Alan and Sigrun are both retired medical scientists, and have created a 45sm all purpose built studio in Rotorua to facilitate their artistic passion for beautiful leadlight art and wood sculpture forms.

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Mandy has been working with clay for over 25 years and is mostly self-taught, although she attended adult education classes at Wellington College and Petone College in pottery and sculpture.

She was part of the Bakehouse Coop of artists in Cuba St, Wellington for a couple of years and has exhibited extensively with the NZ Academy of Arts for over twenty years. She has been involved in general exhibitions as well as smaller group exhibitions known as Going Solo.

Mandy has exhibited in the Norsewear Art Awards and NZ Art Show as well as smaller national exhibitions. She has also worked with the lost wax bronze method and has sold bronze work through several galleries.

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Ana has had a life long passion for art and design, she studied to become an Art Director for Film and Television in Cape Town. She is a wife, mother and a full time artist with a love for modern ceramic design and illustration as well as raw and organic sculptural work.

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Angela Maritz fills gaps on walls with art that fills your heart with joy, it uplifts and empowers you.

It does this by evoking your emotions. Conjuring up your memories linked to your unique experiences and or your desires.

Artwork that permanently reflects back at you, positively, provides sustenance to your emotional well being.

This is the intention behind the art which Angela creates.

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Ann is born Austrian and immigrated to NZ in 2009, she started painting in 2011.

Ann is an engineer in Biochemistry & Biotechnology and has published a book in 2008. Her first love is writing - and she considers herself mostly as a storyteller in her art works too.

Ann works in diverse media - but the most important factor is in the layers - waiting for the work in progress to speak to her, waiting for its personality to show itself but she never fully knows whether a work is finished!

She has often passed what could have been a finished work, to a point she did not like a piece anymore - however the way she works does allow her to re-consider - mostly after she has put the unfinished work away for a while not even looking at it.

So whilst her expressive work is often quickly developed in its layers, a work can take months to become complete.

Most of her work [painting, collage, mixed media] is concerned with the human condition - “the layers of our minds - our human nature that has many more layers we sometimes might even not admit to ourselves”.

“And the human being that is not of a gender bias - but belongs, is part to/of everyone...or maybe they are all self portraits of some sort?”

Ann spent many hours with her father in the dark room - so composition & the use of colour is an essential tool for her.

Her inspiration comes from many different angles - literature [for example Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Haruki Murakami], philosophy, sociology. psychology, anthropology and of course the arts - her main source might be the post war era, conceptual [Duchamp, Sol Dewitt, Beuys, Brancusi, etc.. etc..] however in her mixed media/painting works she would more refer to Amnsel Kiefer, Gottfried Helnwein, Arnulf Rainer, Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Ketih Harring...more recent artists would be Jenny Saville, Tracey Enim…and in art history: Kathe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, Oscar Kokoschka

Anne was originally from Blenheim and now lives in Hastings. She specialises in Realism and her fine detail paintings are usually in oils.

Anne has been painting since she was 8 years old, at 15 she learnt to sign write. She is completely self-taught, she worked for art companies over the years and and is currently retired and enjoying working on her art pieces every day.

She mainly paints unique NZ landscapes and seascapes, animals and people. She enjoys the challenge of making her work as realistic as possible.

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​“Once upon a time in a far faraway country there was a girl. She has decided to go to the bottom of the world to find out if, when she sees the bush and the ocean, she would hear the music from her favourite movie. 
While discovering that it is a little bit more complicated than that she played with a wool, learned to juggle with apples and got herself a couple of stalkers.
Then one day she thought that now is the right time for something else. She looked around and found a lot of unused things. And thus she started making jewellery.” 

Bara handmakes her gorgeous jewellery from recycled plastic bottles, fish lines, tubes, toys, wires and other.  Her earhooks are made from hypoallergenic stainless steel or silver.  ‘Bits and bobs’ are mostly stainless steel and glass.

With a career spanning over twenty years, Barbara has dabbled in almost every medium and experimented with many styles. Whether she is creating joyous illustrations or icon driven abstracts, she is driven by a love of good design and composition.

Based in Nelson, her stylized landscapes have a prevalent linear quality. The driving theme is palette and rhythm.

Barbara likes pushing the subtleties of colour so that there is both variation and harmony with a hint of surprise. While these worlds are contrived, they can give one a sense of home or of places dear to the heart.

From coastal Whakatane, Barry has a strong rural backround and a great love of the outdoors. He has five children.

Barry makes copper art inspired by nature. Raw copper or with a patina finish, and coated in lacquer, Barry creates pieces that bring the outdoors in.

Bernie Winkels is a full time multi media artist who explores his creativity by gathering resources from current affairs, social media, banal objects, signs ,labels and objects from our everydayness of this consumer society. He is inspired by the ordinary and everyday searching for a sense in this ever changing 21st century landscape.

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Technique: Mixed media and Multimedia collage.

Born in 1974 in England, Bonnie travelled to New Zealand to live in 1978 where she grew up on the West Coast of the South Island. She now lives in Marlborough, in the Onamalutu Valley on a small lifestyle block. She has been actively exhibiting her artworks since 2000 and was awarded scholarships to complete a Diploma with Honours in Art and Creativity in 2013. It was during her studies that Bonnie developed her unique style and settled to working with mixed media collage.

Her practice involves the incorporation of vintage and retro sewing patterns and old embroidery templates as well as her own handmade collage papers into her mixed media art works. Bonnie's work has been selected for exhibition in many shows and awards.

Texture, Bright colours, graphic text, humour and a strong comic thread are repeating themes within her body of work.

Recent Selected Exhibitions

2019 Cleverland Art Awards

2019 Nelson Art Expo.

2017 The NZ Art Show.

2016 Luciano Benetton World Art Collection.

2015 Arts Gold Awards.

Publications

2016 Kiwi Consciousness: Contemporary Artists from New Zealand

Current Gallery Representation

Upstairs Gallery, Auckland

The Coolstore Gallery, Mapua.

The Mandarin Tree, Hamilton

The Dudson Scott Art Gallery,

Marlborough

The Gallery, Havelock

Tula &Niles, Nelson

The Art Shed, Napier

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Chloe is a baker turned potter, living in Hawkes Bay. She experiments with different clay forms and is greatly inspired by the ocean and natural textures.

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Christine Heaney was educated in the UK and graduated with a BA Hons in Graphic Design from the Bath Academy of Art. She also has an MA in Textile Design from the Central School of Art and Design.

Christine works with interior design techniques, using screen printing, print making, ceramics and creative sewing amongst other mediums.

She has been a successful entrant to WOW for the past five years, winning a highly commended award.

Christine designed and installed the individual ceramic murals in the Paediatric Dep at the HB Hospital, and she is a Specialist Art Tutor for children with special needs. Having also been the Manager of Creative Arts Napier (CAN) for 10 years, she was responsible for the fundraising, rebuild and development of the CAN.

Christine is now happily retired and enjoys once again being covered in clay and ink.

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Clinton Christian is a contemporary New Zealand artist focused on creating unique modernist works that are fun, bold and memorable. Works are generally large canvas paintings or wood panel/resin pieces, some of which are delving into the realms of 3 Dimensional sculptures.

