Title: still life (Keywords)

Three Pines is made up of good people, but one of them is festering. The discovery of the dead body of well-known local artist Jane Neal sparks a manhunt, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamanche and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec are at a loss to explain why anyone should want to kill her.

Teaches the budding artist how to produce a professional looking still-life illustration using oil, acrylics, watercolours or pastels. Equipment, techniques and ways of handling the media are explained. Step-by-step projects are set to enable the reader to put the techniques into practice.

When lobster fishermen pull a body out of the sea, local police quickly discover the murdered man was the prime suspect in a mysterious disappearance ten years before. Cold case detective Karen Pirie's name is on the file as the last person to review the case. As she starts to unpick the threads ...

When lobster fishermen pull a body out of the sea, local police quickly discover the murdered man was the prime suspect in a mysterious disappearance ten years before. Cold case detective Karen Pirie's name is on the file as the last person to review the case. As she starts to unpick the threads ...

'Still Life' is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood - and the ghost of E.M. Forster. We just need to know what the heart's capable of, Evelyn. And do you know what it's capable of? I do. Grace and fury. It's 1944 and in the ruined ...

Three Pines is made up of good people, but one of them is festering. The discovery of the dead body of well-known local artist Jane Neal sparks a manhunt, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamanche and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec are at a loss to explain why anyone should want to kill her.

1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wrec...

This text explores a selection of still lifes from the 15th century to the modern day, revealing the historical importance and creative possibilities of this genre. Featured artists include Annibale Carracci, Jan Bruegel the Elder, Jan Fyt, Adolph Menzel, Paul Cezanne, Umberto Boccioni, Salvador ...