Artists

David Gibbons David Gibbons was born in London in 1978.  He studied art at Camberwell College graduating with Honors in Visual Arts. Many of David’s works explore landscapes, inspired predominantly by the vast mountainous region of Otago in New Zealand, but also by regions of England. He paints in oil from sketches and memory, his…

Denice Symons Denice Symons studied at Elam University of Auckland and gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1986. Still based in Auckland, Denice is interested in portraying the Pacific cultural mix which is prevalent in the Auckland region. Artwork The context of Denice Symons’ work is based on geometric patterns within ethnic societies. This…

Donna North – Artist Donna North was born in 1953 New Plymouth. She attended Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design majoring in photography. Pursuing this as her career Donna worked as a freelance photographer for several years. Although invested in photography Donna had a notion to paint. Using tools such as a palette knife and steel…

Elizabeth Rees Elizabeth Rees was born in Palmerston North in 1959. She has a Diploma in Fine Arts from Queen Elizabeth College and the University of Canterbury. Elizabeth’s works explore relationships between the body, the mind and the environment in which we exist. In recent years her works have depicted the human form in motion.…

Emma McLellan Emma McLellan studied at Elam and has a Masters in Fine Arts painting, with an undergraduate degree majoring in printmaking. Emma is currently the Studio Programme Leader of the BVA degree, Manukau Institute School of Visual Arts, and lectures in printmaking. Her practice is a combination of painting and screen printing allowing her…

Emma Wright Emma is a painter, writer and public speaker. Her paintings are layered with aspects of warm and cool pigments, pushing and pulling visual tension. There is patience between each layer, allowing it to ‘sit’ Emma sees organic forms take place. Positioned, rotated and even exposed to natural elements such as the rain, the…

Fillipa Mundell Filipa Mundell has always had a strong passion for creativity and a strong believer that you can do anything you set out to do.  Her career as an artist initially started by creating paintings for her own home when she couldn’t find artwork that she liked and truly reflected her personality and style. …

Fleur Yorston Fleur Yorston studied sculpture at art school and exhibits now as a painter, but jewellery remains her abiding passion. As a teenager in Auckland, she learnt to work with copper at night school with Andrea Daly and began to string together her beachcombing treasures of driftwood, paua, flax pods and bird bones to…

  Florence Egasse, is a French contemporary artist who lives in Christchurch. These days she spends a lot of her time in Hanmer Springs, her second Canterbury home.  She is a self taught artist who has always had the need to create. Egasse discovered art in the galleries and museums of Paris, but her interest…

Galina Kim is an established and award-winning artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Renowned for her abstract contemporary acrylic and mixed-media works, Galina has exhibited widely in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and her works are held in private collections, both nationally and internationally. She is also in demand as a workshop instructor in…

To intrigue and captivate the viewer, I take images out of context, juxtaposing over bold, sometimes rendered or patterned backgrounds. Dynamic compositions reflect my need to paint realist subject in a more abstract way. Over 20 years of painting in my studio has led me here. Not wanting to be a realist painter, I have…

Geoff Tune (1947 – 2017) The work Geoff Tune produced throughout his career as an artist in New Zealand, predominantly centred on landscape, or more specifically, place. The places around which he based his work were those that had significance in his life, such as where he or his family have lived, or still live,…