I have just bought one of these.
All the rage in France, colouring books for grownups are now making an impact in the UK. Said to relieve stress, mum of two Henrietta Roussoulis forgets Zen and picks up a pen
Henrietta Roussoulis
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Put that yoga class on hold –there's a new stress-buster in town. And apparently, what we all really need to do to restore a sense of calm this time is to copy the French and invest in a colouring book for adults. These are currently proving so popular with women across the Channel that they're even outselling cookery books. Qui savait?
One particular volume alone, Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book, by Johanna Basford, has sold more than 350,000 copies – and it's a craze that is slowly but surely taking the UK's Etsy set by storm, with sales of cool colouring books booming and Facebook groups dedicated to the pastime.
Examples range from pictures of landscapes and pencil drawings of heart-throbs to the sort of intricate patterns that make you see double; the idea being that concentrating on colouring in will have a meditative effect and free your life of stress. There is even anecdotal evidence that Caran d'Aching off a few of these pictures can help to cure headaches.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 83103.html