Matthew Rice

A guide to the glories of Rome, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbook. Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. In the first book in this new sketchbook...

Learning to draw needn't be complicated or expensive, nor does one need a particularly spectacular subject to draw. In this, his first practical art book, artist Matthew Rice encourages readers to look at and draw the scenes around them - the desk they are sitting at, the view out the window, a bowl of produce from the supermarket. And it...

A guide to gardening and enjoying nature through the year, showing you what to do, when to do it and how to enjoy every season more fully, from the Cotswolds garden of renowned artist Matthew Rice. In 2012, Matthew Rice bought Ham Court, an estate in the village of Bampton in the Cotswolds. Spread across several acres and surrounding fragments...

A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbook. Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings, and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Venice has been a source of...

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and...