Exploring New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula, we stopped to look at the coastal petrified forest at Curio Bay, which is definitely worth a looksee if you’re also interested in palaeontology. Standing on the rocks we heard a peculiar noise from the sea; Yellow Eyed Penguins! We’d been trying to get a closer look at them for days, but since they’re known as the ‘world’s shyest penguin’ we weren’t too hopeful. Minutes later, as I was focussing my camera on one swimming further out, one hopped out of the sea and stood on a rock at my feet looking around. Whoa! Shy?! Shaking I took photos (the first dozen photos were seriously blurred in my excitement until I forced myself to calm down). Best gift money can’t buy, ever! Later I created this paper marquetry piece using an array of carefully selected recycled and textured papers, which were then cut, shaped, inlaid and slotted together to fit like a tightly fitting mosaic or tiled floor and inlaid into paper that had ink patterns that reminded me of the swoosh of sea water around the rocks where the penguin stood; this paper a serendipitous by-product in itself, as I’d lifted remnants of ink with it from a marbling session some months earlier.
Yellow Eyed Penguin Magnet
Product Code: 0969-A7MG
Artify your fridge, metal filing cabinets or magnetic notice boards with this slimline, flexible art magnet, reproduced from a miniaturisation of one of my original recycled and textured inlaid paper marquetry pieces featuring a Yellow Eyed penguin seen in New Zealand. These magnets are super slim and very lightweight so whilst they won’t hold up tatty shopping lists and take away menus, they do make great miniature pieces of artwork for your fridge and, since they have an extremely low profile, they're not easily knocked off if someone brushes past the fridge/filing cabinet. Inspired from what I see in my garden, on my field work, travels and from life experiences, I work only from photographs that I have taken or sketches that I have made in the field.
Ideal for: Anyone who loves aquatic birds, bird spotting, wildlife, nature, New Zealand, collects fridge magnets, art.
Each flexible art magnet is printed in the UK by an FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified printing company on board with a rubber-free magnetic MagneCote coating, which is biodegradable. Each magnet is directly digitally printed, thereby avoiding the more traditional use of printing plates or photo chemicals. Flexible magnets ordered on this website will be supplied ‘naked’ without each magnet being enclosed in an individual protective sleeve, but any magnets in an order will be packed in a recyclable (PP5) polypropylene protective outer as a ‘pack’ to avoid them getting marked or wet in transit in the typical British weather that we enjoy or marking any other products in your order. This packaging will be kept to a minimum. Flexible magnets are shipped in a board backed envelope or postal box as appropriate and are not gift packaged.
A7: 74x105mm (approximately 2.91x4.13”) & about 1mm (0.04”) thick
Buy 3 Slimline Art Magnets for £5
For every 3 Slimline Art Magnets you purchase, you receive a £1 discount. You can mix and match as many different magnets and styles as you like. Your discount will be applied on the Checkout page.