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Jan Amohia,
is a self taught mosaic artist who was lucky enough to be invited to a three day workshop with Martin Cheek - a world renowned mosaic artist who also teaches in France and Italy.
Having flamed the passion, she has, overtime, included
materials such as glass, beads and mirrors to her
designs. She prefers the more refined and delicate look
of a piece of art.
Location: Taumarunui
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Damian Barnshaw is a self taught artist living in Auckland. He meditates when he paints letting the colours flow naturally, preconceiving what
the end result is going to be. He likes to work in acrylic and oils. Damian also does black and white photography on giclee canvas.
Contact:
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Elspeth Alix Batt's paintings are generally realistic watercolours or acrylics that allow her to express her love of the New Zealand landscape,
wildlife and people. At times, she also explores how this can be conveyed in abstract terms. She have several styles, as she also has with
her other work as an illustrator of children's books, School Journals, cards etc.
Contact:
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Sherrill
Bentley’s love of art
emerged while taking private art lessons in the USA. Art was mainly a hobby but after encouragement from friends and family, she now exihibits her work in cafes and galleries. Sherrill is inspired by the natural beauty of NZ, and of her Maori heritage. Her art
reflects her love of bright colours and NZ icons.
Location: Northland
Website:
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Swiss born
Tessa Birks artworks express her vision of
the complexity of our world with colour and
shapes.
"In every painting I paint I discover
something new, it’s what keeps me painting
another picture".
Location: Rotorua
Website:
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Kirsty Black paints abstract art for its ability to lead the viewer down their own path, drawing in their unique experiences and imagination.
Location: Christchurch
Website:
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Jude Blake is a widely exhibited Christchurch artist whose
paintings are held in private collections
worldwide. Her acrylic on canvas works are
cheerful, naive and vital, and capture perfectly the
essence of New Zealand's natural assets. Simplified
forms, vivid colours and bold outlines depict
visions of a less complicated lifestyle.
Location: Christchurch
Website:
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Sally Blyth is a self-taught artist and facilitator,
who enjoys creating a diverse range of works. Inspired by countries and their cultures, she loves sourcing ideas
and materials and devising innovative ways of interpreting and using them. Sally uses acrylics, oils, inks and
mixed media on canvas and board, as well as more unusual backgrounds. Colour, texture and metallics are important
elements in her work, and by adding the odd subtle touch and embellishment, she hopes you will look beyond your
first glance of the artwork.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Lisz Bodsworth is a North Shore printmaker. Requiring patience and time, discipline and decisions, this ancient process compliments her life long love of the drawn line, tone and colour. Her subjects vary. In her people etchings, she tries to capture an attitude and grace. She signs her editions in her full name, Elisabeth Godwin Bodsworth.
Location: Auckland
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Jane Bold is a contemporary West Auckland artist focussing on acrylics and mixed media. Her works, from landscape
to abstract, portray her love of colour and shape, and reflect the spectacular nature of the New Zealand countryside which is her inspiration.
Location: West Auckland
Website:
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Ingrid Boot
is
a qualified artist having studied in the UK.
Her wide ranging work appeals to a large
audience and ranges from figurative nude
work, florals and NZ natives to abstracts
and mixed media. She welcomes
commissions and believes a painting connects
far more to a client who has had personal
input into the design process.
Location: Hibiscus Coast, Auckland
Website:
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Gail Boyle's paintings are a reflection of
her experiences, her
spirituality & her
deep love of all life, colour, form & texture. These
qualities permeate her work as it continues to evolve, in whatever medium
or style she chooses. She has been blessed with much success throughout the years
& enjoys sharing her passion.
Location: Auckland
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Tony Brown's works are completed in acrylic on large boards and stretched hessian. He likes to paint about feelings he remembers
as he grew up, feelings of depression, loneliness and despair. He reaches out to those lost souls, letting them know
that there is hope, for through his art he has found a voice.
Website:
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Jill Bryce is a self taught artist and soon discovered her own style in the simplicity of her paintings.
Jill has always had an affinity with the sea and is inspired by the beauty of nature, especially our
beautiful beaches and skies, from the clear, clear blue sky to cloud formations and sunsets.
