New Year - New Jigsaw Puzzles

Along with the New Year, as always, Pomegranate has brought a set of brand new jigsaws to add to our beautiful and best selling range in the January launch.

 

The January addittions to the ever expanding Puzzle range are simply stunning. Including titles by classic artists J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Cole and Pannini alongside more contemporary works from Joseph Stella, Chuck Close and Pomegranate favourite Charley Harper!

The addittion of these lovely new titles, plus many more in our "PomegranateKids" range and our brand new Block Puzzles range (more info coming soon!) bring Pomegranate's fine art puzzle offering now to over 50 fabulous titles.

Pomegranate - The home of fine art jigsaw Puzzles!

Our Christmas Card To You

Lovely new website

Please check out Pomegranate's shiny, new website.

It's fresh, it's easy to navigate and has terrific Artist Galleries.

Don't delay, take a peek NOW: www.pomegranate.com and let us know what you think!

Delightful Diaries...

If you need a beautiful yet organised place to note all of your appointments, notes and reminders throughout 2011, look no further than the gorgeous Pomegranate engagement diaries!

Available now, these stunning planners feature 30+ full colour reproductions, weekly grids, monthly grids and full double page spreads showing both 2011 and 2012 and plenty of space for all the appointments of even the busiest of people.

Including fantastic titles such as Dharma Days, our spiritual guide to the path that we call life, and Monet's Passion, a bright, vivid look at the personal gardens which inspired the classic Artist.

Our 2011 range is selling lightening fast! So order today to secure your stock!

It's Bonfire Night

Happy Guy Fawkes Night! Let the sparklers sparkle . . . . .



Fireworks Over Ryoguku Bridge Postcard

Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858).
From 100 Views of Edo. Edo period, 1856-1858.
Colour woodblock print. Honolulu Academy of Arts.
4 1/4 x 6 inch postcard.

Anguished and Forgotten!

How we love our language, so why not share it this Christmas with our Block Calendars.

RICHARD LEDERER'S ANGUISHED ENGLISH 365-DAY CALENDAR 2011
“Hair Cut While You Wait.” “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.” “Satellite Tracks Cows from Outer Space.” These are some of the absurdly hilarious linguistic lapses gleaned by Richard Lederer from advertisements, signs, newspaper headlines, and other everyday sources.
Dr. Lederer, author of more than thirty books about language, history, and humor, has compiled 313 entries for this calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share a page and an entry), each one a real-world sighting.
Thirteen categories include “Misdirected Directions,” “Lost in Translation,” and “Disorder in the Court!” Also included are yearly grids for 2011 and 2012 and pages for notes.

By Richard Lederer. 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base.
Size: 6¼ x 5¼ in. (box 7 x 6 in.).
Printed with soy-based inks.
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5213-5.
RRP: £9.99


JEFFREY KACIRK'S FORGOTTEN ENGLISH 365-DAY CALENDAR 2011
Word sleuth extraordinaire Jeffrey Kacirk has compiled another year’s worth of long-lost linguistic curiosities. With 313 unforgettable entries (Saturdays and Sundays share a page), Forgotten English unfurls a lexicon illuminating vanished professions, objects, activities, situations, etiquette, and states of mind. Obscure festivals, birthdays of significance, unsavory recipes, and dubious medical and hygienic procedures are also noted.

The calendar also includes a brief biography of the author, yearly grids for 2011 and 2012, and pages for notes 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base.
Size: 6¼ x 5¼ in. (box 7 x 6 in.).
Printed with soy-based inks.
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5210-4.
RRP £9.99

AVAILABLE NOW FROM POMEGRANATE EUROPE:
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Say Thank You in a special way

With these beautiful Inuit Thank You Cards.



Preening Owl by Kenojuak Ashevak, from Dorset Fine Arts.

Ten 3 1/2 x 5 inch blank notecards with "Thank You" printed on the front and white envelopes in an acetate-topped four-color box.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4230-3.
RRP: £4.99

Pomegranate's range of Inuit Art products is unique, to know more about Inuit Art click here:
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The Spookiest of Halloween Gifts

EDWARD GOREY'S DRACULA - TOY THEATRE


Bram Stoker's 1897 novel took place in the wild Carpathian Mountains, London and rural England, and various places in between. But the Dracula for which Edward Gorey created the set designs reproduced in miniature here--a version that ran to nearly a thousand Broadway performances--compresses the action to one locale: the sanatorium of Dr. Seward, near the town of Purley, somewhere in the English countryside.
Based on Edward Gorey's set and costume designs for his award-winning production of Dracula, these die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include:

• 3 pop-up 16 x 12" stage sets (only one is shown above)
• Cast of 8 (15 figures in all)
• Stage Furniture
• 4-page booklet with exceptionally simple assembly instructions, a synopsis of Gorey's Broadway adaptation of Dracula, and notes on Edward Gorey (1925-2000) and his many magical creations.
• Cigar-box style packaging, approximately 8 1/2 X 12 1/2 X 1"
• ISBN: 978-0-7649-4541-0.
• RRP: £18.99

From Pomegranate Europe Ltd
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2010

Hair Raising Spookyness No 3

And what halloween movie do we think they have just watched?

