Angela Amerigo
Angela Amerigo is a gestural abstract artist creating vibrant paintings from her studio in Waitākere. Her work is characterised by bold, saturated colours and dynamic gestures, visualising emotional responses and inner rumminations, what is felt but unseen.
Inspired by feminist art histories, Angela is passionate about using art as a means to inspire and facilitate critical discussion around contemporary topics.
Anna Tang
Using a paint carving technique, Anna's artworks are layered with 30-40 coats of white acrylic paint followed by 3 coats of a top colour. The design is then carved out revealing the white underneath, creating a rich texture to the surface of the work. She uses her background in design to thoughtfully compose beautifully arranged pieces, inspired by the urban gardens of her neighbourhood and nature unique to New Zealand. Her art has a beautiful handmade aesthetic, her design philosophy being to create tranquil art pieces that can be adored and cherished for years to come.
Anna Stichbury
My works tend to be bold and feature intense hues. I strive through the use of colour and texture to create rich, vibrant paintings that have an immediate impact for the viewer. I am interested in the emotional response to a work.
I have been painting and exhibiting for the last 25 years or so and have had many group and solo exhibitions. I paint from my Wellington studio and supply galleries around NZ. You can see more of my work in Auckland at Parnell Gallery.
Anna Leyland
Anna Leyland is a contemporary New Zealand artist. Utilising pattern making and symbolism, her works invoke conversations relating to the celebration of diversity and multiculturalism within Aotearoa.
Her works are directly influenced by the multicultural heritage of Anna and her son; Scottish, Hungarian, English, Fijian, Wallisian and Kiwi. “I have taken personal symbols and patterns from these different cultures and developed into my own, which then tells my story. My works are culturally diverse and inherently attract a diverse audience...""
With her distinctive style, she has had many corporate commissions including works for Nespresso, Orcon and Sofitel Queenstown.
Anna Jacobi
Anna Jacobi has been involved in Art all her life. She has attended many courses over mixed mediums but prefers calligraphy and painting. She enjoys the connection with the outdoors and sea life with transforming wooden oars and natural objects into forms of art using decoupage, colour and design. They are designed to be used for hanging indoor and outdoor as they have a marine coating.
AnnMaree Jago
AnnMaree Jago is a self taught artist living in Auckland. After many years of nursing she fulifiled her creative passion by experimenting with her favourite medium of inks and resin. She particularly favours circular forms as they soften the hard lines in interiors and provide balance to our spaces.
This year she has been experimenting with different mediums and is enjoying the use of acrylics.
Anya Godwin
Anya Godwin -As a watercolour artist, my practice centres on being open to the organic interplay between medium and moment.
My work holds a quiet tension between textured surfaces and more tranquil spaces. Within the complexity of colour and movement, there are often suggestions of allegorical figures and aura-like shapes—echoes from the meeting place of reality and the ethereal. In this way, I seek to touch what is visible through the invisible, layering water and pigment to reveal what lies beneath the surface.
I am currently semi-retired and in Year 3 at Browne School of Art.
Bailen Thatcher
Bailen Thatcher is an artist whose work explores the quiet intersection of architecture and nature. With a background in both Landscape Architecture and Architecture, he brings a thoughtful, layered perspective to his paintings - capturing subtle moments often overlooked in everyday spaces. His work encourages viewers to slow down and connect with the overlooked details that shape our surroundings. Through careful observation and a strong sense of place, Bailen creates evocative pieces that reflect his ongoing fascination with the built and natural environments we inhabit everyday.
Bara Rowing Oars Baradene Fundraiser
Baradene Rowing had some oars that were going to be retired, so we teamed up with the school’s art department to see what could be made of them. Senior art students were invited to take part in a competition, creating bold, unique designs with a nautical theme. The results were nothing short of impressive. Our talented girls exceeded all expectations, turning the brief into stunning works of art. What you see here is the outcome of their hard work, creativity, and vision. A huge congratulations to everyone who took part!
All proceeds from the sale of these works go directly to the PTA and Baradene Rowing.
Barbara MacKinnon
Barbara MacKinnon paints entirely from her imagination and memory, she loves to find opportunities for chaos and foreboding to creep into her compositions. As this body of work develops she explores the beauty and freshness we all have in our lives. This changes and becomes a different kind of beauty as we move through life. So too with these works, they are scraped, partially destroyed and changed and become representational of our imperfect, ephemeral reality.
Bec Robertson
Bec’s most recent works are intricately beautiful depictions of native New Zealand birds and flora. She explores ink, watercolour and paint in her mixed media pieces. These mediums are immortalised through a glorious seal of resin, allowing a vibrant contrast with the fine line ink, wooden base texture, and paint colour palette.
Ben Campbell
Ben Campbell is a fine art photographer based in Auckland, who specialises in black and white photography. His work is often abstract and utilises high contrast light.
His talents not only lie within photography but after winning the Mt Eden Younger Artist award for his photography, the year after he won the Sculpture section in the same competition. Ben has also been a finalist in the prestigous Canon Media Awards.
Ben has had the privilege of photographing world renowned artists and sports stars including Rhianna, Charlize Theron, Jonah Lomu, Sir Michael Palin and Sir Bryan Williams.
Betty Chung
Betty Chung (alumna of Baradene College), now a registered architect, designer and ceramic artist, currently working as an architect by day and as a ceramic artist by night. Her ceramic work is a synthesis of art and architecture, exploring forms by their materiality and texture through 2 and 3 dimensions expressing form and the creation of sculptural yet usable objects. Her work expresses her Asian heritage, fused with her up-bringing within Western culture. It is from this bi-cultural aspect that characterises her ceramic and architectural work. She has exhibited her work both in Australia and New Zealand.
Blake Beckford
Blake is an abstract geometric artist based in Tamaki Makaurau. Blake’s most recent work uses mathematical sequences to determine spacing, line and shape measurements in conjunction this with various patterns.
Blake utilises and manipulates colours, shadows, distance, and light, and the inherent transparency of cast acrylic to create crisp and clean multi-layered works.