As an architectural designer for many years, Clinton's work incorporates a very graphic style with composition at the forefront, yet colour and contrast are a feature in his work.

Clinton gained notoriety for his animal pop portrait series 'Animal Instinct' during 2020/21 and has recently developed a new collection of work 'Retrovision' that dives into his youthful nostalgic memories of the 1970's -90's.

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Constance Fein Harding is a Creative Fine Art Photographer based in Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

As a Dutch diplomat’s daughter she travelled the world before settling in Waipukurau in 1982 with her husband. They have 4 adult children. In 2018 they moved to Napier where they now live by the sea.

Constance is an artist that uses photography as her medium. Her works are created entirely of photographs.

- Textured Works -

Constance takes photographs of colour and texture; of painted brushstrokes and wallpaper; cracked walls and flaking paint; clouds in the sky and rippling water; and so on, creating a collection of photographs to use as ‘textures’. The main photograph is then blended with a selection of these textures to create painterly images.

- Impressionism Works -

These works are created mainly by using a slow shutter speed and a slight movement to create movement and blur. This helps to soften the edges of the subject and create a painterly feel to her images. Most of these works are also textured to add to the painterly effect.

- Prints -

Constance is able to print up to A3 size prints herself to ensure product quality. These works are printed using pigment inks on imported paper, in particular Hahnemuhle FA Baryta (gloss) and Hahnemuhle Museum Etching (matte). Both paper and ink are of Museum quality, which indicates that the print is archival and guaranteed for a lifetime. Larger works are printed offsite. She provides her own imported Hahnemuhle papers and ensures archival pigment ink is used. She works with the printers to ensure she is happy with the end result.

- Limited Editions -

Limited Editions are signed and numbered on the front and back of the print, and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Most works are sold as Limited Editions of 30, with a few of 70 editions. Once the 30th or 70th print has been printed that Edition is then retired and no further works are printed.

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Daniel grew up near Piha on Auckland's Wild West Coast. now lives on Great Barrier Island. It's a place that's remote, secluded, romantic and inspirational.

His work is driven by his lifelong connection to the ocean, and his passion for surfing.

​ The son of two 70's basket weavers, his own creativity appeared during high school workshop design classes at Avondale College, where he came to love working with New Zealand native timber and also learnt to bone carve.

More recently, after helping his mother Viv Keenan, a well known copper artist, with some production issues. he came to enjoy working with copper as well.

He is a self taught artist and designer, and tries to keep his work imaginative yet real. He has a desire for simplicity and to capture the essence of his subject as well as it's beauty.

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Deborah Fuller has been an Artisan since 2000 and currently resides in Little River on the Banks Peninsula.  Her work is instantly recognisable for its unique style and blended use of Photography and Mixed Media Painting.  Moments of light and cast shadows are captured then combined with textured landscapes of Turquoise Blue and Burnt Umber.   There is often a theme of nostalgia and recollection.  Dwellings, vacant chairs and objects convey a story of calm and stillness, with an underlying tone of ambiguity.  Leaving the viewer to impart their own meaning.

Her work can be found throughout New Zealand at various galleries including her own in Akaroa (Lava).  She also exhibits regularly at the NZ Art Show in Wellington, as well as annual shows in Christchurch, Nelson and Dunedin.  Her work is also part of the Luciano Benetton Foundation NZ Collection exhibiting worldwide.

Dennis Foster is a wood turner, and has been perfecting his talent since starting in 1986. He first sold at small markets, then spent 5 years with Craft Promotions selling at large shows in Wellington and Auckland, and at Out Of NZ - a shop in Auckland.

Dennis moved to Napier in the early ‘90s having first lived at Mahanga Beach at Mahia. He spent some years specialising in hollow form pottery shapes, driftwood pots and natural edge bowls, vases and large urns. Since living in Napier he has turned for furniture makers supplying table legs and chair components and staircase posts. Having had a break from turning in later years, he has returned with fresh creative ideas and is enjoying making these substantial indoor or outdoor sculptures from found timber, leaving a rustic edge and turning them into stunning statues.

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Didi Chapman was born in the Czech Republic and recognized early on in her life that art was an important part of her identity. She was specifically attracted to drawing the natural environment using pencil and Indian ink and modeling small sculptures from clay as a child.  Didi’s passion for creative art developed into 20 years as a graphic designer owning a graphic design company in Prague and winning a coveted contract producing the corporate identity for an international insurance company. Moving to Australia in 2003 Didi continued her career as an international graphic designer while attending the National Art School in Sydney learning new art skills such as etching and printmaking. Her passion for drawing with Indian ink continued and she was able to hold a successful solo exhibition in Sydney in 2007 and in the Taupo Museum, NZ in 2015. 

Since shifting to New Zealand in 2013 and setting up home in Taupo with her kiwi husband and their two sons, Didi become a highly valued member of Active Arts Taupo where she curated their annual exhibitions for 5 years and became a chairperson of Creative Clay Group. She gets her hands dirty most days. She is tutoring after school pottery classes for children aged 7-15 and pottery workshops for adults. She is enjoying transferring drawing onto clay medium, using Sgraffitto and Mishima decorating techniques, as well as using Ceramic luster decals. 

·         winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Taupo Winter Festival Exhibition

·         a finalist at the Ceramics NZ 59th National Exhibition, Wellington

·         a finalist at the UKU Clay Hawke’s Bay 2018 Ceramics Award

·         an exhibitor at the Wildflower Sculpture Exhibition in Hawke’s Bay

·        an exhibitor at the NZ Sculpture OnShore, Auckland  - indoor gallery

- member of the Ceramics Association of New Zealand in 2018

Meet Erica, the brilliant artist and mastermind behind Textures by Erica (www.instagram.com/texturesbyerica) based in Havelock North, sunny Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

Erica started creating textured art as a means to manage her post-partum depression since August 2022, and her artistic journey and growth thus far has been nothing but incredibly inspiring.

Creating minimalistic, aesthetically pleasing and luxurious bespoke textured art pieces is her specialty. Her stunning artworks enrich our senses, well-being, and quality of life by adding value to our homes and spaces.

Here's a bonus, she also creates and shares relaxing visual ASMR reels that's bound to make you feel calm and relaxed as you watch them.

Get connected with her on Instagram and follow her textured art journey. Support her by dropping some kind words or by placing a commission or two. You'll find that she's a delight to work with and is an amazing individual.

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Fiona is a Hawkes Bay born, mixed media artist presently working with small sculpture. Fiona studied Fashion and Design in 1985 at Massey University in Wellington and has been a pattern drafter, freelance designer, business owner with her own fashion label, Fiona Fox Design, supplying six stores throughout New Zealand. She has also studied overseas at the London College of Fashion and later trained under David Jones Marketing, buying and merchandising.

In 2011 she completed an EIT Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design Degree – a stepping stone towards the goal of becoming a teacher – and was top Studio Visual Arts Student in her degree class. She then trained for a Diploma in Teaching and became a fully qualified teacher in 2015. Fiona currently teaches year 9 – year 13 Fashion and Design Technology at Taradale High School. Fiona is passionate about teaching and developing creative intelligence alongside academic intelligence. "Art/play should always be first, then you can learn." She lives with her two boys aged 15 and 19.