Website: www.jillbryce.co.nz |
Pam Buffery is a UK born artist who has now settled
in New Zealand. Pam uses the fantastic vistas, big skies and the amazing quality of light in her new home as
her main source of inspiration. She works mainly in oils or acrylics.
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Sharon Ann Burger is a self- taught artist who has been involved in different visual and performing art forms from an early age. This subsequently influences her artwork. Being involved with artistic
endeavours is a life – long love affair and a satisfying journey of learning. Born in Cape Town, South Africa she now lives in rural Otago, New Zealand. Her choice of paint is first oils, soft conte pastels, drawing and acrylics. Her subjects range from abstract expressions, spiritual realities, people, landscapes and food. She also enjoys photography.
Location: Auckland
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Claire Burton is an emerging artist who creates textile and multimedia works with a contemporary twist using age old skills passed on from her Grandmothers and Mother. Claire strives to rekindle memories of the life the found items she uses once had and presents them revived, recombined, re-loved and ready to be considered in a new light.
Location: Auckland
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Suzanne Carter has been greatly inspired by the work of Colin McCahon, and loves the use of text in his work, that inspires, provokes and challenges and the way he clearly shows the relationship between Artist/ Poet and Prophet. Another great influence are her children, their childlike faith and simplicity always urging her on to better things.
Location: Kapiti Coast
Website: suzannecarter.vc.net.nz
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Amanda-Jane Cass
is a self taught
artist who loves to paint a wide variety of
subjects. Her media choice is oils and
acrylics but she also loves to experiment
with different textures. Art is Amanda's
passion and she see's it as a colourful
journey.
Location: Marlborough
Website:www.amandacass.vc.net.nz |
The
first time Shanli Chen picked up a pencil was in 1983.
She devotes all of her time to art and her
art works are collected and displayed at local galleries. All of her art works contain a great deal of time and detail from a part of
her, in one way or another. They say art is an expression of the soul, and
she truly believes
that.
Location: Auckland
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As a full time self taught artist,
Jennifer Christiansen has a passion for vibrant colours and texture. Using mainly acrylics and other mixed media she draws her inspiration from nature and NZ culture. With a love for contemporary kiwiana, Jennifer has brightened many homes and workspaces around the globe.
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Chris Cruickshank is an emerging artist. She has been painting for 2 years, mainly landscapes in watercolour or acrylic. Chris lives at Leigh and has a fantastic view of the sea, this is her inspiration.
Website: www.chriscart.weebly.com |
Terri Dangen is a self taught artist who enjoys creating vibrant coloured paintings, I’m strongly influenced by our
natural environment of New Zealand, as well as heavily influenced by Native Birds which often feature in my paintings,
I enjoy doing a crisp realistic modern style and have just recently moved into Abstract designs which I'm enjoying greatly.
Location: Waikato
Website:freewebs.com/visual_impact
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Tanya Dann is a
self taught artist who works mainly in
gouache and acrylic. Tanya loves
experimenting with styles and themes with
her current work being centred around
abstract forms, nature and animals.
Location: Dunedin
Website:
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Tere Davies
came back
to Auckland from her place of birth - TeKopuru Northland in the year 2000 to have
major surgery not intending to stay. Tere
decided if she survived she would pursue the
dream she had held dear since childhood - to
paint and earn a good living from this.
Since she first braved showing her work to a
gallery owner Tere has become an artist
people are interested in seeing what she
will come up with next. Her humble attitude
and self criticism keep her grounded and
constantly striving to create special
pieces.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Liz de King is a Colombian born artist. ”My paintings are spontaneous creations of textures, unusual perspectives and vibrant colours, which flow together to reveal things often hidden from our day-to-day view”. Representations of her background are discovered which is set against her life in New Zealand.
Location: Auckland North Shore
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Christine Dempster
is a self taught artist with a style of painting
that is predominantly abstract and contemporary and often shows a touch of
quirkiness. Christine works with acrylics and enjoys experimenting with mixed
media and different styles to keep her love of a good challenge satisfied.
Location: Hamilton
Website:
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Silver Dunlop returns to art after a prolonged absence to study Veterinary
Science and become the busy mum to a large family. These experiences have become her main inspiration. Working predominantly in abstract acrylic with text her themes are often naive in style, challenging the viewer to appreciate the world in a more innocent way.
