New Zealand art word search
McCahon, Hodgkins, Rita Angus and Ralph Hotere. Twenty words from New Zealand painting and the studio, for a slow coffee or a wet afternoon after the gallery.
- Brushstroke
- Canvas
- Easel
- Exhibition
- Gallery
- Goldie
- Hodgkins
- Hotere
- Landscape
- Lindauer
- McCahon
- Oils
- Palette
- Pigment
- Portrait
- Rita Angus
- Sketch
- Still life
- Watercolour
- Woollaston
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionArt and painters
Name
| M | V | W | G | T | N | G | H | P | W | L | M | E | R |
| O | R | O | W | C | P | P | O | R | T | R | A | I | T |
| P | T | O | A | A | A | I | D | A | F | X | R | E | M |
| H | S | L | T | N | L | G | G | S | S | O | K | O | C |
| O | T | L | E | V | E | M | K | G | N | O | G | R | C |
| T | I | A | R | A | T | E | I | H | R | O | O | P | A |
| E | L | S | C | S | T | N | N | T | O | I | L | S | H |
| R | L | T | O | F | E | T | S | C | A | G | D | G | O |
| E | L | O | L | E | X | H | I | B | I | T | I | O | N |
| A | I | N | O | P | S | K | E | T | C | H | E | S | O |
| S | F | T | U | U | B | G | A | L | L | E | R | Y | N |
| E | E | A | R | I | T | A | A | N | G | U | S | K | T |
| L | W | B | C | O | S | L | I | N | D | A | U | E | R |
| S | C | H | L | A | N | D | S | C | A | P | E | N | I |
Find these words
- Brushstroke
- Canvas
- Easel
- Exhibition
- Gallery
- Goldie
- Hodgkins
- Hotere
- Landscape
- Lindauer
- McCahon
- Oils
- Palette
- Pigment
- Portrait
- Rita Angus
- Sketch
- Still life
- Watercolour
- Woollaston
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Art and painters
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About this word search
Colin McCahon painted the hills of Northland and Otago and wrote words across his canvases. Frances Hodgkins left Dunedin for Europe and became one of the leading painters of her generation in Britain. Rita Angus painted Cass, a lonely railway station in Canterbury, in 1936. Charles Goldie and Gottfried Lindauer painted portraits of Māori elders, Ralph Hotere worked with black in powerful ways, and Toss Woollaston painted the hills around Nelson and the West Coast.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Brushstroke and Watercolour are the longest at eleven letters, then Woollaston and Exhibition at ten. Oils has only four letters and Easel five. McCahon has a double C right after the M, MCCAHON. Still life is a nice one to spot: run together it becomes STILLLIFE, with three L's in a row. Rita Angus also joins up, as RITAANGUS.
Take it along before a visit to Te Papa or a regional gallery. Find the painters first, then go looking for their work on the walls and see whose style you would recognise from across the room.
Ways to use this word search
With your coffee
Print a sheet for a quiet moment at the kitchen table or in your armchair. Start with the regular version and save the hard one for when you really have time for it.
On the go
Slip a few printed sheets into your bag for the ferry, a waiting room or a weekend at the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Puzzle together
Bring the sheet to your book club, a night in with friends or a visit to your parents and see who finds every word first. Or play online and find out who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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