Christchurch: An Artists Tribute

Description

In Christchurch: An Artists Tribute, Denis Robinson compiles a moving tribute to Christchurch. It is a collection of paintings of the city as it was before the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. He approached 19 artists Cantabrians, past or present, or frequent visitors from other places to request paintings that showed beautiful and evocative views of the city and its neo-gothic stone and character buildings.

Many artists returned to old sketchbooks, to discover drawings still waiting to be painted. These new artworks sit alongside paintings completed in earlier days and others sourced especially for inclusion in this book. The artists give personal introductions to their works. They range in place from the central city to the outlying coastal suburbs, including Banks Peninsula and the port of Lyttelton.