Artist Statement

All my works aim to encompass the feminine principle as a force that breathes through each piece. The Steel mesh acts as the strength of a woman which never leaves but is often obscure….while the thread is the language from the past, existing in the present, speaking to the future. They are hollow as they seek a presence to poetically reminds us that we are more than our bodies.

The sculptural works are an act of notation. I am writing in thread, manifesting a desire to be heard, more than the voice but of the unconscious other that resonates a collective pre-linguistic frequency. This frequency seeks to act as a bridge between science, physics and art, allowing its own language to seep, transcend and explore the sensations of a feminine force.

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Fiona is a ceramic artist living in Gisborne. She draws inspiration through the richness of her Maori and European cultures.

She honours her forebears, native surroundings, trees and flowers through her artwork.

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Formed Function Studio pieces blur the boundary between art and function. They are manipulated and altered to manifest an aesthetic that combines the design elements and botanical interests of sculptor Lindsay Antrobus Evans with the skill and drive of carver / painter Liz McAuliffe.

The “Pitcher Perfect” mugs are inspired by nature, specifically carnivorous pitcher plants, these and the ‘Specific Rim’ bowls come from Evans and McAuliffe’s desire to give a tactile as well as a visual experience.

All imperfections are intentional.

Glenn lives in Rotorua. His large scale oil paintings investigate a variety of narrative concepts and delve into relationships (be they human, animal and/or environmental), often exploring childhood memories and dreams.

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This husband and wife team are passionate Kiwi gardeners with a creative eye and flair for all-things-metal, creating unique and inspirational art and sculpture that feels right at home in NZ gardens.

They love metal - Corten is their absolute favourite material to work with - the rust takes on a life and dimension all of its own, each sculpture being unique. Corten steel is a heavy duty, corrosion resistant, weathering steel that will not break down like regular steel, creating long lasting art and interest in the garden. Corten also looks gorgeous indoors.

Brendon and Jane enjoy creating high quality, original artwork with striking and bold contemporary designs to make a statement. There are also more subtle, elegant and rustic designs that nestle into NZ gardens and landscapes.

All of their artwork is designed and crafted by the couple, using sustainable NZ materials.

Hooly is a ceramic artist originally from Scotland, and lives in Hawkes Bay. He has been making pots for the better part of his life. He has been living and working in Maraetotara Valley for twenty years where he has built a woodfired anagama kiln. He produces carved and glazed pots for the kitchen and home.

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Wearing Glass is a traditional lampworking studio. Every piece of glass Isla makes is individually melted on a blow torch at 1100 degrees, then shaped and blown using techniques that date back thousands of years.

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James Watkins has long been one of New Zealand's most successful artists. Since leaving Elam School of Art in 2005 he has been represented by International Art Centre. During the last 16 years his works have been acquired and commissioned by clients and collectors worldwide and James has aptly been christened an art star. Both large and small scale works often draw upon the foundation of his iconic Red Roof/Blue Roof Series of contemporary landscape.

In 2019 Watkins created a stunning new series of works confidently exploring the sophisticated realm of cubism. His solo exhibition in April of that year saw works sell as far afield as Germany, Florida and Bath. This latest collection of paintings saw Watkins transform a tapestry of brilliantly balanced, toned and shaded cubes of colour into stylish landscapes and still lifes. These paintings, so full of light and shade, are truly intriguing. By both retaining and refreshing the palette and essence of earlier works, Watkins constantly presents us with unique and original works of art.

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Jane Blackmore is the owner of her gallery and studio in Lyall Bay, Wellington. As a practicing artist with over 20 years experience, Jane’s work is primarily inspired by the stunning and singular vistas of the Wellington hills and harbour. Characterised by emotional intensity, people are struck by how her paintings announce themselves with calm assuredness - the hallmark of an established artist who continues to grow and challenge her own artistic vision.

In an age where speed and instant gratification seem to permeate every corner of our lives, Jane’s paintings offer a space for thoughtful reflection. “Spirituality” is a word contemporary artists and writers ten to avoid, favouring instead words like ‘ethereal’ or ‘intangible’. Blackmore’s landscapes are unashamedly spiritual. When we look at her landscapes and seascapes, we sense that we ourselves have inhabited these places, perhaps as children, perhaps in memory, or perhaps in a dream.

In equal measure to the spirituality in Jane’s work is joy, and this is abundant in her series of florals. Flowers push forward from dark backgrounds, defiantly sensous and celebrating the natural cycles of birth, growth and decay. Jane’s floral works make you feel the same joy she felt when she painted them; right now, here, look.

Jane’s recent work continues her exploration of colour, form, and the visceral qualities of paint. Marking a shift towards more pure abstraction, we see the artist peeling back layers of representation to arrive at a melange of colour and light. Golds, purples and blues - there is a lush regality to these works. Like the emotive charge of her landscapes, and the visual joy of her florals, her abstractions use a visual language synonymous with an artist working at a heightened level of skill and creative expression.

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Jane works from her Shelly Bay Studio. Born in Wellington, she has always had an interest in the arts which she first recognised at the age of two, and has painted, potted, sculpted and made jewellery throughout her life. She is now best recognised for her hand-cut mosaic mirrors.

Jane’s main inspiration comes from the sea and music. She is a singer songwriter and published poet. Her work is influenced by the flow and rhythm of Hokusai and the symmetry of Art Deco. Jane likes to create works that are uplifting and celebrate light.

Jane has exhibited her work since 1999 and had her first solo at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts in 2001. She has exhibited her work in many group exhibitions including those of the Academy and Shelly Bay artists.

Jane’s work has sold internationally, commissions and sales include works for The British High Commission in Wellington, 14 pieces for the Museum Hotel Apartments, Goethe Institute, local and international celebrities, and numerous private commissions. In 2012 her work sold to the James Wallace Art Trust for the permanent collection.

Jane is a trompe l’oeil artist trained in the UK, currently lives in Masterton.

She loves the art of illusion and is fascinated by the interplay of scale, light and depth, relishing the challenge of fooling viewers into questioning reality.

Right now, Jane is fixated on painting jewels, but she is often drawn along different avenues as she responds to commissions and exhibition prompts.

Jane works mainly with oils, predominantly on custom made art boards cut to her specifications.

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Jed hunts Grubbs with a butterfly net in a secret forest near Auckland - believed to be the landing site of the Grubb Mothership. He was raised by wolves.

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Jenni has always been a maker, right from a very young age. Initially she worked with wool craft, and then textile art and garment design, working in silk.

Jenni was the winner of the Rothmans Wearable Art in 1987 - the only competition she has ever entered.

Jenni is a competent potter, painter, leadlighter, felt maker and spinner.

She has taught craft in many different settings over the years and currently fuses glass into jewellery and other ornaments.

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Born in New Zealand, Joanne works from her studio in Christchurch. Her paintings are informed by a variety of subjects, including history, advertising and a concern for the natural environment.

Joanne has exhibited throughout NZ, as well as internationally.

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Joshua is a self-taught artist that started out north of Auckland carving in Kerry Strongman’s gallery. Joshua was part of a team that carved and sold many ancient swamp kauri pieces.

