Artists

Gretl Barzotto Gretl Barzotto has been a designer for over 20 years.   Gretl is used to ordered process. In contrast, her experimental art practice expresses personal freedom. She experiments with different mediums.  She loves to use materials which allow her to have an ongoing conversation with the canvas as the work unfolds. Artwork Examples…

Han Nae Kim Han Nae Kim is a visual artist based in Auckland, who recently completed a Master of Fine Arts with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne in 2012.  She is currently undertaking doctoral studies at Elam School of Fine Arts. Exploring the ‘in-between’ as a field of encounter,…

Harold Coop Harold Coop first exhibited in 1959 and following his retirement as one of New Zealand’s leading eye surgeons, he has been able to fully pursue his artistic career. Strong abstract landscapes in acrylic and metallic paints with bright splashes of colour are Harold’s trademark. The emergence of this style was partially the result…

Hazel Hunt is an Auckland Artist. Hazel was born into an artistic family and had private tuition from her father who was also a painter from London. Primarily, Hazel worked many years in top advertising agencies. Hazel has sold many of her works in USA. She first exhibited in Newport, Rhode Island in 1994. All…

Ian Axtell Ian Axtell immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand from England in 1973 with his wife and young family. Axtell gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1986 with the intention of becoming a teacher; he was also working as an artist in pottery, sculpture and painting. In 2007 he completed a Graduate Diploma in painting…

Jaejin Lee is a self-taught oil painter/artist. His subjects include still lifes, portraits and  landscapes, but he is motivated to paint anything that captures in his interest. Jaejin was born in Seoul in 1976. He now lives and works in Auckland.

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. …

NZ Artist – Jane Puckey Jane was born in Auckland and has spent the last thirty years painting the New Zealand landscape. Focusing on the beauty of the land, Jane’s paintings are meticulous translations of what she loves onto canvas. Inspiration Jane is self-taught and paints in acrylic on canvas in a way that allows…

Janine Prowse There is a prominent infatuation with New Zealand’s native bird life and scenery in Janine’s paintings. Not only is this prevalent in her use of subject, but also in choice of colour and composition. The viewpoint offered to us provides distance and intimacy in the one frame. Iconic NZ cliff faces and country…

Jill Perrott In the 1960s, Jill Perrott studied art at Elam under Colin McCahon, Garth Tapper and Robert Ellis. Overseas travel, raising a family and working in an educational publishing house occupied her time through to the early 1990s, when her three children left home.  It was then that Jill re-energized her artistic abilities at…

Jody Hope Gibbons – Artist Jody Hope Gibbons is a contemporary New Zealand painter with works held in private collections both here and throughout the world. She has been privately tutored in art and has completed several mastery contemporary painting courses in Auckland. Jody Hope Gibbons has been published in “New Zealand’s favourite Artists” Volume 2,…

John Horner is an expressive painter born in England in 1944. He embarked on his artistic journey at Takapuna Grammar School under the guidance of Owen R. Lee. Graduating with honors in painting from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1965, Horner initially shared his passion for art as a secondary school art teacher until…