The New Zealand Artist Magazine - Issue 13

In this issue

Hello again to our loyal readers. May we take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful festive season and a welcome break. Thank you for all your support during 2015. Much has changed here as two of our TEAM have moved on. Farewell Andrew Parker and Adam Stapleton. We will miss you and thoroughly appreciate the time you have given us thus far. We wish you every success for the future. Rest assured readers, we will be accepting contributions from these talented men from time to time.
A special note to our advertisers: Thank you so much for your support this year. We really appreciate that you understand that our readers deserve to know what’s happening in the market.
In this issue we have an overview from the main importers of art supplies, reflecting on 2015 and giving us a bit of a heads up for 2016. We have found a very innovative invention, which you can read about on Pg 13, we get an insight into Jonathan Campbells foundry on Pg 62 and learn about Washi Paper on Pg 44.
Don’t miss the give-away on the inside front cover as well as on our products pages - Pg 60 - 61.
ALSO, A VERY EXCITING TNZAM competition is on Pg 5. We look forward to your submissions.
Stay safe this festive season. :-)

The New Zealand Artist Magazine Description:

Conceptualised, generated and produced in New Zealand, The New Zealand Artist Magazine, a bi-monthly publication (six issues a year) was created to fill a gap in the market for an informative publication to highlight the immense artistic talent this country has to offer.
The two principal goals and objectives of the magazine are firstly, to highlight the important social, cultural and economic contribution artists make to our lives and secondly to encourage, promote and support the arts in New Zealand for the benefit of all.
The editorial pages of The New Zealand Artist Magazine feature artists, informative ‘how to’ articles and demonstrations of various concepts and techniques. This approach has been greeted with enthusiasm from our readers and we are inundated with requests from artists asking to be featured in the magazine or provide lessons and demonstrations.
We have broadened the depth and scope of the publication with the introduction of relevant news items such as new gallery openings, award functions, and exhibition announcements and feed back. Further to this, we have introduced a series of special reports that, we envisage, will become a regular feature in all future issues.
These cover, for example, such topics as the impact of online galleries and auction sites and the changing relationship between gallery owners and artists. Art education and choosing a career in the fine arts in which we will discuss opportunities for young and emerging artists.
We are forging ties and work collaboratively with government organisations, educational institutions, suppliers, art societies galleries and even artists. The editorial pages focus on significant issues affecting these parties in their working environments.
In this respect we are a prize sponsor of the annual Impression Art Awards held during the Nelson Art Festival in October. We have just cemented an arrangement with The Quarry Art centre, a charitable trust in Whangarei, in which we have agreed to use the magazine to assist them in raising their profile and promoting their fund raising activities. Further collaborations and alliances are in the pipeline.