Sarah Freiburger
ABOVE: Motatapu River, Wānaka. Acrylic on Board, 900x600mm BALANCED HAPPINESS Born and bred in Germany, Sarah Freiburger has always loved painting…
ABOVE: Motatapu River, Wānaka. Acrylic on Board, 900x600mm BALANCED HAPPINESS Born and bred in Germany, Sarah Freiburger has always loved painting…
ABOVE: Sonja with her Tasman National Art Award Merit Award painting - 'Everything but the bowl' GOOD FOR THE SOUL “Oil…
Born in East London, South Africa, Kerri-Lee Günter has been in New Zealand since 2009, living in and enjoying the majesty…
NATURAL PROGRESSION Gwyn Hughes’ father and grandfather used to paint and it was a natural progression for him to become an…
A PASSIONATE PROCESS Otautau Gallery in Southland and The Artists Room Fine Art Gallery in Dunedin are a far cry from…
GENEROUS GIFT From a young age, Rosanne Croucher loved to make things. She won a few colouring in competitions as a…
Art Capener did a short amount of formal art training at UK Liverpool Art College way back in the early 60s…

I spent most of my adult life with horses and riding as a hobby and with family life, working full time and studying part time there was not much time for anything else. I always thought that one day I might come back to my art. Getting older, I was not fit enough to carry on with the horse riding and moved to breeding and showing miniature horses. This was successful for 10 years, but again, getting older, mobility issues were making this hobby more difficult and so I decided to retire from it. Then came COVID lockdown and I was looking for something to do and now I am on this new, amazing art journey.

“But my method is very much the same no matter what I am painting,” he says. “I usually square up a picture, so draw a grid on a print of a photograph I am working from. I transfer that onto the surface I am working on and go from there. Quite often a complicated painting can take anything up to a month to draw out, even before I have started painting.” Tony’s painting of a leopard took a month to draw out and another five months to paint.
FREE SPIRIT Rebelling about being told what and how to paint, and being a free spirit, travelling from place to place…
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