Erika Aupperle
Erika Aupperle lives and works in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. She is a graduate from the Australian National University ceramics diploma and has a piece in their permanent collection. She works in the stoneware temperature range making sculptural pieces and kitchenware. A member of the Suter Art Society in Nelson, Erika has won two awards for her work and appeared in several exhibitions.
Escha van den Bogerd
Escha was born in The Hague, Holland and attended the Rudolf Steiner school which taught many art subjects including painting drawing and art history. After finishing school she studied art in Florence, Salzburg and Holland. Escha has developed a style that combines figurative and abstractive images working together and reinforcing each other on the canvas. Her work has delicate compositions and colour palettes of many of the Italian Romance artists and her use of wash like techniques adds drama and vibrancy to her paintings.
Escha now lives in Wellington and her paintings are sold here and in Europe. She has exhibited many times in solo and group shows including numerous times in her native Holland and new home New Zealand. Over 15 years Escha's exhibitions included shows in Geneva, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, New York, New Jersey, Moko City Japan and Listowel Ireland.
Paddy Bourke
Paddy is a New Zealand artist based in Auckland who sells nationally and internationally through galleries and via websites.
Paddy designs and makes body sculptures and wall plaques. The wall plaques are based on proportional figures on abstract backgrounds. In his body parts series Paddy makes a solid clay statue, which is then altered in order to achieve an individual sculpture. Paddy works the whole process, from conception to completion and uses a variety of finishes which include metallic glazes and ceramic stains as well as different firing options including salt, soda and wood firing.
Phil Dickson
Phil is a Wellington artist who enjoys painting a wide range of subjects including those of cities, the broader countryside, seascapes and the mountains. His sketchbook and paints accompany him while travelling so he can capture the inspiration of any time and place. Phil also likes painting subjects of places familiar to him as they once were, thus revealing them in an historic context from early records, photographs and memory. Phil works in watercolour, oils and pencil.
Phil is a member and exhibitor in the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Watercolour New Zealand and Wellington Art Club. His exhibitions include other art societies, small groups of fellow artists and a solo exhibition with the Academy of Fine Arts. Phil has run courses in drawing and painting. He sells paintings from exhibitions and galleries. Phil welcomes commission
Vincent Duncan
My passion for art began when I was very young, it has always been a priority for me to express myself though my painting. I am a self-taught artist, pursuing my painting full-time since 1996. My subject matter has historically been figurative with a particular interest in the land and seascapes of Wellington. By creating my own unique expression of what I see and experience in the Wellington environment I have been able to convey my vision of joy and fun.
Although still interested in figurative art my current work has beenleaning towards experimentation in more abstract art, focusing on texture and colour. I describe myself as ‘cheeky and intuitive’, painting what I see and feel with little regard for formal drawing techniques and academic methods. My idea of perspective is based on feeling and not on reality
or precise technical application. These anomalies are often what make the images humorous, symbolic or uniquely my own. As a very tactile person I use various texturing processes preferring to use my fingers instead of a brush. I have affection for a variety of mediums with particular preference for acrylics and oils.
Sam Earp
Sam is young artist from the UK now living in Wellington. Starting out with an exhibition in 2010 he is gradually making an impact with his powerful seacapes and deft landscapes. Sam is a self taught artist and has a passion to learn his craft through personal experimentation. Sam's work is notable for the power and feeling of his wild seas, the subject of his most intense studies.
Ursula Edwards
Originally from Germany, Ursula studied ceramics at Swansea College of Art and Design in Wales between 1979 and 1982. Upon returning to Germany she completed an apprenticeship in studio ceramics at the Topferei Jacobitz, Schwangau, Bavaria. She later began work for the Pletzer studio Prien am Chiemsee, specialising in traditional Bavarian forms and decoration. New Zealand was always a dream destination for Ursula. In 2001 she moved her family to Blenheim and now produces work inspired by New Zealand influences for galleries throughout New Zealand and the famous Nelson craft market.
All her work is hand produced, both thrown and modelled, and the motives are painted using the majolica technique.
Joy de Geus
Joy lives in Pukerua Bay north of Wellington. She has painted watercolours for many years but only recently began exhibiting and selling her work. She has made an immediate impact with one of her works winning first prize at the Splash 4 2008 NZ Watercolour exhibition held in Wellington, ahead of 199 paintings from watercolour artists throughout the country.
Gabriel Heimler
Gabriel was born in Paris and moved to Berlin after leaving school to persue a career as an artist. He soon gained a name for himself by painting the 'Wall Jumper' mural on the Berlin wall after it's fall in 1989. This became an unofficial symbol for Berlin and is now incorporated in an historical park. Gabriel then had a successful 20 year career (that included being sold through Sothebys in New York) as an artist painting works with a 'concrete narrative' and often based on historical or philisophical themes.
Gabriel is currently living in Wellington and is best known for his mural 'The Mover' on the Museum Hotel, painted in collaboration with his partner Anna Proc. The mural celebrates the astounding feat of moving the entire hotel on rails to make way for building the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa. Gabriel and Anna are working together on paintings that combine New Zealand influences in scenery and architecture with their European hertiage.