Location:
Manawatu
Website:
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Emerging artist
Julia Dungan has been painting full time for
three years, she is self taught and believes this
enables her to paint intuitively in her own style.
Her love of Architecture, symmetry and neutral tones
have largely influenced her recent works.
Location:
Auckland
Website:
www.juliad.co.nz
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Tanya Edwards paints in both oils and acrylics, often combining different
mediums and adding texture to her work for added depth. Her subject
matter is diverse, and much of her inspiration comes from being part of the
Pacific and from NZ's flora and fauna. Her style can be changeable, at
times very quirky with some humour, others a little more serious and
abstract.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Sophia Elise
aims for her abstract minimalist style of
painting to emotionally and spiritually
touch the viewer. Drawn from her emotions
and forged by her environment and
experiences Sophia's uniquely original art
is a window into her soul.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Trained at Otago Polytechnic Art School, Ron
Esplin is an Artist member and former
Council member of The Otago Art Society, and the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society. He has exhibited
widely throughout New Zealand, had work exhibited in
Otaru, Japan, and is represented in the Dunedin City
Council collection and the Forrester Gallery in
Oamaru.
Location: Dunedin
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Marlene Faithfull is a part time self taught
artist who though mainly a realist loves to
experiment with different styles, themes, texture,
and colour. Paintlng mainly in acrylics, her passion
for painting is fueled by the natural beauty and
vibrant colours of her home country - New
Zealand.
Location: Northland
Website:
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Nancy Frazer is a full-time, self taught artist who migrated to New Zealand in 1980. She is a member of The Tauranga & Waikato Artists Societies and “Creative Tauranga”. She has successfully exhibited in various exhibitions throughout New Zealand. Currently her works can be seen on “The Living Channel” Art Gallery. Three years ago she rekindled her passion for art and began developing techniques and styles previously untried by other artists. Nancy now specializes in abstract art with the use of acrylics on canvas, with a strong emphasis on textures and vibrant colours.
Location: Tauranga
Website:
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Stephen Fuller began as an Art Director in an advertising agencies before going to England and embarking on a career as an illustrator. This has been
his profession for many years. Since then he's manifested a love for oils and although an emerging artist, has enjoyed many successes with
his art.
Location: Wellington
Website:
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Kelly Gatchell Hartley is a Kapiti based artist with a passion for portraiture. She has
developed her own unique
stylized portraits using line work and mixed media. Her mediums of choice are collage, acrylics and oils on canvas
or wood. Kelly loves to experiment and because of this her work is continually evolving.
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Sher Green
is a
self-taught contemporary artist who has been
painting since 2003. Although acrylic
painting is her preferred medium, Sher also
"dabbles" in photography and the images she
captures on camera provide inspiration. Her
love of nature and vibrant colours are
evident in her work with a focus on flowers,
seascapes, and landscapes. Said one critic
”an analogous painter, Sher’s combinations
of colour … flow into one another easily.
Location: Gisborne
Website:
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Viv Hansen, a self taught artist,
has been painting and sculpturing most of her life having started out as a horse artist. Viv now has a lot of fun with her cats with attitude
- artworks inspired by her own cats. Mystical art is her ultimate distraction
as well as fairies and other magical creatures.
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Maria Hartley is a self taught artist born in the UK, with an appreciation for art from an early age. Maria works primarily in acrylics however her love of abstract work with its freedom, deep textures and bold colours have also led to mixed media techniques. Maria gains her inspiration from life’s lessons as well as poems, music and nature in her new home country. Inspiring artists include Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
Location: Kaiapoi
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Tarnya Hunter is a Gore based artist who is a lover of nature, peace and
tranquillity. Her art is completely original and inspired by all the different places she has travelled to. Tarnya’s style falls between realism and abstract as she likes to depict her own interpretation of a scene when she paints. She finds painting relaxing and that it brings out the best in her.
Location:
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Flow In -
Perception, information, everywhere.
Language, symbolic, limited.
Form, is boundaries, imposed.
Order, from Chaos, arises.
Keeping an eye out for the beautiful, flow (that's me)
paints scientific papers on god,
truth and hyper-dimensional existence.
They look kinda pretty.
Op-art meets chaos, filtered through Matisse, mixed by
Pollock and
applied by brush.