Joshua now lives in the Waikato with his young family and aims to be self-sustained. He is a perfectionist with his work, and waits until he is truly proud of something before releasing it.

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Julz lives in Napier and has a background in fabric / painting. In 1998 she fell in love with bookbinding / book arts and this evolved into printmaking and letterpress printing. The last four years she has been printing on paddles and up recently has been selling her at at Arts On Parade in Napier.

The wooden paddles are decorated with printmaking techniques, and waxed linen thread wrapped. They can be hung inside or outside.

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Of Ngati Kahungunu descent, Justin completed his formal Art and Design training at EIT with a BVAD. He has taught Art and Design in Aotearoa and China for 15 years. Justin has lived and worked in Australia, Europe and Asia often inspired by culture and human interactions and relationships. He has had many group and solo shows including HB Review 2021, EAST 2021, NZ Art Show and Art in the Park 2021 at Eden Park. He is a prolific and diverse artist, working with a range of media.

‘I am a mixed media artist and inspired by life and observations. My works are an outcome based an initial concept then worked in whatever media I feel is suitable. My visual vocabulary of elements and principles such as contrast, colour, movement and rhythm work with the chosen subject matter to portray the narrative. I love to explore both figurative and abstract.” Justin Kite

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Contemporary abstract artist Kathleen Pickering explores the world of fluidity using pigment, paint, alcohol inks and epoxy resin. Conscious layering and manipulation in conjunction with the nature of the chemical reaction between the pigments creates the most beautiful organic abstract pieces that cure with a glass like finish.

Kathleen studied Visual Arts and Design at EIT in Hawke’s Bay and went on to work in graphic design, photography and website design. She now runs her own business called Wild Sparrow and fits my artwork creation around her client work when she has time! Her process urges her to surrender to fluidity, let go of her expectations of the final product and simply enjoy the process of creation in its purest form. The natural flow of the liquid can only be controlled to a certain point after which all control must be relinquished, allowing it to flow as it sees fit, reacting with the pigments around it, following its natural path of gravity, sometimes slowly moving for hours until it cures.

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Kay’s ceramic practice focuses on the human figure and through it she explores the human psyche as expressed in gesture, expression and movement. She draws on her own experience and interpreting the moods and behaviours of others. She is an observer of life and interprets it in her ceramic figures.

Her focus is also on anatomy, likeness and proportion - observation of the human body through life drawing and the regular practice of sculpting in clay over 17 years.

Each piece is hand built and unique in form and posture. Daily practice in the studio has allowed her to explore different types of clay and firing temperatures, experimenting with oxides, painterly or natural finishes.

Kay finds the tactile, malleable qualities of clay therapeutic, but what is also satisfying is that the medium invites infinite forms of expression, presenting many interesting problems that need solving, and she likes that too.

All Kay’s work is hand made from scratch, no moulds are used. Therefore each one is uniquely different.  She often works in a series because she is excited about an idea or form and wants to explore it through repetition.

Most of her figures are hollow to ensure the clay dries fully before firing otherwise they would explode in the kiln if the clay still has moisture content. Solid clay would take a long time to dry out and would be very heavy.

She uses several clays to achieve different effects these are the main ones she am currently using;

Laguna earthenware paper clay is a cream colour when fired.  It is called paper clay because this clay contains cellulose (paper or wood fibres), which is very helpful in the making of figurative sculpture as the fibres help hold the clay together as you join the clay limbs, or additions.

Feeneys Red Raku clay is brown when raw/wet, but when fired to a high temperature 1180deg C it becomes a terracotta colour.  The clay carries a lot of grog (ground up fired clay) it is very helpful when making figures or large vessels as it doesn’t slump due to gravity when it is wet and allows one to go big quite quickly.

Travellers series: These red raku figures have been lightly brushed with white clay slip to define their features and contours.

The series was made as marquettes (smaller versions) for a major solo exhibition Kay was preparing for.  She was really delighted with the sense of humanity they display and this worked well, as at the time she was considering the plight of migrants as they arrived exhausted in Europe (or wherever) having left their home and everything they knew behind.

Viewers of these figures become very involved with a narrative they are formulating in their own heads about what the figures represent, where they are going, what is going on, who they are reminded of.

For Kay, the child figures are inspired by her own children and grandchildren and are expressions of love for the young and innocent in general. She loves children and is fascinated by people, she always has been and it shows in her work.

Ken was born and raised in Hawkes Bay, and after many years abroad settled in Nelson. He enjoys exploring many styles and painting techniques, often taking to the beautiful mountains and shores of Nelson to paint plein air.

Ken mainly paints with oils on canvas, and creates his own tray frames from NZ Pine with Danish Oil.

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Studio Reset (Kim Kobialko) is a full-time encaustic artist working out of her rural home studio on the Kapiti Coast. Her work is ethereal contemporary and with a nostalgic quality.

Taking total creative control and keeping sustainability as one of her key focuses, Kim works through the time consuming process from scratch; harvesting wax from her beehives, making encaustic medium and then painting with it on up-cycled or re-purposed substrates.

Her artwork is a result of combining three passions together to create a full circle in her creative processes; beekeeping, photography and encaustic painting. Studio Reset starts with a found substrate, usually an old tray or wooden platter to create nature-inspired compositions with depth, translucency and environmental meaning. She assembles her imagery by layering portions of photographs with ink, pigment and building up the layers between many fine sheets of beeswax.

Kirsty’s upbringing between rural Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay has heavily influenced her love of landscape. Additionally, her early tight knit community of both Pakeha and Māori left her with a strong desire to further express her mixed cultural relationships through her artwork. Asking of herself, “how can my art contribute to our identity as a country”?

Now settled on Wellington’s south coast Kirsty takes great inspiration from the harbour’s history and the ever-changing moods of the rugged coastline.

Working as a printmaker from her Lyall Bay studio, Kirsty has traversed the Wellington coastline and beyond with her sketchbooks, not only drawing but researching the history. From archaeological diggings to favoured fishing bays and associated kai of individual areas, she has tried to learn as much as she can. This process of understanding history before making art has set her up for developing her unique style, which is heavily influenced by our position here in the Pacific.

Kirsty’s hand printed landscape etchings are merged with patterning, printed from her bamboo wood block etchings. This enables her to convey a story, reflecting a sense of the past within a contemporary landscape. Story telling through pattern work is common across cultures here in the Pacific and she incorporates it into her art as a way to express that. The result can give the impression of masi or tapa cloth, which is fitting when discovering that bark cloth (aute) was in fact brought to Aotearoa with Māori, however lost through time when the paper mulberry tree it comes from wasn’t able to thrive here.

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Originally from Wellington, Kristin Hyde has called Auckland, in particular The Bombay Hills, home for the past thirty five years. An avid creator, Kristin has a passion for colour and texture. She says “colour energizes me - it feeds my soul”. Her other interests include silversmithing and felting / eco printing.

Mainly self-taught, Kristin describes herself as an intuitive and emerging mixed media artist with an ever evolving style. Kristin enjoys experimenting with different techniques and mediums including acrylics, pigments and resin. Being intuitive she will often be guided by colour, seasons and her surroundings.

