Product Range and Catalogue

Please check the Catalogue for the most up to date lists of packs that are available.

For Adults

LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST ALBUMS - bringing art to life for visually impaired people

Albums bring together collections designed to provide access for visually impaired people to a wide and varied selection of the world’s great works of art. Each Album is different; however they all contain raised images, audio descriptions and colour reproductions of at least 10 works of art. The collections are designed to group together topics in an interesting and exciting way and the following are some examples:

Works of art from specific galleries/collections e.g. The National Gallery, The Royal Collection, The Courtauld Collection etc.

City Albums e.g. the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Exeter. Each of these Albums presents an audio tour of the relevant city explaining its history and visiting various important locations to explore in detail some of its great treasures and artefacts including architecture, paintings, silver, furniture, tapestry, sculpture etc.

Special Interest e.g. ‘The History of English Garden Design’, ‘British Architecture’, ‘Biblical Scenes from the Old and New Testaments’ and the most popular of all our Albums – ‘British Birds and Their Habitat’.

Artist/Genre Collections e.g. ‘The Works of Monet’ and ‘The Impressionists and Pre-Raphaelites’

28 Albums are currently available. In these can be found:

• PAINTINGS (In all media and dating from the 13th Century to the present day)
• ARCHITECTURE
• TAPESTRY
• GARDEN DESIGN
• FURNITURE
• SILVER
• STAINED GLASS
• PORCELAIN
• FRESCOES
• SCULPTURE

For a full list of Living Paintings Trust Albums and the works they contain check out the Catalogue

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LIVING PAINTINGS TRUST BATS - bringing art to life for visually impaired people

Living Paintings Trust Bats are supplied to galleries and museums for the enjoyment of their visually impaired visitors. A Bat consists of a raised image of the work of art being explored and this is accompanied by a description that can be provided either on audio or by a sighted companion/guide. The Bats have appropriate Braille and Dymo tape labelling. They are available as portable hand held versions or, for permanent display, as durable white or bronze effect plaques. Currently, 33 Galleries and Museums make 118 works available to their visually impaired visitors in this format.

For a full list of Galleries and Museums offering this service see bats venues.

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For Children and Young People

INTRODUCTORY PACKS - bringing pictures to life for visually impaired children

These Packs are designed to carefully introduce visually impaired children to the Living Paintings Trust, its touch and sound system and its range of materials in order that they will gain as much as possible from other products in the Trust's range. Various visual concepts are explained such as the construction of pictures, relative size, how shadows work, caricaturing of animals and perspective. There are 3 Introductory Packs:

• Introductory Pack 1 - Primary (for children aged 4 - 7 years) containing 10 raised images each of which has a taped description.
  
• Introductory Pack 2 - Junior (for children aged 7 - 11 years) containing 11 raised images each of which has a taped description.
  
• Introductory Pack 3 - Secondary (for children aged 11 - 16) containing 11 raised images each of which has a taped description.
  

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TOPICAL PACKS - bringing images to life for visually impaired youngsters

This new series of packs group together images relating to a particular topic of interest both from a leisure and educational perspective. The packs are not designed to tie in specifically with the National Curriculum but to provide material that complements the teaching of various subjects. As with all Living Paintings Trust packs they contain raised images (thermoforms) which are each accompanied by audio descriptions. Currently three packs are available, 'Architecture', 'People in Paintings' and 'Exploring Music' with 'Kings and Queens', 'Dinosaurs', 'Space Exploration' and 'Science in Art' coming soon.

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TEACHER RESOURCE PACKS - bringing illustrations to life for visually impaired children

History Key Stage 2

Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum covers the school years of children aged seven to eleven, a stage during which visual aids are used extensively in the classroom. Living Paintings Trust Teacher Resource Packs are designed to provide access for visually impaired children to some of the illustrations that their sighted peers benefit from in the classroom. The first series of 8 packs, one for each of the 8 topics studied in History Key Stage 2, will explore pictures of housing, people and dress, transport, tools and machinery, weapons, and daily life. Each pack will contain up to seven raised images showing one or more pictures, plus cassette tapes describing how to touch the raised images and what they look like. Colour illustrations will be included for the benefit of those with partial sight, and also so that the pack may be shared with sighted classmates. 'Romans in Britain', 'Acient Egypt' and 'Tudor Times' are available with more to come.

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LIVING PICTURE PACKS - bringing illustrated novels to life for visually impaired children

Living Picture Packs are designed to bring to life the magical characters illustrated in longer children's books such as Wind in the Willows, The BFG etc. They are companions to books that can be obtained on tape or in Braille from other sources and are designed to be used at any time during the reading of the book. A Living Picture Pack has at least five raised images, each depicting one or more characters or scenes from the selected book. These raised images are accompanied by taped descriptions. When the raised images are not hand-coloured, illustrations are provided for the benefit of partially sighted children, and also so that the pack may be shared with sighted friends. 7 Packs exploring illustrations from 9 books and the 'Thomas the Tank Engine' series are available and more are in production.

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LIVING PICTURE BOOKS - bringing picture books to life for visually impaired children

Designed to provide visually impaired children with access to the wonderful illustrations in story books. A Living Picture Book pack contains a normal, popular, illustrated children's book, with the main characters translated into raised images which are brightly coloured for the benefit of children with partial sight. These raised images are bound into the book together with clear plastic sheets containing the Braille text, which allows the book to be shared with sighted parents or friends, as the original words and pictures are still visible. An audio cassette tape explains how to touch and understand the raised images, and also describes all of the other pictures in the book. Living Picture Books are available in both Braille Grades. Currently, 84 titles are available and more are in production.

ALSO included in this range we have books which are designed for visually impaired children aged 7 - 11 which tie in with Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. They provide fun and interesting information about an artist, and then touch and sound explanations of some of the chosen artist’s works of art. An example is the book “Camille and the Sunflowers”, an illustrated story book about Van Gogh by Laurence Anholt. This contains:

• A Living Picture Book (as previously described)
• Raised images to feel of 3 of Van Gogh’s paintings. These are accompanied by taped commentaries that explain how to touch and understand the raised images whilst describing what the paintings look like.
• Postcards of the 3 works of art for partially sighted children and sharing with sighted peers/companions.

Currently 3 books are available in this format.

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At the present time the Trust is undergoing a major research project into the creation of a Children's Art Library and it is expected that an extensive range of packs in a format yet to be decided will be created in the future.

New Styles of Products and New Titles are regularly being added to our Catalogue.