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  Search Press customer services and warehouse will be closing this year between Christmas and New Year, from 25th December 2021 until 3rd January 2022. To ensure your order arrives in time for Christmas, please place your...

It’s apparent that lockdown has inspired a revolution in art and crafts, but isolation has and continues to take its toll on the nation’s mental health. Often our thoughts and feelings can be overwhelming and are largely outside of our...

As well as being one of the UK’s leading painters, Charles Evans is the main demonstrator for Daler-Rowney and teaches art classes all over the UK. Charles’ passion for painting is self-evident, and his enthusiasm has fuelled his long-running...

Erin Eggenburg is a visible mending instructor and owner of wrenbirdarts, an online mending shop. Erin also hosts Mending Club, an online forum she created for visible mending enthusiasts, and has a blog that performs in the top 10 per cent of Shopify...

Peter Cronin is back with his brand new book in the best-selling Absolute Beginner series, Sketching for the Absolute Beginner which is a must-have book for anybody who is eager to take their sketching skills to the next level. Peter's...

Trace is Michele Carragher's first book with Search Press. Exquisitely detailed Michele's embroidered art is breathtaking to behold. With a background in fashion design and textile conservation she combines predominantly raised embroidery with more...

Victoria Matthewson is a self-taught hand embroidery artist whose work focuses on her love of nature in her exquisitely detailed needlepainted embroideries, which is formally known as silk shading. Victoria is also renowned as one of the top silk shading...

Marrianne Miall is graphic designer for Search Press and is a general all-round crafty creative. When she’s not decorating her home or growing her own fruit and vegetables in the garden, she is taking on all kinds of craft projects from...

Knits from Northern Lands is Jenny Fennell's first book with Search Press. Jenny is a knitwear designer from Nova Scotia, Canada, who sells her own bespoke heirloom knitwear designs and patterns through her brand, Lily Lakes Knits. We caught up with...