Lacey Middleton is a Hawkes Bay based hyper-realist and impressionist artist who paints landscapes and animals.

Lacey is passionate about capturing and conveying the beauty of light and the way she perceives the world around her.

Working primarily in Acrylic, Lacey builds layers within her painting to create depth and aims to pass on her sense of awe and wonder to the viewer.

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Gisborne based artists Lanie has been painting and exhibiting for 15 years, with a range of work from NZ landscapes, word art and abstract mixed media.

Recently Lanie has been exploring beach scenes on different surfaces, such as salvaged wood, scakeboards and retired surfboards.

She lives with her husband and 3 year old daughter on Wainui Beach and it is from here that much of her inspiration is centered.

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Lisa Grennell was born in Timaru, New Zealand in 1973 and graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design, 2010 in Nelson, NZ.

Lisa moved back to her home country from Australia 17 years ago to raise her 3 children.

Now living on the South Island in rural Glenhope, Lisa’s studio sits amongst some of New Zealand’s most beautiful Alpine country where native bird life and fauna flourish. She has chosen a more simplistic lifestyle with solar and wind turbine for power and natural streams and rain for water, Lisa feels her art is stripped to a more simplistic aesthetic.

With her own personal journey raising children as inspiration, she draws from nostalgic moments to alleviate the solace of ‘the empty nest’. Lisa uses imagery of children with flowers, animals and insects questioning young people’s view of the world, seeing a disconnection from nature with modern technology.

“I often wonder what the future holds for following generations. I question whether my grandchildren will ever experience the majestic beauty of nature or will it be an app on the latest iPhone.”

Lisa emphasizes this with her use of large white vacant space, creating a cavity to which her subjects float, this is the artist’s expression of the uncertainty of our future; it cannot be foreseen.

She also likes to involve the viewer into the work via the reflective surface.  By looking/reading the gaze is returned, the spectator becomes the narrative and in turn, part of the problem and solution.

Craig and Liz from Elizabeth Kraig Art - Weka Gallery work at their home studio in Marlborough creating handmade treasures for your home and garden.

They produce a wide range of quality, handmade, one-off pieces ensuring there will be something special for everyone.

Craig makes and uses his own clay and employs luscious glazing while Liz works with NZ made porcelain combined with printmaking techniques, hand decorating vintage decals.

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Liz McAuliffe is a carver and painter of natures' exquisite objects.

Born in Napier, New Zealand, in 1962, she has spent many years in the Hokianga – originally in the bush clad hills of Waimamaku and now overlooking the harbour at Kohukohu/Hokianga. Always inspired and intrigued by natural forms Liz has directed this interest into her career as an artist. Liz ventured into carving while completing a visual arts course in Opononi in 2006. Since carving her first object – a lotus seed pod – McAuliffe’s work has been grounded in a reverence for nature. “The lotus pod in particular gives me an almost endless inspiration for carving and has led me to exploring other pods, seeds and native flora. “

“Attracted to the plentiful, fertile shapes in nature I take delight in replicating their individual forms. I am constantly researching and adding new works.” Liz works most days – using the mornings for heavy carving when her mind and body are fresh, saving the afternoon and evenings for contemplative painting, bookwork and research.

“In my sculpture practice I am inspired by nature and work with the minutiae found there, I aim to give a sensual experience as well as a visual one, so form and surface and shadow are an integral part of my art works. My work celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of flora and fauna, in particular that of New Zealand. I work in a variety of mediums from contemporary 'man-made' composite boards to New Zealand grown timbers including reclaimed 40,000 year old Kauri.”

Liz was born and raised in Hastings and she is now based in Wellington, though always makes time to return to Hawkes Bay whenever possible.

Liz has always had a passion for creating, and over the past decade she found herself drawn to painting. She says the freedom of self-expression that this medium provides has been incredibly fulfilling.

Primarily working with acrylics, oils and occasionally collage, Liz often spends hours layering, scraping, sanding and painting again until she achieves the perfect patina. Her artwork explores the connections we forge through shared experiences and highlights the essential role these bonds play in our overall wellbeing.

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Lloyd is  a NZ resident currently living in  Nelson.  

Born in England he studied art and acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honours from Falmouth School of Fine Art,  and a  Diploma  in Art & Design  from the North Essex School of Art .  

Lloyd has held numerous solo shows across both Islands and has been the recipient of national NZ awards for contemporary painting and for originality in the use of colour. He was gifted Artist Membership of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1990

Lloyd's  work is represented in Public, Corporate and Private collections internationally.

Lloyd has for many years tutored painting and drawing and been actively involved with community arts both in the UK and NZ.   

He works regularly on private commissions and welcomes opportunities to discuss creating  personalised works free of any purchase obligation.

Although adept in most media, his current preference is oil paint stick on board. Lloyds’ work is notable for it’s simplicity of form and intensity of hue. This along with a strong sense of composition, has allowed him to develop a personal and recognisable style. 

Responding to nearly all and everything that surrounds him, Lloyd often draws inspiration from myth and cross cultural symbolism. Underlying the work thematically is his personal celebration of both the childlike wonder and the often adult folly of being human which sees him revelling  in the areas of satire and paradox.  

His work appeals and works on varying conceptual levels and has often been described as both ‘affable and sardonic’. Having multiple entry levels allows wide accessibility and perhaps partly accounts for the fact that he is collected by people of varying ages and different walks of life from around the world.

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Louise first became interested in art at Teachers College when she took the art option. She started by making people, then moved to modelling penguins, birds and dogs. She now has a range of small animals. They are made from white clay and are unglazed. Each is hand sculpted and no two pieces are the same.

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Lynette Fisher’s art practice ranges from printmaking, drawing, assemblage and painting, all of which have featured in solo and group shows around New Zealand. She works between drawing and painting where dry-brush and wax pencil on canvas evoke memories of blackboards or schoolhouse slates.

Lynette is a full time creative practitioner, educator and arts coordinator. Her work investigates themes of adoption, guardianship and appropriation - taking elements of existing imagery and re-placing them in awkward, misplaced and re-imagined worlds. There is an underlying sense of nostalgia and tension between past and present where space, time and identity are separated.

She has won several art awards including the Venetta Miles Emerging Artist Award and the Ethel McMillan award, and has been a finalist in the 2 Molly Morpeth Award, the Adam Portrait award and the Parkin Drawing Prize. Her work ‘Me Too (2018)’ is held in the Rotorua Museum Public collection

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Lynette always wanted to be an artist and she soon discovered her inner artistic flair. Following the loss of some loved ones she moved from away from painting and discovered coloured pencils and instantly fell in love with this medium, using pencils to create her beautiful drawings.

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Mariska has always been intrigued by the human form and its flaws. Every face tells a story - whether that be fear, despair, love, hope, anxiety or dreams. She loves the lines of the eyes and the way a person’s mouth changes along with their emotions. Her aim is to capture these emotions and for the viewer to identify with the emotions she tries to realise through her work. All Mariska’s work reflects her own feelings and experiences. Fragility is a recurring theme in most of her finished pieces…..Humans are so fragile but at the same time so strong. It’s about mental illness and the effects it have on us all.