Blake is also a picture framer and thus frames his own work, which often leads to funky framing or even extending the art into the frame itself. He is continuously exploring new elements and has a lot of fun during his creative processes.
Brad Novak
Brad Novak (aka New Blood Pop) is a leading urban artist whose work sits sharply at the nexus between fine art and street art. He is the first artist in New Zealand’s history to exhibit with the global superstar group including Warhol, Haring, Lichtenstein, OBEY, Brainwash and BANKSY (Toronto, 2015). Novak recently held a solo show in Chicago, USA with the coveted Vertical Gallery. Shortly after, he was selected by NZ’s premiere painter, Michael Smither CNZM, to join him in a 2-person portraiture show.
Brenda Clews
Art has been a passion since Brenda can remember, but in more recent times it has become far more than having fun putting paint on the canvas. It has become a way of visually remembering and documenting beautiful moments and imaginings.
Brenda's style has continued to evolve, but with the continual thread of leaning into thick lush textures with gestural brushstrokes to create a more abstracted final work.
Brenda's work has sold privately to collectors worldwide with pieces residing in Los Angeles, London, Cambridge, Glasgow, Abu Dhabi and throughout Aotearoa.
Bridget Pahl (Spencer)
Bridget is an artist based in Timaru, South Canterbury. She is a graduate of Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury.
Her work draws inspiration from the natural world and encompasses landscapes, portraiture and still life in terms of subject matter, while examining the interconnectedness of all things. The layering of paint and the way pigments interact with each other are particular interests, having spent a number of years learning about traditional painting materials in London.
Bruce Parker
Bruce Parker is a New Zealand born Master Neon Glass bender.
36 years of Glass bending has helped make Bruce a passionate Neon Artist who loves multiple perspectives in his creations.
Featuring beautiful traditional hand bent Neon glass tubing, with vibrant colours and high end finishes all of which being heated and bent over the flames in his Neonfab studio in Pakuranga.
Carol Bucknell
Carol Bucknell has been painting commissioned portraits and figurative works in oils for nearly 20 years, exhibiting these paintings in various group exhibitions. Recently she has completed several specialist courses in order to broaden a mostly self-taught practice. Working out of her Waiheke Island studio, Carol’s current paintings explore the relationship between contemporary digital processes and oil paint application on panels using cold wax medium.
Catrina Lloyd
Catrina’s abstract works are a visceral and sensory response to the raw West Coast energy where she resides.
Creating atmospheric scapes, her work delves into the realm of mapping, abstractly, and resonates with her profound connection to the natural world. Her work is both a response to the impermanent nature of the coastline and a fascination with how an abstract painting unfolds.
Lloyd's use of heavily diluted paints and inks lends a fluidity to her work, mirroring the ever-changing nature of the coastline itself.
Charlotte Johnson
Charlotte E. Johnson, M.A., is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Auckland. Taking great inspiration from liminal seascapes, Charlotte often imbues her works with the physical essence of Auckland's west coast beaches. She has had two successful solo exhibitions and contributed to several group shows across Aotearoa-New Zealand, as well as winning several awards. Her pieces are held in the New Zealand Maritime Museum, the McGregor Museum, and private collections. Charlotte's works can be seen on her Instagram page, "studio.abyss".
Chas Foxall
Chas is retired from several years as an art and design educator and Faculty Head at both secondary and tertiary levels. Aside from painting he enjoys photography, sailing, surfing and travel . He has a passion for Wanaka ,Central Otago and Aotearoa’s coastal islands. The islands in particular are often never visited because of their inaccessibility and are a stunning contrast to the normal North Island coastline . Wanaka and Central Otago are areas he visits often during the year. His work is represented in many private collections including The Arts House Trust at Pah House .
Claire Wallwork
Claire Wallwork is an Auckland based artist and a Baradene old girl. Curvy, interwoven and beautifully sensual, Claire's style is powerfully striking and uniquely her own, expressing her deep connection to our magnificent planet. Her bold reimagining of botanical forms provides an exciting metaphoric perspective on life and humanity. Claire has been one of the invited artists at Eden Park’s 'Art in the Park' since the inaugural show, and exhibits through Flagstaff Gallery in Auckland, and Fine Art Gallery in Christchurch.
Clare Woods
Clare Woods is an intuitive abstract artist based in Auckland. Clare's collage work is full of intense colour. It is created with hand-painted and hand-cut swatches. Each section is as unique as a fingerprint. Blending and relating to each other in unexpected ways. Designed to always create a happy, uplifting response.
Clare’s work is always joyful, colourful and vibrant. She uses techniques such as complex layering, gel-printing and mark-making with experimental tool paint application. Similar marks and shapes often repeat in her work and compose a unique signature style.
Craig Cornwall
Craig has exhibited in England and New Zealand and his paintings are in private collections in both these countries as well as in Europe, China and the United States.
In 2011 Craig relocated his studio back to his native country of New Zealand. His style is impressionistic mixing various techniques and materials. His work focuses on the emotional responses triggered by flora and his paintings often evoke hot summers, heavily scented nights, dense forests all bursting with vibrancy & colour.
David Young
The paintings I have submitted for the show are inspired from photographs taken during holidays within New Zealand. i am interested in lines, patterns, light and colour. My paintings are based around the feeling the scene invokes for me and my choice of colour is often based upon these feelings. I don’t necessarily want to use colours that are ‘natural’ to a given landscape feature or a structure. Nor do I want to create an accurate rendition of the landscape. I have completed a 4 year course at Browne School of Art
David Reid
A Christchurch born painter who previously studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts.
Like many NZ artists Reid’s work has been shaped by the Wairua/ - spiritual essence of the natural world and the wide, open landscapes of Aotearoa and its light.
Reid has always been attracted to and practiced abstract painting and in recent years increasingly began sketching outdoors, - the visceral nature of which led to a series of landscape paintings of various environments around NZ, which explore the connection between land and soul through works with a with a deep appreciation of the world around us
David Brosnahan
David Brosnahan
Ngati Kahungunu - Ngati Pahauwera
All my artwork has its foundations grounded in Maori heritage.
