I love painting because it gives me a voice in colour and tone, without words. It allows me to experience glimpses of balance and the satisfaction of creating. I am mostly inspired by colour. I have found the linear grid a good structure to work in. This has enabled me to explore. I want to continue exploring mark making as a way of creating my own “fingerprint”.
“I have nothing to say and I say it”

Tracey van Lent completed a Bachelor of Design at Unitec in 2000. She majored in painting and studied with John Reynolds and the late Julian Dashper.
Presently designing costumes for a production of Shakespeareʼs Twelfth Night, Tracey has found her intensive research into rich and luxurious Elizabethan fabrics and styles has subconsciously influenced her current painting practice. Her most recent series, What You Will, explores the layering and overlapping of veils of colour, sometimes filmy and translucent, other times intense and vibrant. The forms are abstract but the viewer is invited to contemplate and see within them “what he will”.

Susan Herbert has been painting for over 10 years coming from a family of artists with a great grandfather having art in the Liverpool Tate Gallery her passion was predestined.
Painting is just one of her many talents but creating "beauty in space" is a must no matter what the media. Her work is based on emotion and the feeling state. 
Art never lies is her belief so there are many surprises as her work unfolds through time.
Spontaneity and freedom is a constant goal that she strives for.

Raised in Auckland & returning with his wife, daughter, 2 cats and a dog after 2 decades in London, Graeme sought creative freedom in the Jurassic nature of New Zealand.

Working with wood for over 25yrs, he now combines his passion for nature’s gift with his knowledge of timber in order to create his sculptures using only a chainsaw.

His Macrocarpa sculptures are a gentle fusion of nature & human qualities blended with the embryonic & symbolic up-spiral of the koru.

Strong emphasis is placed on a family bond, human qualities such as strength, pride & protection morph with femininity, elegance & nurturing.

Matt Payne lives on the North Shore of Auckland and has been an artist part time and now full time since leaving art school in 2005. Matt’s work is strongly influenced by his love for New Zealand. The unique New Zealand beaches and landscapes are a major influence in his paintings; they articulate his love for his home. He uses bold bright colours as an expression for what he appreciates most about art, and as a reflection of our unique New Zealand environment.

Steve was born in 1955 and is a self taught New Zealand artist who has always had a love of the ocean and a passion for art. He has surfed since he was 17 and has many surfing memories tucked under his wetsuit. His local break as a youngster was Bethells Beach on the West Coast of Auckland and his 1965 Mark I Cortina station wagon knew its own way over the dusty metal roads, carrying his mates and boards in easy style...despite the floral curtains! Muriwai Beach, also on Auckland’s West Coast, found its way into his heart and that of his wife. It became their home on and off for nearly 30 years, boasting one of the most rugged and picturesque surfing spots in New Zealand.
This love of the surf has often been reflected in his art, which has progressed and grown with each passing phase of life. From airbrushing waves in the loft of his beach house with his two daughters playing at his feet, to his latest medium, relief work, out in the sleep-out with his granddaughter vying for his attention.

A born and raised ‘Westie', husband and father of two boys, Carl has had a life long yearning and passion for art, in particular, painting. Introduced to painting using oils by his grandmother over 20 years ago, he has continued to develop mostly self taught with the exception of high school. Accepted into Elam at Auckland University in 1994 Carl had to discontinue very early on for personal reasons.

Carl is influenced mostly by, but not limited to, the New Zealand landscape and animals (birds in particular) with the wealth of diversity they display in both form and colour. These are brought to the viewer in a unique manner and style in which these forms and colours are enhanced through intensity, contrast and often exaggeration to amplify the subject(s). Carl has had his art on display, and selling, infrequently over the last eight to nine years and has recently increased efforts to make his painting/art a higher priority.

Amber is recognized for her fine detailed realism and strong contrasting lights.
Amber started painting in 1990
Her first solo watercolor Exhibition in 1992
She won ‘Peoples Choice” 2001, 3, 5 and 7 at the Royal
New Zealand Yacht Squadron “Nautical Art Exhibition”.
2003 started painting in Acrylics
Winning the Laurie Coons award for landscape 2004 at the North shore Art Awards and came 2nd in 2006 Royal Easter show in the “Professional section”
2008 published in” New Zealand’s Favorite Artists” By Denise Robinson
2009 Amber started using oils
Amber paints commissions and supplying several galleries as well as teaching 6 adult classes a week from a studio in Whenuapai Auckland.