Mariska is married with two kids and she immigrated from South Africa 12 years ago. They recently settled in the beautiful Cambridge. She is a full time ceramic sculptor and works from her studio in the Whitehall area.

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”

Edvard Munch

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Mark Dimock, sculptor and painter, was born in Wellington 1958, he had his first exhibition held in Whangarei 1975.

Mark has been living and working in Eketahuna since 1980 where he has established a large studio workshop and gallery.
He has had over 20 solo exhibitions in galleries throughout New Zealand including Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Whangarei, and Masterton, and has been part of many group shows.

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Born in 1977 in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Mauricio Benega moved to New Zealand in 2004 and now lives and works as a full time artist in Hastings.

Mauricio graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Visual Arts & Computer Graphics in 2001 at University of Tuiuti Parana, Brazil. He has also completed a Post-Graduation in School Administration & Visual Arts in 2004 at FAE Business School in Curitiba, Brazil, and a Diploma of Visual effects & Motion Graphics in 2009 at Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand.

Working from his studio based in Hastings, he opened a business called Studio Benega Ltd, a creative company dealing with creative art projects such as exhibitions, murals, workshops, illustrations, design, commissions and of course, paintings.

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Two sisters. Two creatives. Bringing together their expertise and skillsets to create: Full Bloom.

Full Bloom combines Katie’s pattern & stylised illustration with Amy’s product & metal know-how.

They have worked as designers for companies such as Danske Mobler, JaguarLandrover, David Trubridge and Bentley to name drop a few!

Here they are in the very special place they call home: Hawkes Bay doing what they love which is designing, creating & fabricating joyful, playful and colourful pieces.

Each Full Bloom piece is designed, hand cut & welded by Kate and Amy. They have great fun making these bountiful beauties, and hope others enjoy them too..

Michele’s work is a mix of various mediums and techniques, giving her the ultimate flexibility to make art. She is excited by the unpredictability of watercolours, the buttery rich colour of oils and the simplicity of pen and ink. Her art is loose and suggestive with energetic brush strokes and pen marks. Michele is inspired by the old master’s impressionism and expressionism and how they captured the light. This feeds into her weekly plein air painting adventures and local caricature drawing with a contemporary flavour.

Michele paints on the streets known as plein air, and sketches live caricature portraits. Painting from life is alive, the light, sounds, the smell, and flavour in the air through to the many conversations with the people she meets. It’s all channelled into the art and is the ultimate inspiration for her to be expressive. Each artwork is therefore an exploration of raw emotions, beauty and relationships created for the intended viewer to engage with and to find their own interpretation and story within.

Michele is fortunate to share her studio and knowledge with students running MiChalk afterschool art classes and holiday workshops for children.

Michele works as a fulltime artist in her home studio in Palmerston North. She comes from a large creative family and is always driven to acquire further knowledge.

Predominantly, she works in acrylics, but often enjoys the freedom of mixed media. In her creative process Michele works on a painting until she sees the feeling evolve and likes to leave the interpretation to the viewer.

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Inspired by nature, over the last 17 years Nancy Tschetner has developed an eccentric style and presentation of art.

The majority of her work is created with solely the natural shades of sand. She paints with adhesive and uses up to 40 different shades and structures of sand.

Gradually, each and every grain of sand becomes part of a larger image represented in her artwork. Nancy likens that to us humans, when we come together, the strength we can achieve and visions that can be created.

With the colour variations of the sand, Nancy captures the distinctive attributes of that special being and the fleeting magic of a place or memory. The sparkly texture of the sand brings any subject to life.

Sand is a natural material containing a sort of mineral memory. In her pictures, the sand can carry messages from Mother Nature and the energy of the place the sand originated from. Her main subject matter is nature - “Creating Nature With Nature”.

Getting outside is good for the soul and Nancy tries to bring the outside in through her artwork.

Living with beautiful objects that pay tribute to the natural world reminds us to slow down and helps us to reconnect with nature.

Nathan Kaye lives in Hawkes Bay, and is a young up and coming artist who has found a deep appreciation for the architecture and style that helped form Napier. He is a carpenter with a love of expressing his creativity for building in a unique tattoo art style of his own.

Nathan’s interpretation of some iconic Napier buildings incorporates a tattoo art style with a flare of native Maori design, giving the buildings depth and life and a greater appreciation for the artichecture.

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Nic Tucker graduated from Dunedin School of Art in 1992. Nic has various awards in painting, 3D work, photography, drawing and has community commendations in art. Nic taught art at secondary level for 22 years and has taken tertiary courses in art.

Nic is of Ngai Tahu and Ngati Kahungunu descent. Born in Invercargill, Nic has lived all around New Zealand from the deep south to the far north in Ahipara (west of Kaitaia).

Nic’s works are an adaption of the Japanese woodcut style, in which each colour is an inked up block of wood, then printed until the final key or drawing block is printed over the top of the colours to make sense of the whole image.

“I understand the importance of land and its connection to the people, which is a big inspiration of my woodcuts”.

Each individual work takes around 6 days to draw and carve depending on the size of the image and 8-10 days to print because of the layers of colours and drying time required to complete the final work.

Rachele is a pottery artist based in the Manawatu. She has had a passion for art from a young age, starting with slip casting as a child, and later glass casting and blowing. She has returned to working with clay, mainly using the slab technique. Her pieces are suitable for home and garden. They are all individually handmade with their own unique design and quirky personality.

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Rebecca is an artist working from her studio in Auckland, New Zealand while juggling the chaos of kids and unruly household pets. She grew up in a very artistic family spending many hours pottering around in her father’s studio.

After attending art school in Auckland she threw herself into the business of being an artist, and continues to live this wonderful, creative life while raising two crazy, amazing children with her partner.

Her work is represented both in New Zealand and Australia with work in private collections throughout the world.

Rebecca’s sculptural paintings are cloaks or cocoons of protection. They enfold and nurture those small, precious moments that we so often overlook as we focus forward rather than being present and observing the beauty that surrounds us.

With these works she presses the pause button and gives the viewer a chance to remember the softly rolling hills with their subtle gradations of greens / blues / darks and lights. To cradle the crusty, pearlised beauty of delicate coral found in a rockpool. To reminisce the way light hits and scatters on the swelling tide as it plunges to meet the sand.

These paintings are her attempt to shine a spotlight on earth’s small treasures and make them the stars of their own stage. This series of work is painted on black roofing membrane.

During Lockdown One last year Rebecca ran out of canvas to paint on and resorted to (borrowing) a roll of her partners roofing membrane from his garage. She discovered to her delight that the tough nature of the membrane allowed her to scroll, fold, drape the work without risk of tearing. From here, her work very quickly took on a life of its own as it evolved its sculptural elements.

These works breathe. Over time they slowly settle into themselves and move with the breeze of someone walking past. They subtly react with the weather and may gently sink and swell with the cold and heat. They take on the essence of a living membrane.

The roofing membrane further instills the idea of something beautiful and precious being created out of the everyday and the mundane.

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Rebekah Codlin is a 26 yr old self-taught, full time artist based in Picton, working in oils on canvas and other mediums to produce contemporary realist portraiture and figurative works. Represented by a number of NZ galleries and in Santa Fe USA, her art can be found in collectors homes across New Zealand and internationally.