Website:
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Rachael Inch, using typical NZ Landscapes and Canterbury Skies as a main concept, integrates her knowledge on colour therapy into her oil paintings to produce these original contemporary paintings that take you on a Journey of self discovery, sparking memories of the magnificent moments you have seen and experienced throughout your life.
Location: Glenroy
Website:
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Now retired, Ann Jermaine is a part-time painter in
oils, working from home.
She loves the natural beauty of New Zealand and
prefers to paint landscapes
and flowers in a realistic style.
She is also experimenting with other styles,
including abstract forms.
Location: Auckland
Contact:
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Sue Keast is a professional Quilt Artist, Tutor, and Designer.
Many of her Art-Quilts are inspired by classical art works, and her style ranges from dramatic to whimsical. Each unique piece has layer upon layer of colour both in and on the fabric, and textural interest from the fabrics and stitching used.
Location:
New Plymouth
Website:
www.suesstudio.co.nz
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Chavah Kinloch has been passionate about colour and painting since her early years. She paints in acrylics and loves to experiment with texture to create mixed media projects. Chavah also writes her own poetry and enjoys incorporating both words and illustrations in her artwork. Everything she paints is inspired by her own interpretation of beauty.
Location:
Southland
Website:
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Angela Laby, largely a self taught artist, specialises in
contemporary abstract art with the use of acrylics on canvas, with a
strong emphasis on texture and colour. She has also developed a unique mixed
media style, incorporating the use of paua shell and mirrors in
many of her works.
Location:
Auckland
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Des Lattey began work as a commercial artist for the
screen-printing industry, then designing furniture, followed by over 25 years as an
interior designer. He paints in oils and acrylic. Most of his work is realistic but he does enjoy loosening up with paintings such as
the nine he was commissioned to do for McDonalds restaurant in Palmerston North’s square. Other commissions include animals, aircraft and cars.
Location: Waitetoko, Lake Taupo
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Pauline Lattey loves the quality of water colours,
because she can achieve a gentle transparency and at the same time build up quite rich colours where necessary. She strives for perfection in her art
and loves working with fine detail. Pauline endeavours to make her painting shine with the personality of the children or adults whom she paints.
Location: Waitetoko, Lake Taupo
Website:
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Margo Lee works mainly with pastel (passionate about pastel) and acrylic. She also uses
copper foil lead-lighting to make window art.
Her style is mainly ‘realism’ – her inspiration –‘Life’… from its ocean
splendor to the human form depicting “little slices of life”.
She likes to keep herself challenged so themes of her works are diverse.
Location: Waikato
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Tracy MacDonald
is an emerging part time artist who paints in oils using bright vibrant
colours to depict sunsets, sunrises and landscapes on Canvas. Tracy has
completed a foundation fine arts course in Wellington. Having sold artworks
successfully in Australia, Tracy moved back to her home town of Wellington
in February 2007 after living in Sydney for 3 ½ years. Her art work will be
moving into local cafes and galleries around Wellington.
Location:
Wellington
Website:
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Amy MacKiewicz is a self taught artist with no formal training living in Blenheim with Partner Phil who gives her great inspiration when she's
feeling stuck. Ideas for her art come from anywhere and everywhere at the most random times. Although she has a wide range of
styles she works mainly with acrylics but loves experimenting with mixed media, using different textures and materials to creating
new, unique pieces.
Website:
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Trish MacReady, A self taught professional Artist, Trish has spent most of
her life working in the arts, including sculpture, stained glass, mosaic, painting and jewelery. Fascination and admiration at
an early age for the surrealism movement has been a huge influence, and her favourite genre. working in oils, acrylics, multi-media
and experimenting with collage. Her experiences of living on a "KNIFE EDGE" in the 70s are a major source of inspiration, reaching
into the emotional depths of the soul, each painting is a journey into the unknown, changing, and transforming as each piece
progresses. loves spending time contemplating the universe and painting in the
tranquility of the surrounding native forest of
the Karangahake gorge in the small village of Waikino.
