25 - 27 JULY 2025
25 - 27 JULY 2025
Kylie Parish, a graphic designer and abstract artist, primarily works with acrylics, oil pastels, charcoal, and pencil. Her expressive, gestural style embraces ‘happy accidents’ to guide her creative process. Kylie’s fluid approach involves layering, overpainting, and adding detail to create depth and texture. Her work celebrates the beauty of imperfection, reflecting a value she holds Read more…
Jo Rankin 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 Read more…
Lee’s work has been commented on as “paintings that reflect the essence of the subject enlivened with many subtle details, whilst creating imaginative colourful artworks”. She is an Elected Artist member of the NZ Academy of Fine Arts. Lee paints in acrylics and other media, and her earlier work was featured as published illustrations. More recently Read more…
Verity’s artwork reflects her passion for colour, nature, and native New Zealand flora and fauna. She holds a degree in “Visual Arts and Design” and has participated in both public and private art exhibitions across New Zealand. The medium she feels most comfortable working with is acrylic, primarily because of the vivid colour and intricate Read more…
Bright bold colours have been a signature of much of Gina’s work over her 30-year career as an artist. Her style is gestural and loose. She draws on a variety of subject matters including landscapes and floral work. Gina paints with acrylics and lately has been working with mixed media and resin. Gina is influenced Read more…
Wellington based artist Anna Stichbury works across a range of media, specialising in contemporary paintings that feature vibrant, intense hues, rich textures, and gestural brushwork. The large scale of Stichbury’s semi-abstract compositions draws the viewer in while allowing the media its full range of expression returns the viewer to the physical surface, inviting and emphasising Read more…
Lucie Anderson is a contemporary artist based in Napier, specialising in dynamic and vibrant alcohol ink art. Inspired by the natural beauty of New Zealand, her work captures the fluid movement of ink, often enhanced with shimmering gold and silver. Originally from Belgium, Lucie grew up surrounded by art and studied photography before transitioning to Read more…
Sarah is a Hawke’s Bay based Artist and Art Teacher who has been teaching, painting, and creating in Napier since 2005. She originally studied and exhibited in the UK, specialising in Ceramics and Glass. Her work is a celebration of the connection between Nature and Design. She incorporates bold colours, layered textures, and rhythmic compositions Read more…
Maiken Calkoen has a background in architecture and uses local buildings and the landscape as inspiration for her vibrant oil paintings. Since her recent Fulbright Scholarship in Pennsylvania, she has had a prolific period with paintings exhibited at the NZ Art Show, Agora Gallery in New York City, Tennyson Gallery in Napier and her own Read more…
Irina Velman’s expressionist style explores her interest in shapes, lines and colours of nature combined with emotional responses and memories. Irina uses both traditional and experimental painting techniques. Combining acrylic paints with different polymers and resin, the artist creates unique texture and organic earthy feeling. In addition to painting, Irina loves designing. Her art is Read more…
Beth is a professional artist whose painted feathers beautifully encapsulate her deep love for New Zealand’s landscapes and birdlife, elements that continually uplift and inspire her. Each piece is a unique creation, blending intricate detail with fluid expression as she works with acrylics on the delicate, natural canvas of feathers. Her art is ever evolving, Read more…
Gail Shine is an artist from Hawkes Bay, with a real love for capturing the beauty of the world around her. Specialising in oil painting and graphite drawing, she brings New Zealand’s stunning landscapes, native flowers, and animals to life. Her oil paintings have a warm, inviting feel, showcasing rolling hills, peaceful coastlines, and vibrant Read more…
John Staniford currently lives in Napier and has a studio open to visitors. He is a full-time artist with over 50 years’ experience. Born in the UK in 1947 he came to New Zealand in 1961. John established a screen-printing business in Auckland before becoming a full-time artist. His ‘hard edged’ style is recognisable, and Read more…
My aim is to showcase my artwork to everyone interested. Clayton is a Napier artist and has lived there most of his life. He loves the place in which he lives, with its warm weather climate allowing him to enjoy the stimulating music scene and the generally vibrant local environment, including the art and wine Read more…
John Goodhind is an artist and teacher from Hastings Hawke’s Bay. His inspiration comes from the urban and rural landscape, which he approaches both figuratively and in an abstract style. He works in watercolour, acrylic and pastel. Having studied and taught art and design in the UK, John relocated to Hawke’s Bay in 2007. Since Read more…
Harriet is primarily interested in the human figure, nature and classical portraiture. She uses colourful elements in her artworks to portray how she views the world. Harriet is heavily inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites; in particular, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with their style of dramatising a traditional portrait painting. Their works show abundant Read more…
As an artist of over 20 years, Christine has been on an interesting art journey, first using acrylics and painting quite realistic scenes followed by an investigation into the vagaries of watercolour. More recently, she has been fascinated by the endless possibilities of mixed media where ‘anything goes’. Making art is a totally absorbing activity, Read more…
Hawkes Bay artist Catherine Jurgens creates joyful floral paintings, layering vibrant colors with delicate touches of mixed media elements. Her art studio welcomes visitors as part of the Hawkes Bay Arts Trail, and she showcases her work in art shows and galleries throughout New Zealand. With a diverse background spanning 30 years as a primary Read more…
Lynette Holschier 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 Read more…
Mauricio graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Visual Arts & Computer Graphics in 2001 at University of Tuiuti Parana, Brazil. He has also completed a Post-Graduation in School Administration & Visual Arts in 2004 at FAE Business School in Curitiba, Brazil and a Diploma of Visual effects & Motion Graphics in 2009 at Media Design Read more…
Tony Harrington was born and raised in the East Coast town of Napier. Much of his artworks encapsulate the essence of a fulfilling, sunny Hawke’s Bay lifestyle. Tony crafts distinctive, graphic artworks influenced by his environment, whānau, time spent travelling, people, places and experiences encountered along the way.
Based in Hawke’s Bay, Debra Thompson is a contemporary mixed media artist known for bold, colourful works that celebrate pop culture and iconic personalities. Living and working in the region, Debra has exhibited solo since 2017, received several awards, and contributed works to institutions such as ToiToi – Hawke’s Bay Arts & Events Centre Drawing Read more…
A working Artist since 2000, Deb Fuller resides in the small rural community of Little River situated on Banks Peninsula. Her distinct artistic style is a creative collaboration of Mixed Media Painting and her own Photographic Imagery, the result being an intriguing blend of these visual art mediums. Evoking themes of nostalgia with tones of Read more…
Holly is an artist based in Gisborne, Tairawhiti. She has a diverse and unique style of creative expression, blurring painting and drawing and investigating surface, edge, contour and colour with a variety of materials. Usually abstract or formless, she creates a visual language between artist and viewer ranging from bold works bursting with colour and Read more…
Sue works full time in the paint world painting various objects and canvases with thought and feeling and loads of curiosity and desire. Some colours are louder than others, so to keep the song in tune and retain a piece of peace, Black and White step in and share their knowledge. With enough layering, noise Read more…
With a career spanning almost thirty years, I have dabbled in almost every medium and experimented with many styles. Whether I am creating joyous illustrations, icon driven abstracts or stylized landscapes, I am driven by a love of good design and composition. Her landscapes are done in oil pastels. They focus on colour and patterns. Read more…
