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I am a New Zealand, self-taught artist who grew up in Manukau City and now lives in Dunedin. Since I was young I have loved art and have carried pencils and paper where ever I went. I created this site to share with you all my artistic journey and development. I started with graphite only and throughout my school years expanded to charcoal, ink-based pencils, acrylic paints, oil paint and printmaking. After university I bought watercolour paints, which has introduced vibrant colours and a joyous element to my artwork. My recent works are semi-realistic with an explosion of colours. This development can be seen in the Gallery; where as you scroll down the page you will go back in time to a monochromatic palette. In recent years I have exhibited my artwork in the Auckland Royal Easter show and been awarded at the Snell’s Beach Exhibition for my “Western Spring Swans” and “Pukeko in the Water” watercolour paintings. I am currently a member and volunteer at the Otago Art Society located at the historical Dunedin Railway Station.

Annual Snell’s Beach Art Exhibition

Annual Snell’s Beach Art Exhibition

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A photo from a walk in Te Anau/Manapouri a few weeks ago. Nature is the best palette we have. Thank you to New Zealand who worked hard, went into lockdown early so now we can have normality and be safe 💚 . . . #monochromatic #newzealandwalks #teanau
It's the Friday before a long weekend 💕 Its been a busy week here in NZ with lockdown being over and life resuming with some new conditions. With nobody in hospital and only 8 active cases of covid in the country it's fair to say we have done bloody
#enpleinairpainting or painting on location. It comes with many challenges... today was not having a flat surface and not being able to change my water but it didn't matter. It's more about having fun and enjoying the process than anything else 👩&zw
Colour swatches of my schmincke and Daniel smith watercolour paints. I love my new Daniel smith quinacridone gold 🤩 and hope the cerulean blue chromium and buff white help when it comes to plein air painting. All of these you can get from @gordonhar
Swipe 👉 to see my painting process of #ionachurch in #portchalmers in Dunedin. I tried mixing ink with watercolour and I am trying to push myself into learning how to paint urban scenes ⛪🖌 . . . #lockdownart #ionachurchportchalmers #localbeauty #nz
One of my favourites from a life drawing class. I have been watching portrait artist of the year on youtube and how inspiring! A skill I would love to develop but it might be a bit embarrassing stuffing up a painting of someone who is willing to pose
Thought I would try painting in the style of #josephzbukvic when I accidentally went way to bold with the blue... Where to go from here... . . . #danielsmithwatercolors #danielsmith #saturated #pigment #nzart #knoxchurch #georgestreet #church #street
I have now done daily paintings for a week. My last day was very exciting as I saw chimney smoke from the ports production. Here in NZ we have implemented an alert system. For the last 4 weeks we have been in level 4 which is essential business and s
Messy and loved 💛🧡💙💚 ➡️ for the clean up. I invested in my first set of paints four years ago now. After years of paintings, exhibitions and commissions I still havent touched pan on any of the colours. I didn't know back then that these paints w
Painting the same view everyday with a quick watercolour. Amazing to see how the weather, temperature and time of day dramatically changes the scene. Will do another 3 to fill the other page 🙂 . . . #watercolourpainting #watercolour #watercolor #sch
My progression in this painting over the last two weeks. I finally did the green on the cliffs and it felt wrong. Too vibrant, too much at the top of the cliffs, too much of it for what my vision is. So I had to paint over it and start again, I'm sti
🥰🍑🍷 Friday night lockdown sketches . . . #lifedrawing #ink #inkdrawing #fabercastell #fabercastellpens #dassketchbook #sketchbook #lockdownart #nzart #nzart #womanfigure #femalebody #instaart #relax #exploringart