Creative Connections

Lucy Davidson is a contemporary landscape painter from the Tutukaka Coast in Northland NZ, currently living in Auckland. Her abstract paintings explore the notion that nature and human emotion are in…

Jenny McLeod is a contemporary glass artist from West Auckland, NZ. She creates quality, original functional glassware, sculpture, garden art, installation and exhibition work and enjoys using glass …

Rosemary Eagles is an established contemporary NZ artist living in Auckland. She has with a deep appreciation of nature and the beauty of Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Her work captures vibrant impressions o…

John Botton is a fine art photographer and a digital giclée inkjet printer who holds a Fellowship from the Photographic Society of New Zealand.  He's also an entrepreneur and self confessed 'Technica…

EPISODE 32: Beatrice Carlson is an interdisciplinary artist, a visual artist, printmaker and contemporary jeweller.  http://www.beatricecarlson.com 

Born in France, she has been living and making in D…

Kathryn Wilson is NZ’s most successful shoe designer. She created her brand Kathryn Wilson at the age of 23 in 2003 with a dream to “make beautiful shoes for cool people” and go big. And that she cer…

Describe your studio. What tricks or ideas do you have to make the space work well for you and your creative process?

In this episode NZ artists Terri-Ann Berry, Joss Hong, Robyn Kay, Moya Deacon Radl…

Michelle Reid is a painter living in Riverhead, Auckland. She graduated with a Bachelor of Textile Design from Massey University in 2001 and worked in the textile industry for 8 years in both NZ and …

What impact has your creative making had on your everyday life? 

In this episode artists Marlon Hart, Tanya Blong, Gabriella Williams, Ingrid Boot, Guy Du Toit and Emma Springford-Gough (plus a little…

EPISODE 27: Judith Milner is a portrait and figurative painter living in Auckland NZ.

After studying law, psychology and art history at the University of Auckland, Judith worked as a commercial lawyer…

Guy Du Toit is a wood artist living in Keri Keri NZ who creates unique and bespoke fine art pieces in rare native timbers.

His fine wood art includes sculptures, jewellery, wood turned art pieces and …

Vanessa is a young Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland artist who gained a fine arts degree at 20 years old and has worked in Art Galleries and art education since then. She is now 27 and celebrating ONE year i…

Introducing - Spirit: Conversations with Creative Women
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IT ALL BEGAN WHEN….an idea was sparked be…

Judy Darragh is a highly respected NZ artist renowned for her brightly coloured sculptural assemblages of recycled items, industrial materials and found objects, as well as video, collage, photograph…

Donna is an established full-time artist living and working in Riverhead, Auckland NZ.  Her oil paintings are easily recognized for their vibrant crisp images and bold colours.

It never occurred to Do…

Ingrid is a painter influenced mainly by beauty as well as fashion history, fashion photography, movie icons and old things from the 20th century. Her paintings are all about style and elegance, port…

Gabriella is an artist living in Auckland NZ. She has a super interesting story which I’m sure will be really inspiring to many of you, as despite living amongst creative people, trying out creative …

Mandy is a contemporary jeweller from Westmere, Auckland NZ.

"Everything is on the point of decline" W.G. Sebald

"The aesthetics of decay and obsolescence along with the beauty of impermanence forms t…

Feeonaa Clifton (née Wall)  is a multi-disciplinary artist and a mother of 3 children of Samoan, Swedish, German and English heritage, living at Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland..

She has a Bache…

Arwen is a New Zealand-born mixed media artist, raised in the beautiful ranges, forests, and beaches of the West Coast of Auckland. 

Her recent artwork on canvas utilises a unique mix of media—dressma…