Gillan began sculpting in her cousin’s pottery aged 14.  Ten years later she had her own ceramics studio in Ponsonby.
She began exhibiting sculptured flax baskets and began adding in her Soft stone sculptures, while living on a boat.  She has exhibited all around NZ for nearly 30 years.  For the last ten years she has also been running a very popular one day sculpture workshop where students get to create a soft stone sculpture for themselves in one day.

Born in Auckland and educated at St. Kentigern College, Pakuranga, Hanna began his career in design, working as a graphic designer, illustrator, art-director and studio manager.

Now a full-time painter, Hanna's superbly executed works reveal impressive draughtsmanship and skilled manipulation of paint, combined with a uniquely dry, witty sense of humour. As with other surrealists, Hanna's imagery is often a bizarre interpretation of the familiar, reminiscent of dreams and metamorphosis. Like other surrealists, Hanna juxtaposes objects and images in irrational ways and employs realistic representation to heighten the incongruities and at times, surprise, his audience.

The "Surrealist Movement" was 'officially' launched in Paris, France, in 1924 when French writer Andre Breton wrote the first surrealist manifesto, outlining the ambitions of the new movement. Almost eighty years later, Grant Hanna remains one of few New Zealand artists recognised for their commitment to working exclusively in this style.

Tracey van Lent completed a Bachelor of Design at Unitec in 2000. She majored in painting and studied with John Reynolds and the late Julian Dashper.
Presently designing costumes for a production of Shakespeareʼs Twelfth Night, Tracey has found her intensive research into rich and luxurious Elizabethan fabrics and styles has subconsciously influenced her current painting practice. Her most recent series, What You Will, explores the layering and overlapping of veils of colour, sometimes filmy and translucent, other times intense and vibrant. The forms are abstract but the viewer is invited to contemplate and see within them “what he will”.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Whitecliffe College of Art & Design in Auckland in 2007 and in March 2010 I was awarded a Master of Fine Art, also from Whitecliffe.

Coming from Scandinavia I was brought up with a passion for design - uncluttered simplicity which creates a greater sense of light, combined with clean lines and organic shapes. My work is often very playful and questions the liminal space or 'the third space' - the space in between cultures. I have empathy for materials, and involve my viewers by using fabric and other textured materials in my work; fabric which gives associations to domestic life, narratives and reality, countering the excess of information and imagery that has subsumed our everyday lives.

Sue Little has been an Interior Design by profession for the last 19 years.  Her main focus is higher end residential homes and a small amount of commercial projects.I have been painting now for almost 10 years.  My work could be described as minimalistic abstract using acrylic paint.  My passion is my guilded work which drew its inspiration from Max Gimblett

Darryl has an intense passion for creating new pieces .A drive that has kept him at the leading edge of forming glass in N.Z. for the past 27 years. A Pacific influence has evolved in the new wall art and sculptural pieces. With an engineering background a further development has emerged using stainless to enhance design aspects.
Darryl creates artwork such as:
-Wall and interior sculptures
-Glass bowls
-Outdoor sculptures (including water and lighting effects)
-Custom made glass art

Creates glass lamp work beads by hand then utilizing her silversmithing skills she crafts them into beautiful distinctive one-of-a-kind pieces of jewellery.    
Using the intense heat of an oxygen and propane powered torch, rods of different coloured glass are melted.  In its molten state the glass is wrapped around a stainless steel mandrel;  each bead is individually hand crafted. 
Beads vary in complexity, many are decorated using very thin ‘stringers’ of glass which have been pulled from larger rods, others have different surface textures added.   Many beads are solid glass, however Frances also enjoys making  hollow beads. 

Uenuku has been a sculpting for about 7 years. Working in mediums from Black Ponga, to White Stone, it gives me the greatest satisfaction knowing something I’ve created, will be treasured and enjoyed by others. I’ve always had a passion for art, drawing, and painting which followed me through from pre-school to high school and even onto University. Following several years of Design studies, a good friend convinced me to try my creativity into a medium relatively unknown, Mamaku or Black Ponga, opening a door to the fantastic world of 3D form & Sculpture. Now, after several years of carving, grinding, and polishing, I firmly believe in experiencing each sculpture as if the material already has life or a design form of its own. To expose the natural beauty within the mediums, plays a major part in the design process of my work, as each piece tells a unique story, not only through design, but through the exploration of art within these different materials

I have been in the ceramic industry for 20 years.

The creativeness and uniqueness of every piece makes me very enthusiastic. I pride myself in the quality of every piece I create and stock in my shop.

Every piece is made from liquid clay through to the glazed and fired finished product.

It's great to go to work to play, what a sheer joy!