I enjoy working with wood, especially New Zealand native timbers.
Colour Harmony, working with colour combinations, and Colour Therapy is another passion.
My work is always influenced by my surrounding environment, whether in New Zealand or living overseas.
I enjoy using art to connect and learn about other cultures.
"Art can be a window into which different cultures can understand and learn from one another".
Deborah Fuller
Deborah Fuller has been a working artist 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. 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. Inviting the viewer to impart their own meaning.
Diane Allen
For as long as I can remember I have had the desire to be creative. I am passionate about pottery and the endless possibilities that can be created using your hands, imagination and some tools. It still amazes me how a simple ball of clay sourced from the earth can be transformed into so many different things. I love the process, starting with raw dirt and slowly changing it into something functional or sculptural that can be enjoyed for years to come. With cost effective products being so readily available I endeavour to make bespoke, handmade pieces that are unique & timeless.
Ekaterina Dimieva
Ekaterina is a local abstract artist. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at Elam in 2020 and has been a finalist in several national art awards in recent years. Her work is included in the Wallace Arts Trust collection.
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Elena Vidiella Lopez
Elena Vidiella-Lopez is a visual artist and educator based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Working primarily in oil painting, her practice explores the shifting relationship between the natural and digital worlds through immersive gradients, colour, and pattern. Her current body of work, Is it Right Now?, reflects on the human desire to hold onto fleeting moments of beauty — dissolving skies, glowing transitions, and the sensory pull of light and space. Elena holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from Massey University and has exhibited in group shows including Community at Envy Gallery and Still or Sparkling at 23 Holland
Elise De Silva
Elise De Silva is an award-winning watercolour artist and allround creative. She was was a finalist and received Highly Commended in the prestigious Adam Portraiture Award. Water is a central theme in her work due to its dynamic nature and reflective properties. She is a passionate plein air painter and has done a number of community art projects. She is a member of the Howick Art Group, Watercolour New Zealand and teaches watercolour classes and workshops privately and in Auckland's various art centres.
Ella Neal
Ella Neal is an alumnae of Baradene (class of 2018) who recently completed her BFA at Elam School of Fine Arts. She is inspired by her experiences and surroundings, exploring ideas of place and identity in her work. Her work ranges from printmaking and analogue photography to audio-visual installations.
@ellaneal_ on instagram
Gabrielle Gatt
Gabrielle is a talented botanical artist with meticulous attention to detail, depicting emotive stories of humanity, through nature, from heartbreak to delight.
The artist encourages viewers to get lost in the intensity of the artwork, noticing the sharp, delicate, sweet, joyful and chaotic elements of each plant and to reflect on life's delicate beauty and complexity.
"Illustrating nature allows me to get lost in the detail, connecting my hand with my heart and my thoughts. It is a reminder that joy and sorrow can co-exist and it prompts reflection on how I choose to navigate this wild and unpredictable journey."
Gabrielle Fawkner
Gabrielle Fawkner is a New Zealand artist based in Taranaki. Recently completing an advanced diploma in art and creativity at the Learning Connexion, she explores chalk pastel, earth oil paints, handmade paper—including her own harakeke paper—and earth pigment printing inks. Her work features expressive lines, vibrant colors, and rich textures, often reflecting materials sourced from coastal Taranaki. Gabrielle draws inspiration from expressionism and Matisse’s economical line, capturing the essence of her figurative models. She is the winner of the Contemporary Art Award Imprint 2025, showcasing her commitment to materiality and place.
Gail Kingston
Gail is a contemporary NZ artist who has sold successfully throughout the greater Auckland area. Her work is inspired by the ever changing kaleidoscope of colour and nature. Drawing inspiration from the sea and sky Gail creates art reflecting the richness of colour in our surroundings. Gail paints in acrylic and mixed media balancing composition and striking colour.
Gyongyi Spencer
Gyongyi explores a wide variety of different styles and techniques from textured art to traditional painting and drawing. Blending modern approaches with timeless practises allows her to create unique and captivating works of art.
Hazel Foot
My work shows expressionist landscapes, referencing New Zealand’s natural environment. These landscapes are unspoiled by the interference of man in order to highlight awareness of the fragility of nature and the importance of conservation and preservation. Spending time with nature is important to our physical and mental wellbeing.
I paint acrylic on canvas using colour and light to produce atmosphere and building layers of paint to produce depth and texture.
Heather Wilson
I had such a happy carefree kiwi childhood and I find a lot of my inspiration for my work is drawn from those memories. My art also explores aspects of iconic New Zealand scenery and symbolism connected with my beloved geometric patterns from the 1970s. My work is contemporary. I would describe it as an explosion of bold strong colour and texture, which is my distinctive trademark. I use acrylic and mixed media on canvas and board with resin effects.Represented by: Ora Gallery Wellington, Flagstaff Gallery Auckland, Helena Bay Gallery and Artbox Gallery Christchurch.
Heidi Cooney
Heidi is a contemporary artist and mother of three young children who lives in Mount Eden, Auckland. She is inspired by the natural beauty of Aotearoa, New Zealand and loves to bring her appreciation of nature indoors through her landscape and botanical paintings. She enjoys the challenge of capturing the natural world and her paintings convey a sense of peace and gratitude for the beautiful environment in which we live. Heidi mostly paints in acrylics on canvas and wood panel as she loves the versatility of the medium.
Helen Parsons
Now based in Raglan, Helen Parsons is an award-winning artist whose distinctive style is both iconic and quirky, often carrying layered meanings - some obvious and others waiting to be discovered. With a strong focus on preserving New Zealand's native flora and fauna, Helen delivers her message in bold, vibrant colours, often with a twist of humour.
Hollie O’Neill
Hollie O’Neill is an Auckland-based abstract minimalist artist inspired by nature's peaceful beauty and light. Using vibrant colours on aluminium and mirror substrates, she layers blended pigments with epoxy polymer to unveil luminous depth. Her artwork captures light, colour, and emotion.
