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Buy all three books in the TELESA WORLD SERIES for only $55.00 USD (approximate currency conversion). Paperback print books, postage is included in the price.
1.Earth’s Embrace
2. Ocean’s Kiss
3. Fire’s Caress
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“The offspring of birds are fed with flower nectar but the children of men are nurtured with words.” A beautiful gift for any parent. A lined notebook for recording your thoughts and messages to a child, pages adorned with over fifty Samoan proverbs and sayings with their English translation. Stunning cover art by Samoan artist Nikki Mariner.
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Only $10.85 USD. Postage included. (Approx currency conversion.) Working towards better health, nutrition or fitness goals? Then this 3-month paperback planner is all you need for an easy and inspiring start! Keep track of your meals, sleep, water intake, mood, thoughts and activity – all on one page for every day. There’s space for setting goals, reviewing progress and planning workouts. It’s beautifully organised for easy use.
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– Space for thoughts & notes daily
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Fuafuaga – Planning. Dream, Plan, Act. Get organised and stay on top of your goals with this 3-month undated daily planner. Paperback, soft cover. Start anytime of the year, use the Goal Pages to begin manifesting your dreams by writing them down and outlining your plan of action. Use the Expense Tracker to budget your plans. And use the Daily Pages to record your schedule, reminders, notes and more. With stunning cover art by Samoan artist Nikki Mariner.
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Perfect gift for journaling, taking notes, writing, and brainstorming.
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The second book in the international bestselling series, Telesa. As a malicious Telesa plots her revenge, a mysterious stranger arrives on the island. Fuelled by hate and running from a fiery past, he looks to Leila for answers and she must fight to contain the fury of fanua-afi while trying to protect all those she loves. It seems that this is a battle she must wage alone, for Daniel’s ocean birthright cannot be denied and he refuses to walk beside her. Are Leila and Daniel destined to be forever divided by the elements? When it comes to Water and Fire, daughter of earth and son of the ocean – who will endure when water burns?
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A Telesā World novel which continues the stories of key characters from the Telesā Series. It can be read as a standalone book.
Winner of the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel.
Finalist, 2022 New Zealand Book Awards, Young Adult Fiction.
This print features a favourite food in Samoa: Corned Beef or Pisupo.
Like artists for centuries, I teach myself about painting by doing my own versions of the great masters and modern icons.
Personally, I’ve never been attracted to the artwork by American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987), but corned beef cans gave me the perfect opportunity to explore his work. Step into the experience of studying the minutiae of mundane objects and products.
It was interesting and it gave me a new appreciation.
This print by William Mauola includes ceremonial items of Samoan culture displayed in a tanoa against the background of tatau patterns.
It includes a nifo oti, ulafala, to’oto’o, fue and an aute/a red hibiscus.
The first painting of every year is significant.
It sets the tone, mood, style, and benchmark for the year.
The Cleaner was my first for 2024.
It’s a figurative painting of a woman with a broom.
She wears only a lavalava and a sei.
Inspirations.
1. I fell in love with a sculpture by Italian artist Ernesto Coter while eating in his kitchen at Santa Maria Rezzonico a few weeks earlier. The sculpture was sitting on the sideboard beside his dining table. He said it is a Samoan woman dancing. This painting is a response to the sculpture (Pic 5)
2. A new year inspires a fresh look at life, reassessment, and decluttering. It’s not the first time my first painting for a new year has included a broom. It’s about spring cleaning your life as a new year begins.
3. Spending time with my family gave me a fresh respect for two of my sisters who each successfully run their own cleaning businesses in Queensland. It’s more interesting and complex work than I expected, and what they do for their clients is admirable.
I wanted to honour cleaners so I painted gold behind her head to show she is iconic.
And she had a gold broom.
4. Samoans sweep everything regularly – the beach, the grass the house, and everything.
5. A woman with a broom is a timeless and common sight in the background of every culture and every age. I want to uplift and highlight this symbol.
As a goddess. With an iconic halo.
We have often been this person and often see this person. And they’re important and essential.
They get rid of crap and they make the world more beautiful.
Goddesses.
6. I painted a blue ocean type background because I was seeing a lot from the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, while painting. Many people I know were there representing island nations of the Pacific Ocean.
Playing with poem structure, paint, and Samoan markings.
Small paintings inspired by the 7 metre by 2 metre works (pic 6) I created for the VIP Terminal Lounge at Faleolo International Airport.
The cinquain poem was invented by an American poet, and she drew inspiration from Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka, which are arranged in five lines. The cinquain has a syllable count of 2- 4 – 6 – 8 – 2.
This print is from a series of three large paintings by Nikki Mariner, titled, ‘No Woman is an Island’.
This print is from a series of three large paintings by Nikki Mariner, titled, ‘No Woman is an Island’.
My sisters and I live different lives than we used to.
I watch their online stories traveling Europe and dancing at music festivals.
We discuss pending court cases and struggles of self-employment.
The days of desperately seeking babysitters, carpooling for school events, and borrowing from each other to pay the rent are gone.
We are less compliant and more calm.
We are more heartbroken and less cooperative.
We are smarter and deeper.
That’s what this painting is about.
Letting go. Floating.
I’ve always loved Ella Fitzgerald singing Cry Me A River.
The lyrics say it all. Cry me a river, I cried a river over you.
But the version that goes with this painting is Cry Me A River by Julie London, Live at the Americana Hotel, New York 1964. It’s breathtakingly beautiful.
So this painting is titled Cry Me A Moana and captures a similar sentiment as the song.
(Moana is a word that means ocean in several Pacific Island languages.)
Five brown-skinned full-bodied women floating in water.
They are reaching and twisting.
Their respectable white dresses become translucent, and the flower leis of honour are drifting away, and the women don’t care.
They float above fish skeletons and remnants of the past.
I hope it resonates. I want to make art that people feel, not only look at.
INSPIRATION
Mangoes are always special.
Fancy. Soft. Sweet. Round.
Celebratory and luxurious.
So this is what I infused in the figures, tones, and shapes.
It feels warm and sweet and happy.
I learned so much about mangoes doing this painting.
Eg.
🥭The paisley pattern on bandanas originates from mangoes.
🥭The leaves from a mango tree are believed to repel negative energy and attract prosperity and fertility in India where the mango is believed to originate.
ARTWORK
The starting point was the heads of the women, which followed an exact formation of mangoes hanging on a tree. Everything went from this point.
I used the colours of mangoes: orange, yellow, red, green, coral, purple. Tropical, sweet and glowy.
I used the curvy shapes of oval mangoes, long pointy leaves, and delicate long red stems laden with pale yellow tiny mango flowers.
Metallic colours of gold and copper added luxe and celebration.
This is the story of Mango Fandango.
(I used fandango in the sense of fun, party and dance).
Pele paints a contemporary visualisation of icons of Samoan culture. The tanoa becomes a crown, a tuiga made of tatau symbols, flowing ribbons of elei, and flowers adorn a skull.
This print by Lalovai Peseta features his signature style of tatau patterns and the monochromatic palette he does so well.
Watermelon was the inspiration behind the colour palette and title of this print.
The original painting was one of three in a series of artworks of five sisters and all were related to a different fruit.
Fun, bright and relaxed – the watermelon vibe.
This print by Pele Loi depicts a traditional Sunday lunch including much loved Samoan food laid out on a plate of leaves against a background of tatau patterns.
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