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Jane Pestell-Litten -aotearoa Artist

Jane Pestell-Litten

Jane Pestell-Litten - aotearoa artist

LIQUID LIGHT

Jane Pestell-Litten is a trans-Tasman fine artist working primarily in the traditional mediums of charcoal and watercolour, or oils on linen. Jane’s work is exclusively figurative (whole and portrait). Her charcoals are large and lively and strong in line and style.

She is driven to capture the brilliance of light and paints in the style of the Photorealist movement. Her work depicts the actuality of what the eye can see, yet allows for subject ambiguity to enable individual interpretation. Her work is held in numerous local and international private and public collections.

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Kim Crosland - Aotearoa Artist

Kim Crosland

kim crosland - aotearoa artist

WINDOWS TO THE SOUL

Trained as a graphic designer, Kim Crosland is a largely self-taught artist who says she picked up a great deal of her artistic knowledge by joining online art groups and watching various You-tube tutorials.

“This approach helped me to ascertain what is going on in the wider art world, what techniques other artists are using and learning how to develop and apply a distinctive style of my own,” Kim reveals. Kim has carried an inherent ability to draw and paint with her from an early age; her father and grandfather were both portrait artists. She took up painting again about seven years ago, after her father had passed away and also because a friend asked her to paint a few musicians portraits, which were hung in a bar. After that she couldn’t stop. She says she feels indebted to both her late father and her friend for encouraging her to get back into art after 15 years of not touching a brush. 

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Matt Diamond - Aotearoa Artist

Matt Diamond

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MATT DIAMOND EXPRESSIVE

Throughout his life, Matt Diamond has had an interest in drawing, endeavouring to put to paper that which he saw, developing his talent through the years. He travelled Europe and the Middle East for four years, returning to New Zealand to train at Aucklands Freelance Animation Studio.

After working in 2 and 3 dimensional animation and spending time doing animation for Maori TV, he realised his creativity didn’t really flourish in an office environment and decided to start travelling again. Whilst in central America he spent time sketching people in cafés, without them knowing, and then presenting them with the drawing when they had finished their meal. Sometimes he just made a new friend, other times the unwitting model would buy him a meal or tip him. However, although this was entertaining, it did not satisfy his overwhelming urge to create huge artworks.

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