Riverhaven Artland: Sculpture Park
Riverhaven Artland is being built out of love. When Guy Blundell’s wife Sue died over 20 years ago he started planting trees with a view of creating an arboretum. Inspired by English Landscape Architect Capability Brown he planted thousands of ornamental trees and now many years later Riverhaven looks like a park. Along the way […]
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan’s love of Maori design saw him make early forays into the art world, first dabbling in screen printing, and then drawing cartoons for various publications. More recently he has moved into more three dimensional interpretations of these design ideas, combining a love of native woods, metals, carving, and the newly discovered potential of […]
Margaret Bray (Coulston Road Studio)
Margaret Bray says, “Combinations of Art, Conservation, Community and Family are driving forces that guide my life; It’s exciting to redefine something, the heap of remnant scraps that have collected over decades, transformed by arrangement into an article, to be read – soft clay turned to stone to help nourish and serve the bearer, and […]
Lynda Jane Dodd
Lynda Jane enjoys many art forms and subjects, though loves to paint on driftwood or canvas; especially mountains, trees and the ocean. Having lived in Franklin most of her life, she is often inspired by the beauty of this area. Her award winning contemporary style is often fun and bold or emotive in watercolour or […]
Marietta Coney
Marietta Coney born in Auckland has been painting for 25 years, her preferred choice of subject matter being still life. These striking, well-executed works successfully marry familiar objects with forms of flora and fauna. Each composition embraces the most striking aspects of colour, light and textural elements present in the chosen subject. They possess a […]
Danielle Fernandez
Danielle runs her Mosaic business from her home studio and additionally teaches classes. She creates mosaic pop art 3 dimensional sculptures on cement and terracotta pots out of tile and sometimes tile/glass combinations, that can be displayed either indoor or outdoors. She also creates stained glass mosaic interior/exterior lighting and stained glass mosaic windows. Email: […]
Franklin Arts Centre
Franklin Arts Centre is an Auckland Council run arts facility and home to The New Zealand Steel Gallery, which features the work of local and national artists in programmed exhibitions; The Community Gallery which offers a hired art exhibition space for local artists – both emerging and experienced; a wet workshop space available for hire […]
Elaine Sharplin
We are a group of five artists. We have various interests and talents. I enjoy renewing older objects like wooden chairs and painting. Karen is an accomplished painter and has been a painting tutor, Maureen enjoys working in oils and creating works of fantasy, Megan works in many different media and Linda is developing her […]
Glenda Fisher – Wax Eye Studio
Glenda Fisher works from her small seaside studio in Big Bay. Glenda was introduced to Encaustic Art and it has become her new passion. The transparent quality of the wax has a huge appeal and it has taken her in a new and exciting direction. Contact email: glenda@fishersantana.co.nz Mobile: 027 277 2174
Tracey Majurey – Wax Eye Studio
Tracey Majurey is a local Artist currently living at Clarks Beach where she has a tiny Work Studio creating Jewellery, Textiles, and Assemblages from everyday items, recycling and repurposing, giving these objects a new lease of life. Tracey is a self taught artist, winning a collection of awards from around the region. Contact email: tracey.majurey@gmail.com […]