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Natalie Makeef is a self
taught Artist who has been painting for the last few years mainly with
acrylics. I enjoy experimenting with mixed media, texture and colour, all of
which create a diverse range of artworks. Most of my work is abstract and
Maori/Pacifica. I have also done some landscape and contemporary pieces. In
November 2006 I had to give up full time work due to being diagnosed with a
rare disease called Wagners’ Granulamotsis. This has given me more time to
spend on my artwork.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Sarah Marrs is an Auckland based self taught artist with a keen interest in art and design. Her
specialty
is contemporary abstract art - the main medium being acrylic but has now started venturing into using different
textures and mediums to create depth. Sarah also creates individually customised designs. Her artwork and
examples of design work are all available for viewing on her website.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Moira Marshall
is an emerging artist who has had a passion for art her whole life. Moira draws
her inspiration from everything around her and loves transforming her subjects
on the canvas, giving them new vibrancy and life with her realist style of vivid
rich glowing colours and clean lines. Working predominantly in oil paint, Moira
also occasionally uses mixed media techniques.
Location: Glendowie, Auckland
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Tineswari Maruthamuthu has been passionate about art ever since she was a
child. Her preferred mediums are acrylics, charcoals and
pastels. Her inspiration comes from her vivid, colourful
dreams, and she sometimes interprets single words or a
song into art. She is also a trained graphic designer.
Location:
Auckland
Website:floodoftears.deviantart.com |
Wendy Matthews loves to paint
things that are beautiful or intricate and
which express the joy in just living and
being alive. "Bringing life to life." Wendy
mostly uses acrylic and water colour paints
but also enjoys pen and ink work. She
happily takes on commissioned work.
Location: Manukau City
Website:freewebs.com/wendymatthews |
Michele McCreedy-Shaw is a self taught artist starting drawing and painting as a very young child. Born in Wellington she has returned home to New Zealand after spending many years in the UK. Using different types of medium finding inspiration from life and lots of imagination, with an ability to sketch and draw anything!
Contact:
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Art was never something
Judith Meakin thought she could do
until the beginning of 2005. Judith paints
in acrylics and is particularly drawn to the
constantly changing colours reflecting from
dawn to dusk as it affects the hills sky and
sea around New Zealand.
Location: Auckland
Website:www.judithmeakin.vc.net.nz |
Beate Minderjahn’s contemporary art is inspired and influenced by poetry, music, dreams, nature, different cultures and experiences. For more than 12 years the German born artist and Interior Designer has expressed herself by creating colourful, mostly abstract and textured artwork in Acrylic and Mixed Media. Beate believes that colour has the power to affect our well-being, to inspire emotions and to stimulate our minds. She loves the challenge of commission works and creating a piece that matches the proportions, the style and the colours of a room.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Anni Morris is
an experimental painter with a particular
interest in colour and composition. Her work
is innovative and revels in the limitless
possibilities of art.
Location: Dunedin
Website:
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Lyn Morrison
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an English born self taught artist. For many
years she worked in the advertising industry
in photographic studios. Trained as a
transparency re-toucher in London, and then
on to digital imaging in Amsterdam, Lyn has
used these skills requiring great attention
to detail in her oil paintings. Lyn's
subject matter comes from images around her,
but mainly from an over active and vivid
imagination.
Location: Matakana
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Melissa Muirhead is a self-taught artist who gets
inspiration from the New Zealand landscape but then likes to throw a
contemporary twist into the mix. Melissa mainly works in acrylics but enjoys experimenting with textures and mixed media.
Location: Auckland
Website: melissamuirhead.co.nz |
Alison Mulgrew is a self-taught emerging artist living on the North Shore in Auckland. She has been painting for 2 years and works with acrylics. Alison uses the beautiful surroundings of the Shore as an inspiration for her paintings. She is a part time painter who finds painting both relaxing and addictive.
Location: Auckland
Website: alisonmulgrew.vc.net.nz
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Sharlene Helg Ngatupuna is a Wife, Mum, self-taught artist, and writer. Her paintings are full of movement and joviality, the characters comical with purpose. Her style is varied depending on the subject. Her Polynesian series is most popular locally and overseas. All work is in Acrylics, inspired by memories, the Bible and whatever color takes her fancy, usually red.
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Steve O’Neill is a self taught emerging artist. He has always had the passion to create art with a difference.
He is heavily influenced by the combination of music & life. The feelings and images that music brings to him and
the memories of times and places provide him with a depth of subject matter to call on. He loves working with mixed
media textures to produce art with personality. He loves the feeling of how the paintings create themselves in a sense.