Recognised as a finalist in prestigious awards like New Zealand's Parkin Drawing Prize and NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, she won the ‘Eden Park Best in Colour Award’ at Art in the Park. Her works are part of esteemed collections, including The Arts House Trust Collection.
Holly Clarke
Holly Clarke is an abstract expressionist eco-painter based in Aotearoa. Using sustainably sourced, non-toxic earth pigments, she creates dreamlike, textured mindscapes that explore the energy and emotion of the human experience through the lens of nature. Holly’s work invites viewers to reconnect—with themselves, the land, and a deeper intuitive knowing. Part of her childhood was spent on a rural farm near Matakana, where a tactile connection with the earth began. A former textile designer with over 30 years in design, she was a 2024 finalist in both the Kumeu Art Awards and the Emerging Artist Award at The Upstairs Gallery.
Irina Velman
Irina Velman is a mixed media artist, who traveled a lot, lived in a few countries and despite having settled in Waitakere, still has a strong feeling that the journey continues. There is always another distant shore, another chapter, another unknown layer of reality to be discovered. Irina’s art embraces travel and transformation, expressed through seascapes and land patterns. Mixing acrylic paint with different polymers and resin, the artist creates unique textures and an organic earthy feeling. Irina sees the world in a beautiful and mysterious way and believes in the healing power of art.
Isla Osborne
Wearing Glass is a traditional workshop, making glass jewellery using lampworking techniques that date back thousands of years. All of our glass is individually crafted using simple tools, each step following a time-honoured tradition.
Lampworking is an ancient and magical process with chemistry that borders on alchemy. Every morning we open our kiln to glorious colour, spending our day crafting glass into exquisite jewellery.
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Jamie Adamson
Jamie Adamson’s strong interest in working with wood began during his early years when, on family holidays in the Hawke’s Bay, he loved to join his grandfather in his workshop. There they would spend time using tools and machinery to fix and create things. A strong bond grew between Adamson and his grandfather. Adamson’s interest was furthered with his father, Don, through working together with tools on cars, tree houses and other building projects. After leaving school Adamson worked at three different yards to complete his apprenticeship in the boat building industry.
Jane Brenton-Rule
I'm a gardener and a painter. Everyday life things like plants and baking cakes makes its way into my paintings. I don't actually do the later (bake cakes), but it's a nice homely thought. If I can slow life down I will, gardens are good for that, the requirements being a little faith, a little more dedication and a patience through the seasons. Paintings are a little like that too. For The Baradene Art Show I have put together an affordable collection of flowers and fruit, not a big statement just a little bit of wholesome goodness.
Janet Hafoka
Janet Hafoka's art practice focuses on transient moments and time passing, exploring the uncertainty and beauty in the short-lived. With decaying natural objects illuminated, falling and in flight, her photographic imagery aims to breathe life into nature past its prime. Through this process it highlights value where existence is temporary.
Janet is a graduate of the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (MSVA). She has participated in solo and group exhibitions and her images are held in collections throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
www.janethafoka.com
Janice Napper
Janice is a contemporary full-time artist based in Auckland. Her work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of mediums and colour to generate distinctively captivating artworks. On first glance her work can look representative but on closer inspection reveal abstract elements and a distinctive rhythmic flow from this self-taught artist. Always inventive, Janice continues to evolve her practice by exploring new surfaces and techniques. Her latest nature inspired series incorporates the raw beauty of aluminium substrates celebrating the iconic native Nikau palm and the essence of New Zealand.
Jemma Ennis
Taking cues from the Colour Field painters and Constructivism with a splash of Pop-Art influence thrown in, Jemma's current series of works explores the concept of fragmentation. Manipulating an image to a point where it becomes almost unrecognisable. It is no longer unified and representative, but a series of fragmented geometric shapes held together by commonalities such as colour and form.
Since 2015 Jemma has been exhibiting regularly with her work held in collections both in NZ and overseas. Her 2015 painting 'Looming Norman' was purchased by The Arts Trust and she is represented by Black Door Gallery in Parnell.
Jenna Billman
Graphic designer and past student, Jenna, incorporates design thinking into her art practice through space, harmony and intent.
Consistently finding enjoyment in nature and creation, Jenna paints to share the special connection held between human and nature.
Instagram: @jennabillmanart
Jessica Kanji
Jessie Kanji is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher and educator from Wellington, Aotearoa. She specialised in print, graduating with a PgDipFa with distinction from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2023. Kanji primarily uses print as a method of thinking. In the amber-like qualities of ink, her work seeks to evoke the concept of rasa - a state of total absorption. Jessie was awarded a fellowship - a generous partial scholarship to complete her MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, and is currently fundraising to attend in September 2025.
Jo Tricker
Anthropology is about the science of human beings.
Shaping glass as it transforms from a solid to a liquid is about the science of heat and gravity and the beauty of refraction and reflection, softness and hardness, and transparency and opacity.
Jo combines her love of science and art by using the medium of glass to make sculptures about social anthropology - the origin, nature and destiny of human beings. Her work explores the culture, stories, myths, beliefs and language that tie groups of people together - whilst also integrating her love of colour along the way.
Jo Rankin
After selling my interior design business in Auckland and moving to Taupo in 2010, my love of colour and design led me to fulfill my long time desire to paint.
Georgia OKeefe and Mark Rothco were inspiration in the early days of my art journey. I so admired their unique artistry and my intuition led me to paint in a contemporary and abstract style with acrylics and mixed media.
Gaining an art qualification became a goal and I completed my diploma of abstraction and abstract realism through Artists Network University USA in 2015, subsequently opening my own small gallery in Kinloch Taupo.
A highlight of my art journey was being filmed by Colour in Your Life Australia and having my episode distributed to the Arts Channels and YouTube worldwide. It’s such a thrill to know that over 30000 viewers have enjoyed my episode and I am ever grateful to my collectors and followers who have supported me as an artist.
Joanna King
Painting and creating is my most peaceful place to be. My latest pieces are inspired by food and dining. In my earlier life I owned and worked in restaurants and food has always played a huge part in my life both professionally and within my family life.
