NZ Shore Plover - Art & Artists

 


On Friday 10 October we held an auction of New Zealand art to raise funds for The New Zealand Shore Plover Appeal. The donated art, from New Zealand artists or art that has a New Zealand theme, raised enough for us to be able to donate over $20,000 to DoC for the New Zealand Shore Plover; the money raised will help continue the 5 year reintroduction programme on Mana Island and upgrade the captive breeding aviaries at Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre.

Along with the generosity of the artists listed below, we are extremely grateful for the support of

Crown Fine Arts in assisting with transporting art from New Zealand and  Suze in Mayfair for exhibiting the art. Dinner sponsors at the event included Fonterra, Barfoots of Botley and Sealord.

       

Elspeth Alix Batt

After working mainly as an illustrator and designer of children's books, School Journals, cards, flags and postage stamps, Elspeth has recently moved more into the Fine Art field, painting both abstract and realistic works which allow her to express her great love of the New Zealand landscape and people, and by implication, the need for “us all to appreciate and safeguard them”.  Elspeth works mainly with transparent acrylic and watercolour but also uses pencil and pen and ink, and loves to experiment with computer printouts, metallic inks and gold leaf.
 
This year Elspeth has won the inaugural NZAG Art Awards, 3rd prize in the Open category at the Royal Easter Show Art Awards, the Raye Hannam Memorial Trophy for the Best Watercolour in the Royal Easter Show Art Awards and 4th prize in the recent Peters Doig Art Awards in Blenheim.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.
 
www.nzartguild.co.nz

 

Rata

225 x 315 mm


 

Sally Blyth

Sally is an Auckland-based self-taught artist and facilitator, who enjoys creating a diverse range of works. She has won a number of awards, exhibited widely and her works are in collections in New Zealand, London, Australia, USA and beyond. She also receives regular invitations and requests to contribute her artworks to various high profile charitable auctions, both in NZ and overseas, and is always happy to support the cause.

Inspired by countries and their cultures, Sally loves sourcing new ideas and materials, and devising innovative ways of interpreting and using them. Her aim is to evoke a sense of actually being in a particular place and time, rather than recreate an image which can be captured on camera.  A symbol, a colour, a word, an impression, a mood ... if the viewer can recall the feeling of being in that place; gain the desire to be there; experience that moment in time again ... then the art has done its work.

Sally works from her home-based studio overlooking the garden, and regularly exhibits at group exhibitions around Auckland and beyond. She is constantly experimenting with new styles and techniques, and always on the lookout for fresh ideas and inspiration.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.

www.masquerade.co.nz
 

The Journey Begins Here

1020 x 760mm


 

Tony Brown

Tony offers us all a vision of perseverance and triumph over turmoil. An enthusiasm to forge a better life is what fuels Tony’s passion to create works that inspire powerful and emotive responses: “I want to reach out to people who are stuck”.
 
Tony’s paintings, which are deeply inlaid with a locality and familiarity and in some cases, are intimately provocative, grapple with issues such as depression, loneliness, adoption and sobriety. Tony’s dark and raw works show an artist who interprets issues with an innate sense of compassion and individuality.  Through a process of rehabilitation, Tony rediscovered art as a form of expression from childhood and values the emotions he is able to stir within viewers of his work.
 
Tony has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, is a member of the NZ Art Guild, has been a finalist in national art awards and recently judged an emerging art award. Commissions accepted.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.

www.tonybrown-artist.blogspot.com
 

Soulful Beauty

305 x 430mm


 

Jono Carmichael - KumaraArt

A New Zealander on the move, with an insatiable appetite for everything that is Kiwi.  Born and raised in New Zealand, Jono came over to Europe in the late 70s and became the proverbial kiwi ski bum, living and working in the ski town of Chamonix in the French Alps. Now all grown up, married, and with an energetic wee boy in my life, he did his stint in the UK for 20 years working in the ski industry for specialist ski and outdoor retailer Snow and Rock.

