Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South

A great book I received for my birthday in October. I have just finished looking at all plates and pages and thoroughly enjoyed this journey theorugh New Zealand in paintings.  I’ll start again now and study each artist in more depth as I go. The Fishpond review explains the format exactly. “viewing New Zealand … [...]

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art related happenings

A lot to post – it may all come in one go. I have just come from one of the Sunday talks at the Auckland Art Gallery that are happening while the Rita Angus exhibition is on. Today’s speaker was Principal Conservator, Sarah Hillary giving an illustrated account of her research into the diverse range [...]

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Wolf Kahn Pastels

Today I headed to Borders with my 30% discount voucher and bought this book, Wolf Kahn Pastels. I need to read something about this artist whom I first saw on an artist’s calendar years ago and whose paintings I love for their colour. Without reading anything of him, why he paints and what he paints [...]

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The Big Picture

“Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention last year when his television series and accompanying (Godwit) book THE BIG PICTURE seized the imagination of New Zealanders. The high-rating show and bestselling book rekindled fresh enthusiasm for the complex and fascinating story of our art heritage and cemented Keith’s stature as one of [...]

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