About the Author

Iona Singh is an author and journalist specialising in art and design and specifically in the realms of art and design materials. A graduate of fine-art from the University of Portsmouth she has freelanced for The Artists and Illustrators Magazine, Interior, The Traveller, Artists' Newsletter and Thalo.com and has published several hundred newspaper and magazine articles. For a number of years she wrote a personal monthly page for The Artists' and Illustrator's Magazine on art materials and techniques.She is also the author of refereed essays published in academic journals in the US, in Rethinking Marxism and the eco-journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. Both of these are published by the academic division of Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group.