Author: tisdalma69

I am a working artist who has created from three dedicated home studios since the late 80s. My work is owned by both knowledgeable collectors and home decorators. My current interest is encaustic work on board and in 3D applications. I use wax from my own hives and no bees are harmed in its production!

Sometimes it’s more than the thought …

Just weeks away from Christmas 2022! How about giving a truly original gift to someone special this year? I have smaller paintings and wall sculptures in the back catalogue that can be shipped very economically. Contact me on mark@marktisdall.com. We can have a chat and I can then offer you a personalised selection of work to choose from. Alternatively browse the site for bigger works if you need to fill a wall!

When you purchase my art, you can either collect it in person or have it delivered direct to you by a local art packing specialist that ships world wide.

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Creativity & Recovery

It is a great privilege to live in New Zealand. Spring’s creative energies abound. Browse the site and make contact if anything connects for you. Art on the site is for sale – email or phone if you’d like a piece for your walls – we use a specialist art packing and courier service. 

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What’s Up?

My Kiwitea Art Studio looks onto orchard blossom and outside seedlings are ready for transfer into the garden beds of our organically certified property.

Labour Weekend is a New Zealand holiday with paid workers gifted Monday off but here the days merge.

Two new wax works are complete. Oroua Valley Grid was barely cold before it found a new home! Northern Manawatu has a distinctive palette  – greens, brown, charcoal gold and beautiful blues.

Resting on the easel is a much brighter wax reminiscence of French market days – not a straight line in sight!  Meanwhile work on ‘Ngahere’ – a large installation piece – is continuing. This week that involved sourcing native flax and researching techniques for rope making.

 Email me anytime! Regards Mark

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Encaustic Art

Examples of encaustic painting are known to date back 2000 years.

It is one of the oldest forms of art and uses pigment in a beeswax and resin base. The resin raises the melting temperature of the paint and hardens it and ensures it resists dust.

Encaustic medium is a beeswax and resin base without  pigment and is used to make colour transparent, and give  optical depth.

Hot wax painting is another way of describing this form of art making. It  involves using heated medium to which coloured raw pigments are added. The hot liquid is then applied to a prepared wooden board.

Metal tools and brushes can be used to shape the paint before it cools, or heated metal tools can be used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled onto the surface. Mark prefers to work with a heat gun, and to layer his works over time.

The wax surface of an encaustic painting is a protective finish – nothing needs to be added to preserve the paintings; they will not deteriorate, or discolour.

Continue reading “Encaustic Art”

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Purchased Art Work

The artist asserts that all art works are original creations and that he has accurately represented the mediums and materials used to prospective buyers. Works become the property of the purchaser once full and final payment is made. Where art work is paid by instalment, it remains the property of the artist until the agreed price has been paid in full. The artist reserves the right to remove art that is not fully paid for within the timeframe agreed by the parties and set out in a signed purchase agreement. No refund will be payable where purchasers break the terms of their purchase agreement.

If you are interessed by buy some Mark Tinsdall’s works, please click on this link.

Should a purchaser wish to use an art work for a commercial purpose (ie trademark an image) NZ law requires the specific co-operation of the artist as the creator of the work. The artist will co-operate where it is reasonable to do so to support commercial endeavours involving his art, but reserves the right not to agree to have his image creations used in ways that are offensive to him or exploitative of others.

Resale & Protecting Your Art Investment  

Purchasers are requested to offer the artist, his agents and/or his estate first right of refusal if and when they wish to sell or dispose of M H Tisdall works. This is in no way binding on purchasers. It is however in their best interests because it helps protect purchaser’s art investment.

Purchasers may by agreement negotiate the return of works to the artist (if they are in good condition) as part or full trades on newer works. Any purchaser may register an interest with the artist in an already sold work, and the artist will notify the owner of that work that there is a resale purchaser for the work.

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Terms and Conditions

 Art works loaned for viewing purposes.

Artworks may be viewed in situ by prospective buyers. All loaned work is insured by the artist.

Prospective buyers agree to take all reasonable care to protect the artist’s property during this time.

This includes, but is not limited to, adequate security of the prospective buyer’s property, the presence of operating smoke alarms in the property, and agreement not to place paintings/art work in situations likely to damage them.

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