R750.00
Capetonian Lorraine Loots started painting a miniature a day on 01 January 2013. It started as a side project to enable her to indulge her love of painting, but has since then gathered meaning and momentum. She now has a website on which you can ‘reserve’ a painting –and they are booked up well in advance! The miniatures are ‘more than meets the eye’: they are exquisite replications of our world and the things we love rendered in minute perfection, forming a tiny and, paradoxically, vast body of work.
Postcards for ants is an exquisite retrospective collection from miniaturist artist and global Instagram phenomenon Lorraine Loots. It includes high-quality reproductions of her entire 2014 collection: 365 Miniature watercolours inspired by Cape Town in its role as World design capital 2014. Part art book, part Cape Town tourist guide, Postcards for ants puts a microscope onto one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and is an instant collector’s must-have.
This darkly thrilling title falls into the genre-of-the-moment: domestic noir. Jean has stood by her husband when he was the chief suspect in the kidnap and murder of a child. But when he dies, the motivation behind her silence and her loyalty are removed. An excellent debut novel; Barton is adept at playing with the reader’s emotions and I enjoyed the way my opinion of certain character’s changed and developed with the plot. The perspective shifts between the various main characters so we are always in a position of restricted insight, and this is clever device to build suspense. I was hooked at wanting to discover the truth behind Jean’s dark secrets.
A poignant release for his fans, this is the last ever Discworld Novel in Pratchett’s fantastically successful series that has earned him such an overwhelming following for the past thirty years. It features Tiffany Aching again, as well as some other favourite characters, and serves as an Adieu to the realm of Discworld. Lauded one of the best British fantasy writers of all time, Pratchett has won numerous awards and medals, received an OBE and a Knighthood for his contribution to Literature.
You have a great talent, but do you know how to make a success of it? One of the things not taught in art school is just how active and engaged you need to be. You will have to become your own finance, business and marketing manager, as well as researcher, curator and administrator.
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