Art & Design

Like a cottonwool ball on toothpicks, an immature rifleman/ tītitipounamu (Acanthisitta chloris) fossicks on a mossy boulder for insects. Mount Ruapehu.

Original acrylic painting on A3 (29.7cm x 42cm) 360gsm acrylic card. Comes unframed or in smart budget black frame with white matt card and D rings for hanging. Unframed: NZ$750; Framed: $810.00 (budget), plus shipping if any (I can deliver for free around the Hutt area, or you are welcome to collect from Woburn, Lower Hutt).

For queries and/or to view or purchase please send Louise an email on louise@louisethomas.co.nz with your address for shipping, etc. and we will send you an invoice for payment.

Image: Louise Thomas.

Selected for New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Fantastic Beasts Exhibition, 1 December – 7 January 2024, Academy Galleries, Open 10am - 5pm daily, 1 Queens Wharf, Wellington. Available to purchase at the exhibition (collection on conclusion of exhibition).

A busy tui breaks from feeding on flax flower nectar to briefly survey its surroundings. Behind, the mature plantings and fields along the river corridor provide a ready source of food for a variety of bird life. Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas. 12 inch X 16 inch (30.48cm x 40.64cm).

Image: Louise Thomas.

Excellent Christmas gift for the bird-lover in your life. The Wild birds of New Zealand 2024 Calendar is available to order and ship now. Payment on invoice by bank deposit. The 2024 calendar features the stunning wild blue ducks/whio from Mount Ruapehu as well as 11 other native New Zealand birds. Large A3 (297mmX420mm) portrait calendar on 150gsm gloss art paper, with the cover on 300gsm gloss art board. Printed on one side and spiral bound.

Email Louise if you would like one, NZ$29 each inclusive of GST, plus NZ Post courier at cost (if required). Click here to see a PDF of the complete calendar. Cash on pick-up from Woburn, Lower Hutt or deposit to bank account when ready to ship.

Blue duck/whio at Whakapapanui Stream, Mount Ruapehu. Image: Louise Thomas.

Selected for New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Fantastic Beasts Exhibition, 1 December – 7 January 2024, Academy Galleries, Open 10am - 5pm daily, 1 Queens Wharf, Wellington. Available to purchase at the exhibition (collection on conclusion of exhibition).

Many birds are cryptic in their environment, you often don't see them at first, but suddenly your focus changes and there they are. Original acrylic painting on A3 360gsm acrylic card.

Image: Louise Thomas.

Tui can be surprisingly late night creatures, often active and singing well past sun down. This urban tui dines late on flax flowers while street lights reflect off the wet road and dark park woods behind.

Original acrylic painting on A3 360gsm acrylic card. Comes unframed or in smart budget black frame with white matt card and D rings for hanging. Unframed: NZ$750; Framed: $810.00 (budget), plus shipping if any (I can deliver for free around the Hutt area, or you are welcome to collect from Woburn, Lower Hutt).

For queries and/or to view please send Louise an email on louise@louisethomas.co.nz with your address for shipping, etc. and we will send you an invoice for payment.

Image: Louise Thomas.

Selected for New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Fantastic Beasts Exhibition, 1 December – 7 January 2024, Academy Galleries, Open 10am - 5pm daily, 1 Queens Wharf, Wellington. Available to purchase at the exhibition (collection on conclusion of exhibition).

Grey teals love to rest in the shady gloom of trees around lakes and wetlands, waiting for dusk when they begin feeding. Here a pair of teals rest on a fallen trunk over the water, shaded by a canopy of bare twigs filtering the light. Original acrylic painting on A3 360gsm acrylic card.

Image: Louise Thomas.

SOLD. A blue duck/whio whistles upstream to his mate at the Whakapapanui Stream at Mt Ruapehu. Original acrylic painting on A3 360gsm acrylic card.

This painting is sold, but for queries about commissions or any other paintings please send Louise an email on louise@louisethomas.co.nz

Image: Louise Thomas.

