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Introducing Annie Booker! Winner of the People's Choice Award for the 2022 Batsford Prize with her submission: 'The Great Bear'

Read her full interview over on our website to discover what inspired the important environmental message in her winning piece

https://t.co/ZhSAjNi142

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2022-07-20

Here's my set of illustrations for the Batsford Prize (which is postponed until next year). The theme was 'Our Planet' Who's your favourite?

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2020-05-23

Discover the fascinating world of birds of prey at Cotswold Falconry Centre nr It's a hoot! Open daily from 10.30 am. PLAN YOUR VISIT > https://t.co/zZDYsFfzC3

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2020-02-28

Discover the fascinating world of birds of prey at Cotswold Falconry Centre nr Batsford this Open daily from 10.30 am. PLAN YOUR VISIT > https://t.co/zZDYsFfzC3

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2020-02-18

Canterbury Cathedral. Sketched rather rapidly in taken from the 1969 Batsford book ‘England In Colour’, which is rather wonderful (and a snip at only 10p in our local secondhand bookshop).

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2019-10-13

Enjoy ’ special relationship with flowers in a new book showing her many beautiful paintings - ‘Roses: A collection in Botanical Art’ published by Batsford.

https://t.co/Lsbl0rRezL

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2019-09-09

The Beauty Of Britain - graphic artist Brian Cook, Batsford book. https://t.co/Gg87nxKdjl

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2019-06-16

The is open for entries until 25/3/19! With cash prizes to be won from us at Cass Art, &
Open to of

Find out more https://t.co/nCfdfogFrC

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2019-03-19

Another in progress page from my new book!

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2019-02-28

'The Batsford Book of Light Verse for Children' was published in 1978. It was compiled by poet Gavin Ewart and features illustrations by author and illustrator Nicolas Bentley.

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2018-11-21

We have unearthed some old careers guides that we'll be sharing with you this week. 'Hairdressing and Beauty as a Career' by Evelyn Forbes was published in 1961.

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2018-11-01

Working on a series of Illustrations for the Batsford Prize. They will be pixel art tarot cards on the theme of "being human". Here is a preview of one of the cards, The Fighters.

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2018-10-31

Lovely colours from Tessa Gwynne https://t.co/VTkkiJScHt 'Batsford Arboretum'

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2018-10-26

'Chinese Animal Painting Made Easy' is a practical guide to Chinese brush painting with demonstrations for painting various animals including tigers, pandas, cats and birds. Written by painting tutor Rebecca Yue and published in 2009.

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2018-10-25

Next up in our animal-themed week is 'Mammals of the Seas' by Richard Mark Martin. This illustrated reference guide to seals, whales and other sea mammals was published in 1977.

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2018-10-24

Our final map book is 'Maps for Local History' by historical geographer Paul Hindle. Published in 1988, the book explains how to use maps for local history research.

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2018-09-23

Today's archive treasure is from '#Maps That Changed the World' by John O.E. Clark, published in 2016. Pictured here is 'Amerique Septentrionale' (1650) by Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville. Check out on Instagram later today for a bonus map! Image: Corbis.

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2018-07-06

As the season begins, we thought we'd do a marine theme for this week's archive images. Here is 'Sailing & Cruising: For the small boat owner' by K. Adlard Coles (1901–1985), in 1941. Cover illustration by

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2018-05-09