Creative Connections

Amber Emm  is a full time artist from the North West of Auckland NZ, currently painting stunning photo realistic floral oil paintings that celebrate contrast, colour, detail and light.

Amber took up p…

Sharon is a passionate quilt pattern designer and quilt maker from Auckland NZ.  A self confessed lover of reproduction fabrics, her favourite thing to do is 'Appliqué' using pieced blocks to complet…

Emma is a writer, photographer, creative maker and meditation practitioner. Her work is all about emotion, and the life of the spirit. She brings this awareness to her work with photography, books an…

Kiri Abraham is an artist, mother, gardener, tramper and lover of nature who has lived and worked in Helensville (North West of Auckland NZ) for the past 15 years.  She describes her art as ‘drawing’…

With over thirty years’ experience in the arts, as both a practitioner and curator, Anna Hanson strives to empower artists, champion the role of art in society, and transform widely-held perceptions …

Artist Emma Springford-Gough grew up in West Auckland NZ and has lived in Huapai for the last 11 years with her husband, 3 kids, dog, cat and a handful of fish. 

Making art, drawing specifically, has …

Jago Neal is a mixed media artist, illustrator and photographer originally from London. He now resides in West Auckland New Zealand. 

Jago has a small studio at home which also serves as a darkroom. H…

Amanda Jakich (Mandy) is a self taught abstract painter and the Founder and CEO of Creative Matters. She is the proud mother of 2 young adults (with a grand baby on the way) and lives with her husban…

Marion Stutz is a painter living in Huapai, Auckland NZ. 

In the last 5 years she has gone from being a creative interested in art  with a great appreciation for all things arty and a love of making t…

Catrina is an abstract painter from Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland, with a passion for interpreting the many layers of her natural environment. 

Whenever she is outside in Muriwai she can't hel…

Marlon Hart is an illustrator/artist with a background in advertising and art direction.  As well as animal wrangling, yoga, karate and acting! Go Marlon!

He has lived in Muriwai for 30 years. He spen…

Liz Smith is an embroidery artist living in Muriwai Beach, Auckland NZ.

Her business The Stitchsmith NZ  brings you fresh, new designs for needlepoint cushion/pillow kits, cross stitch and embroidery …

Amanda is a long-term Muriwai Beach resident, a ceramicist and a painter. She specializes in hand-built sculpture, often in the form of jewellery and wall installations. 

Amanda prefers natural, found…

Immersive installations that almost "use sound as a new way of seeing," drawing inspiration from nature, sound vibrations and materials. Join us for a wonderfully therapeutic conversation with instal…

Kylie is a printmaker (lithography) and painter, inspired by the land, sea and skies of New Zealand. Hear her story from a farm in Hukerenui to Elam - a prestigious Art School in Auckland, her printm…

Tanya is a full time artist and a mother of one, living at Muriwai Beach, North West of Auckland NZ.

Tanya shares many insightful thoughts and ideas and I'm quite sure you will find something in her s…