ANASTASIA COLLIER Anastasia is a Raglan-based artist living near the water, where the surrounding coast, forests, and wildlife continually inspire her work. Having always loved creating, she recently returned home after travelling and is now focusing more deeply on her art practice. Working with acrylic, gouache, and ink, Anastasia enjoys the way colour can pop…
KAYLA BACON n celebration of the Pattern and Decoration art movement, Kayla Bacon’s work is deliberately decorative. Taking influence by the light-hearted and funky qualities of 1970s wallpaper design, and disregarding the dominance of modernism by embracing work that traditionally would be identified as feminine, ornamental, or craft-based. Deepening her inquiry into geometric abstraction, her…
JEANNINE FRIEDRICH Jeannine Friedrich creates abstract acrylic paintings that do not reveal themselves all at once, inviting the viewer to look again, then closer. Her work is built through layers of colour and texture, with marks, overpainting and hidden fragments allowed to stay and speak. Words and text have long been part of her visual…
JANE GALLOWAY For 25 years Jane Galloway has made a name as a landscape painter and illustrator. She has designed many graphic print series for galleries and greeting cards as well as painting much loved images of Raglan and the Coromandel. After 20 years the landscapes still require mental discipline and many hours to produce. She has consequently come…
JULIAN GODFERY Julian has his own unique view of the world which can be seen in his drawings involving intense pattern-making with fine-tipped pens. People often find his naïve drawings of simple subjects very moving. His original drawings are very small. They are reproduced and available as larger sized prints which are extremely lightfast. He…
GERALDINE BURNS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY Geraldine loves to capture landscapes, seascapes, and nature – working in both digital and film mediums. She has a ‘quiet eye’ – perhaps catching the light cast upon an object, the dew on a leaf, or mist rolling in… Her style, often described as being poetic – captures a mood…