These pieces are playful and vibrant and celebrate food and wine and hospitality.
I believe in creating pieces that are affordable and that people connect with and can take home to enjoy forever.
Joanna Meek
An an artist Joanna Meek focuses on realism through the medium of acrylic paints in her artworks. Painting gives her the opportunity to express herself and show her love of nature. She travels around the world collecting inspiration and ideas, but her focus is mainly on New Zealand’s diverse and spectacular scenery. Her inspiration comes from nature with its multitude of colours, movement and forms. She likes to explore with layers and colour creating a sense of depth and reality, and embraces light, how it changes, reflects & creates shadows.
Joanne Mahoney
My mixed media works have evolved over the last few years - and perhaps could be described as interdisciplinary.
Using watercolours, acrylics, oil & cold wax, collage and the many different processes used in printmaking to create unique artwork now often used in collages.
My time spent living in Asia, then in the beautiful coastal environment of the Coromandel and now in the picturesque Pirongia often influences my work.
Jody Hope Gibbons
Jody Hope Gibbons is a contemporary painter based in Matakana, north of Auckland. Jody has spent a considerable amount of time being privately tutored and has completed several Mastery Contemporary Painting courses. She has been published in "New Zealand's Favourite Artists" Volume 2, plus has been featured in lifestyle publications such as "NZ Life and Leisure" magazine. The current body of works explores surface - it pushes the boundaries of traditional painting practice and techniques.This work is ever-changing and currently becoming bolder, colourful and more gestural, however the recurring reference back to the land is also evident.
John Staniford
I am a full time artist, living in Napier. I have painted for over 50 years. Trained at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland in the 1960's under Colin McCahon. Taught Art in several schools & owned a screen printing business in Auckland. I have exhibited in NZ , Australia, Belgium & the UK. I paint largely in acrylics.
Karlalise Horstmans
Karlalise Horstmans is a contemporary artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly an intellectual property lawyer, she began exhibiting professionally in 2022. Since then, her works have appeared in over 40 group shows and been selected as a Finalist in over a dozen national and international art awards / prizes. She paints figurative naturalist works in the style of expressive realism, exploring people, places, plants and things. Her works are a diary of her attendance - poignant observations of the otherwise mundane. She paints in oils / acrylics from small (30cm) to extra large (3m+) in scale.
Karley Feaver
Through her surreal approach to taxidermy and sculpture, Karley constructs a dialogue between the outside world and our inner selves, inviting contemplation, connection, and a renewed appreciation for the beauty and complexity of life. Karley's works employs a radical approach to botanical forms, using them as symbolic references within the vessels, where the objects have taken on mutations of flora and fauna. Karley's works, held in private collections around the world, reflect her lifelong fascination with nature, showcasing her unique ability to transform objects into vessels of profound meaning and human experience.
Kate Horn
Kate is a contemporary artist based on Auckland’s North Shore. Her work reimagines traditional landscapes with a modern sensibility, shaped by her interest in composition, colour, texture, and philosophical reflection. Drawn to the quiet power of remote places, Kate often paints bold, atmospheric scenes featuring lone houses within dramatic terrains. For Kate, painting is a way to offer solace and strength through visual expression, each work created with the intention of grounding the viewer and reconnecting them to a sense of stillness that is often lost amongst our busy lives.
Kelly Rowe
Kelly Rowe is an Auckland-based artist and interior designer. A trained Architect and 20 years’ experience working in the architecture and interior design world, her paintings explore both natural and man-made landscapes. She paints in both oils and acrylic, and her abstract landscapes are tranquil, calming and contemplative, whilst her architectural landscapes push graphic boundaries, speaking of vernacular texture, the built environment, form, colour and space, an expression of architectural drawing and constructive memory.
Kelly Norris
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Ken Garrett
Ken Garrett Born in England.
Professional artist and has been painting for 60 years.
My background is in architecture,industrial design and art.
Capturing atmosphere is the main endeavour of my works executed in oils, acrylics and watercolours. Landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and architectural buildings, structures and construction sites are my main themes in impressionist and abstract form. “Painting is a creative process of the mind as is music, and
the emotive effects and creativity of classical and jazz musicians influence my way of thinking and capturing mood and a tmosphere .”Key influences: Turner, Monet, da Vinci, Piranese and Sir Russell
Kirsten Clark
Kirsten Clark is a New Zealand artist known for her captivating landscapes and evocative floral portraits. Inspired by traditional, impressionist, and plein air paintings, Kirsten's work merges the worlds of photography and painting, resulting in artwork that possesses a painterly effect. Kirsten's work is a testament to the beauty of nature and the power of art to capture and convey the profound moments that often go unnoticed. Through her lens and brush, she invites viewers to pause, reflect, and find serenity in the natural world.
www.kirstenclarkart.com
Kirsty White
I enjoy translating my passion for wild landscape using texture and minimal tone through the printmaking process. My current etchings focus on our native bush, our treasures of the forest, nga taonga o te ngahere. The use of pattern work within my landscapes (an etched bamboo plywood block) has been inspired by Pacific Island masi and tapa cloth as well as Māori whakairo. Pattern allows me to add narrative to my work, referencing our place here in the Pacific and layering details that reflect on my research of past and present habitation.
Kirsty McMahon
Kirsty McMahon is a self-taught artist residing in Pukekohe, New Zealand.
She paints meticulously detailed pieces that reflect her deep admiration for the natural world and is particularly inspired by the unique and vibrant array of native flowers and bird life of Aotearoa.
Kirsty hopes that her artwork evokes a sense of joy and awe and serves to bring the beauty of nature inside your home.
Kylie Law
My authentic style artwork focuses on the beauty of nature: predominantly florals. I translate delicate blooms using both acrylic, and sometimes mixed media techniques, and a feminine colour palette into works that burst with energy.
Colour, shape and composition are key attributes in my unique works and it is the combination of these aspects that make my work highly recognisable. I am proudly self-taught and have spent many years working through the intricacies of learning colour mixing, product application and developing a professional art practice.