A limited amount (only 20) of stunning kererū/wood pigeon prints drawn by Caitlin Thomas-Riley are now available. Slightly smaller than an A3 size, these cost $50.00 each inclusive of GST, plus postage at cost (or free pick-up from Woburn, Lower Hutt). Ten of this limited print run will be given away to people who have pre-ordered our 2022 calendar. All prints numbered and signed. ONLY FOUR LEFT

As we only have limited offerings available to the public we don't have a shopping cart or buy now button on this website. Do things the old fashion way - send Louise an email on louise@louisethomas.co.nz with your address for shipping, etc. and we will send you an invoice for payment.

Image: Caitlin Thomas-Riley.

September 2022: (SOLD OUT) 2023 Wild Birds of New Zealand - Available to pre-order now, with invoice for payment and calendar sent in October 2022. Email louise@louisethomas.co.nz for more details or if you would like see a PDF of the complete calendar before your order. $28 each plus courier at cost, or pick up from Woburn, Lower Hutt. The 2023 calendar features the stunning North Island Robin/Toutouwai from Whanganui (shown above) as well as 11 other native New Zealand birds. Large A3 (297mmX420mm) portrait calendar on 150gsm gloss art paper, with the cover on 300gsm gloss art board. Printed on one side and spiral bound. Excellent Christmas gift for the bird-lover in your life.

Robin/Toutouwai, Bushy Park, Whanganui. Photo: Louise Thomas.

An original illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley. Caitlin specialises in anime type design work and is available for commissions. Email louise@louisethomas.co.nz.

An original illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley. Caitlin specialises in anime type design work and is available for commissions. Email louise@louisethomas.co.nz.

An illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley for an article on recognising individual kiwi calls.

Policy design elements for addressing presentist bias: non-climate analogues relevant to climate change adaptation.

Use of national-scale socio-economic scenarios to reduce ‘presentist-bias’ in climate change adaptation decision making.

New Zealand Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance.

Monitoring foreseeable but uncertain climate change outcomes using expert, practitioner and community elicitation.

Lessons from implementing interdisciplinary appraoches for climate change adaptation

This job was a favour for a school-teacher friend who is trying to get her junior school (five and six year olds) students moving. We came up with a coffee-card style idea where students get a star clipped or a small sticker on their card for every 500m completed. Completed cards can go in the draw for a prize. Apparently it was a hit.

Limited edition fine art prints available: - portrait A4 and A3. Please email with any enquiries.

Limited edition fine art prints available - landscape A4. Please email with any enquiries.

Limited edition fine art prints available - landscape A4 and A3.

This design is also available as a Christmas card (October 2020 update: Christmas card is SOLD OUT. Please email louise@louisethomas.co.nz with any enquiries.

Overhaul of the Centre for Minerals and Environmental Research (CMER) website to make it mobile friendly.

Design of a promotional layout for the 2019 Intelligent & Informed CAADRIA conference.

Writing, editing, and layout of a newsletter for the Independent Research Association of New Zealand. A quarterly round-up of research from New Zealand's independent research organisations.

Editing and layout of Climate Change: The Cascade Effect report by Dr Judy Lawrence et al., of Victoria University, for the Deep South National Science Challenge.

The Building Better Newsletter for the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge. Read the latest research on how to improve our built environments.

I write, edit, take some photos, and design this newsletter for the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge.

Redesign of the website for the Independent Research Association of New Zealand, with ongoing design, maintainance, and content creation.

The Research Review highlights how IRANZ Independent Research Organisations (IROs) are a vital and unique part of New Zealand’s science ecosystem, they are all different and they are a great way of enabling New Zealand to increase high-impact research by business, economic sectors, and the community. IROs consistently provide quality science outputs that provide high-impact results for their stakeholders and New Zealand, several examples are featured in the review.

Don't have time to faff around in Illustrator drawing your own atoms? Let people with enough chemistry nouse help you out.

A new needlepoint pattern of a Queen Elizabeth rose for a cushion.

The pattern and an article featured in a UK magazine, Creative with Workbox.

Queen Elizabeth rose cushion, designed by Louise Thomas and stiched in Anchor tapestry wool. The pattern, the cushion, and an article featured in UK magazine Creative with Workbox January/February 2016 issue. Photo: Louise Thomas.