365 Days of Art in Nature: Find Inspiration Every Day in the Natural World by Lorna Scobie

$25.00 NZD

Category: Art

In 365 Days of Art in Nature, Lorna Scobie, invites the reader to take a closer look at the natural world - whether that's outside on location, or inside their own home - reminding us all that regardless of whether we live in the city or the countryside, wildlife is just on our doorstep.   Observe the s low, constant pace of the nature that surrounds you every day, and use it to inspire you in your art and creativity. Activities may include visiting a particular tree four times in the year and drawing it. How has it changed? Study the colors you find in autumn leaves. Explore drawing them in different materials.   Featuring nature-inspired quotes, breakaway activities to get you outdoors and plenty of supportive prompts and tips, this book will spark your imagination and help you to open your eyes and appreciate the natural beauty in our world. ...Show more

Graffiti - Streets Full of Art by Louis Bou (Editor); Josep M. Minguet (Editor)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Art

Graffiti has been around since the ancient times - examples abound in Ancient Greek archaeological sites. In modern times, spray paint & markers have become the tools of choice. Graffiti: Streets Full of Art brings together a visually stunning collection the most innovative and original graffiti and street art from cities around the world. ...Show more

Pocket Art: Your 100 Day Creative Journey by Lorna Scobie

$23.00 NZD

Category: Art

Pocket Art features100 art activities to do on your daily art work-out. Bringing creativity into daily life, Lorna Scobie encourages you to react to the present, and to live more in the moment through simple, observational-based art activities. Through creative prompts and quick-sketches – which you can then use to develop bigger, more detailed artworks at home – activities will incorporate mindfulness, gratitude, skill-building and enjoyment, acting as a daily check-in for inspiration and creative play. Designed to be drawn into the book, and providing you with the friendly encouragement you need to explore your creativity and record your experiences, Pocket Art will build your confidence as an artist and is the perfect spring-board to create your very own sketch book. 100 art activities to do whenever and wherever inspiration strikes. ...Show more

Little Book of Houses by Christchurch Art Gallery Staff

$20.00 NZD

Category: Art | Series: Little Books of Art Ser.

A new series of award winning Little Books of Art is here! Designed by award-winning artist Aaron Beehre, these beautifully produced Little Books of Art make the perfect gift. Each book is curated to a different theme and features high-quality reproductions of favourite artworks from the Christchurch Ar t Gallery's collection. Featuring historical to contemporary art, with big names in NZ and international circles - these are mini art books at an incredible price! ...Show more

Art-tastic (HB) by Sarah Pepperle; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

$30.00 NZD

Category: Art

This Art-tastic activity book has some of the best art you'll ever see in Aotearoa New Zealand. And don't freak out, but you'll probably learn stuff too. By the time you've finished, you'll have your own artists' workbook full of artworks that will possibly make you famous at home (if not around the wo rld).  Bold, bright, daring and a little bit BANANAS, Art-tastic gets into the nitty gritty of how to look at, connect with and make art.  ...Show more

According to the History of Art Me by Dick Frizzell

$65.00 NZD

Category: Art

A FAST-PACED ROMP THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING WITH ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S BEST-KNOWN PAINTERS. Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often goneway out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landsc ape and the contested area ofappropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art, starting right back at cave art to discover the key threads of Western art that sit in his DNA as a painter in the 21st century. The approach is essential Frizzell: bring everyone along for the ride. ...Show more

Mervyn Williams by Edward Hanfling

$59.00 NZD

$135.00 (56% off)

Category: Art | Reading Level: Near Fine

From Modernism to the digital age. The title of this book might well have been "The Unknown Mervyn Williams." Its contents will surprise most artlovers who may be familiar with one, perhaps two of the principle phases of this artist's work, but few, if any, will ever have seen all that is laid out here in one place for the first time. His talent was recognised early on by important figures such as R.N. Field, Frank Carpay and Ted Dutch, evidence of it can be clearly seen in the selection of paintings made while he was still in his teens. These are accomplished paintings and entirely abstract, making Williams unique amongst his contemporaries, all of whom worked in a figurative manner before in some cases turning to abstract painting. In the mid 1960s, however, his developing skills and interest in technology led to highly experimental work in Optical Art and also to his nickname "Optic Merv". This direction continued developing throughout the 1970s. Like his colleague and fellow pioneer in this field, Ray Thorburn, he found little response from a local audience dismissive of international directions and hungry for that real "New Zealandness" so evident in the work of the regional painters of the time. The 1980s saw the development of a body of work exploring a different optical effect, textured colour fields which appear to be illuminated from within. Later in that decade came the much admired wooden sculptures and constructions, the legacy of the Tylee Cottage residency. By 1990 Williams had perfected a method of chiaroscuro painting based on Renaissance techniques, giving rise to a powerful illusion of high relief and three dimensionality. This large body of work is unique and original, defining the artist's career and setting it apart from his contemporaries. ...Show more