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Kylie Rusk
Kylie Rusk is a New Zealand-based artist living in Muriwai, Auckland. Raised on a farm in the Far North, she developed a strong connection to the land—an influence that continues to shape her work. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a specialisation in lithography and a conjoint Bachelor of Arts in geography. Kylie’s practice captures landscapes in time, using light, shadow, and texture to explore memory and the history of place. Her work highlights the land’s historical significance, honouring its stories
Lena Nelson
Originally from Sweden, I married a Kiwi and immigrated to New Zealand in 1991 with our daughters. For many years, I worked in several homeware/gift stores and ran my own art gallery in Kumeu, curating and exhibiting works by artists. When I owned the art gallery, I started making custom jewellery and have been for the last 15 years. Took up ceramic 4 years ago and had my first exhibition 2022. Second exhibition this year. My work is to withstand the harsh NZ Climate and use stainless steel. I love white flowers. Enjoy.
Leonora Johnson
I am an Auckland artist who enjoy's painting from a wide range of subjects although for many years I have been concentrating on commissioned portraits of both people and their pets using either oils or pastels. Presently I'm enjoying a less demanding style of paintings in a series of women from a past era as shown in Baradene's art show.
Attending Daniel Greene's New York portrait classes gave me the opportunity to receive many commissions including Hawaii and Australia.
I am a member of The N.Z. fellowship of artists.
Logan Bow
Logan Bow is a multidisciplinary artist and emerging architect whose practice bridges visual art, design, and spatial exploration. Currently pursuing a Master of Architecture (Professional) and Urban Design at the University of Auckland. One of the disciplines within Logan’s work includes an immersive exploration of natural New Zealand shells. His practice thrives on experimentation, embracing distortion, flow, and symmetry to push creative boundaries in both playful and thought-provoking ways. Logan additionally explores the use of polymethyl methacrylate by investigating form, density, and rigid, figural origami. This dual exploration results in a vibrant interplay between cyclic motifs and fluid structures.
Lucie Anderson
Lucie Anderson is a Napier-based contemporary artist known for her dynamic and vibrant alcohol ink creations. Inspired by the natural beauty of Aotearoa, her work explores movement, energy, and emotion through richly layered colour and flowing forms. Her art invites the viewer to pause, feel, and connect with something elemental. Lucie creates only original pieces, each one a singular expression of her creative process. Her work has been exhibited and recognised across New Zealand & internationally, resonating with collectors drawn to its bold aesthetic, organic elegance, and the sense of vitality it brings to contemporary spaces.
Lucy Melville
Lucy Melville is an artist who works from her Howick studio, creating paintings that blend abstract and realist styles. She draws on the soft, organic forms of birds and landscapes, layered with geometric elements inspired by the natural world. Influenced by patterns found in nature, almost fractal in their repetition, her vibrant acrylic works on canvas and wood explore light, energy and the hidden structures that shape our environment.
Mandy Rodger
Characterised by fluid moves and sweeping energy flows, Mandy Rodger’s work immerses the viewer in the motion of her brushstrokes. She works intuitively, exploring colour and the materiality of the paint.
Formerly a lawyer, Mandy studied painting at Browne School of Art, Auckland. She works from her central Auckland studio, regularly showing in solo and group exhibitions throughout NZ. Mandy was selected as a double finalist in the National Contemporary Art Awards 2019, a finalist in the National Cleveland Art Awards 2021, the Aspiring Art Prize 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and the NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards 2025.
Marion Aitken
I’m a Taupo based artist with a small studio in a garden setting at my home. I prefer to work in oils and most of my work is hyper-realistic particularly with botanicals. I have ventured into a series of minimalistic artworks which have proved extremely popular due to their size and great price point. I also love the Central Otago landscape and when exhibiting in the South Island, my work is predominantly landscapes around that region. I exhibit around the country and my work has made its way overseas as far afield as Puerto Rico and the UK.
Matt Hughes
Art was originally started as a hobby, and people were becoming interested in what we were creating. We started out at markets, and our business grew and grew. My wife and I enjoy the creation and interaction process when commissioning custom pieces for people.
We make a range of indoor and outdoor art, sculptures, furniture and a range of outdoor fires.
All of our artwork is made from 2.5mm or 3mm CorTen NZ Steel. Weathering steel, it’s amazing! It coats itself in a patina (that rusty look) which actually protects the steel so it won’t deteriorate.
Michelle Huizinga
Michelle Huizinga is a multi-media sculptor based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. NZ A sculptor of Dutch descent, Michelle is deeply connected to her cultural heritage. Her practice predominantly results in ceramic vessels adorned with weaving. In this series Michelle has focused on wall hangings with a playful focus on the ocean. A theme that comes through in much of her work.
Michelle Viskovich
Michelle Viskovich is an artist who is inspired by the natural environment around her. She paints landscape to capture the vibrancy and luminosity of reflections by combining abstract techniques with realism. Her work involves subtle mark making with palette knives to manipulate the paint into a coherent composition. She practices locally with the Platina Street Art Group in Auckland under the mentorship of John Nicol.
Michelle Neale
Michelle is an abstract artist, painting from her home based studio in Bombay, NZ. Her abstract style is mostly intuitive, or creating an abstract interpretation of a reference photo. She loves florals- the colours, texture, details, forms. Michelle loves to create artworks that hold sentimental value to her collectors, work that has been keeping her very busy recently is creating paintings inspired by ones wedding florals.
She welcomes commissions, so if interested please get in touch via email michellenealeart@gmail.com, social media, or phone 0212399637
Michelle O'Loughlin
I’m an emerging artist but I’ve been emerging since I was a child. I completed my art school foundation and trained professionally as a fashion designer in the UK working later in London, Sydney and Hong Kong. My inspiration comes from lost traditions, twisted memories, and the natural marine environment. I stitch my themes together with intention to create with the heart not the head. I'm interested in how nostalgia, stories and memories define our own truths. I work out o Currently in my second year with Dunedin School of Art Completing my Level 6 in Ceramic Art.