Location:
Christchurch
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Catherine Outwin creates contemporary abstract paintings
establishing her own vocabulary of texture and
interruption through colour and form. After
studying Visual Arts at M.I.T. and leaving the corporate
world she has painted full-time from her studio in
Takapuna. Her work is
inspired by seductive materials such as resin, acrylics
and mixed media and are created after meditating on
subjects such as light and landscape.
By a process of addition and manipulation Catherine
explores the relationship between surface and depth,
creating a dynamic interplay between elements.
Location: Auckland
Website:
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Melissa Philpott has been drawing for years and started painting in acryllics after returning from Guatemala - dazzling colours.
She started oil painting in Amsterdam with Rob Hessells, and now is home trying to capture the beach, clouds and sea birds.
She loves the Dutch paintings with low horizons and big skies.
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Marimba Powley is a self taught Southland based artist who creates original artwork mainly using acrylic paint.
She draws inspiration from daily life and in her own words "uses paint to gain understanding of the world
around her". Her works are expressive often inviting the viewer to ponder a question along side her.
Location:
Southland
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RifRaf's works
were born as part of the reaction to the
distorted comtemporary female image as
propagated by media. Freeing her from the
unrealistic demands of the media image, she
gained her real features, curves, body,
molding herself into a unique piece of art
reflecting how real women are and how they
can feel about themselves - powerful,
sensual, voluptuous and beautiful.
Location: Snells Beach, Rodney
Website:
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Robyn Robertson is based in Avondale, Auckland. Her life changed dramatically 28 years ago when she was
working as a fashion designer in Australia and discovered God was “real” and could be know by her. After
years of creating wearable art and “one off” women’s garments she turned to painting. Her inspiration is
God and the ideas he gives her. "I enjoy using fabric, embellishments, string, plastic etc to express, as
best I can, what I think God is saying”
Contact:
Robyn Robertson
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Teresa Rodger
is a Waikato born self taught artist who loves
drawing inspiration from everything that
nature has to offer. Having always created
things with her hands from a young age,
Teresa likes to experiment with different
medias often to the stage her paintings end
up more like sculptures. Her realism style
along with great attention to detail means
Teresa can get lost in her art work giving
the paintings extra depth.
Location: South Waikato
Website:
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Bill Rutledge
has always been drawn to representational art, so
when he took up
painting in 2005, the beauty of New Zealand
naturally drew his eye. He
prefers to work in oils, and is now an
internationally displayed
artist, since his grandparents have one of his
paintings hanging in
their home in the US.
Location: Wellington
Website:
Click Here |
Jane Santos has been a mosaic artist for the past 10 years in England, working part time on her art whilst pursuing a career in teaching. Jane works with a variety of tiles; vitreous and plain glass, porcelain, glazed and unglazed ceramics and sources them from all over the world.
Location: Wellington
Website:
janesantos.vc.net.nz |
John Sargeant paints in oils,
watercolours and charcoal. His oil works use
strong colour with the accent on people and mood.
The watercolours are used in the sensitive treatment
of buildings and detailed abstracts. Charcoals
are reserved for sensual figurative work indicating
mood and ambience by the use of tonal values alone.
Website:
www.artfromnz.com
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Michael Sass’s preferred medium is pastel but he also does oils and acrylics – mostly in landscape realism. Michael has exhibited at numerous exhibitions and was honoured to be awarded best pastel drawing at the Molly Morpeth Cannaday awards at the Whakatane Art Festival in 2005 and again in 2007. Michael is a member of Pastel Artists of New Zealand and he exhibited at their annual competition in Christchurch.
Location: Tauranga
Website:
www.michaelsassartist.com
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Cath Sheard works mainly in watercolour and acrylic.
Her work leans more toward abstraction –
particularly of the local landscape from which
she draws much of her inspiration. Cath
has a PG Dip (Sociology) and a Diploma of Arts &
Creativity. A librarian by day, her deep love of
words, people and the local surrounds all inform
her work.
Location:
Patea
Website:
www.cathrs.blogspot.com
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Paulette
Shepherd
is highly competent in her ability
to portray a wide range of subject in a
variety of art fields and mediums. New
Zealand’s unique culture, landscape, coast
and wildlife, and the human form, supply
continual inspiration and enable a fresh
appreciation of this country’s unique
environment.
