Petal: A World of Flowers Through the Artist's Eye by Adriana Picker
65.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
A compendium of floral wonder, Petalreveals the colours, details and unique sculptural beauty of nature's most remarkable creations. Botanical artist Adriana Picker has curated specimens from all over the world to celebrate through her stunning illustrations, accompanied by writer Nina Rousseau's words ...Show more
The Lewis Chessmen by James Robinson
12.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Objects in Focus
The Lewis chessmen were found under mysterious circumstances on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1831. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, these enchanting chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mit ...Show more
Eric Ravilious Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
49.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art
The Art of Fine Gifts: Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a fascinating range of different works, from illustrations for books to designs for ceramics for the established Wedgwood pottery firm. This gorgeous new book features beautiful woodcut images ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
79.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
Melvin Day: Artist by Gregory O'Brien
70.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
There were many Melvin Days, but the term Artist encompasses all of them. During a career spanning seven decades, he produced some of the most intellectually astute, yet often visceral, paintings in New Zealand art history. Born in Hamilton in 1923, Day was a radical but also a great believer in traditi ...Show more
Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet
55.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
Unlock your inner artist and learn how to draw the human body in this beautifully illustrated art book by celebrated artist and teacher Sarah Simblet.In Anatomy for the Artist, Sarah reveals the extraordinary structure of the humanbody. Combining specially-commissioned photographs of models with histori ...Show more
The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay
57.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Bibliotheca Paediatrica Ref Karger Ser.
The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on a tour through the history of color in art. It aims to uncover the origins and science of colour. It is illustrated in full colour throughout with 166 major works of art.
Tattoorialist: Tattoo Street Style by Nicolas Brulez
11.99 NZD
37.99 (68% off)
Category: Fine Art
Once the mark of an underground subculture, tattoos have well and truly stepped out of the shadows and into the streets. Join photographer Nicolas Brulez as he searches Paris, Berlin and beyond for the most innovative and stylish tattoos in the world. Showcasing over 300 photographs of diverse people an ...Show more
One Year Drawn by Pete Bossely
55.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
A Year spent travelling as a young architect tuaght Pete Bossley how to 'read' a building and instilled in him a life-long love of drawing. In One Year Drawn he shares this voyage of discovery - and the places and people he encounters along the way. Now one of New Zealand's most respected architects, Pe ...Show more
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Sketchbooks [Deluxe Boxed Set Edition] by Alan Lee
145.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
Presenting two richly illustrated books in one elegant slipcase, this deluxe, limited edition boxed set celebrates in words and pictures the beautiful work that award-winning artist Alan Lee has created for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sumptuously bound in full cloth, with a mi ...Show more