of many of the artist's works to be published by that company. In 1965, Gorey held his first major exhibition at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.

When Gorey's first anthology, "Amphigorey," was published in the early seventies, it was chosen by "The New York Times Book Review" as one of the five most noteworthy art books of the year. Gorey designed sets and costumes for the 1977 Broadway production of "Dracula." His costume design earned him a Tony award. In 1980, an animated sequence of Gorey's work was used for the first time on the PBS television show "Mystery!" Nineteen years later, the series and the sequence are still going strong.

Edward Gorey left New York for good in 1983. He lived in Massachusetts with six cats and continued to produce his darkly hilarious work until his death, April 15, 2000. Gorey's drawings are widely collected and exhibited at notorious institutions throughout the world.

Drawn from "Goreyography" by Henry Toledano (Word Play Publications, San Francisco, 1996).

Here is where you can find out what treasures we have:

http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/edgorgal.html

DO WHAT THE BEARS DO........

.....and take some time to chill today!

Bears by Bissell 2010 wall calendar

Simply Beautiful

Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth

By Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1888–1890.

Just one of Pomegranate's stunning Notecards.

Have you got all the Calendar stock you're going to need?

At Pomegranate we still have stock of many of our best selling titles, however it is running down fast!

Bear in mind that if you've already had some of our calendars this year you can order as few as 20 assorted units and have them supplied as a "top-up" order at the same terms as your main order, but make sure you order soon before we run out.

So if you think you might need more stock, please get your orders in ASAP!