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Get Framed Prints Ready To Hang
In a new service we have brought to you in 2025, we offer you the option of printing and framing all in ONE order.
Here’s how it works:
- Go to Start Your Order and choose Framed Prints
Choose your Framing
Our frames range from A4 to A1
Your have a choice of a medium or a boxy frame in white natural or black
Our frames come with 2mm float glass as standard.
The frame fits the size of the selected print size option without any additional border and excludes a matte. If you would like a border, please include this in your print size.
Upload your File
Either upload a new print file – if it is large use https://printart.wetransfer.com.
or use a print file you already have stored with Print Art or you can downlaod a link. Use whichever option you are most comfortable with!
Lastly …we offer optional extras
We`d love you to use this new service we are offering….and do let us know if you have any queries or comments about it.
Enter The Taranaki Art Awards
Artwork credits :Reyna Henderson, Kym Gilchrist & Myron Bent 2024 award winners
The Taranaki National Art Awards runs in alignment with the Taranaki Garden Fringe Festival, Taranaki Garden Festival, The Great Ōpunakē Yarn Bomb, Ōpunakē Film Festival, Arts Fest South Taranaki, Oakura Arts Trail and the Taranaki Arts Trail. Our exhibition can see up to 2000 people who are invited to view and purchase artwork. The exhibition opens to the public the morning after the awards ceremony, held on the Friday 31st October 2025
Categories for 2025 are :
Painting: Acrylic, oil or mixed media.
Taranaki Artists: Artist must reside in Taranaki.
3D: Sculpture in any medium.
Works on Paper: Any medium, including printmaking.
Fibre Art: Natural or man-made fibers.
Tō Taranakitanga: For uri (descendants) of iwi from the Taranaki rohe
Photography
Entry fee – $25
Entries close – Friday 5 September 2025.
Paint Pouring
Have you ever heard of Paint Pouring? It’s basically creating art by pouring paint onto a canvas. However, it is not that simple!
The Arts Centre in Christchurch is holding a Paint Pouring For Beginners Class
You will learn how to create your own paint pouring medium you add to the paint in order for it to flow the way it should when you create a paint pour artwork. There are also different ways in which you can pour the paint. Each way creates a different effect. This is a 2.5 hour art class.A demonstration will be given and you will all receive your own canvas and materials you need to create your mixture ready to pour. The class which includes tuition and all art materials costs only $85. Seats are limited so payment in advance is required to secure your seat on the day.
This is perfect for beginners who don’t know how to paint. Anyone can do it at any age adults and children are welcome in this art class. It’s also a great way to meet new friends with a common interest. It’s a messy process but in the end you will walk away with a beautiful, colorful painting you created in class ready to hang on your wall once back home.
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora | 2 Worcester Boulevard | Christchurch
Saturday 12 July 10:00am – 12:30pm | Cost $85
Art Aotearoa Gold Awards
The 2025 Stuff Art Aotearoa Gold Award runs in five progressive stages, one stage presented at each Art Show and one final stage to select the national winner.
So far we have three regional winners.
Jessica Gurnsey an acrylic on canvas painter, specialising in portraiture won the Auckland Art Show regional award;
Shannon Turuwhenua sculpturing from native and exotic timbers, each piece a reflection of his profound connection to the land, won the Christchurch Art Show regional award;
Lisa Call a contemporary textile painter merging traditional craft with modern design, won the Wellington Art Show regional award;
A Heartwarming Story
Is creativity all about connections? Here’s a story about how a letter from a young Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, to the already famous Georgia O’Keeffe changed Yayoi’s life.
Kusama was born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929. In her youth, she stumbled across O’Keeffe’s work in a second-hand bookshop in the city. They had never spoken before. O’Keeffe had been a celebrated pioneer of American modernist painting for two decades; Kusama was just 26 “I dreamed of going to America and escaping my family, even though I knew no one there,” she said. “After seeing her paintings in this book, I wrote to her.” The letter she sent would start a decades-long correspondence.
“I’m only on the first step of the long and difficult life of being a painter” she wrote. “Will you kindly show me the way?” She sent two watercolor paintings along with her letter to O’Keeffe. Within 20 days, and much to Kusama’s surprise, O’Keeffe wrote back. “I was mad to think she might ever reply… I couldn’t believe my luck!” wrote Kusama in her 2002 autobiography Infinity Net. “She had been kind enough to respond to the sudden outburst of a lowly Japanese girl she’d never met or heard of before. And this was only the first of many encouraging letters she was to send me.”
O’Keeffe had worked for years to break a glass ceiling in an industry dominated by men, so supporting an aspiring female artist was in her nature. O’Keeffe also had a personal appreciation for Japanese art and culture, visiting the country in 1959 and owning her own kimonos. It is said that Kusama’s Japanese return address is what initially sparked O’Keeffe’s interest in replying to the note.
But what O’Keeffe gave Kusama was something far more profound. “If she had not so kindly answered my clumsy and reckless letter to her, I am not sure I would ever have made it to America,” the Japanese artist recalled. “She was my first and greatest benefactor; it was because of her that I was able to go to the U.S.A. and begin my artistic career in earnest.”
In addition to written support and offers to have Kusama stay with her, O’Keeffe even facilitated the sale of several of Kusama’s works while she was in New York to aid the young artist’s finances.
Now isn’t that a story to warm your heart on a chilly winters day!!