Alexandra Milton: Silver Tree of Life with Four White-throated Magpies (Foiled Journal)

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.

BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.

PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.

THE ARTIST. Alexandra Milton is an artist and illustrator. Her chosen media is collage. She collects paper which she tears and weaves into a multitude of layers to represent plants and animals. Her first children’s book Call Me Gorgeous was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2010 and, as a Bookstart title, distributed to 100,000 children across the UK. Her other books – Good Luck Baby Owls, Who is in the Egg? and Whose Tracks in the Snow? – are also published by Boxer Books in the UK and the USA and have been translated into several languages. For this particular work, she drew inspiration from the fabulous Trees of Life represented on ancient Turkish ceramics. www.alexandramilton.com

THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."