Muriel Garrett
Muriel Garrett Born Liverpool United Kingdom studied at Liverpool College of Art and spent two years in Paris. Lived and worked in the UK, America, France, Australia and New Zealand. I have been painting for many years but full time for the last 10 years as a professional artist.
I paint mainly in acrylic and oils.
I am influenced by French Impressionists such as Monet, Pissaro and Sisley. I enjoy painting atmospheric landscapes, and seascapes.
My paintings are held in collections in France,Australia,Canada,USA,UK and New Zealand
Natalie Holland
Natalie is a textile artist from Wellington who produces bright and colourful punch needle and tufted pieces that feature motifs and patterns used in hiapo (Niuean tapa cloth), linking to her Niuean heritage. Her works are made using 100% NZ wool and feature botanical and geometric elements in a wide range of often unexpected colour combinations. She creates contemporary pieces that pay homage to the traditional design language of her Niuean heritage as well as to the important women in her life to whom making has been a fundamental part of everyday life.
Nicky Rensen
Nicky Rensen is an artist based in Auckland, Whangaparoa. Previously exhibited in Estuary Arts in Orewa. Entirely self-taught, Nicky draws frequently from personal photography, transforming real-life impressions into paintings that pulse with movement and mood.
Specialising in oil painting, Nicky employs expressive brush strokes and bold colour to portray the vibrant spirit of New Zealand seascapes and the dramatic contours of mountain landscapes.
With a background of Art History study, Nicky’s creativity is fuelled by an admiration of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, particularly their fascination with cloud formations.
Nicola Welten
Nicola Welten is a Tauranga based expressionist artist painting bold semi abstract works on canvas. She has a love of exuberant colour and her paintings are inspired by her love of flower gardens and the New Zealand landscape. Her painting process starts with abstract marks and shapes which bring an underlying energy to her work and helps her convey her excitement about the colour and beauty of her themes. Nicola's work displays her ongoing fascination with different degrees of abstraction and transparency of colours, and she loves it when viewers feel uplifted by her paintings.
Oriah Rapley
Oriah Rapley is a full time practising artist currently working in wood, hard stone, bronze and steel. Rapley exhibits nationally and has pieces in private collections nationally and Internationally including the James Wallace collection. Her work has been selected for the Homework exhibitions at Puke Ariki, New Zealand sculpture onshore, Devonport, Auckland, the Richard T Nelson Art Awards, Wellington, and, Sculpture on the Peninsula, Canterbury. She has attended many symposiums around New Zealand including Te Kupenga international stone sculpture symposium. Her work is in constant refinement towards the purity of form, and acknowledges freedom of choice.
Pam Mossman
Pam is a self-taught multimedia artist and works predominantly in the mediums of pottery and painting with occasional forays into flax weaving.
Her passion at present is recreating beautiful nostalgic, ceramic hydrangeas and intricate ceramic busts.
Pam is very involved in the local art scene in Whakatane, she is President of the local Art Society and runs the Whakatane Potters group.
Married with 5 children, who are all involved in various arts, she has lived in the beautiful Ohope Beach for 30+ years.
Penny Murdoch
Penny Murdoch is a contemporary oil painter known for capturing fleeting moments of light, atmosphere, and memory — those quiet, in-between spaces that often elude description. Using traditional oil techniques with layered glazes and nuanced colour palettes, her paintings create space for the viewer to bring their own feelings and interpretations. Described as moody, suggestive, and immersive, her work doesn't seek to document but to evoke — painting not just what is there, but what is felt. Inspired by memories of her rural childhood and the ever-changing skies of the Wellington hills.
Polly Stewart
For the last 20 years, I've called New Zealand home, though I'm originally from the UK. A Contemporary Arts graduate, I've been creating and exploring ever since. My recent work lives in the space between detailed realism and bold abstraction. Each piece is a journey of experimentation, shaped by new techniques and unexpected discoveries, with the aim of creating a distinct mood and feeling.
Rachel Rush
Rachel Rush is the contemporary fine art arm of New Zealand artist Rachel Rush. Growing from a background in traditional oil landscape painting, the abstract, moody colours of Rachel Rush are the result of years of experimentation. Sought after throughout Oceania, Rachel Rush uses resin to manipulate and explore the boundaries of colour, taking full advantage of the freedom of mixing colour to challenge expectations and draw the viewer into an intimate, moody relationship with the work. Rachel Rush has been selected to appear at prestigious exhibitions across New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore.
Richard Naylor
A ceramic artist who was classically trained in Japan and moved to New Zealand in 2001, Richard mostly works on the wheel, but also hand-builds larger vessels. Richard is currently working on the use of slips and textural finishes to pots to create a multilayered surface and has also made tableware for several restaurants in Auckland, including Sidart, Gerome, Cassia and Welcome Eatery, and is currently working on plates for La Condesa restaurant in Paris.
Rieko Woodford-Robinson
Rieko is best known for her detailed portraits of anthropomorphic creatures, usually birds and animals or well-loved toys. Her first exhibition was held in 2010, followed by several solo shows and group exhibitions in Wellington and Auckland.
She consults with a tikanga Māori advisor about her artwork. She studied Tikanga Māori at TWoA. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of her artwork goes toward a bird recovery program.
Rieko is represented by Black Door Gallery in Auckland and her limited-edition giclée prints are available from Eyeball Kicks online gallery.
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Robbi Carvalho
Robbi Carvalho is a multidisciplinary artist who shares visual stories through a female gaze. She celebrates diverse, non-Eurocentric beauty, focusing on real bodies and the complexity of womanhood. With a background in architecture and jewellery design, she creates dreamlike, detailed compositions marked by precision and an intuitive palette. As a full-time artist, Robbi sees art as a tool for mental health and personal growth. She also leads community workshops aimed at empowering women and fostering a sense of belonging and self-worth.
