A book on the contemporary painter and printmaker James B Thompson. It places Thompson's work in the context of landscape painting as a whole and offers the viewer with an insight into the meaning of the works themselves.

The Art of Sam Flores. A career retrospective of Samual Flores whose work has evolved from a teen involvement in skate and graffiti culture into the work of an artist who exhibits worldwide.

Featuring over 135 artists in A-Z entries, and a section about gallery representation and market prices, this guide describes what's happening and who's who in contemporary art.

This handsome, full colour book celebrates forty years of the work of Ken Elias, from student op art/collage to current work made in response to poetry. As an artist Elias is something of a conundrum. Born and once again based in Glynneath, he draws extensively on his locale and on his childhood in the Fifties, in particular his extended family.

A collection of writings on a conceptual and installation artist who has been called one of the most important artists of the decade.

Plump ladies at lunch; girls on a night out; shopping in the mall: for over forty years BerylCook brought our everyday world to colorful life, capturing moments of social history to create a perceptive record of life in the second half of the twentieth century.

Published to accompany the Frieze Art Fair at Regents Park from 15 -18 October 2009.

For the artist Jorge Pardo, colour, form and sense of space stand at the centre of his artistic concept. In the experimental crossover of sculpture, painting and architecture of design and a digitally orientated production, Pardo gives convincing expres.

The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists.

Landscape has become an urgent subject. In response, the author is developing three plein air painting projects, Latitude, Longitude, and Antipodes, each of which combines life study and abstraction to recount the colour, light, and motif of many places. This title describes the uniqueness of the local while maintaining a global perspective.

An amazing 5-volume boxed set of work from Belgian artist Jan de Cock including 16 fold-out pages, loose photographs, timetables and other ephemera detailing the methods of de Cocks work.

The Art of Mark Ryden. A survey of leading pop surrealist Mark Ryden's most impressive works, presented in a beautiful hardback format.

London-based artist Joanna Kirk produces pastel paintings that relate her experiences of motherhood.

One of Canada's most evocative modern painters, Cree artist Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of First Nations culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. This title presents a collection of Auger's best work.