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Caley Hall

1 January 2016
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Hyper Realism, Landscape, Oils, Painting

HALL OF ART

With many trials overcome, and no formal training Caley Hall is finding that being a professional artist really suits him. “Working as an artist has changed me. I’m a caring, giving type of guy - take with one hand give with the other. I’m happy with my current situation, it’s always new and exciting each day.” Caley tells us his story.

I become an artist by starting a gallery and having an interest in other artists styles and way of life. I have painted with a few known NZ artists and honed my skills that way. My biggest motivating factor is the stress relief that painting as a professional full time artist gives me. This new life, of course, comes with a list of new stresses but they are mild in comparison to the life I lead before becoming an artist.

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Mike Greenwood

1 January 2016
Animals, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Featured Artists, Landscape, Oils, Painting, Portraits, Realism

CRIKEY! IT'S MIKE GREENWOOD

A larger than life, grumpy sweetheart with a brilliant sense of humour, Mike Greenwood started drawing and painting at the tender age of 12. In school, he was only ever interested in art and sport and has been actively pursuing these passions for 64 years.

Mike left school at 15 and played football until he retired aged 33, intending to be a full time artist. As all artists do, Mike found it hard to exist on the income from his art and decided to start his own domestic fencing business. In this business, he not only did fencing, but retaining walls, decking and landscaping, designing all jobs himself.

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Jacob Barry

1 January 2016
Acrylic, Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Drawing, Featured Artists, Figures, Oils, Portraits, Realism

BEHIND THE FACE

Jacob Barry studied art in high school, but his talents were not appreciated, he failed. How many other great icons have failed at school, yet gone onto become well known success stories? There are many. One has to wonder what it is about these situations. Jacob shares with us here.

Jacob passed all other subjects, except art. Looking at what he is doing now, it seems crazy. He received much support from his teachers and parents, thankfully, and has gone on with his art regardless. “The response I got from each painting was the motivating factor.

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Wallace Trickett

1 November 2015
Artists, Australia, New Zealand & Oceania, Aviation, Featured Artists, Hyper Realism, Naval, Oils, Painting, Realism, Vehicles

CREATIVE SPIN

Believing in what he does and creating a historical link that families will treasure for generations is what makes Wallace Trickett’s creative brain spin. “Life is a learning curve, from the cradle to the grave.”

Wallace studied with a professional painter for the Duke of Edinburgh Gold award at age 17 and has always been interested in art. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1979 and started painting seriously in 1997 after taking some stress leave from a full time job in the transport industry. Commissions started almost immediately.

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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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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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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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