Roberta Queiroga
Roberta Queiroga is a contemporary artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her abstract works are emotional landscapes—bold, gestural compositions created through spontaneous mark-making and a minimalist aesthetic influenced by her background in architecture. Born in Brazil and shaped by the experience of living across four continents, Roberta’s art reflects a deep cultural confluence. She has exhibited at the Auckland Museum, been a Parkin Prize finalist, was recently awarded and exhibited in Dubai—representing New Zealand among a global selection of women artists—and completed an artist residency in Japan.
Robin Scott
Emerging artist Robin Scott creates works to enhance any room. Painted with her usual flamboyant energy, her works are visually rich and stimulating. Primary objective is to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. New Zealand life and icons are represented in some way in her works.
Ronald Andreassend
Ronald`s inspirations reveal a diversity of ideas from culture, family stories, memories, experimentations resulting in homewares, artworks and lighting as well as objects that have no reason except to amuse or intrigue.
His creative career spans 47 years that fuses the boundaries between art, craft, design and Politics.
RUSH
RUSH is the explosive, energetic creation of Rachel Rush. Evolving from the street art of Melbourne, New York, and the surviving slabs of the Berlin Wall, RUSH brings rebellious and electric street art into the home. Through RUSH, Rachel layers hand-cut stencils and rich details to push the boundaries of street art and explore the unexpected and the outsider in each of us. Big and bold, RUSH works don’t aim to fit in. Their characters, colours, and storytelling leap from the canvas in a one-of-kind “urban disturbance” that has developed a cult-like following.
Sarah Mauger
Sarah is a contemporary artist and full-time art teacher at an intermediate school. With a background in makeup artistry and fashion, her work reflects a bold, evolving style influenced by texture and contrast. Working primarily in black and white with pops of bold colour. She incorporates layers of spray paint, stencils, lace, and gold leaf. Her recent exploration into resin and abstract forms adds depth and movement to her practice. Combining moody romanticism with an urban edge,
Shona Mackenzie
With a background in design and education, Shona Mackenzie returned to painting full time in 2021. She currently works from her open studio in the Historic Village, Tauranga. In 2024 Mackenzie won the inaugural Gold Stuff Aotearoa Award for her distinctive voice, evocative sense of place and expressive mark making. Her semi-abstract landscapes invite the viewer to make their own connections, both with an individual piece but also to the powerful places from their own past. Themes around belonging, home and turangawaewae appear throughout Shona's practice - through this lens she explores long forgotten memories and generational echoes of emotion.
Spid Pye
Spid is a contemporary New Zealand photographer renowned for his intimate exploration of his subjects, inviting the viewer to delve deeper into his work. “Every visual starts from a blank canvas. I have learnt that there is no right or wrong in creativity. People usually set themselves in certain categories, to be something, but that’s not how I see it.” He has gained international recognition for his work. He has received various awards and accolades for his contributions to the art of photography.
Studio Reset
Studio Reset is an award winning encaustic artist working out of her rural home studio on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. I’m sure you’ve heard the term from “farm to plate”, well in this case Studio Reset works from “Beehive to Artwork”. Taking total creative control of this ancient art practice and keeping sustainability as one of her key focuses, she 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. The process is very much an organic one. Her artworks smell divine.
Suzette van Dorsser
Suzette van Dorsser has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Massey University and is a Franklin based artist. She uses printmaking techniques to generate raw materials, used to construct paintings and mixed media works. Suzette's work features intricate layers: building depth, movement and interest.
Tanya Paton
Tanya Paton is an abstract painter from New Plymouth. Her work explores natural forms, light, colour and intuition. Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvas, her compositions balance spontaneity with deliberate refinement. Each piece evolves organically beginning with abstract, intuitive mark-making and experimentation, then building layer upon layer to create a luminous, textural quality. The images begin to emerge out of the chaos as the layers progress. Her work most often incorporates floral and botanical themes, although always through an abstract lens. Her art invites viewers into a space where feeling takes precedence over definition.
Troy Goodall
Troy Goodall is one of New Zealand’s most recognised and applauded photographers, with his international portfolio garnering acclaim from around the world. Prolifically talented and with a skilled conceptual eye, Troy brings a wealth of experience to projects for clients from every corner of the globe.
Troy has picked up a dozen IPA citations over the last three years, including a win in the conceptual advertising category. He is ranked in Lürzer's Archive Top 200 photographers worldwide.
Two Rooms Gallery
Two Rooms, is a contemporary art gallery located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a programme of exhibitions and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces running a dual programme of two exhibitions per month.
Val Enger
Val Enger’s paintings are inspired by the tumultuous nature of the New Zealand landscape and often human form. She enjoys the way colour and form vie with each other, creating natural compositional rhythms. Colour profoundly affects all aspects of her life, especially emotions and moods, and she aims to reflect this in her paintings. Organic forms and shapes are apparent to Val everywhere, connecting her to nature. The essential, biomorphic forms of the land evoke freedom and an opportunity to play and explore, in the search for a visual ‘truth’ that finds its place between the observed and the imagined.
Vanessa Narbey
Vanessa Narbey, artist and art educator, lives in Auckland with her family and holds a MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. A finalist in major art awards, she has exhibited her work globally and has works held in both private and public collections worldwide. Vanessa explores colour and visual perception in her paintings with the layering of shapes, textures and lines. Her work often starts with a fascination of packaging shapes and she often uses them as stencils in her paintings. A contemplative quality emerges in her work and creates ambiguity and intrigue.
Veronica Herber
Veronica Herber is an award winning artist based in Auckland. Her unique choice of medium is Japanese Washi Tape.
As well as several solo and group shows in New Zealand and Australia, Herber's work is included in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; and The Arts House Arts Trust. NZ Sculptor Award at Sculpture by the Sea Bondi (2015); finalist in the Wallace Art Award (2017) (2016) (2014). Selected shows: Waiheke Sculpture on the Gulf 2017,2015,2013, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney 2015, 2014,2013. Blue Mountains City Gallery 2017, Puebla, Mexico 2015.
Victoria Dowall
Kaiapoi artist Victoria Dowall is a mixed-media artist who blends acrylics, spray paint, and resin. From vibrant flowers to striking graffiti, her work captures both beauty and popular culture through a unique Kiwi lens.