Sally Fagence is a fulltime North shore artist. She has always painted, but professionally for the past seventeen years. She works from her studio over looking native bush, where she finds inspiration for the subjects she paints .After her success of her . ‘sepia series’ she is experimenting with recycled wine barrel staves made into sculptural wall pieces. These are richly painted and incorporate gold/silver leaf, compound, and other materials. The style ranges from abstracts to semi abstracts and are called ‘memory sticks ‘ and are all totally original but follow the same format.. Sally is mostly self-taught and feels her lack of formal training allows her to work intuitively thus giving her more artistic freedom. Texture and light feature foremost in her work in which she likes to take the ‘appreciative’ on a journey to other places within their own experiences or into their’ own interpretation of her work.

Born in Germany, Wolf incorporates the German precision and humour with the inspiration of the New Zealand landscape.
His works encompass a range of styles and media from silverware, paint and wood, copper and aluminium to small scale sculptures using silver flatware, glass and wood to assemblages of discarded objects.
Since 2001 he is working out of his Onehunga, Auckland workshop.
Most of his artworks are for indoors and outdoors.

Gitta, is a pattern writer and knitwear designer.

In her pastime she prefers to work with copper creating movement and colour changes in her works.

Most of her works are for indoors and outdoors.

Eion is a full time artist and art tutor. Trained initially in Graphic Design he worked in design studios in NZ and the UK before choosing to pursue full time his love of painting. His works are inspired by the surrounding natural environment and in particular  coastal imagery and the interplay of land and sea. Eion has exhibited in group exhibitions including Artworks at the Hilton, Art Fusion, The Lakehouse, Mairangi Arts Centre, Art of this World and the New Gallery as a three times Telecom Art Awards finalist.

Garry Dunn began his copper art 3 years ago and works in recycled and new copper.  He is a self taught and his first piece was a Praying Mantis.  Garry makes a wide range of quirky pieces and particularly enjoys making large sculptures which have movement either from water or wind.   

He has successfully exhibited this year at the Mazda Artworks, Kings Fine Art Sale, Garden Art at Eden Gardens and was a Silver Award winner Garden Art at the 2007 Ellerslie International Flower Show.

Garry was influenced by the coastal environment where he was living at the time when he created his first piece.

Stone Sculptor New Zealand - Jocelyn enhances the natural qualities of stone presenting stylish simplicity in her works.

Is a follower of the neo-renaissance movement and is at her best when celebrating the forms of nature. Just as beautiful poetry is 'allowed' to rhyme again, sculptural pieces are again taking a figurative form, and reflecting the beauty around us. She believes that the viewer has the ability to notice the subtleties of expression in the figurative form. Anneke was accepted into Pro Arte (art school) at 16, subsequently studied Theatre for 3 years, travelled over twenty countries and worked in four of them. A public arts commission in Dubai of eight bronze falcons celebrates her work.

Ingrid Boot has lived in New Zealand since 2000.  She completed an Art Foundation in 1991 at Westminster University, London followed by an Illustration degree at De Montfort University.  Primarily known for her illustrative style, realism and meticulous attention to detail, Ingrid portrays the female form and captures a timeless elegance enhancing all that is feminine.  Her inspiration comes from a love of fashion history and movie icons from a bygone era.   Her work has gained the attention of markets in New Zealand, Italy and the UK as well as winning the New Zealand KG Fraser Award in 2008. 

Matthew Williams allows nature to speak for itself. He uses the form already existing in the wood and works into it, retaining the piece’s original identity. He views his work as a celebration of the aw-inspiring diversity of forms created in wood. Recently relocated to New Zealand, he is exploring the native timbers.

I have been painting for about twenty years - mainly in oils. I like painting portraits, sea scapes, country scenes, animals - I have painted dogs, cats cows, horses, tigers elephants and others. Lately I have been painting street scenes in Europe, mainly with a knife - I like the vibrancy of using a knife, it stops me doing too much fiddling. On the other hand I do like doing portraits which takes me ages, and I use a magnifying glass to get the features exactly right. I have taken classes with Gail Boyle and have learned a lot from this extremely talented lady

Myah Flynn recently graduated from Unitec with a Masters of Design. In 2007 Flynn won the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award and then moved on to win the Mazda Emerging Artist Award in 2008.

Flynn's work explores tropes related to the notion of desire through fictional narratives and moments of adrenaline-driven repetition in which to flush out her own private mythologies and fantasies. These are loosely borrowed from romanticized tableaux in the likes of  The Arabian Nights  and Rococo-esque pursuits of pleasure. Flynn engages in such themes because she finds desire defies knowledge-based comprehension, but is everywhere linked to the practice of painting itself.