Colouring in: A Garden Enclosed

Colouring in: A Garden Enclosed

This screenprint by Eileen Mayo is of Cuningham House, the big glass house in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. The building is kept warm all year so that the plants inside stay healthy and grow well. Have you been there? What sort of plants did you see?

Theatre Beautiful

Theatre Beautiful

One thing I’m really looking forward to when life returns to a new sense of normality in a post-Covid19 world is visiting a movie theatre – a treat I’ve taken for granted until a couple of weeks ago. In Theatre Beautiful, Dunedin artist Harry Vye Miller captures the bustling busy interior of Dunedin’s Regent Theatre which opened in the city’s Octagon in 1928. Miller enjoyed this theatre and is known to have attended the opening night. The building thankfully remains fully intact and is one of the gems of Dunedin’s architectural heritage.

Colouring in: Flowers in a Vase

Colouring in: Flowers in a Vase

This lovely painting of flowers was painted a very long time ago, about 1685. It is called a still life, which is a drawing or painting of an arrangement of everyday objects.

Colouring in: Cosmo McMurtry

Colouring in: Cosmo McMurtry

Cosmo looks a lot like the Easter Bunny to me – and luckily for us Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy are considered essential workers while we're in lockdown!

Colouring in: Nathaniel Webb, Esq., of Roundhill Grange, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset

Colouring in: Nathaniel Webb, Esq., of Roundhill Grange, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset

This painting was made around 300 years ago, so it’s quite old. The man in the picture was called Nathaniel Webb. In his portrait Nathaniel wears very fine clothes and a wig. It seems strange to us now but at that time it was a popular fashion for rich men to cut their own hair short and wear a wig.

Colouring in: In the Wizard's Garden

Colouring in: In the Wizard's Garden

This painting looks as if there’s a story happening in it. What do you think that story is?

Village life

Village life

Some detective work has put us in touch with the owners of the farm painted by Evelyn Page.

On the beach by Charles Simpson

On the beach by Charles Simpson

This article first appeared as 'Seaside outing displays a lightness of touch' in The Press on 24 April 2018.

Portobello Settee by Jacqueline Fahey

Portobello Settee by Jacqueline Fahey

This article first appeared in The Press on 19 January 2018 as 'A settee with hidden depths'.

Swings by Ethel Spowers

Swings by Ethel Spowers

This article first appeared in The Press on 12 January 2018 as 'A champion of the pioneering linocut'.

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