Dick Frizzell is one of New Zealand's most popular and important artists. In his 20s, he worked in advertising to support his young family, leaving in 1974 to work in the vegetable markets in the early hours of the day so he could pursue his art.

Dick Frizzell: The Painter (Random House, 2009) contains all of his major paintings, the story of his life in his own words, and an essay by Hamish Keith on Dick's work and its place in the New Zealand art world. He lives in Hawke's Bay.

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Dick Frizzell's images populate our world - you find them on t-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and t-towels, and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in New Zealand. His paintings combined the pragmatics of an adman's need for a compelling motif with the visceral pleasures of expressive modernist paintings. His first images of gaudy fish-tin labels and comic strip characters caught everyone's imaginations. Dick's talent, energy and his deadpan humour meant that his art was highly successful. Dick Frizzell: The Painter contains all of his major paintings, the story of his life in his own thoughtful and highly articulate words, and an essay by Hamish Keith on Dick's work and its place in the New Zealand art world.