Meet The Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites

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Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites is packed with make-and-dos and inspiring activities for budding young artists. Paint portraits inspired by medieval legends, design your own wallpaper using potato printing, and create photocollages influenced by the beauty of nature. Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life or the movement followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the movement's body of work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making.

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Born in Spain, where she also studied fine art before relocating to London, the work of illustrator Helena Perez Garcia is stunningly rich and colourful. Her intricate and arresting work is inspired by early italian art with their bright colours, delicate details and timeless beauty. She has worked for clients including Random House, Buzzfeed and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In 2016 she won the Cheltenham Illustration Award and in 2017 was the Merit & Honarable Mention Winner of 3x3 International Illustration Award.