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01 Jul

A Call From Earth - 2025

This image depicts the beauty of a red-eyed tree frog, highlighting the need to protect our earth, and all its living things. The painting has been executed in acrylic paints, and the subject has been coated with artist’s gloss varnish. The clean-edged canvas has been incorporated into the overall image

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01 Jul

sparrows at dawn after nectar - 2025

this peice is recycled copper and stsinless spoons and a antique wooden frame

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01 Jul

Muriwai (Oaia Island) - 2025

A fused glass artwork displayed in a white frame. Depicting the sun baked, offshore Oaia Island set in the vibrant colours of a Muriwai sea.

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01 Jul

Another perspective - 2025

Balancing elements of pop art and traditional landscape painting, the piece invites viewers into a world where childhood nostalgia and natural beauty coexist. The reflective surfaces of the giraffe, painted to suggest a metallic finish, serve as a playful commentary on artificiality in a natural setting.

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01 Jul

Burrowed Treasure - 2025

This work explores the quiet reverence due to one of Aotearoa’s most ancient and resilient creatures: the wētā. Created in traditional goldwork embroidery on a vintage kiwi woollen blanket, Burrowed Treasure honours the hidden beauty and evolutionary endurance of this native insect. Though not golden in colour, the wētā is a taonga — a living […]

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01 Jul

Fly Agaric - 2025

Delicately hand-stitched using traditional silk shading and stumpwork techniques, this three-dimensional embroidered fly agaric mushroom rises from the fabric like something foraged from a storybook forest. Silk shading breathes life into its vivid red cap, while stumpwork lends it sculptural form and quiet presence. Rich in folklore and instantly recognisable, the fly agaric becomes both […]

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01 Jul

Dump no waste - flows to sea! - 2025

This is Rangitoto depicted in found porcelain shards and glass off-cuts. The title is from the message on suburban drains. The story of each shard evokes a reminiscence of the domesticity of lives gone by. To me each shard is special and carries a spirituality which still prevails, despite their eroded lives. After a life […]

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29 Jun

Festive - 2025

Madhubani Indian art is famous for its vibrancy of colours, geometric patterns, and painting of animals or plants. It is done on paper, canvas, or fabric. This captured my attention to paint a lovely bottle and wine glass in its full decorum. To me, this is a perfect subject for still life.

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29 Jun

The Red Vase - 2025

Simplicity enhances beauty . A very simple subject can be effective and eye-catching. Thus, I was inspired to paint a red vase with yellow flowers. I added a peacock on the vase to capture its oriental look and choosing complimentary colours.

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29 Jun

Mardi Gras of Traffic Cones #1 - 2025

Ceramic piece with coloured glass. The surface was altered chemically and thermically, stamp impressions applied, underglaze colours were applied in several layers. Fired at 1000° C and 1170° C. Waikato clay was used.

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