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New Book of NZ Landscapes includes Yvonne Rust

Yvonne Rust, QSM, has been included in the expanded and revised edition of Landscape Paintings of New Zealand – A Journey from North to South by Christopher Johnstone. This beautiful book launched yesterday at Jonathan Grant Galleries in Auckland, includes 143 magnificent colour plates of New Zealand landscape paintings by some of the great artists of the […]

Ian Dalzell – New Zealand Ceramic Artist

t Glazed Vase by Ian Dalzell - Photo Stewart Nimmo Photography

Ian Dalzell is the only potter in New Zealand firing with coal. Based near Lake Brunner on the West Coast, his mentors include Yvonne Rust & Barry Brickell. Based at Kotuku, on NZ’s South Island West Coast, Ian uses a high BTU coal with some coking abilities which forms a bed on the fire bars […]

Ian Boustridge – New Zealand Jade Sculptor

Kakapo Survival Prayer by Ian Boustridge - Fiordland Jade - 1991 - Photo Urich Walthert

Among the world’s best contemporary jade sculptors (National Geographic 1987), master sculptor Ian Boustridge works the green stone in his native New Zealand. “I have a series of half-ton and multi-ton boulders from much earlier prospecting days,” says Ian Boustridge, “and it will take the rest of my life to sculpt from them the art […]

Grant Hudson – West Coast New Zealand Watercolourist

West Coast watercolour by Grant Hudson

Grant Hudson, a New Zealand ceramic artist based near Barrytown on the South Island’s West Coast has established himself as a watercolourist. In the late 1960’s, in New Zealand, Grant Hudson had the good fortune to find himself tucked under the wing of first one, and then another motivated female ceramicist. Ceramics as a First […]

John Madden – Underground Artist

Blackball mine winch room by John Madden

Profile of New Zealand painter, John Madden, based on Auckland’s west coast. His mentors include Toss Woollaston, Barry Brickell, Yvonne Rust, John S Parker John Madden is a painter based at Karekare on Auckland’s western coast in New Zealand, but he started his art life as a potter. Mentors, Yvonne Rust, Barry Brickell and Toss […]