After a successful exhibition a couple of weeks ago Margaret Petchell has released her limited edition art prints online! They are fine art giclee prints of her original canvas paintings, printed on archival cotton rag and are truely stunning. Each is signed and numbered and an edition of only 50. Couple of snaps below from the exhibition night too.
This Saturday is the last day of our shop re-sytle sale. So thought we would through up some more pics of whats in here before its too late.
Like this big framed Nirvana print by Swissted, for just $195 (thats basically a free frame). There is a pixies one too. Even our much loved antique print draws are for sale ($2900) so we can make room for more art.
Or fest your eyes on our big light box ($1200). There is also a box of super cheap unframed prints for $20 too. And big discounts on pre-framed prints. So get in here before Saturday 5pm to grab some “mega deals!”
For the first time we have photographic prints : – ) To launch this new offering we have teamed up with NZ music photographer Pat Shepherd who for many years has been shooting our finsest musicians all over the country. To top it off each print sold raises funds for the charity founded by Pat called onepercentcollective.org!
It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday, and there’s still time to treat your mum (or the awesome mum to your kids) with an endemicworld print.
To have your print delivered in time for Mother’s Day, just order online by 12noon Thursday (North Island) or 12noon Wednesday (South Island).
To make choosing easier, here are our picks for the coolest prints for a design-loving Mum!
Our Inaluxe prints are some of the best-selling on endemicworld, especially these two little lovelies – Hootenanny print and Fairy Wren print. They’re both available in your choice of A4 or A3, framed or unframed.
Give her flowers that won’t ever wilt and die! Also from Inaluxe, the Bloom print and Blossom print are both super colourful and contemporary, but also have a hint of Mid Century vintage style. We like that.
Sweet and a little bit quirky – A5 prints by NZ illustrator Bayley Collins. On the left, her signature Bird in a Bunny Suit print, with the Kiwi Bunny print alongside. They’d make a cute pair, too – only $58 for both.
Home is where the heart is. Show her how much it means to you with the A3 Country Love print (signed and dated by the artist), or the huge A2, limited edition HOME print by Flox.
‘Her love shines over my horizon, she’s a slice of heaven…’ Couldn’t have said it better myself! This print is actually a reproduction of an original, massive chalkboard drawing. In a simple, clean colour palette, On the right is our Ka Pai print – the simple, clean colour palette and cool geometric style makes it one of our most popular prints.
iThink (or, as his mum and dad named him, Jaime Robertson) is not just a talented artist, he’s also a professional graphic designer and DJ, passions that have seen him create some of NZ’s best gig posters and album artwork.
One look at his studio space and you can also see he’s most definitely a type nerd…
Two of the art prints from iThink we have at endemicworld.
Hi Jaime! Can you tell us a bit about your process… How do you tend to get inspired? What are the steps to creating a finished piece?
Inspiration for me comes a lot from popular culture. I am a big collector of things; Vinyl, Movies, Fonts, Shoes… You name it! And these things help to inspire me and give me ideas on where my art works go. Of course this lovely country or ours is also an endless inspiration to me. I really do wake up everyday and feel blessed to call Aotearoa my home. And finally my beautiful daughter gives me an abundance of drive to create, make, succeed and basically be a better artist/creator/person.
All this inspiration helps me to channel ideas from the dark recesses of my brain and into my computer. I have had a Mac in my home since I was 7 (and I ain’t that young anymore) and it has become a very comfortable tool for me to use, so my designs/artworks always start in my head, flow through my fingers into my computer and then the fun begins.
iThink’s home studio – stacked with cool vintage signs and design books.
I am a type fanatic, and I feel my work needs humanity and nature in it somehow, and the computer (obviously) lacks that, so I often create a clean typographic composition and then begin the enjoyable process of ageing/distressing/roughing up the composition to try and give it that imperfect feel and help endear the idea to the audience, almost try to include the viewer in some way, because we are all humans and we all have imperfections so hopefully we can relate more to it this way.
Tools of the trade
What’s the favourite piece of work you’ve done?
I am still working towards my best work. I am just a rookie in the art field. I would say i am a graduate of design but am still learning the art of art making.
So far my favorite works to create have been my hand painted, one-off, text based pieces on ply (image below), because they are fun to work on and say a lot about me and my language but also about our NZ vocabulary and the funny quirks that only us kiwis would understand. I like to call these our coloquialisations. This is an area that I’m really enjoying investigating and am looking to delve further into this idea for future works!
We want a wall like this at home – with one of each of iThink’s typographic works on it!
Besides street art and graphic design, what else do you love to do?
As i mentioned i am a hardy collector!
And music has for a long time been a huge passion of mine. I have been DJing since I was 17 (and again, I ain’t young anymore) and still love playing records and still play out regularly.
