Patricia Howitt Art.com

I’ve just got a new Gallery Shop that allows me to offer my art and designs as:

• Skins for laptops, ipads, iphones and ipods;
  
• Cases for iphones

All featuring my designs and artworks. There are some great new works in this Gallery, so check out by clicking Visit My Society6 Store or clicking on the image below:

Enjoy!

Patricia

http://taketakerau.com

http://society6.com/PatriciaHowitt

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At the moment, this store contains a good selection of my art. I started off with equine studies and I’ve carried on adding landscapes and a few other things over the past week. I shall be adding more and more. You can buy cards, matted prints, giclees,  framed prints, cards,  posters and t-shirts.

Do check out the high-quality images and the full range of my work.

Patricia

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I’ve prepared this sketch for my next painting – “Flight of the Kereru”. This bird is the New Zealand Native Pigeon (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), one of our favorite birds.

The Kereru is a large bird (51cm approx) that feeds on the fruit and foliage of our forests. The plumage of the head, chest, back and wings has a beautiful iridescent sheen running through the green, purple and dark grey tonings of the feathers.

Unfortunately, numbers are reduced because a mating pair produces only one chick a year, and despite their fully protected status there are humans who think they have the right to kill these birds for food.

About forrty years ago when they were more plentiful, we often enjoyed the sight of a group of them in the late evenings swooping and soaring on the thermals around the big rock above our property. Sadly, our government chose to use poison in our forests to deal with the possums menace, which almost destroyed our bird populations. So because of that, coupled with illegal human predation, we now see them only rarely.

I have designed this painting to show a pair of Kereru swooping away from the grasslands around our little village of Kaeo into the safety of their home in the forested hills above.

May that mantle of safety become more secure than it is at present.

Enjoy!  And, if you are a New Zealander, Take Note.  It’s high time we showed some respect for the creatures we have been fortunate enough to inherit.

Patricia

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This site is going to display the artworks that I’ve been creating and selling for years, around the edges of a full-time career as a government lawyer.

My art is on display in private collections in Wellington, Auckland, Whangarei, Kerikeri, Hamilton, Bay of Plenty, Christchurch, Ashburton, Dunedin – New Zealand, and overseas in Queensland and New South Wales – Australia; California, Washington, North Carolina – USA; Canada and France.

Hundreds of copies of my limited edition Portfolio of Game Mammals prints collection sold throughout New Zealand, and to visitors fom overseas.

I have illustrated for newspapers, Government Publications, catalogues, posters and books, mainly in landscape and wildlife art.

I have exhibited work in New Zealand and abroad.

In 1999 I won the Telecom Art Award, and my artwork featured on the front cover of the Telecom Phone Book for Northland, New Zealand for the year 2000.

In 2001 I won a local award for road signage for Twin Coast Discovery Highway for Transit NZ.

I am going to be uploading works regularly to this site, so please subscribe to the RSS Feed and chack back often.

Patricia

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