Rebekah’s artistic career began at age 16 when she began practicing her art seriously and was driven to become a fine artist. Through experimentation and exploration she started building a portfolio and at age 17 after exhibiting her works locally with much positive reception she committed herself to painting as her full time career. Rebekah has been selected as a finalist in several competitions and awarded a number of residencies, including a 4 year residency from age 18 with Brancott Estate Winery and Highfield Estate where she painted live.

In addition to her oil paintings, Rebekah also produces all of her own limited edition Giclee prints at her Picton studio using the latest in fine art reproduction technology and archival materials.

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Rene lives in Swanson, in the Waitakere Ranges foothills, where she has a small pottery studio surrounded by beautiful native bush. She predominately makes wall hanging ceramic sculptures, using multiples to form a larger picture. Her principal interest is in glaze chemistry, developing her own glazes to enhance the surfaces of her work.

First prize for Sculpture and 3D “Art In The Waitakeres” Exhibition judged by Allie Eagle 2002

Finalist for Waiclay Exhibition 2006 - entry purchased by the major sponsor.

Finalist for The Portage Trust Ceramics Awards Exhibition 2006 and 2007

Finalist for 2009 Waiclay Exhibition a biennial in the Waikato Museum.

Rosie grew up on the South Coast of the UK and has had a life long interest in art. Her interest in ceramics was piqued in 1990 at high school, and it has been her primary medium of interest since. She was so taken by the art form that she gained a BA (hons) in Design: Ceramics from Staffordshire University (in the heart of the Potteries).

Prior to taking ceramics more seriously, Rosie has been a youth worker, a teacher and a Mum.

It wasn’t until 2017 when she moved to Hawkes Bay with her husband and 4 kids that she was able to pick up the love of ceramics again and turned her garage into a home studio. Rosie has been running classes and producing her own work for several years now.

Rosie is fortunate to live in Bay View; a stone's throw from the beach, and draws inspiration from the land and seascapes which surround her.

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Russ trained as an engineer during the 1970’s and started out architectural blacksmithing, then copper and metal sculpture. He started his Lost Way foundry in 2004, and his works include statuary work for local bodies and private commissions. He is well known for his bronze casting and copper sculptures.

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In 2012 Sally Maguire and partner and renowned photographer Helmut Hirler decided to sell their gallery in Woodville and relocate to Hawke’s Bay where the warmer climate appealed to them both. Having bought a 100-year-old farmhouse, they had it transported to their lifestyle block on the outskirts of Waipawa then spent a year renovating, thus creating both a gallery – called Artmosphere – and a home for themselves.

Being surrounded by art – the gallery features the work of 80 artists and also includes their own work. Sally had always painted for fun but about 20 years ago decided to dedicate herself to it full time. “At first I thought, ‘Oh god, what do I think I am doing?’ But when I sold my first painting for $50 I was beside myself with excitement.” “For me, painting is like meditating. I can’t sit still for a minute but having a paintbrush in my hand calms my mind. At the moment my favourite subject is clouds or scarecrows but hang on… actually, my biggest passion is portraits and while they don’t sell so well, if I could just paint portraits of children that’s what I’d do.”

After studying at art school in Christchurch Sal has had a career in graphic design in New Zealand and Australia.

She has worked in many art forms and also makes bespoke victorian clothing.

Mixed media and Lino printing are her latest preferred mediums, drawing subjects from nature. 

Using found objects has been a recurring theme over the years and the drive for reusing items rather than throwing them away now plays heavily into her work.

Her latest pieces ‘Recycled Moths’ are a happy use of items certainly otherwise destined for the bin – pallet wood offcuts, plastic containers, coffee pods, leftover fabric pieces worked together and merged with lino printing.

Santie Cronje is a multi disciplinary artist based in the beautiful South Waikato. A visual storyteller, Santie's paintings are closely connected to her life experiences.

Originally from South Africa, New Zealand has been home for over 23 years. Santie studied art as a major subject in high school and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 1994.

A Galleried Artist since 2008, she has exhibited her work in numerous Solo Exhibitions and Group Shows throughout the Country. Her work is held in Private Collections in New Zealand and abroad.

Her current body of work is very present and heavily influenced by the beautiful rural Waikato surroundings.

‘Being in the moment and staying present, I am allowing the mark making to be as authentic as possible as I am compelled to capture the essence of Nature’. Santie

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Sarah uses flax, nikau palms, supplejack vine, hemp and lighting. She creates a range of organic art works that are both decorative and functional. Sarah’s works comprise of weavings, sculptured lamps, vases, large woven chairs and furniture.

Sarah was raised in Gisborne surrounded by the ocean and the great outdoors. She has been creating art ever since she was a young girl. Her love of nature and the outdoors has inspired the art she creates. She later learnt weaving while up the East Coast of Gisborne with Puni McIlroy at Waipiro Bay. Since then she has been creating her own woven bodices and wearable art along with huge hanging chairs from our native supplejack vine which have won a National Woman’s art award. Her art works are both decorative and functional, aiming to bring nature indoors, she uses the natural contours of her works and plays with light and its many dynamic features to create some very interesting moods and atmospheres with each distinctive piece. Her work breathes new life into subjects that may have never been seen nor appreciated in any light, for they would be lost to the forest floor.      

She has taken part in collaborative exhibitions, as well as individual ones, and sells her works in galleries all over New Zealand. Since being in Napier she works from her own studio on Bluff Hill. She has formed her own art label Sarart.Co for her art and landscaping works.     

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Artist, outlaw, career criminal - if you Google artist Simon Kerr, you will find all these descriptors for him.

But there's more to Simon than the chequered history of offending and incarceration that he lived from the age of 15. While in prison, he discovered art and was recognised as having considerable talent (for which he credits his mother). All his exhibitions have sold out. He is one of few whose lives have changed for the better through being in prison.

Now living in Napier, Simon’s art is gaining a momentum in Hawkes Bay that has been experienced in other main centres. His work is bright, descriptive, punchy. It creates discussion and interpretation, and the more you learn about the artist and his art, the more you want to see.

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Simon King’s studio practice has a number of strands in 2D and 3D work.

Simon’s 2D work has in the past included painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. Current work is dominated by the use of collage involving printmaking, painting and drawing techniques to explore ideas around identity, ancestry, community and connection.

His 3D work centred around the medium of wood involves an exploration of form, colour and texture through vessels and containers, joinery using traditional pacific island techniques informed by having lived in the Cook Islands, and furniture design drawing on ideas from New Zealand vernacular architecture and pre-European woodwork.

Simon was previously a member of the Dunedin Crafts Council gallery from its inception to closure and an exhibitor at the Alternative Furniture Shows. He has been the guest artist at the Wanaka Art Society and exhibited at a number of juried exhibitions around the country.

As well as developing his art practice over the last 35 years, he spent 20 years teaching design at secondary school and had national roles in assessment, standards writing and curriculum development.

Simon is represented by Eade Gallery, Pea Sea Art, The Mandarin Tree and Mitchell Studios, and now The Art Shed. He is a member of Conart Gallery and Studios in Masterton.