Jane Hyder
Jane is a Wellington based visual artist who produces paintings and prints of still life,landscapes and figurative narratives in a colourful expressionist style. In 2010 she graduated from Massey University with a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. Her artworks and published art books are held in the permanent public collections of Massey University,The National Library of New Zealand,The Hocken Library, Te Papa Library and Parliament House Wellington.
Jane exhibits nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions,in 1994 she held a solo exhibition Pacific Renaissance at New Zealand House, London, where her monoprint The Promised Land was purchased by The High Commissioner.
Jane has been an artist and art teacher for 20 years and has owned galleries in Newtown and Kelburn
Zad Jabbour
Born in Beirut Lebanon in 1943, Zadallah Jabbour was the son of a well known Lebanese artist. Zad learnt as an apprentice to his father and studied at a French art academy. He became a professional artist at an early age and in his career has exhibited in Lebanon, (where he owned a gallery and ran an art school) Jordan, France and the UAE. His works include oils and watercolours, religious icons, decorative ceilings and mural paintings including Trompe L'Oeil, sculpture including portrait busts and bas-relief, and portraits. He was appointed the resident artist at the Al Mushref palace in the UAE and painted the portraits of the King, princes and members of the royal family. During this time he also worked on the palace's decorations and murals. Zad has family ties with New Zealand and in recent years has lived with his family in Auckland.
Bruce Luxford
Of his surrealist art Wellington artist Bruce Luxford says, 'I'm searching for pictorial stories that are based on the idea that the painted picture knows itself to be metaphorical, rhetorical, transformational, fictional.' For his subjects Bruce looks into human values and the driving forces that underpin our actions. He also enjoys attempting to capture the cyclic energising effects of nature in landscapes and the human imprint on them.
Since establishing his studio in 2003 Bruce has had several successful shows and sold individual works through galleries and independently throughout NZ and overseas.
Janet Marshall
Janet has been painting New Zealand birds and flora since 1970, when she produced the paintings for three field guides on NZ birds. Mobil Field Guide to Common NZ Birds - Volumes 1 & 2 Mobil Field Guide to Rare and Extinct NZ Birds. These were followed by a series of Limited Edition Reproductions during the 1970s and 1980s and a series of 10 postage stamps on NZ endangered birds for New Zealand Post. Janet has been a regular exhibitor with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts since1999 and in 2003 became a Signature member of WNAG, the World Nature Artists Group. In 2008 Janet created the artwork for NZ Post's Game Bird Habitat stamp series. Also in 2008 her portrait painting of her granddaughter was a finalist in the Adam Portraiture Award.
Tracy MacDonald
Tracy MacDonald is a young emerging artist from Wellington who paints in oils on canvas with bright vibrant colours depicting landscapes, sunsets and surises. Her style incorporates graphite pencil outlines that bring a unique look to her paintings. Tracy is a member of the New Zealand Art Guild and The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.
Bill MacCormick
Bill's paintings in watercolours and oils over 40 years have covered a wide range of motifs. Early landscape work was followed by the influence of more urban environments. Although the motifs are from contemporary New Zealand-people, the buildings around them and the landscape-stylistically there are influences from his exposure to French impressionist works and early watercolours. A feeling for open spaces and the marks of those who have gone before us come through in much of the work.
His paintings are in private and corporate collections in N.Z. and overseas.
Michael McCormack
Michael is a full time artist working from his studio in Island Bay, on Wellington's south coast. Originally from Ireland, he moved to Wellington in 2000 and his paintings since then have concentrated on Wellington City street and coastal scenes. He has held solo shows in Cork, Cornwall, Edinburgh and Wellington and participated in group shows in Hawaii and New York. He spent two years as artist in residence in Hawaii. Michael's visual diary style recording paintings of Wellington have proven very popular and sought after in the city.
Rob McGregor
Rob McGregor's paintings' colourful depiction of NZ life have attracted widespread attention. Rob describes himself: I am a full time painter living in Mt Maunganui. Bold, bright canvases depict the New Zealand I love: its landscapes, people and their leisure-time pursuits. NZ coast, flora, beach and seascapes, sunbathers, nudes, café scenes, music and yachts provide content for my canvases. Many of my paintings reflect the summery, coastal, holiday atmosphere that imbues the area in which I live. However, annual overseas trips result in some paintings that reflect European or Asian themes. I also enjoy the challenge of creating abstract works that rely on colour, texture balance and mood. Reproductions of my paintings have proved extremely popular: many thousands have been purchased by New Zealanders and visitors to the country, who have no doubt felt associations with the same things that interest me.'
Alfred Memelink
Alfred Memelink is an artist who has become well known for his Wellington region seascape and street scene watercolour paintings. Alfred taught himself to paint on long sea voyages where he worked as a marine engineer. He now only works part time at sea, allowing him to follow his passion for painting more fully. His affinity for the sea shows in many of his paintings of the Wellington harbour and the vessels that call to visit. Alfred has a strong following in Wellington.
