Wendy Hannah
Levi Hawken
Michael Hawkins
Natalie Holland
John Horner
Karlalise Horstmans
Tim Houghton
Kristin Hyde
Carina Johanna
Bev Jones
Jacqueline Kampen
Helen Keen
Jasmine Keir
Joanna King
Toni Kingstone
Tatyana Kulida
Keum Sun Lee
Vera Limmer
Wendy HannahWendy Hannah (English, Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa) is an Auckland-based contemporary artist educated at Elam. In her practice she has focused on working with colour, reflective/refractive materiality and recently, light. Wendy’s new series of installations echo her upbringing by the sea with its ever-changing dispersive prism. Inspired by tukutuku, the traditional Māori craft which features weaving and binding and also symbolizes the whānau, she presents it in its most abstract form, an ‘X’. Wendy adds a further traditional element by making her own paint and gives her forms dynamic hues and coloured shapes, creating works that weave together tradition, place and ideology. The signature ‘X’, with its vibrant perspex panels, reflects and refracts the surrounding environment like a kaleidoscope of mirrors, creating beacons of light akin to a Fresnel lighthouse lens. This new, immersive series captivates, morphing continuously from day to night.
Levi HawkenLevi Hawken is a New Zealand artist and sculptor who began his career in the mid-1990s graffitiing the walls of Auckland City. Most of his graffiti work is no longer visible, yet its influence continues in his more traditional paintings. Over the last two decades, Levi’s work has moved from public walls and spaces to more private, conventional settings. He has expanded his medium and subject matter through painting, drawing and sculptural work to ensure that more permanent keepsakes of his art exist. Now working primarily with cast concrete, glass and metals, he creates interacting forms and voids. Levi is heavily influenced by Brutalism, urban architecture and a desire to express an appreciation for the universe’s unknown forces through symbols and monolithic sculptures worthy of reverence.
Michael HawkinsMichael Hawkins is a Melbourne-based New Zealand artist. His practice is currently divided into two specific areas: limited edition works and original paintings. Both aspects of his practice address how meaning can be generated from the visual interaction that takes place between sign and signage - between the familiar and the unknown, through common-place motifs such as a snake or a lump of wood, or more ambiguous imagery creation and juxtaposition. Michael’s limited-edition artworks are drawing-based, utilising silkscreen printing and occasionally, painting processes. While these works are concerned with individual themes or subjects, they are most often busy, employing image saturation strategies to question the surfeit of information which we are assailed with on a daily basis through media. In 2020 Michael received the Parkin Drawing Prize Merit Award for ‘Student Debt’.
Natalie HollandNatalie Holland is a Wellington-based textile artist who produces bright and colourful textural pieces that depict the beautiful designs and patterns used in hiapo (Niuean tapa cloth), an important part of her Niuean heritage. She makes her pieces using a punch needle, a technique that traces its history back to nineteenth century rug hooking. Natalie’s work features both botanical and geometric elements in vibrant and often unexpected colour combinations.
John Horner John Horner is an Elam graduate from the 1960s and was a student of Colin McCahon and Garth Tapper. A retired painting lecturer, he paints expressive landscapes. He has been involved with Artists in Eden for over 30 years and is a regular contributor to the Mt Albert Grammar School Art Show.
Karlalise HorstmansKarlalise Horstmans is an Auckland-based artist. She has sold works in Australia, the Netherlands and the United States of America over several decades and shown in New Zealand since 2020. Her powerful works range from large ethereal abstract works with symbolic elements to smaller representational works with botanical themes as well as still life, landscapes and portraits. Karlalise is inspired by nature and the perception of subtle realms of energy and light. She employs sensitive brushwork and an intuitive relationship with colour to convey impactful drama and intensity. Her works often include textual forms and lenticular effects, prompting the viewer to examine their own perspective and the subjective process of constructing and sharing meaning.
Tim HoughtonTim Houghton's love of art led him to a degree in Fine Art (Painting) at Cardiff College of Art in Wales. He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he lived and painted for 20 years, showing his work in a variety of solo and group shows. Over the years Tim has been amazed at how a cluster of interests - art, world cultures, travel and faith - have emerged repeatedly in various combinations, defining the direction of his life and work. His love of travel and world cultures has taken him to 60 countries, most recently Kashmir in India, Eastern Europe and the Pacific Islands. He is fascinated by the colour and vibrancy of the world’s cultures and peoples and the challenge of capturing these visual experiences on paper or canvas.
Kristin HydeKristin Hyde is a full-time Auckland-based mixed media and resin artist who enjoys working in various mediums. A passionate creative who also enjoys silversmithing and creating original art jewellery, she describes herself as an intuitive painter, and her art ranges from whimsical to abstract. Kristin has a passion for colour and texture and finds it humbling to watch people connect with her work. She is currently represented by several galleries in New Zealand, has exhibited in major public exhibitions, and her work can be found in homes around the world.