Stephanie Louise Homewares was created from a love of both minimalist stylish homewares and bright bold unique pieces. Her Homewares range is designed to add sophistication and style to homes without the designer price tag. The “Fun Stuff” range was created to add that extra pop of colour and fun to people spaces.

All of Stephanie's products are handcrafted in Nelson and made from an eco friendly, non waste product. Where possible she also sources eco friendly or sustainable paint and resin products.

Made with Eco friendly products the Fun Stuff Range is bright and bold and adds that little bit of something fun to your space. From Melty Icecreams to the ever popular Balloon Dogs Stephanie has the fun statement piece you want in your home. 

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Right from early childhood Paul and Sharron were taught respect for true craftmanship, and to appreciate the beauty and satisfaction of creating something special.

Today, every piece they create, whether for themselves or for another, is treated with the same respect and appreciated for its natural beauty.

They pride themselves on creating quality handmade products from repurposed materials in a way that is authentic to their values.

Sue lives in Levin and is a nationally recognised artist, well known for her vibrant paints and quirky canvases.

Sue’s ‘larger than life’ colourful explosions are bringing her increasing exposure. She creates surreal sculptures from found objects, painting quirky mannequins, or walls of buildings (view the wine bar Matisse in Napier as an example).

Sue’s art is full of colour and humour, and her quality workmanship means that her paintings are treasures that will adorn walls and shelves for many years to come.

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Susan Skelton's approach to art making is a vibrant one, where colour and texture are key elements in the energy expressed in her artworks.

“I try to capture my passion for strong fluid colour by pushing the boundaries of paint tolerance to create explosions of colour and shape on paper or canvas.

I’m inspired by so many things; from the drama of stormy clouds, through to garden of flowers.”

Susan lives in the Wellington region where she started painting in 2006 and simply began to teach herself and is still learning.

Susan shows in a number of galleries and events here in New Zealand and in Sydney.

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Tania Bostock lives in Nelson. She didn’t start painting until she was in her early thirties. She is a self-taught artist, which for her involves puzzling out how to bring to reality what is in her mind. She finds that the form itself is also an intricate part in this equation, and she has only now begun terming some of her artworks as “wall sculptures”.

“My paintings are strong, deliberately imperfect and beautiful”.

For Tania, painting is emotive, and a great deal of time and thought goes into each creation. She is drawn to texture and contrast, and her process consists of straightening and perfecting, and then pushing the paint in a freer, less controlled manner. She finds both approaches necessary, working in multiple layers with each.

Tessa is based in Auckland and is a lifelong creative with a passion for textile art. She is drawn to texture and the invitation it offers to engage and examine. Working with wool and cotton is a challenge she loves because there is never a guarantee what a final piece will look like.

The end result is always a surprise and an endless challenge - on that keeps her enthralled!

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The local orchard Tessa owns has acquired stacks of wire from redevelopment. It bothered her that the wire had no purpose, no use. So with her love of sculpture and all things round, Tessa created her first wire orb, and then she was hooked.

Handmade, clip by clip, each orb is unique and durable. Hang them, light them up, or simply sit back and enjoy them.

Various sizes available.

Using small scraps of fabric and textiles from her own sewing and crafting stash, Tilly uses her sewing machine to applique her designs onto calico, together with a lot of hand stitching and simple embroidery for the more difficult and small pieces of the ‘jigsaw’.

Tilly has lived near the sea for most of her life, and as her father was a cartoonist, caricaturist and artist, these influences are obvious in her rather whimsical and quirky approach to textile art. She finds the whoe process, from drawing the rough layout and design, cutting the fabric pieces, to the final stitch, very therapeutic.

Tilly travels around NZ house and pet sitting and she can take her fabrics and sewing machine with her, setting herself up at a dining room table just about anywhere, or curling up in a comfortable chair to hand stitch, hopefully accompanied by a resident cat or dog. The lifestyle she is lucky to be leading, exploring new beaches, coastal walks and beautiful views along the way, offers her imagination all it needs to create these little Kiwi scenes in fabric.

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Tom Somerville’s passion is  pottery. He lives and works in Helensville, and his brand is Muddy Fingers (find more about his style at www.muddyfingers.co.nz)

He realised that he loved making things, especially things that might be appreciated and cherished. As a consequence of this light bulb moment he enrolled in a pottery class which changed everything. He met his wife while working in Tonga many years ago, and while he was living there he spent as much time a he could snorkelling about the reefs. He loved those secret little worlds that were abuzz with life. Nowadays they have a joint passion for gardening. As a result of these 2 influences his work tends to be inspired by foliage, flowers, corals & fish.

Tony Harrington is a Hawkes Bay artist whose work is found across the country.

He paints on recycled timber and is well known for his tattoo-style art which represents the cultural landscape of Aotearoa.

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Since the early 1980s Trish has designed and created beautiful stained glass windows, doors and lampshades. Recently she has taken up carving NZ Greenstone / Pounamu pendants, earrings and shells. She also loves to draw, mainly in charcoal and pencil.

Steve is a builder by trade who now carves wood and pounamu.

Together they are a creative team, with an eclectic mix of mediums and styles.

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Verity Pattison is an artist living in Wairoa, on the East Coast of the North Island. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design and has been part of solo and group exhibitions around New Zealand.

She is currently exhibiting at The Tennyson Gallery in Napier, The Aviary in Gisborne, Bloomin Loco in Wairoa, and now The Art Shed in Napier.

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Vivian is a self taught artist with her work coming from a basket making background. She was a full time basket maker in the 1980s using conventional and found materials producing a range of traditional and contemporary designs. She first started weaving with copper in 2003 using it to accentuate lines of weaving within her baskets. Copper is a beautiful material to work with, the combination of malleability and strength opens up infinite possibilities to create and develop new ideas. The application of using patinas or heat to the finished work adds an element of uncertainty and surprise which is always exciting.
Vivian has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand and overseas. She lived on Great Barrier Island which is an inspiring place to live and work, and feels her art is certainly influenced by this beautiful environment. She has recently moved to Reefton and is continuing with her art from her new home there.

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Wilhelmiina is a predominantly self-taught ceramic artist based in Hamilton. Born and raised in Finland, she settled in New Zealand with her Kiwi husband in 2011. Her first exhibition was in 2014, with the Dynamic Ceramics and Visual Arts in Cambridge. At this time she became involved with a pottery group called ‘People of Fire’, in which her enthusiasm for Raku was established. Over recent years she has established her creative process and put her roots down firmly at the Waikato Society of Potters where she now does the majority of her work.

Wilhelmiina draws her creativity from the earth and finds inspiration through her memories, which gives her works a sense of serenity. White Raku clay has become her favoured material and each of her pieces is handmade and therefore unique.

Having spent much of her youth surrounded by lakes and forests, she is inspired by nature. Especially during both dusk and dawn, when the world briefly becomes magical and otherworldly. The idea that this reality could be more than what it seems is incredibly intriguing to her and has always been the source of her creativity. It has taken her some time to adjust to New Zealand’s nature, yet over the past few years, her roots have begun to grow into this wild place, which she now calls home. Wilhelmiina is certain that her new surroundings have greatly affected the development of her artwork. It has become more powerful in its expression, yet continues to hold on to its delicate sensitivity.