Jono has now returned to the mountains and settled near Annecy in the  French Alps.  Specialising in lifestyle and adventure sports photography, it’s the perfect base - and the skiing is pretty good too!!!  Jono tries
to do a trip ‘home’ to NZ most years always with camera in hand.   With a passion for landscape photography too ,he  travels round the country with my family in tow capturing the magical scenery and light  that is only New Zealand .

www.kumaraart.com
 

Surfcasting at first light

Photograph printed on canvas

1100 x 600mm

Jonathan Clark

A native of New Zealand, Jonathan Clark’s passion for photography and his award-winning web design has allowed him to live on three continents and visit thirty countries over the last nine years. 

Recent projects include an appointment as photo-documenter of the lives of the First Nations People of British Columbia for the Canadian Government; and photographing the legendary counter-culture art festival, Burning Man, in the U.S. Nevada desert for Lonely Planet Publications.

A graduate of New Zealand’s Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, Jonathan’s university training in the fine arts specialized in Visual Communication. His awards in New Media Design inspired him to go out and sketch the world as a way to try and make sense of it. After rapidly experiencing many cultures and people, he realized his pencil was too slow a medium and it was replaced with a camera.

Jonathan considers himself in "constant evolution as a photographer and a human being" and dedicates much of his energy into training in area's that widen his world view. Although inspired by many artists and people, he credits his strongest mentors as National Geographic photographer, Steve McCurry, and Visionary Artist and spiritual teacher, Uriel Dana, both of international acclaim. Clark has trained with McCurry in the U.S. and Asia, and had years of training in Vajrayana Buddhism with Dana in the U.S., Canada, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia.

www.jonathan-clark.com

Framing costs donated by Silver Fern IT Services Limited
Proud supporters of NZ ornithology & conservation (since 1999)
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www.silver-fern.com
 

Tawharanui Pohutukawa

 

 

 

View from Cape Reinga

2 signed fine art photographs

both 450 x 300mm

 


 

Kay de Lautour Scott

Kay is a professional artist with an extensive background in teaching. She has a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) and tutored at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland, New Zealand.

Her work has been purchased by the James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust collection of New Zealand contemporary art, The Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, and is in corporate buildings and private collections in New Zealand, Australia, USA and Europe. She exhibited regularly in New Zealand and now lives in Italy.

These 4 works were part of a large collection, commissioned for the the 1994 60th anniversary of the NZ Army's involvement at the Battle of Monte Cassino.

www.kayscott-artist.com
 

4 works

Images from photographs, manipulated by computer, and then created through 14 steps including  hand painted on to silk gampi tissue and buried in resin

100 x 200mm each

 


 

Sophia Elise

Sophia Elise is a self-taught artist living in Auckland with her two children. She balances her love of painting with their busy home life, working as a nurse and writing a motivational website 'Life is the Colour You Paint it'.  Sophia is a founding member and manager of the NZ Art Guild and also actively involved in the local art community as a Trust Board Member for Mairangi Bay Art Centre in Auckland.
 
She has been involved in numerous exhibitions throughout NZ and also selected as a finalist in several NZ Art Awards. Her art can be found in select NZ galleries and is held in many international art collections. Sophia feels passionately about her art helping those less fortunate so has donated to many charity art events including - NZ Health Industry Awards, UNICEF NZ, Mental Health Foundation, Art Aid Trust.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.
 
'If my art can reach into the soul of another and emotionally and spiritually touch that person, then it’s all worthwhile.'

www.sophiaelise.co.nz
 

Life's Balance

Mixed media on canvas

450 x 450mm

 

Judy Ellis

Judy was born in New Zealand from English and Irish ancestors some of whom were very good artists.  Judy is a teacher in wax art and enjoys undertaking community projects in this media.  Judy has received a number of commissions and has produced a painting “Kia-Ora Aotearoa” for an art magazine in NZ. 
3 works

sold separately, all wax art

Untitled, 300 x 400mm

 

 

Earth Pools, 500 x 500mm

 

 

 

Kia Ora Aotearoa, 500 x 500mm






 

Nancy Frazer

Nancy Frazer migrated to New Zealand in 1980 and is a full-time, self taught artist. In 2003 she rekindled her passion for art and began experimenting with techniques and styles previously untried by other artists. She now specializes in abstract art with the use of acrylics on canvas and a strong emphasis on textures and vibrant colours.
 