Carina JohannaCarina Johanna is a mixed media artist who creates feminine abstract realism artworks using animals and florals to create paintings which uplift and inspire. Her art mirrors her own journey, capturing moments of self-discovery, empowerment, and the beauty of embracing one's true self. Through her work, she hopes to inspire others to embark on their personal journey and to bring to light the importance of nurturing their spirits with love, acceptance, and authenticity. The use of many layers gives her work great depth, while expressive brushstrokes allow her paintings to come to life and move.
Bev JonesBev Jones has been making domestic ware pottery for over 4 decades. Her passion for ceramics led to a 25-year career teaching the craft to adult students. She also trained as a florist in her sixties and loved the creativity of working with flowers. Bev returned to full time pottery over 6 years ago and is very pleased to see it enjoying a resurgence in popularity. In her practice, she especially enjoys wheel work and has become interested lately in hand work, making figurines and heads. Making all of her own glazes, each of her pieces is unique.
Jacqueline KampenA small production potter with a penchant for vase making, Jacqueline Kampen's pieces range from the traditional to more quirky forms. Auckland-based and a member of Auckland Studio Potters, her vases can be displayed on their own or in a group. Using stoneware clay, all of the vases are made on the wheel, glazed and high-fired, making them ideal to hold water for fresh flowers.
Helen KeenAn artist for over 35 years, Helen Keen works from her West Auckland home studio using painting techniques she developed as a ceramicist. She manipulates texture using encaustic wax, mixed media, acrylic and oil, exploring abstraction, colour, gestures and mark making. Drawing on Claude Monet’s concept of “the illusion of an endless whole”, Helen’s work is impressionistic and free-flowing, exploring deeper layers and new possibilities while resisting rules and boundaries. Encaustic wax drives her art practice: an amazing, unpredictable and little used material made from beeswax and tree resin. Heating it is pivotal to the blending of colours and the creation of textures and expressions, a process of revealing, covering and uncovering with scratching and sgraffito, embedding and transferring images and objects. She uses encaustic techniques in her latest floral series, painting in molten wax and blending with flame rather than brushwork alone.
Jasmine KeirJasmine Keir divides her time between her new home on Whangaroa Harbour and her beloved Southland. The warm tropical beaches contrast with the crisp magnificent mountains and skies; the largest boulder is made up of a tiny grain of sand, a new world juxtaposed between them. This is conveyed with ease onto a canvas of pristine copper. Jasmine loves to scrape, layer, collide and experiment with her art, emulating the cycles of a life well-lived.
Joanna KingJoanna King is inspired by a deep love for creative expression, global issues, and the stunning beauty of her homeland, Aotearoa. She is very appreciative when people can relate to a particular place that she has captured in her work. For Joanna, creating connection is key, in many ways, to her love of painting.
Toni Kingstone Toni Kingstone creates in her home studio overlooking Mount Pirongia in the Waikato. A full-time artist since 2019, her main body of work blends fluid acrylics, metallic pigments and resin. From her initial concept, she is led by the flow of the paint itself, guiding the direction with intuitive ‘action’ painting, adding or removing elements with more paint, palette knife or brushwork. She aims to give a New Zealand twist to her magical realist style by adding detail highlighting the everyday, expressed within fantastical dream-like landscapes. Toni’s works have been shown in a range of art shows and exhibitions and her paintings can be found in the homes of collectors and art lovers both in New Zealand and internationally.
Tatyana KulidaTatyana Kulida is a classically trained artist who has lived and taught in Florence. In New Zealand, she paints her inspiration from life, celebrating the magic of New Zealand people, scenery and flora. Tatyana paints portraits as well as personal work and teaches at her Anthesis Atelier in Wellington. She has sold work to patrons on four continents, has works in two museum collections, painted a former prime minister as well as Dame Jane Goodall, and has touched the lives of hundreds of students.
Keum Sun LeeKeum Sun Lee is a Korean-born potter and ceramic artist. She has exhibited successfully in Korea, Austria, Croatia and New Zealand and won significant awards in New Zealand, Austria and Korea. In 2013 Keum Sun was selected as an artist-lecturer in the International Academic Program by the 7th Kaorean International Ceramic Biennale Korea. She was a finalist in the National Contemporary Art Award at Waikato Museum in 2014, won the First Prize and Merit Awards in the Greater Auckland Art Award & Exhibition in 2018, and won the Portage Ceramic Awards Premier Award in 2018. In New Zealand Keum Sun has exhibited in Sculpture OnShore, at the Arataki Visitor Centre and at West Coast Gallery in Piha. Employing 10th and 15th century Korean pottery techniques, she has adapted tradition and added colour to give her creations a contemporary twist. Keum Sun won the People's Choice Award in Portage Ceramic Awards in this year.
Vera LimmerVera Limmer lives on the west coast of Auckland, where she has been creating art for 10 years. She is drawn to combining sculpture and painting to create unique pieces, an approach which gives her the freedom to play and push in many directions. Her native New Zealand bird sculptures put together found items to create meaningful pieces with a message, art which reflects her thinking about the local environment. Vera also makes her own ceramic pieces which represent nature and small bugs.
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