Hard cover, 176
Pages in full colour, 210 by
270 cms
Available
from November 2007
Phone: (03) 355 7675 Fax: (03) 355 0933
Over 100 images of Tom Esplin’s wonderful paintings.
Tom held a lecturing appointment at Otago University
for 30 years, ‘retiring’ to full time travelling
and painting in 1985. During this time he developed
his trademark and unique palette knife impasto technique,
which makes his work so distinctive. He was active
in the promotion of art in Otago, being President of
the Otago Arts Society and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Society.
Edith was also a talented painter. Her
great skill, however, was in creating lively colourful
word pictures, as revealed in the travel diaries she
wrote over thirty years.
She recorded her impressions of places and people
encountered during their journeys, which invites intimate
and amusing reading.
Tom and Edith had a wonderful life together, travelling
very extensively, Tom with sketch pad and camera, Edith
with sketch pad and diary, recording her impressions
with her quick mind.
This book celebrates their life together and displays
their talented partnership as painter and writer.
This is not only an art book, but an intimate and
amusing journal of their travels.
