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Patricia Emmerson-Hough

1 November 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Hyper Realism, Nature, Painting, Realism, Watercolour

A TRULY NATURAL GIFT

With no formal training, all Patricia Emmerson-Hough has ever wanted to do is be an artist. “I’ve wanted to draw and paint, ever since I could hold a pencil.” Patricia tells us her story.

My family arrived in New Zealand when I was a child and we lived by the sea, so I was surrounded by all forms of nature; which fascinated me so much that it seemed a natural progression to recreate the detail and colours of the natural world. I don’t remember any point in my life when I stopped and said to myself that I want to be an artist, it was there in me all the time.

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Donna Lee

1 November 2015
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Figures, Jewellery, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Palette Knife, Realism

INNER CREATIVE DESIRE

I’ve always dabbled with art whether it being sewing, painting, jewellery and so on but it stepped up a gear when my mother, Janice Corbishley, purchased the Red Peach Gallery in Ahuriri, Napier. I began creating jewellery from fine bone china and created a brand ‘China Horse’ which I sell in there. After meeting Brent Redding through the gallery I took up painting lessons and started to put in the long hours of practice behind the scenes while still selling the jewellery. Then in 2013 I held my first solo exhibition and since then have focused on painting.

I paint and create because of a great inner desire to do so. When I paint I feel happy, free and connected! It allows me to choose a lifestyle of freedom, expression, travel and happiness which I cherish above all. The motivation comes from many avenues but is mainly an internal drive to achieve the very best I can be and to attain this lifestyle I have created for myself.

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Dawn Brown Meehan

1 November 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Figures, Impressionism, Oils, Painting, Palette Knife, Still-life, Symbolism

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION

Drawing was the only thing I enjoyed but from the perspective of my parents, heading into the arts was ‘fickle with no security’ - as opposed to a ‘good government department job’ where I inevitably ended up.

It wasn’t until I was older with a young family, that I took up painting seriously. I began in watercolour and painted scene after scene - ‘stiffies’ I called them, painting exactly what I saw, with little fluidity or deviation from what lay in front of me.

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Cherol Filbee

1 November 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Ceramics, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Floral, Oils, Pencil, Polymer Clay, Portraits, Realism, Still-life, Street Scenes, Watercolour

A PORTABLE OCCUPATION

Cherol Filbee has been heading in the arts direction her whole life. She loves being an artist. “I am never bored and my work is portable. My husband Peter, a top croquet player, enters tournaments all over NZ and likes me to accompany him. He knows I am lost without a project, so the deal is that I take my art work with me. When he played the world champs in London, I enrolled in a five day portraiture class at the Heatherly School Of Fine Art.”

Qualifying from The Learning Connection with honours in art and creativity, Cherol studied part-time, starting in 2010.
Awarded a scholarship for every year but one, she explains that simply drawing has become the basis of all her work. “I love faces and like to portray them as portraits or caricature in 2D and 3D. Cats have also featured quite a lot in my work. I like to challenge myself and work from life rather than a photo reference.”

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Helen Dynes

1 September 2015
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Figures, Impressionism, Oils, Painting, Realism

HOLDING ON TO THE VISION

When she was a child, all Helen Dynes wanted to be was an artist. “Art was always my passion,” she says, “there was never any other consideration.” Born in Ireland and completing her higher education in England where studied Graphic Design to Masters Level, this Napier-based artist and tutor took the long route to fulfill her inner passion.

I was one of four daughters and we lived in semi rural Ireland, in picturesque countryside. I remember a couple of faded prints on our living room wall. They were of ballet dancers, and I used to gaze at them and wonder at the delicate tutus and gracious poses. I spent hours drawing dancers. My favourite birthday or Christmas gift would be colouring books, crayons and paints.

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Sue Lund

1 September 2015
Abstract, Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Contemporary Art, Enamel, Featured Artists, Impressionism, Installation, Mixed Media, Nature, Painting, Resin

FINDING THE RYTHM

Sue Lund, an elected artist of the Academy of Art in Wellington, is well-known for her striking work on the walls of the buildings at the Learning Connexion where she studied for an Advanced Diploma in Formless Art between 2003 and 2004, she already had a degree in Fine Arts from NAS in Sydney.

Sue is inspired by life: “Living and the crazy things that send you to places you either never want to go again or where the intrigue is too enormous to resist,” she says adding: “I did quite a bit of travel in my twenties and those times showed me a fairly full spectrum of what life is all about.”

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Katie Mines

1 September 2015
Acrylic, Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Impressionism, Landscape, Painting, Portraits, Stylized, Symbolism

MEDITATIVE ART

An intense academic by nature, and artist in heart and soul, Katie Mines spent much of her life studying for a series of degrees and teaching at university before engaging her childhood dream of being full-time professional artist in her own right, and on her own terms.

Prior to 2012, Katie spent 10 years travelling through Asia, Africa and America and seven years teaching at a Confucian University in Seoul, South Korea. She returned to Hawkes Bay at the end of 2012, to raise her daughter and try her hand at painting, which remained a life long dream, “I always knew that art would become a big part of my life, I just wasn’t sure in what capacity until I started painting full time,” she reflects. After years of travelling, Katie was ready for what Hawkes Bay has to offer, “the space to slow life down, have a garden, bring up my daughter, and paint.”

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Indigo Wise

1 September 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Drawing, Featured Artists, Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil, Realism

PROCEED BEYOND

Well known for her paintings and drawings of New Zealand native birds; including the Native New Zealand Falcon, Fantail, Kea and Tui, Indigo Wise found her passion for art after overcoming long-term health issues and enrolling in an 18 month Visual Arts course at the Golden Bay Work centre.

That was in 2010-2011 and it was not her first study of the arts. Prior to this, in 1988, Indigo completed a diploma of Interior Design, which included life drawing, graphic design, art history and technical drawing at Whitecliffe Art School. As a distance delivery student in Golden Bay, Indigo studied through The Learning Connexion from 2012 – 2014 coming out with a diploma of Art & Creativity and Diploma of Art & Creativity (honours).

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Andrew Moon

1 September 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Figures, Hyper Realism, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism, Still-life

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

“It’s the urge to create. The outlet for ideas and creativity and to stand back at the end of a completed painting with satisfaction and to say to yourself, ‘You know, that’s not crap.”

So says Andrew Moon who adds that much of his inspirations grow out of darkness. “In my mind I’ll get the sense of a glimpse of light and colour amid the shadows, then watch to see what develops around that. So most of my work is set against a dark background with a harsh chiaroscuro contrast that scratches my artistic itch.

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Beverly Reid

1 September 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Coloured Pencils, Drawing, Featured Artists, Floral, Pastels, Realism, Still-life, Street Scenes

THE JOURNEY

Californian-born Beverly Reid has had a passion for art since childhood. “When I received my first set of Crayola crayons and a colouring book, I loved the exciting hues of colours I could create with them, which led me to drawing different things on my own. My very first memories of drawing were that of a sailing ship, Black Beauty and a ballerina. I was so excited with all the details I could put into my drawings making them ‘come alive’, I wanted to do more! This began my art journey into enjoying realism which still continues today!” .

Apart from a short college course in 3-Dimensional Art in 1994-5, Beverly is a self-taught artist with no formal training, but dedicated to perfecting her craft, and developing her own unique style. “I love being an artist, because I can communicate a feeling or capture a moment in time through my work, and share it with other people. There’s nothing more gratifying to me, when I receive feedback that my art made someone stop, stare at it and keep looking at it!

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