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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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Hamish Oakley-Browne

1 July 2015
Abstract, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Contemporary Art, Featured Artists, Nature, Printing, Still-life

HAMISH OAKLEY-BROWNE

Hamish Oakley-Browne is a passionate artist with printmaking as his chosen medium. Having just completed a degree in fine arts at NorthTec in Whangarei, he is currently doing a six-month residency programme at Te Kowhai Print Trust situated at The Quarry Arts Centre.

Hamish says printmaking reflects a “hands-on tactile backlash to the digital world in which people have lost themselves, their intrinsic senses and richness in their lives.

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Faith McManus

1 July 2015
Abstract, Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Contemporary Art, Featured Artists, Nature, Portraits, Printing

FAITH McMANUS

“There is a revival of printmaking taking place in New Zealand with printmakers being increasingly recognised by the wider art community and the medium is poised to start interacting with other mediums.” These are the thoughts of Faith McManus, locally and internationally recognised as one of New Zealand’s foremost printmakers with exhibitions at dealer and public galleries in New Zealand, Australia and the USA.

Faith, an art tutor at Northtech in Whangarei, says printmaking in New Zealand does not always enjoy the recognition and appreciation it deserves. “There are not many print galleries in New Zealand and there are probably more people collecting New Zealand prints in Australia than they do here.”

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Jade Knight

1 July 2015
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Figures, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism, Youth Art

IT'S IN THE EYES

Educated at St Joseph’s primary school in Auckland and Pompallier Catholic College in Whangarei, 19 year-old Jade Knight is currently completing the first year of a three-year bachelor of art and design degree through The Learning Connexion in Wellington.

Jade, who is studying via correspondence, says when she has finished this course, her intention is to follow through with a two-year masters degree in art therapy: “I have a passion for not only art but also working with people so becoming an art therapist will not only allow me to pursue my passion for art but also help people of all ages and walks of life.

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Andy Morrison

1 July 2015
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Carving, Featured Artists, Nature, Pointillism, Sculpture

A POINT IN TIME

The NZ Artist recently visited the Mangonui Waterfront Festival where we caught up with pointillist and carver Andrew (Andy) Morrison at ‘Exhibit A’ a co-operative gallery of which he is member.

Born in England Andrew (Andy) Morrison was recruited by the New Zealand Government in January 2005 as the Railway Engineering Manager in the central North Island and for the next few years. Art, which had always been a part of his life and something he really wanted to do, played second fiddle to his career. Things have changed.

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Janet Marshall

1 July 2015
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Coloured Pencils, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Floral, Gouache, Illustration, Pencil, Realism, Symbolism

DREAM CHASER

English-born Kiwi, Janet Marshall has exhibited and sold her work as far afield as England, Japan, USA, Canada, Australia, Italy and China and designed stamps for NZ Post and NZ Fish and Game.

Janet is a founding member of Nature in Art, Gloucestor, England and has work in numerous collections including Nature in Art England, NZ Milk Board USA, NZ Post, NZ Treasury, Puki Ariki Museum Taranaki, and Birds in Art, Wisconsin, USA. She has also written and had published five illustrated children’s books as well as an illustrated garden diary of her former home Te Popo Gardens in Taranaki, called ‘Images of a Garden’.

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Reina Cottier

1 July 2015
Abstract, Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Birdlife, Contemporary Art, Expressionism, Featured Artists, Figures, Maori, Painting, Portraits

THE INNER ARTIST

After learning the basics of art at high school Reina Cottier spent much of her life running a series of businesses and raising a family. About seven years ago she took a course dubbed ‘Awaken the Artist Within’, which, she says, “was not so much about learning how to paint, but more about expressing yourself from within and finding inspiration”.

Needless to say the artist within Reina was re-ignited. Not that it was ever that far away. With a theatre wardrobe mistress for a mother Reina had an unconventional upbringing, surrounded by art and craft and everything that went with it.

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Ira Mitchell

1 July 2015
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Figures, Jewellery, Kiwiana, Landscape, Painting, Seascape, Stylized

IN THE ZONE

The 2010 Christchurch earthquake irrevocably changed Ira Mitchell’s life. In this article she tells of how she faced the formidable challenges of depression and post traumatic stress and found a new direction and purpose through her art.

I was in a high-rise building in Christchurch when the earthquake struck. That, and the ensuing aftershocks, traumatized me to the extent I still suffer from PTS. I was teaching part time at that point and it made me rethink my life and what I wanted to do with it.

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John Burns

1 July 2015
Abstract, Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Landscape, Portraits, Surrealism

THE INVENTOR

John Burns, husband, father, grandfather, and artist, born in Wellington “many years ago” does not see himself as an artist but describes himself as an ‘inventor’ who makes ‘stuff’, something he has been doing very successfully for the last 30 years, selling most of the work he has produced. This is John’s story and a collection of his works over the years.

“I admire and am inspired in my art by people such as Pablo Picasso, Petrus van der Velden, Colin McCahon, Marc Chagall and many others. To me their art was different from the ‘norm’ (whatever that was). Some have taken flack for their style of art; Colin McCahon is an example of this. I think art is a long term activity where one can become bolder over time something I certainly feel applies to me.

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