Product Description

Thomas Kinkade has received numerous awards including Graphic Artist of the Year. In many of his paintings, he hides the letter 'N' as a tribute to his wife Nanette. Each puzzle 680mm x 485mm.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5816 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Gibsons Games
• Model: G868
• Dimensions: 11.42" h x 1.97" w x 16.14" l, 3.53 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Founded in 1903 Gibson Games is still run by the Gibson family and is the oldest British-owned company in the industry. It prides itself on the quality of its puzzles, both the materials and manufacturing. The picture is the most important feature of any jigsaw puzzle and Gibsons take great care in selecting the images used. All Gibsons jigsaws are based on paintings rather than photographs, this enables the image to tell a story more readily and on the back of each box you’ll find information on the painting and the artist. Gibsons specialise in traditional images of British life and countryside and features the work of many renowned artists. Regular puzzlers will be familiar with its distinctive metallic blue boxes.

Thomas Kinkade is America's most collected living artist. Kinkade is known as the Painter of Light and his work emphasises simple pleasures and celebrates the beauty of the natural world. In the often hurried, unsympathetic, and complex world in which we live, the images Thomas Kinkade paints offer a place of refuge, a place where the transient things of life give way to the things that matter most. His work is renown for capturing the nuances of light, from dawn to dusk. You’ll find the letter N hidden in every one of his paintings as a tribute to his wife, Nanette.

Customer Reviews

Good puzzles of their type
Let's cover the pictures first. They're not your average Thomas Kinkade twee cottage in the woods, but 'just after the rain' street scenes of Paris and San Francisco, in the about the 1920s and 1960s respectively. Pleasant pictures without vast "blue sky" areas that can make a puzzle dull. I've only done the Paris one so far but would guess that the fairly subtle tree branch stuff makes that one harder - on the face of it, features like the tramlines and streetcars in the SF picture should make it easier.

Puzzles assemble pretty well, though we did have a few 'false joins' to sort out in the Paris one. It would be nice if all the pieces were properly separated when you opened the puzzle - even after a fairly good shaking, a freshly opened bag had 10 or more 'clusters' of two or more adjacent tiles that had to be broken up by hand.

(In case you're wondering, the tiles for the two puzzles are in separate plastic bags when you open the box.)

Gibsons Puzzle
As avid puzzlers my husband and I have difficulty finding enough puzzles that appeal to us and at a price we can afford. The two 1000 piece puzzles depicting Paris and San Francisco were extremely good value for the money. They were both attractive and the quality of the pieces was excellent. I shall be ordering more very soon.