Get to know Marlo Wren
Colouring postcards from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Hello. We're trying to make the world a little brighter, with colour and intention.
Colour a card in an evening. Write a few lines on the back. Post it to someone who matters.
We want others to experience the joy of colouring.
We found it again one evening, colouring with our daughter. Now, from our studio here in Cambridge, we're sharing it with the world.
Our story
Meet Marlo Wren.
The face of our movement.
You either create or consume. Both have their place.
Tonight, let creating win.
Pick a card that makes you smile. Colour it quickly or slowly.
There's no wrong way to do this.
Not sure who it's for yet?
Start colouring anyway. It will come to you.
Send it on, to whoever came to mind along the way.
Whenever it's ready.
Art holds the time that went into it.
When someone pours their time and intention into a piece of art, it stays there. Years later, you can still feel it.
It's why a picture someone made can hang in a room for years and still stop people in the doorway.
Someone sat with it. Someone meant it.
Anything can be bought and couriered the same day.
An hour of your attention cannot be bought, borrowed or rushed.
So we leave the colour to you.
The hour you give a card stays in it, and goes wherever it goes.
Coloured by people. Sent to people.
Your intention and your time are the gift.
When you colour
A unique colour border around each set's cards. Which will you reach for to colour today?
Home-grown
Twelve native plants, each with its te reo Māori name. Start with the one that grows near you.
Nowhere Else
Twelve native creatures, each drawn out of the plants it lives among. Most of them live nowhere else on earth.
Halloween
Twelve for a dark evening, and six for the kids. Light a candle first.
Garden Friends
Six for the kids, free to print at home. Crayons welcome.
If you make art
One set. One artist. We're inviting a few artists we admire to make a set with us, so the time and intention in their work can travel further, card by card.
If you love art
Some art is for keeping. Each of our upcoming artist sets comes with a small collection of one-off originals, coloured by the artist, signed, and only one of each.
Send the colour further.
Colour a card and send it to someone. It's a lovely way to connect, try something new, and be part of a growing movement where everyone gets to be an artist.
Start anywhere you like
Colour one. Send one.
Keep it going.
A small family business from our studio in Cambridge, Aotearoa New Zealand, managed by Lisa Hopkins.
Marlo Wren is a trading name of Northern Rivers Group Limited, run by Lisa Hopkins.