The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art

The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art - Christopher Johnstone

Godwit, ISBN 978-1-86962-141-4, $75.00 hbk

This collection of 100 delightful works, selected by Christopher Johnstone, author of the highly successful Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South, tells the story of our gardening history as it intersected with our cultural and artistic development. Beautifully packaged and carefully researched, it is a treasure trove of magnificent images, many of the gardens now lost to the passage of time.

Sydney-born Christopher Johnstone was brought up in England and Ireland and studied art history in the United States, graduating form Bennington College, Vermont. His career as an art museum curator and administrator began at the Tate Gallery, London, followed by senior positions at national and state art museums in Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide. He was director of the Auckland Art Gallery from 1988 until 1995.

After six years in Melbourne, where he held sponsorship roles at Heide museum of Modern Art and the Frankston Arts Centre, he and his wife,Louise Louise returned to Grey Lynn, Auckland, where he is a writer and visual arts consultant.

Christopher Johnstone’s previous books include John Martin (1974), Fifty 20th Century Artists (1984) and Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South (Godwit 2006).