A professional DJ for many years, Jaime collects vintage vinyl
And as I now live on Waiheke Island I am well into the outdoor lifestyle that comes with that – Beaches, Fishing, Swimming, Walking… Its a hard life!
What’s coming up for iThink this year?
The next phase for me as an art maker is developing my 3D typographic works. I am looking at incorporating clever tools like computer controlled router and 3D printers to try and push my ideas to that next plateau. Whether it will work or not is another story. But I am going to continue to push myself, try new styles and techniques and see what I can come up with.
As I mentioned, I consider myself a rookie in this and am just enjoying the art of making art!
What would be a dream commission to do?
I would love to create 3D words in a variety of sizes and uses like customised light boxes or large scale building signage.
That would be pretty cool!
Yip, we love Type too.
Tell us about a person who inspires you…
I have already told you about my daughter who continually inspires me to push myself. I am also a big fan of anybody out there doing their own thing! Swimming against the rest as it were.
Internationally, I love the work of Mitchy Bwoy and Steven Bonner, type sites Hype for Type, You Work for Them & My Fonts, and type designers Alex Sheldon & Schizotype.
Locally, I admire the work and work ethic of Askew and Component.
There are so many inspirations in life and i could be here all day listing them. Anyone who resists the mainstream and does their own thing in life is an inspiration to me!
We couldn’t agree more, Jaime.
To check out all of iThink’s art prints on endemicworld, click here.
Born and raised in Canada eh, Holly Roach now calls New Zealand home. And maybe she also calls New Zealand her muse – our native birds and plants are the subject of many of her prints. Holly’s lovingly screen prints each original work in her own home studio…take a look:
Art on display in Holly Roach’s home studio. (Love that handmade Be Kind woodblock.)
Tell us about your process – how do you come up with ideas, what are the steps to a finished piece?
Most of my artworks start life as an unreadable doodle on loose sheets of paper. My scribbles are often inspired by some shape or form that is part of something bigger that I have come across on a site, blog or in a book.
I will then loosely redraw my sketch to final art size and trace down to my chosen surface. No image is firmly fixed in place, allowing for the design to change as I go along- mistakes often dictate a new path!
Holly needs plenty of paint on hand. Doesn’t it make you want to get your hands dirty and create?
I then screen print layers of colours and form using hand-cut stencils. I use anything and everything to make ‘marks’, spatulas, knives, rollers, chopsticks. It helps to work close to my kitchen. Or in it at times.
There’s a lot of love and time in every print – Holly screen prints each one herself.
What’s the favourite piece of work you’ve done and why?
I was lucky enough to be tutored by the very talented John Pule many years ago when I studied Fabric Design at AUT. We were to tell our story using the architecture of a Nuiean Tapa cloth. It was equally enjoyable and draining at the same time. It’s nice to have the outcome of this exercise hanging in my lounge for anyone to see, but only I know the secret codes in it!
Holly’s favourite work, her autobiographical Tapa cloth; a corner of Holly’s creative space.
Besides art/design, what else do you love to do?
Walking. Drinking coffee. Being in beautiful places. Drinking coffee in beautiful places. Christmas. It brings out all my joys…sewing, beading, crafting, cooking, wrapping and giving.
What has been the coolest experience/highlight of your creative career so far?
A recent cool thing was finding out that two of my works are hanging in the Auckland Town Hall. I knew the city had bought the paintings but didn’t know where they went.
Two of Holly’s art prints for sale at endemicworld: Sunny Days and Out The Back.
What would be a dream commission to do?
I think it would be great to create a homeware series for a company like IKEA. Swedish inspired designs on ceramic, wallpaper, textiles, etc. I have a relatively short attention span, so mixing it up would suit me.
Tell us about a person who inspires you…
A lot of different people inspire me for lots of different reasons. These days I would have to say kind people and people living their truth. Often strangers, so I couldn’t name names.
The beauty’s in the details…
Endemicworld’s Holly Roach prints are reproductions of Holly’s original screen printed artworks. They’re available in 3 sizes (right up to big A2!) and from only $49. Click here to check out all our Holly Roach art prints.
The talented screen print artist Holly Roach has an exhibition on at Mixt in Kingsland next week as part of the Kingsland Karnival. Details below plus a sneak peek of some original screen prints that will be available, along with a curated selection of her top giclee fine art prints. Get along and see Holly’s work in the real!
While out there on a web adventure… we discovered a neat ‘lil gallery in Amsterdam, and that lead to finding XTOTL and the crazy talented cartoonist, designer, art director, artist, bearded man called Toby Morris. A few emails are exchanged, we learn he is on his way back to NZ after a stint in the little Euro town called Amsterdam. Smiles all round, as a few weeks later we are taking a personal delivery of his fine limited edition screen prints. Browse all of Toby’s art prints here.
