Me Time
Author:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
This painting is about trying to capture the individual experience of looking inside for clarity and truth and looking outside for strength or inspiration.
I painted it as I was learning to meditate.
An unlikely sources of artistic inspiration in this depiction of a Samoan woman is mosque architecture.
T200.00
Memory of Flight
Author:
Bella's World
Highlights:
Musing on the paradox of permanence. What lasts? Bone? Or a butterfly’s brief beauty?
“Butterfly and Bone”
Only $10 USD (approx currency conversion).
T30.00
My Time
Author:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
The image that comes to mind is a figure inside an hourglass with most of her body in the lower half and just a head and arm reaching through to the top half.
I decided on the most simplistic abstract form following the style of Matisse.
It seemed to make the image more universal.
Everyone knows the feeling of time running out but not giving up.
T150.00
Natural Woman
Author:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
Craving nature, feeling anti-technology, craving authenticity, resenting clocks and calendars and dresscodes, imagining living off the land, channeling ancestors, craving trees and fruit, and fresh air.
T200.00
Ocean’s Kiss
Author:
Lani Young
Highlights:
When danger threatens the island of Niua, an ancient weapon is unleashed and Daniel Tahi must decide if he will embrace his Tongan heritage and stand alongside the Vasa Loloa sisterhood of his mother’s people. A standalone novel from the Telesā World. Inspired by mythology of Oceania, the richness of Samoan culture and the very real threats to the Pacific caused by climate change.
$10 USD (Approx currency conversion)
T30.00
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Ocean’s Kiss (A Telesa World Novel) – Print Book, Paperback.
Author:
Lani Young
Highlights:
When danger threatens the island of Niua, an ancient weapon is unleashed and Daniel Tahi must decide if he will embrace his Tongan heritage and stand alongside the Vasa Loloa sisterhood of his mother’s people. A standalone novel from the Telesā World. Inspired by mythology of Oceania, the richness of Samoan culture and the very real threats to the Pacific caused by climate change.
The Telesā books are YA fantasy fiction set in the Pacific Islands by internationally renowned, award-winning author Lani Young. Discover the series that is a #1 Top Rated Fantasy Romance on Amazon and a favourite with readers worldwide.
T49.95
One Boy, No Water: Book 1 of 3 in the Niuhi Shark Saga
Author:
Lehua Parker
Highlights:
When you’re allergic to water, growing up in Hawaii isn’t always paradise.
Everybody loves Jay.
I love my brother, too. Sometimes I wish I could be him–a surfing star instead of the weird kid allergic to water, the Blalahs’ favorite punching bag.
But that’s not the worst of it.
In the middle of the night, I dream. There’s a mysterious girl who lives in a magical place and acts like she knows me better than I know myself. We hide from the Man with Too Many Teeth. Some nights I wake up with my heart pounding and the urge to eat raw meat.
It’s just a dream, right?
But then I saw him, the Man with Too Many Teeth, walking along the reef at Piko Point.
Not even Jay can protect me now.
Only $10 USD (approximate currency exchange)
T30.00
One Shark, No Swim: Book 2 of 3 in the Niuhi Shark Saga
Author:
Lehua Parker
Highlights:
With Niuhi sharks, even out of the water, you’re not safe.
My dreams are nightmares. I don’t dare fall asleep.
Guro Hari’s teaching me Filipino knife fighting, but I’m too scared to come out of the bathroom. I’d rather learn Lua and train with Jay and Char Siu, but Uncle Kahana won’t let me. He says it’s for our safety, but I don’t believe him.
Uncle Kahana’s obsessed with Niuhi stories, Hawaiian myths about sharks in human form. If he’s right, even out of the water, no one’s safe.
I have a secret knife I call Shark Tooth. I may have to use it.
That thought excites me.
And that’s the scariest thing of all.
Only $10 USD (approximate currency exchange)
T30.00
One Truth, No Lie: Book 3 of 3 in the Niuhi Shark Saga
Author:
Lehua Parker
Highlights:
Everything you thought you knew about Zader is a lie.
Kalei, the Man with Too Many Teeth, gave me an ultimatum: Bite Jay or watch as Kalei murders everyone I love. Kalei will do it. I have no doubt.
Jay’s anger is white-hot. If I take his leg, he’ll never surf again. He’s my brother, but he’ll hunt me down and kill me for this. He won’t forgive me.
Either way, I end up alone.
No matter what they say, I’m not Niuhi. I’m a Westin. I’m a kid, not a shark. I can’t live without Jay, Char Siu, Uncle Kahana, or ‘Ilima. Just me and my psycho sister Maka roaming the seas forever? No thanks.
There’s got to be more to my life than this. I refuse to believe that I’m a monster and a pawn in someone’s cosmic game.
I’m making my own rules now.
Only $10 USD (approximate currency exchange)
T30.00
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Pacific Blue Madonna
Author:
Lalovai Peseta
Highlights:
The original painting was exhibited and sold at the Regenerating Oceania Exhibition at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture in Honolulu 6-16 June 2024.
This print is a deep statement about motherhood and the crucial role mothers have in sustaining society in Oceania.
T250.00
Pisupo Pacific
Author:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
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.
T60.00
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POETRY COLLECTION: O Se Paopao i le Aniva: A Canoe in the Constellations
Author:
Jasmine C Koria
Highlights:
A luminous canoe across memory and sky, O Se Paopao i le Aniva: A Canoe in the Constellations explores love, loss, longing and identity. It is an ode to the ways we hold ourselves together when the world wants us to fall apart.
T21.00