Location: Doubtless Bay, Far North
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King Country artist
Helen Sherrock is a budding enthusiast who prefers to work in acrylics. Painting a variety of
subjects which generally include some form of animals/birds or flowers. Attending art class for the past year has
helped her art to evolve into a broader range of styles and subjects. Inspired by the countryside around us and
the many ideas she has yet to paint in her head.
Website:
freewebs.com/helensherrock |
Rebecca Shrimpton has been painting since she could hold a paintbrush- it's been a lifelong love affair! She's been
selling artwork and various other crafty things for 13+ years in cafes, galleries and shops, and more recently online,
with pieces now in homes and workplaces on every continent. Rebecca works mainly in Acrylic and mixed media on canvas,
and lives in Rotorua with the other two loves of her life - her husband and son.
Website:runningwithscizzors.wordpress.com
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Mereana Slade's paintings are a reflection of her and all the different facets of
her life and loves so they reflect her Maoriness, her New Zealand heritage,
her womanliness, her motherliness, her joys and sorrows. Because
she is
spontaneous and unpredictable her paintings are diverse in subject and technique and are inspired from a
range of sources. Having recently returned to live in NZ after residing in Australia for 11 years
her
passion for painting is being fueled further by the wonder of NZ's natural scenes and unique peoples.
Website: www.mereana.co.nz
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Tracey Stringer
is a self taught artist who captures the
beauty of wildlife, nature and contemporary
work in her vibrant acrylic colours. The
stunning sunsets of Tracey's native home
South Africa is her inspiration for her
bright and vivid work and perfect for those
who love a splash of colour and something
different.
Location: North Shore, Auckland
Website:
www.traceystringerart.co.nz
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Cathleen
Tarawhiti is a Hamilton-based photographer capturing life around her, real and imagined. She particularly
enjoys finding real emotion, whether through portraiture or through the mood of the image. Available for
all types of commissioned work, please check her portfolio to get the feel of her work.
Location: Hamilton
Website:
cathleentarawhiti.co.nz |
Dawson Taylor; Abstract Artist - Painter. Exhibited: Toi Tahuna Gallery Queenstown, Throughout the south Island including the Nelson regional art comp.
"I feel as though an Artist is a receptacle for emotions and abstract art is the best way to convey them. Perhaps it is the bravery behind painting an unusual piece".
Website:
dawsongallerynz.com
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Sandra Toornstra
finds inspiration in the contrast between life
in a large city and a small
rural town where she now lives, and environment
is a frequent theme in
her work. Sandra works mainly in acrylics and
mixed media on canvas, and also
creates work in textural layers that sometimes incorporate her
photographic imagery and collage.
Location: Waihi
Website:
dreamswork.blogspot.com
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It is difficult to ignore the vibrancy of the
Pacific that has made our NZ
culture so unique.
Inspired by our beautiful beaches, natural
resources, and the colourful
spirited people of the Pacific - Cairyn Tomokino creates
non-traditional, modern
pieces of Maori & Pacifica paintings and sculpture.
"I like to use flax and huge, beautiful shells for a
dimensional interest. I
encourage you to touch my artwork to really
appreciate the texture".
Location:
Auckland
Website:
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Ronda Turk
works from
her home studio painting mostly in oils on
canvas. Her work can be seen at Lindale Art
Gallery, Kapiti. She is also a member of the
NZ Academy of Fine Arts where she regularly
takes part in exhibitions.
Location: Wellington
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Rochelle May van der Werff enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects and styles. She loves adding lots of colour and imagination into her artwork.
Many of her paintings are inspired by New Zealand and its many beautiful attributes she likes to recreate, also she likes to
experiment with different mediums and textures creating diversity in all of her pieces.
Location:
Auckland
Website:
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Shelly van Soest describes
her work as 'stylised' as she likes to
simplify her subject
matter in order to focus on textures, layers and
colours. She likes to
include details and objects that she considers to be
beautiful. She is fascinated by natural divisions, linear lines and
mankind's influence on
the land. "Creation is necessary for the good of my
soul - I would be
lost without it"
Location:
Christchurch
Website:
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Born in the
rural south Island,
Tania Verrent observed first
hand the rich diversity of NZ's beautiful
flora and fauna. She grew up captivated by
the unique wildlife and rugged landscape
that is the 'essence' of NZ. Tania is a
full-time artist who paints landscape,
animal and ocean art in acrylics, oils and
pastels. "I love it when a painting evokes
an emotional response in the viewer and I
feel privileged to make a living doing
something I have such passion for."
