Frances Hodgkins, 'Arrangement of Jugs', - Print Museum collection print Abstract Design was started in

Abstract Design was started in 1992 by Jane and Chris Baxter and produces gifts and homewares with a New Zealand Flavour

faith over doubt and hope over despair

Created by us in honour of Te Papa's ground breaking exhibition  Gallipoli

Juxtaposing the industrial with nature

Frances Hodgkins, 'Arrangement of Jugs', - Print Museum collection print Abstract Design was started inFrancis Hodgkins was born in Dunedin where she began to develop her watercolour painting style. Francis, however, spent most of her 56 year long working career as an artist overseas, both in France and England during a period of a social upheaval and two world wars. Her works capture the spirit of an era greatly influenced by Impressionism and the beginnings of en plein air painting, Post Impressionism, Fauvism and two World Wars. Although her work