Nancy has successfully exhibited her paintings in various joint exhibitions throughout New Zealand, including the “Mazda Artworks Exhibition” held at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland as well as “Affordable Art" (Wellington), “Original Art” (Auckland), "The Royal Easter Show” (Auckland), Bethlehem College, Independent Artists and ArtExpoSite.com Art Society exhibitions in Tauranga.
 
Currently her works can be seen on permanent display at the Urban Café, The Cargo Shed and Niche Media House in Auckland. They can also be viewed on “The Living Channel” Television Art Gallery. Nancy is a member of The Tauranga & Waikato Artists Societies, The NZ Art Guild, “Creative Tauranga” and ArtExpoSite.com Art Society.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.
 
  www.nancyfrazer.blogspot.com
 

Forget-me-not

Mixed media

750 x 1010mm

 

Dana Jackson

Dana Jackson travels extensively abroad and around New Zealand in search of inspiring images to paint. She is currently touring Europe, where she has recently won an award in Italy.

Dana has been painting since her earliest recollections and is involved in community arts in her home town of Raumati on the Kapiti Coast and also in Wellington, the capital city. She regularly exhibits with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and has been an invited guest artist for both the New Zealand Water Colour Society and the KACS Society. Exhibitions of her work have taken place in Germany, France, Italy and London. Her paintings can be found in collections around the world.

The NZ Shore Plover appeal has a special meaning for her as she can see Mana Island from her home and has also worked voluntarily for DOC on Long Island in the Marlborough Sounds.

www.artydana.co.nz
 

Back to Island Bay, Wellington

Oil

 460 x 600mm

 

 

 

Perky Pukekos

Acrylic

400 x 500mm




 

Alan Joël

 

Alan started painting late in life, having been inspired by his aunt, Grace Joël, a renowned artist in her native country, New Zealand. She painted in the UK at the turn of the 19th century, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Painting, and winning the Silver Medal at the Paris Salon 1923.

Unlike Grace, Alan was not fortunate enough to be trained by Renoir! However he has had the benefit of one to one tuition with two of England's top painters.  Both encouraged Alan's natural flair & dash, apparent in his work which illustrates both spontaneity and the individual use of bold colour.

A Member of the United Art Society of London, Alan works from his studio based in Wiltshire.

Alan has this to say about his donated piece: "The painting was inspired by my only mountaineering experience when some 60 years ago I crossed the NZ alps via the Copeland pass.  The guide pushed us on as the weather can change so quickly and I had time for a quick 5 minute sketch and a photo and only in recent time have I had time to do the painting."

http://www.joelpaintings.com/

 

Mt Sefton

oil on canvas

400 x 500mm


 

Mary Jane Kay

Mary Jane studied art at my school in Wellington, New Zealand, followed by oil painting technique in Madrid, Spain and a course of silk screen printing at the Chelsea College of Art, London, England. Mary Jane has lived and travelled in many countries which have influenced her art. Colour and design are important to her and her paintings have sometimes been described as whimsical, Dufy-ish or in the style of Matisse.  Exhibits have included Juried Group Shows, Hampstead Open Air Show, London, Rona Gallery, St Katherine Dock, London and 
Artists' League of Central New Jersey Statewide Art Show, USA.

www.maryjanekay.theartistsweb.co.uk
 


A Safe Haven

Gouache on paper

440 x 400mm

 

Chavah Kinloch

Chavah is a self-taught Artist who works in acrylic paints and mixed media on canvas. Born in Western Samoa in 1984, raised in Auckland and now living in Southland, life for Chavah has always been diverse and colourful, just the way she likes it.
 
She tends to simplify the forms of her subjects, zooming in on specific areas creating a focal point and exploring them. She is inspired by her heritage, emotions, motherhood, beliefs and reflections on life. These ideas are translated onto canvas through texture; symbolism and poetry to create an array of work that can connect personally with each individual. Her paintings are creative and colourful as she chooses colours, subjects and styles that reflect her mood on the day.
 
You will find Art by CTTK displayed in homes, hospitals and offices throughout New Zealand. Her paintings can be found in exhibits nationwide such as the Royal Easter Show in Auckland, The Affordable Art Show in Wellington and the Woman’s Art Exhibition in Gisborne. Chavah is a member of the NZ Art Guild.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.