Location: Levin
Website:
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Melissa Wallace is a full time artist who is passionate about creating vibrant artworks that incorporate balance and colour.
She paints a broad range of subjects and loves to work with Mixed Media and texture. It is not unusual for her to get caught up
in her work, spending hours at a time in her studio perfecting every piece.
Website:
www.manukagallery.com |
Michelle Wallis has been a practicing artist for ten years and she specialises in abstract painted in oils. Each painting she
produces is very individual as she hand crafts each plaster piece and then attaches to board and paint. Depending
on size, a painting may take up to 30 hours of solid work. She has just started to exhibit her work in and around
Southland. She is also available for commissions.
Contact:
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Barb
Warren has been a full time painter since 1998 and works from
her studio in Ohoka.
Her first solo exhibition was in 2001 and since then she
has exhibited frequently. Her paintings are held in various private collections both locally and internationally. The figurative has always been the focus of
her work and she combines social and political commentary with a splash of humour into
her compositions.
Location: Ohoka
Website:
barbwarren.co.nz
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Eleanor
Wenman is a self taught artist who comes from a creative family. She is currently a full
time Mother to her two boys, Harry & George, and began painting again about 3 years ago,
finding it an immensely fulfilling and rewarding pastime. Before emigrating to NZ in 2000 she
owned her own thriving floral design business in the centre of London for 10 years. Her passion
for flowers is a major inspiration for many of her works. Eleanor’s painting style is realistic
and bold, combining reality with contemporary design. Her main medium is acrylic which is
often enhanced with the use of texture and mixed media.
Contact:
Eleanor Wenman
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Natasha Wheeler’s love of art emerged at an early age. She is a self taught artist and has a passion for vibrant colours and texture. She draws her inspiration from the culture of Aotearoa and the Pacific’s. She has a great
love for contemporary Kiwiana, traveling as much as she can through NZ and the pacific islands to study their beauty first hand.
Location: Auckland
Website:
www.artwork-toots.co.nz
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Michelle Whitehouse is a self taught abstract artist inspired by her surroundings. Just a glimpse of a particular shape, texture or colour is enough to inspire her to put paint to canvas. With a recently developed a passion for mixed media, she also incorporates a wide variety of materials such as tile, stone, sand and wood.
Location: Auckland
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Carol
Winterburn is a self taught artist who has
been dabbling with creating art in various
media and forms for many years. Her passion
is strong vibrant colour and realism and she
enjoys painting everything - animals, marine
life, wild life, floral, still life and
people. Carol spends many hours taking
photographs and researching her subjects
before bringing them to life on canvas.
Location: Turangi
Website:
www.petart.co.nz
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Sarah Jayne Woodward's world consists of painting, drawing and various other artistic endeavors!
Inspired by images of nature - particularly flowers and fruit, her greatest satisfaction comes
from the very act of creating, experimenting with the different media and pushing herself technically.
Her work contains scribbling, scratching, dripping, staining and usually something figurative
- sometimes even a little quirky!
Website:
sarahjaynewoodward.com
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Lauren
Worsley is an emerging New Zealand artist who has painted throughout her life, recently having given up
climbing the corporate ladder in order to paint full time. She draws inspiration from the vibrant, stark
and saturated hues of the NZ coast and landscapes, and also the human figure/face - striving to capture
a mood, spiritual lesson or emotional state through the use of colour and line, rather than just realistic
rendering of a scene. Lauren states some of her influences as: "my relationship with nature and perception
thereof, Buddhism, enlightenment, living in the moment, the balance of emotion, colour and mood, and my
mother".
Website:
www.laurenworsley.co.nz
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Joanne K Wright is a self taught artist who has been dabbling in the artistic mediums for many years. Unique in style and blend,
her main love is in photography and photographic manipulations, digital art and collages. Following her passion
for nature, the spiritual realm and fantasy genre, her artworks show the embedded spirit Joanne is soulfully connected
too. Joanne has also dabbled in the abstract painting and poetry arenas with success in Australia, but now chooses to
focus on the photographic side of things.
Location: Wellington
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