Artists

Mary Moen Mary has an art teaching background. In her long career as a professional artist she has achieved recognition in ceramics, fibre art and painting. Mary studied ceramics in Boston, USA, and tapestry weaving in Norway. Mary now works with acrylics on canvas, building thin layers of paint to achieve the depth of colour…

Mat Scott   New Zealand artist Mathew Scott graduated from the Wellington School of Design in 1991.  His creativity and aptitude for design has, over the past two decades, encompassed landscape and interior stone sculptures, invention of a new type of skateboard, abstract acrylic paintings and more recently feathers and shells carved from New Zealand…

Matt Dowman Matt Dowman was born in Whanganui in 1973 and raised in Taumaranui.  He relocated to Auckland in 1995 to further his artistic career. He began study at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in 1999, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002 before going on to complete his Masters in Fine…

Australian based Matt Palmer paints New Zealand from a nostalgic distance. Palmer describes his relationship with the New Zealand landscape as one of being “constantly drawn back to its dream-like qualities and emotional resonance. It is this subconscious, silent conversation that I find myself always coming back to.” In a meditative mode of working Palmer searches…

Michele was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1960…In 1967 the Family immigrated to Belfast in Northern Ireland where her Father was from, then having lived through the troubles, the Family, Father, Mother and younger Sister moved to Leicestershire, England. Michele has been back home in New Zealand since 2005 working as a pattern maker,…

Miranda Jane Caird NZ artist Miranda is largely self-taught, although she majored in art at Wellington Teachers College and showed an early talent for painting, receiving a distinction in art at High School. Inspiration Miranda Jane Card, NZ Artist, is influenced by European Impressionists and New Zealand painters, especially Rita Angus and Don Binney.  Miranda describes…

Nic Dempster Nic started painting when he was young. He got inspired by the countryside of his family farms. As he traveled to places like New Zealand, Japan, the United Kingdom and Europe, he found more things to inspire his art. After finishing his master’s degree in History, Nic went to the United Kingdom and…

Nicki Dalton A love of finish and texture are two readily recognisable aspects of Auckland artist Nicki Dalton’s work. Nicki’s journey to painting effectively began with the nurturing of a business in which paint finishes were meticulously applied to high-end hand-crafted framing. This constant involvement in the craft of painting, coupled with her deep interest…

Nicki Manthel Nicki is a trans-Tasman artist with a studio in Australia and Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast. She combines her busy painting practice with teaching contemporary painting at the Malvern Artists’ Society in Melbourne and frequent trips home to New Zealand. Moving to Melbourne has created a shift in her work. Exploring the Victorian…

Patterson Parkin A full time artist, Patterson Parkin has been exhibiting his paintings in New Zealand since 1978, after immigrating from Britain in 1974. His formative training in the study of art, specialising in drawing and painting was at the Warwick School of Art and later with the North East London Arts College where he…

Pauline Gough Warkworth artist, Pauline Gough, is a self taught, contemporary acrylic and oil painter. Her aim is to paint intuitively and she works quickly in order to maintain a fresh result. She loves to paint in an impasto style, with energetic brushwork and deliberate texture.  Her large, bold works are big brush in acrylic…

Peter James Smith Born in Paparoa, New Zealand in 1954, Peter James Smith is a prolific artist, holding several solo exhibitions each year. He has worked in both New Zealand and Australia since the mid 1970’s as a contemporary painter and is currently based in Melbourne.  His practice is built from the traditional painting medium…