Creative Connections

Welcome to Episode 56. This week I'm talking to Josh Lancaster. Josh paints the places and buildings New Zealanders know and love.  

"I do this by trying to capture the essence of a familiar place" sa…

Rachael Mayne is an artist with a passion for wild flower fields, gardens and all things floral, living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Rachael juggles a career as a clinical psychologist and a professi…

Artfull is an online gallery platform that bridges the gap between artists, galleries and art collectors in Aotearoa NZ.  https://www.artfull.co.nz/

On Artfull you can discover original artworks from …

Lucy is a full time artist living in the small seaside town of Snells Beach, an hour North of Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband & 3 young children.

She studied Photography and Art at Elam School…

This is episode 52 and the first of a new series of shorter format podcast episodes that will be sprinkled through our artist interviews and are devoted to highlighting a creative business from Aotea…

Jim Wheeler is a veteran NZ sculptor living in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. 

Jim generally works in cast metals such as bronze, aluminium and iron but also uses concrete, ceramics, plastics, wood, stone …

Lucy Melville is a painter, creative entrepreneur, business coach and Mum based in Mt Maunganui.

Lucy’s work centres around energetic geometric shapes with strong, vibrant colour. Her latest work feat…

Coral Noel Yang is a Waitakere-Auckland based, Taiwanese born, multidisciplinary artist who specialises in expressive figurative and abstract paintings with oil and acrylic. 

Her passion for Aotearoa …

Fraser Williamson a.k.a. ‘Fraz’ has had a love of art since he was a young boy and has been creating incredibly distinguishable paintings and illustrations for 35 years.
https://www.creativematters.c…

Shane Hansen is an artist, a designer of graphics, furniture and fashion, a loving husband and doting Dad to two boys.  

Born in New Zealand in the 1970s, he is of Maori (Tainui, Ngaati Mahanga, Ngaat…

Helen Dean is an artist based in Titirangi, Auckland. Her abstract paintings begin with colour and are created through many layers of paint to build up a surface that is full of life, showing glimpse…

Kell Sunshine, a.k.a Kelly Spencer, is a lettering artist, muralist & illustrator from Gisborne with a big love for Mother Earth. 

Her creative style is characterised by bright and retro-fresh colour …

Sarah Barton-Hills is a painter and photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand.

 As a girl, Sarah was drawn to pattern, colour & texture. She constantly drew, sculpted, photographed, sewed and create…

Kate Hursthouse is  a New Zealand artist, illustrator, creative entrepreneur and mother of one living in Te Atatū Peninsula, Aotearoa NZ. 
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Gae Webster is a multi-disciplinary artist from Auckland in Aotearoa NZ. She works in paint, print, paper, fibre, glass, sculpture and contemporary jewellery from her studio in Pukekohe.

Gae's works a…

Toipoto (which means Closer Together in Te Reo Maori))  is a free mentoring programme for the creative sector in Auckland NZ. Developed from The Big Idea's popular Mentoring in the Arts format, Toipo…

Eric Schusser is a photographer from Central Otago in New Zealand. He has a diverse style and portfolio that includes social documentary, abstract works and fine art imagery. His work is often projec…

EPISODE 39: Photographic artist Annemarie Hope-Cross was born in Wellington NZ, grew up in Auckland and has lived in Alexandra, Central Otago, since 2008.

Annemarie uses three historic processes that …

Erika Pearce is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Auckland Aotearoa NZ and now based in the beautiful Bay of Islands. She is well known for her large scale murals, vibrant artwork and strong female…

Philippa Bentley is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired by nature, with ecology and environmental concerns at the heart of her work. 

​ While primarily known as a painter and printmaker, Philippa inc…