Pat Hanly by Gregory O'Brien

$59.00 NZD

$150.00 (60% off)

Category: Art | Reading Level: New

A magnificent colourful monograph from the series of major New Zealnd artists by Ron Sang Publications. Over a career spanning four decades, Pat Hanly proposed a new manner of looking at New Zealand - the land and its people. His art heralded new ways of thinking about this country - as a nation that b elonged to the young and the adventurous, to the dreamers and to those who could see the vital place the island nation could have within Polynesia and the broader Pacific. Featuring nearly 300 colour plates and over 50 photographs, this large-format publication offers an unprecendented record of Hanly's effervescent, brilliant paintings, many of which have achieved iconic status. Alongside an essay by Gregory O'Brien which focuses on the artist's immensely productive relationship with the city of Auckland, the book includes illuminating memoirs by four of Hanly's closes friends. An annotated and profusely illustrated chronolgy provides an overview of the artist's life, while sampling critical and art historical reactions along the way. The large-scale reproductions offer an emphatic account of what must stand as the most vivid, animated body of paintings by a single artist to have yet hailed from these shores. ...Show more

DIY Creative Journaling - Over 100 Ideas and Techniques for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk, Mixed Media, and Travel Pages by Renee Day

$33.00 NZD

Category: Art

Spark your creativity and keep yourself organized with the beautiful pages and easy-to-follow instructions of Creative Journaling. With 52 projects, from simple tricks, like making your own washi tape, to more ambitious projects, like crafting a custom planner, you'll soon have the best-looking to-do li st around. Author Renee Day will take you on an artistic adventure as you take on each new task and become an expert on amazing DIY ideas You'll learn to work with watercolors, acrylic paint, brush pens, and much more as you personalize your stuff, making things uniquely you. Going beyond basic tools, this stunning book offers tips, tricks, and creative ways to transform your notebook into a treasured life companion, including: - Ornamental lettering - Personalized habit trackers - Colorful calendars - Decorative headers - Customized productivity lists - Inspiring artwork - Creative future logs - Unique planning pages ...Show more

Paul Dibble - X - A Decade of Sculpture 2010-2020 by Fran Dibble

$70.00 NZD

Category: Art

Paul Dibble has traversed many subjects in his sculptural work - often returning to them years later, like godwits coming home to roost. Between 2010 and 2020, human figures and native New Zealand flora and fauna have been among Dibble's oft-revisited subjects, his work refining these figures to their s implest forms. Yet, while the forms may be simplified, the implied sense of movement, the anticipation of action and captured emotion are paramount. Dibble is one of a select number of sculptors who cast their own bronze work, often in larger-then-life scale, creating a powerful effect. Prolific in his output and ambitious in his scope and vision, it is easy to see why Paul Dibble remains one of New Zealand's most original and respected sculptors. ...Show more

Shaping the World - Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley; Martin Gayford

$90.00 NZD

Category: Art

Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and biology. This links the question 'What is sculpture?' to the question 'What is humanity?' In this wide-ranging book, two complementary voices - one belonging to an artist who looks to Asian and Buddhist traditions as much as to Western sculptural history, the other to a critic and historian - consider how sculpture has been central to the evolution of our potential for thinking and feeling. Sculpture cannot be seen in isolation as an aesthetic pursuit; it is related to humankind's compelling urge to make its mark on the landscape, build, make pictures, practise religion and develop philosophical thought. Drawing on examples from thousands of years bce to now, and from around the globe, the authors treat sculpture as a transnational art form with its own compelling history. They take into account materials and techniques, and consider overarching themes such as space, light and darkness. Above all, they discuss their view of sculpture as a form of physical thinking capable of altering the way people feel and of inviting them to look at sculpture they encounter and more broadly the world around them in a completely different way. ...Show more

Worlds of Wonder: A Colouring Book for the Curious by Johanna Basford

$30.00 NZD

Category: Art

This book isn't just a colouring book. It is also a magical portal to many wondrous worlds... From the creator of the worldwide bestsellers World of Flowers and Lost Ocean comes a beautiful new colouring book that will take you on a captivating journey through imagined and fantastical realms. Within t hese pages you'll find tree-top castles, floating islands and fairytale villages, all waiting to be brought to life in your colours. Go on an adventure and let your imagination roam from world to world, discovering enchanted sea turtles, curious cats and lost song birds along the way. In this new colouring book, Johanna Basford lends her signature style of inky illustration to a series of brand new inkscapes and themes, all with a sprinkling of her much-loved botanicals. Get ready to discover a whole new world of colours. ...Show more