BOOKS:
From unique and limited edition self-published artist’s books to museum- and gallery-published illustrated catalogues of Anne Desmet’s solo exhibitions to commercially published paperbacks and hardbacks about prints, printmaking and drawing, the books featured in this section cover the artist’s entire career and several are still available to purchase.
Featured Release:
Wood Engraving: A Personal Approach
By Anne Desmet 2025
This gorgeous new book aims to engage both beginners and more experienced practitioners with the processes and possibilities – orthodox and otherwise – of the art and craft of engraving on end-grain woodblocks to produce original, handmade prints of amazing diversity and finesse. Exploring, in particular, the medium’s great potential for creating images in light, the reader is supported on their own creative path with plenty of step-by-step guidance, top tips and user-friendly ideas and advice.
Enriched with a wealth of inspiring images by the author, spanning her 40 years as a wood engraver, alongside excellent examples by other leading practitioners, the book extends well beyond the scope of other engraving manuals. While advocating and imparting traditional processes, the author actively encourages the breaking of the medium’s traditional boundaries using modern methods and technical innovations. The book facilitates a lively personal engagement by the reader who will be empowered to take up this historic medium and make it their own.
Published by The Crowood Press – Hardback; 192 pp; 26.7 x 22.1 cm / 10.5 x 9 ins; colour illustrations throughout – ISBN 9780719845871 – RRP £30.00 – Available via the Crowood Press at www.crowood.com, all good bookshops & online
Featured Release:
Anne Desmet – Sky Windows
A collection of 24 digital prints of invented, kaleidoscope-inspired, architectural spaces, all based on Anne’s stone lithograph RA Revolution (2017), itself made in response to a major construction project at the Royal Academy of Arts leading to its 250th anniversary in 2018. Each window frames a London summer sky. Each sky contains real, remembered, or imagined objects representing fleeting moments in time. Edition numbers 11/35 – 35/35 of each print are available to purchase individually (see Gallery/Capricci/Kaleidoscope page for details) while nos. 1/35 – 10/35 are collected into ten cloth-bound boxed sets, co-published by Anne Desmet and Eames Fine Art (www.eamesfineart.com). Each box contains a complete set of 24 prints with two special extra prints pasted into the inside front and back of the box.
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