26 - 28 JUNE 2026
26 - 28 JUNE 2026
Jessie is a mixed media, intuitive painter from Tairua, New Zealand. Colour, texture and mark making is a constant theme in her work and, as an intuitive painter, she lets the painting direct her. For her it’s about the process and the art is a dialogue between herself and the work. The layers are created Read more…
Jo has spent her adult life immersed in various creative sectors. A qualified interior designer, she previously owned her own business in Auckland before relocating to Kinloch in 2010. It was during this transition that her passion for painting truly took shape, driven by a deep love for exploring colour and design. Over the years, Read more…
Lee began her creative career in publishing with A H and A W Reed Publishers, where she worked alongside a number of highly regarded writers and artists. The journey from handwritten manuscripts to finished books sparked a lasting fascination, and she was occasionally invited to contribute illustrations. She went on to deepen her practice through Read more…
Lucie is a Napier-based contemporary artist known for her refined, vibrant works created with alcohol inks. Originally from Belgium, she was immersed in creativity from an early age and later studied photography before discovering alcohol ink as her primary medium. Her art is a balance between colour, motion, and light, both intuitive and deliberate. Working Read more…
Sarah is a mixed media abstract artist living in Auckland and painting from her studio at home. She explores emotion, contrast, and urban influence through a range of techniques and materials, including stencils, lace, spray paint, acrylic, gold leaf and resin. Her background in makeup artistry and design influences her approach to layering, texture, and Read more…
Megan’s practice has developed through international recognition, with works exhibited and collected across borders, establishing a visual language that speaks beyond place while remaining grounded in lived experience. Working internationally has shaped her understanding of how memory, landscape and emotion translate across different audiences, allowing the work to hold both personal and universal meaning at Read more…
For Gilly Bass, creativity has been both a personal and professional journey shaped by healing, transformation and expression. Over the past several decades, her focus has centred on experiential contemporary mixed media work, informed by her background as a health practitioner and her experience fabricating orthotics from casts and moulds. This influence brings a tactile, Read more…
Catherine Jurgens is a Hawke’s Bay artist specialising in joyful florals. Combining a lifelong passion for art with a professional history in teaching and television, Catherine uses layers of colour and curated touches of mixed media to create pieces that radiate happiness. Her work is in national art shows and galleries throughout NZ. You’re welcome Read more…
Lynette has always wanted to be an artist. As a child, she loved making things and getting her first tin of watercolour paint was a highlight. She still enjoys visiting art shops and opening new tins of paint. Life took over, but creativity remained a journey of self-discovery for her. During hard times, art preserved Read more…
Mandy is a full-time mixed media artist based in the Wairarapa, living and working from Riversdale Beach. Her work has a feminine sensibility, centred on florals and blooms that bring a sense of warmth, softness and quiet joy, often with a subtle vintage undertone. Hydrangeas are a recurring motif, inspired by their fleeting beauty and Read more…
Heather Wilson enjoyed a happy carefree Kiwi childhood and finds a lot of her creativity is drawn from those memories, inspired by growing up in the late 60s and 70s her art often has a retro vibe. Her art explores aspects of iconic New Zealand scenery and symbolism connected to her much loved geometric patterns Read more…
Deb Fuller has been a working artist since 2000 and is based in the rural community of Little River on Banks Peninsula. Her distinctive style brings together mixed media painting and her own photographic imagery, creating a layered and considered blend of visual forms. Her work explores themes of nostalgia and recollection, often set within Read more…
Based in Gisborne, Tairāwhiti, Holly brings a bold and refreshing voice to contemporary art through her distinctive artworks. Blurring the boundaries between painting & drawing, her process investigates surface, edge, contour, and colour using a diverse range of marks and materials to create pieces that are both visually striking, unique and thought provoking.
Justin Kite (Ngāti Kahungunu) is an artist whose work explores the space between abstraction and figuration, creating visually striking compositions defined by cool tones and layered superimpositions. His subject matter ranges across games, nature and relationships, brought together through carefully considered associations. Central to his practice is the relationship between subject and formal elements, with Read more…
As a self-taught artist, Donna has built her practice around experimentation and a desire to push beyond the boundaries of traditional art forms. Her work reflects an ongoing commitment to exploration, creative growth and the pursuit of new ways to express ideas visually. Over the course of her career, she has exhibited in galleries and Read more…
Jody Hope Gibbons is a contemporary New Zealand painter whose work is held in private collections both locally and internationally. Born and raised in Northland, she originally worked under the name Jody Gibbons, later adopting her family name, Hope Gibbons, as her artist signature in honour of her late father. The change also distinguished this Read more…