 

www.chavahkinloch.blogspot.com
 


Clouded Hope

Acrylic on canvas

510 x 410mm

Steve Moase

Award winning artist Steve Moase, is based on New Zealand's beautiful Tutukaka Coast where he gets much of his inspiration. His seascapes, coastal landscapes and intricate bush drawings capture the spirit and uniqueness of his subjects.

His work sells internationally and is represented in selected New Zealand galleries and in collections in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Asia and Europe
.

www.moaseart.com 
 


The Way to Cabbage Tree Bay


 
   
Matapouri Sentinel

 

Shirley Sutton

Coming from a family with a strong artistic tradition, Shirley has been painting, teaching and exhibiting nationally for over 25 years. Her passion for art has taken her abroad several times, both studying and tutoring. In 2006, she was awarded first prize in the Rotary Art Show in New Zealand and also last year on the Normandy Coast, in France, she won first prize for her painting of the Normandy Cliffs.

Shirley has exhibited in London, France, Germany and Italy and has paintings in collections around the world. Her work was also selected by Watercolour New Zealand to be shown in an international exhibition in Mexico. She exhibits with NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Watercolour New Zealand and other private galleries in both the North and South Islands.

www.sasutton.co.nz
 
 

Golden Bay, South Island

Oil

600 x 450mm

Tania Verrent

Born and raised in rural Southland, Tania observed first hand the rich diversity of New Zealand’s beautiful flora and fauna.  She grew up captivated by the unique wildlife and rugged landscape that is the essence of New Zealand.

Tania is a professional artist who paints both NZ landscapes and birds and wildlife as well as the world’s exotic animals.  “I love it when a painting evokes an emotional response in the viewer and feel privileged to earn a living doing something I have such passion for”.
Member of the NZ Art Guild.

www.taniaverrent.co.nz
 


High Tide Rest

Acrylic on canvas

1020 x 760 mmmm

 

Rae West

With a focus on New Zealand’s native botanical and bird imagery, Rae reflects in her paintings both a personal appreciation and ongoing concern for her surrounding environment.

Colours are earthy and warm with splashes of reds and blues. She embellishes this palette with the use of gold leaf, creating an element of luxury and preciousness about her work. West is a full time artist, living in Kaiapoi; She exhibits widely throughout New Zealand and has sold many pieces overseas.


www.raewest.co.nz
 


Lantern Huia

Quality Print on Canvas

840 x 350mm


 

Elisabeth Williamson

Elisabeth lives & works in Central Otago New Zealand. Her work covers landscape, figures and themes based on the landforms and the effect the history of settlement has had on the land. The main overiding influence however is the beauty and dominance of the landscape at Bannockburn amongst which she feels privileged to live.

Her work is mostly mixed media-ink, acrylic and whatever comes to hand.

Elisabeth has exhibited in Arrowtown, Cromwell, Greymouth and Christchurch over the past six years. She lives in a vibrant art community based around a Collective Art Gallery, Hullabaloo at Old Cromwell Town Historic Precinct.

liswilliamson@hotmail.com


Our kind thanks to Martin Conway, cousin of Elisabeth and our immediate past president, for donating "Clay Cliffs" and also paying for the framing for both pictures.

Clay Cliffs
600 x 420mm

 

 

Sluicings
420 x 600mm

both at Bannockburn in Central Otago

mixed media


 

Graham Young

Graham Young has built a reputation for creating paintings that capture the vibrancy of contemporary New Zealand life through sparkling light and bold colour. And while the beautiful New Zealand landscape is often the backdrop for his works, Graham also focuses how people live in their country – the human touch is always evident in his works.
 
These paintings have made their way into collections internationally, with the appeal of his work transcending national boundaries. He enjoys travelling and has a keen interest in art history, but New Zealand, his adopted home, remains his primary inspiration – not just as a visual motif, but the relaxed kiwi attitude to life.


www.grahamyoung.vc.net.nz
 


Ahipara beach hut

Oil on box canvas

760 x 610mm

 
   
Garnet Dairy

Oil on box canvas

760 x 610mm