Haute Coiffure Postcard


Just one of our many retro, black & white Postcards.
Contact us for a Postcard catalogue:
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Brace Yourself: Spookyness No 2

SUPER NATURAL OR SCIENTIFIC? A QUIZ DECK ON MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA, URBAN LEGENDS, AND PARANORMAL EVENTS.


From the dawn of time, humans have attempted to explain the unexplainable, fashioning fanciful stories to make sense of the unknown. Ghosts, sea monsters, vampires, witches, unicorns, and more have always been the fodder of mythology. But lest you think this is a mere peculiarity of long-ago times, think aliens and UFOs, crop circles, and the Bermuda Triangle—modern man is no less susceptible to concocting curious interpretations of seemingly inexplicable phenomena. This quiz deck of 48 cards runs the gamut of odd events and legends throughout history—from Sasquatch to the Jersey Devil, haunted houses to puzzling diseases, the stones of Carnac to the enigmatic human-sized holes of Peru. So gather 'round and brace yourself for a trip through the unsettling, strange, and spooky recesses of the mysterious.

Published with GeoNova Publishing.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Size: 3 1/4 x 4".
ISBN 978-0-7649-5163-3.

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Spooky Week with Pomegranate

In the lead up to Halloween we are going to feature some of our 'spooky' wares ..... so stop carving out the pumpkin and have a read:-

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE - Jigsaw Puzzle


The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855–1864 by Richard Dadd (English, 1817–1886).
Published with the Tate Collection.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke is the best-known painting by English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), many of whose paintings reflect his interest in supernatural subjects, especially fairies. A promising artist at an early age, he began studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London at the age of twenty. Within five years, however, he began to display signs of insanity and soon afterward was confined to a mental hospital. Dadd created The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while at Bethlem Hospital, the first of two institutions where he spent the last forty-four years of his life. The painting, drawn from his imagination, shows the “fairy-feller” about to crack open a large chestnut to be used in the construction of Queen Mab’s new fairy carriage. Dadd’s masterpiece is housed in the Tate in the United Kingdom.

Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our 1,000-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
Puzzle size: 20 x 27".
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1 7/8 in. ISBN: 978-0-7649-5542-6.
(WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.)
RRP: £10.99

Contact us for details of our fantastic Jigsaw Puzzle range, we have over 70 stunning images!
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In Praise of Millet

Happy Birthday

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School in rural France.

Millet was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy; his structural and symbolic content influenced Seurat's as well.



View more of Millet's work in our 100 YEARS OF FRENCH PAINTING Book of Postcards:-

You will find examples of the traditional grand portraiture of Jacques-Louis David; the romantic bravura of Theodore Gericault; idealized descriptions of country living by Barbizon artists Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot; the social satire of Honore Daumier; brilliant and deceptively casual “snapshots” of everyday subjects by Edgar Degas; a voyeuristic look at an “exotic” culture by Jean-Leon Gerome; the cool academic representation of the ideal human form exemplified by William Bouguereau; experiments in new subjects and painting techniques developed by Impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro; the radical approach to color and pattern of post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin; and more. These different artistic visions demonstrate the dramatic breadth of style and subject produced by nineteenth-century French artists.

Thirty full-color oversized postcards (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) in a handy bound collection.
ISBN 0-7649-3729-4.
RRP £5.99

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A Poem for National Poetry Day

As the summer's gone,
we are not surprised to see
autumn rain at night
-Eiki [1823-1904]

A poem from Pomegranate's new book:


Haiku Japanese Art and Poetry
Available Now
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5610-2
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Haiku Japanese Art & Poetry

How beautiful is this, our new Book Haiku presenting 35 pairs of poems and images, organised seasonally.

The strictest and purest of poetic forms, the Japanese haiku contains in its seventeen sound characters a reference to a season as well as a distinct pause or interruption. Cherry blossoms and swallows might refer to spring; red maple leaves and deer usually imply autumn. These seasonal allusions emphasize the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty.

