Handy Mandy is a small DIY shop in Manukau, Auckland — and Mont Marte is the deepest brand we stock.

We carry the deepest Mont Marte range in New Zealand: 550+ products across acrylic, oil, watercolour, brushes, canvas, easels, pastel, drawing pens, polymer clay, and kids' craft. Dispatched from our Manukau warehouse with same-day pickup or NZ-wide tracked shipping.

Why we specialise in Mont Marte: most stores stock a bit of everything and know none of it cold. We chose to know one brand really well. Mont Marte is Australian-designed (so it actually gets to NZ without import headaches), it spans student-grade right through to artist-grade, and the pigment loads are honest. When you ask us a question, you get an answer from someone who actually uses the gear — not a Google search.

Shop Mont Marte by category

• Acrylic paint — Signature 75ml, Premium Satin, Premium Dimension, 250ml tubs, pouring sets
• Oil paint — Premium 75ml tubes, the full 46-colour range
• Watercolour paint — Tubes and cake sets
• Pouring paint — Pre-mixed pouring acrylic + SuperCell kits
• Brushes — Acrylic, oil, watercolour and detail brushes by range
• Single thick canvas — 13 x 18cm through 60 x 90cm
• Double thick canvas — 20 x 25cm through 91 x 122cm, gallery-wrapped profile
• Easels — Tabletop, floor, display and studio
• Pastel — Soft, oil and dry pastels with matching papers
• Drawing pens and markers — Fineliners, dual-tip brush pens, dot markers
• Make n Bake polymer clay — The oven-bake clay, 23 colours in 60g + 6 colours in 400g

Which Mont Marte range is right for you?

Honest answer if you're new: start with the Signature line. Step up to Premium Satin or Dimension only when you've worked out what you actually paint.

Free guides — we wrote these for actual humans

• Acrylic painting for beginners NZ
• How to do acrylic paint pouring (NZ guide)
• Choosing canvas size for your NCEA major work
• How to choose the right brushes
• NCEA Level 1 art supply checklist
• Oil vs acrylic — which is right for you

About us — the part nobody else writes

We're not a chain. We're not a marketplace. We're one small DIY shop run from Manukau, Auckland — and we answer every email personally.

Free pickup from 14 Bairds Road. NZ-wide tracked shipping (Auckland metro same/next-day, rest of NZ 1–3 working days). Free shipping on orders over $75. 30-day returns on unopened items. Afterpay over $35.

Stuck on which Mont Marte range to pick? Email info@handymandy.co.nz with what you're making and we'll point you at the right gear for the project and budget.