Nic’s Green Man graphic novel based on Playmobil in English, German and French is going great guns.  If you’re still short of an interesting and unusual Christmas present you might want to pick up a copy on his website here or on Amazon.  You’ll find a previous post here if you run a search for ‘Green Man’ or you can read a review of it here.

Waterfall by MC Escher

MC Escher was an amazing Dutch artist whose surreal art prints like the impossible Waterfall shown here still dumbfound people as was undoubtedly Escher’s intention.  MC Escher challenges the way we look at the world and the way our sense of sight works.  Just glance at any Escher art print or poster and it hits you as he shows how the perspective can be manipulated to trick you into thinking we are seeing something you are not seeing.  Even when you look closely at MC Escher’s art it can be hard to see how it all works.  How did MC Escher manage to make it look like the waterfall is perpetual?  How does it end up where it started defying all the logic of our perceptions?  MC Escher was an extraordinary Dutch artist with a keen interest in geometry.  MC Escher produced many surreal visual puzzles and some of these Escher puzzles were used for album cover art like Reptiles for the Mott the Hoople album.  MC Escher’s work, has never really dated and an MC Escher impossible puzzle looks as freash today as it did back when he drew them.

A guest in your home seeing Escher’s endless waterfall is going to be drawn to comment.  If you’d like to see our range of MC Escher prints and posters then just click here where there are plenty of different Escher products to chose from either for yourself or to give someone else a slice of Escher mind-bending!

As usual we will be dispatching everyhing we have in on the last posting dates before Christmas 2011 so make sure you get your order of art prints, posters, tshirts etc in at Artists UK before the date for your area so you get your goodies in time:

South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand - Monday 5th December

Eastern Europe, USA and Canada - Friday 9th December

Western Europe - Monday 12th December

UK - Thursday 22nd December (orders must be in by 5pm on Wedesday!)

If you need something after these dates you’ll need to contact us about organising a courier to get your order to you in time but be aware that this can be quite costly for destinations outside of the UK if the order is either heavy or large.  Saturday delivery in the UK will increase the shipping charge by between £25 - £35.

Happy Shopping and have a great time over the festive season

The Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale certainly got off to a rocketing start this year and left some people a bit puzzled since we put some items in the sale priced at only 1p.  One customer wrote, ” … still can’t quite believe that the Chris Foss was only 1p.”  Yes, of course, we don’t make anything out of that.  We certainly haven’t found a way to buy stock for less than 1p.  If we do then we’ll be found living it up somewhere in the Bahamas :-)   There are a couple of reasons why the sale has been so popular this year.  One is the aforementioned 1p giveaway but we reckon it is also because we were too busy last year to have a sale.  We kind of like to think some of our long-term customers were suffering withdrawal symptoms.  That would make them about as nutty as we are

There are still plenty of goodies left in the Summer Sale even if some sale stock has now sold out.  You can see what there is by clicking here.  Of course, if you opt to be on the mailing list you will get notified when the summer sale starts, which is how you get to pick up the best bargains and who knows what might happen towards the end of the Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale ???? ………