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By Clare Matthews
Photography by Clive Nichols

More and more people are becoming interested in growing their own fruit and vegetables as food prices rise and awareness of food provenance and chemical usage increases, but getting started can seem daunting and many are deterred by a lack of knowledge and time. This book sets out to overcome these problems. With clear practical instructions and inspirational pictures this book aims to demystify the growing of fruit and veg and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. The book explains simple short cuts, unusual low maintenance strategies and promotes a relaxed, robust attitude to growing-your-own which really works.

The book has been shot by the well-respected garden photographer Clive Nichols in the author's own weekend vegetable garden over two years where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested and proven. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, the book will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity.

To Buy this book click on the following link:

www.newhollandpublishers.com

January 2010
Author: Clare Matthews
Photographer: Clive Nichols
ISBN: 9781847735515
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd

By Tom Fischer
Photography by Clive Nichols

Choosing color is one of the most delightful and personal choices a gardener makes. For one gardener, the shock of a garden full of pink and red is a picture of beauty. For another, white flowers may be more tranquilly inspiring.

The Gardener's Color Palette features ten plants in ten color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Want a red garden? Choose the 'Crimson Star' columbine, the 'Lucifer' crocosmia, and the 'Gardenview Scarlet' bee balm. For a metallic garden plant the Japanese cobra lily, the Chocolate cosmos, and the Kamchatka fritillary. Or, create a multicolored array by picking plants from each category. Plant profiles include a description, the common and botanical names, information about expected height and spread, bloom time, hardiness, and light and water requirements.

Combined with Clive Nichols' stunning photographs, The Gardener's Color Palette is an invaluable source of practical advice and visual inspiration

"While Clive Nichols' phenomenal photos were what attracted my attention, Fischer's writing was what kept me reading. ... Fischer makes it clear that color is a joy that should be wholeheartedly embraced in our gardens."

To Buy this book click on the following link:

http://www.timberpress.com/books/

February 17th 2010
Author: Tom Fischer
Photographer: Clive Nichols
ISBN: -13; 978-1-60469-126-9
Publisher: Timber Press, Inc

Clive lecturing at:
Midhurst Camera Club
The Grange Centre
Midhurst
West Sussex
GU29 9HD

For tickets contact Karen on 01730 815199
www.midhurstcameraclub.co.uk

Clive Nichols Autumn/Winter 2009 range of Wall Canvasses now available to buy at Next.

To purchase click the following link www.next.co.uk

Watch this space for the Spring/Summer 2010 range, available from January 2010!

Gifted In Design are working closely with Clive Nichols to create an exquisite range of branded gift and stationery products. Featured opposite is the first collection - "Solitary Blooms" - which capitalizes on the beauty, detail and vibrancy of individual flowers. This collection is currently exclusively on sale at Blackwell stores throughout the country. A wider range of products will be launched in February next year at the SPRING FAIR 2010 INTERNATIONAL at the NEC, Birmingham (http://www.springfair.com/ )

Sue Townsend, MD of Gifted In Design and winner of the Everywoman in Retail Director of the Year 2008 Award, says "We are delighted to be working with Clive and his team on launching his new product collections. Clive's inspiring photography clearly demonstrates that there are no greater colours, shapes and subjects than the ones provided by Mother Nature herself but that it takes an exceptional talent to blur the lines between art and reality so successfully. It is a pleasure to be able to celebrate his work through product collections"

For more information on any of these products, future collections or to discuss product opportunities and please contact Joanna Partlett at Gifted In Design on 01865 481674. If you prefer to make contact by email please email us at joanna.partlett@gifted-in.co.uk

Clives images can now be seen on Flickr. Click the link below to view his profile and images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clivenichols/

Clive has been chosen as one of the Fifty Greatest Masters of Photography in a new book by David Clark to be published in October 2009. In his latest book 'Photography in 100 words: Exploring the Art of Photography with Fifty of its Greatest Masters, David Clark has selected 50 iconic images by some of the world's greatest photographers and asked them to explain how the pictures were made and their creative approach. From these interviews he has chosen 100 words that encapsulate their philosophy, and which are picked out in bold in the text. The highlighted words work on two levels. As well as giving insights into iconic images from the photographers who took them, they build over the course of the book into a unique creative lexicon of the photographic medium - one which crystallises its many aims and functions, perspectives and meanings. Thought-provoking, insightful and inspirational, Photography in 100 Words will appeal to all photographers and anyone who seeks a better understanding of the medium. David Clark is a photography journalist and author. He was the senior features writer on Amateur Photographer magazine for nine years, during which time he met and interviewed many of the world's great photographers.

To pre-order this book, click here.

Card company Images & Editions www.images-editions.co.uk have just produced a new range of Clive Nichols branded Greetings Cards. The range is already selling very well with several cards being reprinted. To view the whole range see the brochure by clicking here or on the image on the right.

Clives book 'The Art of Flower & Garden Photography' is currently featuring in the Healthcare Fine Art blog of Henry Domke, MD, in the USA.

To read the review click on the link below

http://www.healthcarefineart.com/2009/03/featured-artist-clive-nichols.html

6 of clives flower and garden images have been selected for an advert for Calumet Photographic in London. Other photographers involved include Mike Hacker, Laurence Hudghton and Britains best known landscape photographer, Charlie Waite.

Clives evocative and colourful dawn image of Pettifers Garden in Oxfordshire has been chosen as the image to promote the 2009 International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire, France. The image was chosen by the Festival Director Chantal Colleu-Dumond.

Every day during the entire summer, this festival takes places on the grounds of the Château de Chaumont. Gardeners from all over the world produce outstanding gardens around a central theme, using art and nature together to create the desired effect.

Conservatoire International des Parcs et Jardins
Ferme du château
41150 Chaumont-sur-Loire
Tel: (+33)02.54.20.99.22
cipjp.accueil@wanadoo.fr
www.chaumont-jardins.com (French only)