REVIEWS for Sticks, Stones, Mud Homes: Natural Living by Nigel Noyes
‘Noyes encourages the reader to choose meaningful furnishings and sustainable design in place of the status symbols of the perfect home.
This design book is a great read and a feast for the eyes. Each of the houses is accompanied by a thoughtful essay about the homeowners’ choices and how they are living on the land. Extraordinary and gorgeous.”
© CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.
‘Noyes is a professional photographer, so the book is brimming with good quality images. Brilliant for those thinking of building an environmentally friendly home.’
© CS for Grand Designs
‘It is imperative that those who build………do so in harmony with the natural surroundings. And for the increasing number of people who want to do just that this book is a godsend….. This is primarily an inspirational book. And inspire it will – stunningly presented with photographs you could frame, there’s nothing hippy about it.
© The Age Melbourne
‘….a visually stunning book through which Nigel aims to inspire people who might not have considered ‘natural’ building before.’
© Daily Telegraph, Sydney
‘Nigel Noyes is out to prove that a house with low embodied energy (that is, the energy required for construction) can also be a house with high embodied panache……his beautiful photography is the real key to the argument.’
© Houses magazine
‘The last section of the book deals with the use of contemporary sustainable and affordable materials highlighting the fact that the book is far from being a lapsarian fantasy of returning to a fundamentalist arcadia……. beautifully illustrated with detailed captions, glossary and bibliography……….’
© Indesign magazine
‘A journey is undertaken in the unfolding of this book, both personal and geographical. Noyes travels to parts of the world where sustainable techniques are being widely practiced as a modern way of living…. His skill is that he knows how to look deeply, how to interpret what he is looking at, and how to then apply it in his own work.
© Barbara Tremain-Howard for Resurgence
REVIEWS for Seasons of Sicily by Natalia Ravida
‘Food is such a visual experience that cookbooks can only benefit by following the same path and this one is lucky enough to have had the talents of photographer, Nigel Noyes, who spent ten years living in Sydney but is now based in the United Kingdom. In many ways Noyes ‘cut his teeth’ on food photography in Australia and it shows.’
© Food & Wine. South Australia
‘This wonderful cookbook takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Sicily using historic flavors and traditions. ….Aside from the gorgeous photography, the progression of the cuisine through the different seasons is an inspiration to all who favor local products.’
© E.J.Wilson
‘With photography by Nigel Noyes, who aimed to show the food in as natural a state as possible, Seasons of Sicily gives you a taste of what the food from this captivating island is like.’
©Tania Cammarano for Taste