The graceful, evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years, including Matsuo Bashō, Taniguchi Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. The deceptively simple poems—rendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and transliterations—are paired with exquisite eighteenth- or nineteenth-century paintings and ukiyo-e prints and twentieth-century shin hanga woodcuts from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada. With their depth and delicacy, wide range of subtle hues, and time-honored focus on landscapes, birds, and flowers, these artworks—like their haiku counterparts—quietly capture a moment in time.

Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry presents thirty-five pairs of poems and images, organized seasonally. The Introduction details the origin and development of haiku, the lives of the most famous poets, and the obstacles faced when translating the concise yet complex lines.

By authors Judith Patt, Michiko Warkentyne, and Barry Till.
80 pages with 35 color reproductions. Size: 8 x 8".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5610-2
£10.99

Available now from Pomegranate
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Weather Forecast

Think this accurately sums up our weather at the moment:

Gray and Cold by John Rogers Cox [1942]

Gloomy or not this is still a powerful piece of art and is available as a Notecard from Pomegranate. Contact us for a Notecard catalogue:-

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The Koala Conga Line

Doesn't this just want to make you burst out into 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge?

Just one of Pomegranate wonderful notecards from the Sierra Club range; Koala [or to be more precise Phascolartctos cinereus] conga line, photographed by Mituaki Iwago.

Contact us now for a Sierra Club catalogue:
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Super Plant

Super Plant [1995]
Fred Tomaselli

"I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda."

Just one of our new single, blank notecards available now. For a catalogue contact us:

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The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

What do these have in common?
1. St Spasmus' Day
2. A Nameless poacher
3. A guilt ballroom chair
4. Suthick & Upters Auction Rooms ...

....they are all featured in the Introductionary Notes of the Awdrey Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey, a shiny new book from Pomegranate



"The smallest clue may be [or not] the one to give away the plot'
the Ipsiad, can 1
Miss D. Awdrey-Gore, renowned 97-year-old writer of detective stories, is found murdered; then a mysterious hidden packet is discovered. Addressed to her publisher, it contains what appear to be notes and drawings related to a literary work in progress. The contents “in their entirety—though certain things are patently missing” comprise clues about the who, what, when, where, and how of Awdrey-Gore’s demise. Or do they? Edward Gorey takes us on a rollicking ride in this merry murder mystery, but whether or not the killer is revealed is open to speculation.

Like his fictional dame novelist, Gorey (1925–2000) was a prolific author. Creator of more than one hundred works, he was also an artist, playwright, award-winning set and costume designer, and creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! First published in 1972, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy remains one of Gorey’s most treasured tales, satisfying the sleuth in each of us.

64 pages with more than 50 colour and black-and-white Gorey drawings.
Size: 8 1/2 x 6".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5509-9.
£9.99

Available now from sales@pomeurope.co.uk +44 [0] 1926043011

Pheromone Plus

As well as our Christopher Marley hardback book Pheromone, we also have Marley stationery & gift products. Check out below:


Jigsaws, Bookmarks, Boxed Notes and Colouring Books.

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Rhys Road Test's the big book of Pheremone

8 year old Rhys Hayden road tests Pomegranate's big hardback book Pheromone!


He may only be 8 but Rhys knows a thing or 80 about insects and so we sat him down and asked him to road test our Pheromone book. At first he was a little quiet but his face was full of wonder and surprise at the beautiful page layouts of Christopher Marley's jaw dropping work. Then the ooh's and aghhh's came on strong, Rhys was sold and gave it 10 out of 10, the thumbs up we wanted AND, just to let you know, that Road Test Rhys already knew some of the technical names for the insects which really impressed us at Pom.
Thanks Rhys.

This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour metallic inks and highlighted with spot varnish.

Accompanying the broad sample of Marley’s work is a series of essays by the artist: “Design of Insects,” “Insects in Design,” “History,” “Color,” “The Coleoptera Mosaics: An Exercise in Color,” “Repetition,” “Structure,” “Texture,” “Variations,” “Botanicals,” “Size,” and “Environmental Effects.”

Christopher Marley was born in Covina, California, and grew up near Salem, Oregon. At 19 years old, he began his travels while serving as a missionary for two years in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Upon his return, he balanced studying design at Brigham Young University with extended sabbaticals to work both on and off camera for scores of fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Gucci, and Giorgio Armani. Over more than a decade, his assignments to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas spawned a passionate drive to share the unending variety of surprising natural artifacts with an unsuspecting public through his artwork. In addition to insects, his mediums of design include fossils, minerals, botanicals, bones, and sea life. His work has been featured in numerous magazines and is sold through hundreds of galleries, stores, and showrooms in the United States and abroad.

256 pages, with more than 170 colour photographs and indexes of artworks and specimens, both by common and scientific names.
Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket.
Size: 9 1/4 x 12 in.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4619-6.
£39.95

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