Yvonne Rust, QSM, has been included in the expanded and revised edition of Landscape Paintings of New Zealand – A Journey from North to South by Christopher Johnstone.

This beautiful book launched yesterday at Jonathan Grant Galleries in Auckland, includes 143 magnificent colour plates of New Zealand landscape paintings by some of the great artists of the last century, not all of them New Zealanders – John Gully, Charles Goldie, Colin McCahon, Toss Woollaston, Rita Angus, Michael Smithers, Douglas McDiarmid, Sydney Thompson, Rata Lovell-Smith, Cecil Kelly, William Sutton, Stanley Palmer, Don Binney, Thomas Drummond, Petrus van der Velden, Cedric Savage, and many more. Yvonne Rust, as a painter, stands with the very best of company in this book, as does one of her students, John Madden.

Published by Godwit/Random – 320 pages,  290mm wide by 240mm high, ISBN13 – 9781775530114 – Released 11 Oct

Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Fully illustrated e-book