Ilma Mitchell
Ilma Mitchell is a Wellington based visual artist who revels in the use of colour and the rendering of natural forms. Ilma’s work is both figurative and representational in style incorporating elements of expressionism and impressionism in colour use and mark making. She is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington, Watercolour New Zealand and also an elected Artist Member of the Otago Art Society.
Exhibitions: 2008 Group Exhibition “Autumn 08” Academy of Fine Arts Wellington) 2007 Selected Finalist City of Dunedin Art Awards (Dunedin) - Group Exhibition Art Aid Trust Charity Auction (Auckland) - Group Exhibition N.Z. Art Guild Annual Exhibition (Auckland) - Group Exhibition Solace Art Gallery (Maungaraki) - Solo Exhibition The Art Boutique (Tauranga) - Selected Finalist National Womens’ Art Exhibition (Gisborne)
Adrienne Pavelka
Adrienne is well know for her South Island landscapes - many New Zealanders are familiar with her painting featured on the cover of the 2009 book "New Zealand Landscape in Watercolour. "
The Arts Editor of the Christchurch Press wrote; "Each work in Adrienne Pavelka's watercolour exhibition distils the essence of the landscape into a glorious passage of colours and forms which sing from the paper's surface. Watercolours either work or fail. In Pavelka's hands they triumph'
She has won many awards, featured in two books on New Zealand artists and has represented New Zealand art in overseas exhibitions.
Jengis Poor
Jengis inherited a love of ceramic art from his father, a professional potter. When he was 16 a visit to the Coromandel to work with one of New Zealand's famous early potters, Barry Brickell, cemented his desire to become a ceramic artist. Jengis set up a studio in Auckland and his striking ceramic art with its New Zealand themes is sold in a number of New Zealand galleries. Jengis' work has appeared in various exhibitions and been shortlisted for pottery awards.
Judith Royal
Judith is a multimedia artist who began painting while living in England and Australia. After returning to NZ 20 years ago she began experimenting in different media and gained experience while travelling and teaching. She is now a regular exhibitor at the NZ Academy of Fine Art and at Watercolour NZ and takes part in solo and group exhibitions in NZ and overseas. In 2009 she was commissioned to restore the 1906 Royal Doulton murals in Wellington Children's Hospital.
Shirley Sutton
Shirley comes from a family with a strong artistic tradition. She has been an artist and art teacher for over 25 years. Shirley paints mostly landscapes in oils and watercolours. She has undertaken extended travelling painting trips to Europe and her work is a mixture of Wellington regional scenes and European scenes. She has exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and for Watercolour New Zealand.
Dianne Taylor
'My involvement in watercolour commenced comparatively late in life after a friend gifted me paint and brushes. I painted on and off for a few years, learning from library books, but it wasn't until 2001 that I began to take art seriously. Since joining the Wellington Art Club that same year, I have had works displayed at the Chelsea St and Rita Angus exhibitions. In 2002 I joined the NZ Academy of Fine Arts and have successfully exhibited my works at the Queen's Wharf galleries in Wellington. I am also a member of Watercolour NZ and regularly participate in their exhibitions. I am still learning from library books and art magazines, and in 2009 participated in two workshops; one by Malcolm Beattie and the other by a brilliant watercolourist, Joseph Zbukvic. I have dabbled in acrylics and find them less stressful than watercolour, wheras watercolour can test my patience and I have had a few frustrating moments where one mistake can see a painting relegated to the bin, then I look at the exciting, atmospheric, subtle and moody works by top watercolourists and this is what inspires me to carry on with this fascinating if somewhat exasperating medium.
George Thompson
George paints in various mediums but he is mostly known for his watercolours. He believes in using colour for full effect and has developed a unique style combining impressionism and strong colours. Wellington City is a common subject and his large colourful city scenes create a feeling of movement and life. His style is instantly recognisable and his works are very popular.
Jan Thomson
Jan began painting in 2000, first in watercolours and then oils. Landscape is her passion, trying to capture its' moods and light. She paints most of her work on site and this gives it an immediacy and freshness that has made her work very popular in Wellington. Much of her work is of the Wellington coastline.
Marion Towns
Internationally recognised, New Zealand landscape artist Marion Towns has a creditable list of major exhibitions behind her and her works sell to art lovers throughout the world. The chalk pastel medium Marion works with is used with skill and her choice of colours epitomises the New Zealand summer. Her paintings fall into the Impressionist category - mostly landscapes and seascapes - to which she occasionally adds the female nude form very cleverly emphasising the contours and curves of both.
Don Wilson
Don Wilson lives north of Wellington where he has worked as a full time artist and musican. His distinctive paintings have featured in two solo exhibitions and numerous gallery exhibitions and are sold in several Wellington galleries. They are represented in corporate and private collections in New Zealand and overseas. His inspiration comes from the breathtaking Wellington region and his paintings capture the Kapiti coast and Wellington City.
“I find Wellington a visually stunning area, geographically diverse and with constantly changing moods, that make it an exciting place to be a painter”.
