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 Deanna Gracie designs and creates contemporary jewellery from a home studio in inspiring beach side suburb of Southshore, Christchurch. Celebrating the ever-changing beauty of her natural surroundings each piece is carefully crafted by hand from precious metals and gemstones.
"I love the fact that jewellery I have created with my hands and my heart can also be precious to someone else - that the piece they choose becomes an extension of their own personality, to be worn and forever enjoyed." - Deanna Gracie
www.Deanna.co.nz
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 Tony Cribb's works can best be described as quirky with a dark sense of humour. Some works are loaded with meaning; others appear to have none at all. He gets a great deal of enjoyment out of creating works that are slightly vague. "There is no right and wrong with art. It's all opinion. I don't set out trying to appeal to everyone or anyone. I paint these works for me, and if someone else makes a connection with one - fantastic."
As Tony continues to develop his style and approach, admirers of his work just can't get enough of it.
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 Ruth carves mainly in Oamaru stone, producing original, well finished pieces for the interior and exterior. Literally, "a piece of New Zealand".
Living in Christchurch, Ruth is inspired by the fantastic surroundings on her doorstep. When starting a new piece she is totally carried away with the excitment of it. Ruth likes to be led by the stone and follow it's different textures. You can never be quite sure what the end result is going to look like! She loves that unpredictability.
www.stonegrooves.co.nz
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 Hannah Riden is a New Zealander, born in London in 1978. Her dad lives in Christchurch, and her Mum lives in Robinson's Bay, Akaroa. Hannah's studio is by the beach north of Christchurch. Hannah is entirely self-taught, and her style is realist impressionist enhanced by fresh, vibrant movement and colour. Like the Impressionists, she aims to capture colour, light and mood. She recently hosted the Prime Minister John Key at her June 2010 solo exhibition in Oxford, and was named best landscape artist at the 2008 NZ art awards in Tauranga, with the judges comment that her work was one of "the most expressive". She draws her inspiration from the breathtaking New Zealand landscape and great masters such as Sargent, Caillebotte, Turner, and Velázquez.
www.hannahriden.com
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 Donna Steel is a contemporary artist based in Christchurch New Zealand. Most of Donna's paintings contain some form of mixed media, she loves to paint and also loves to sculpt and has mangaed to combine these two passions together to create her own unique style.
Donna draws her inspiration from just everyday moments of life, a lot of her work is based around the New Zealand landscape. Donna's work is sold internationally, exhibited in select NZ Galleries and has also been used in advertising catalogues.
www.donnasteel.co.nz
www.donnasteelartist.wordpress.com
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Diana Adams is passionate about the New Zealand landscape and landforms. In her paintings she attempts to capture the ethereal qualities of the landscape by reducing the subject to its essential elements.
www.dianaadams.co.nz
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John Badcock comes from a very artistic family. The talent he possesses is his own, not one born of an art school, but from dedication and perseverance in a field where he has developed considerable natural talents. John is a true master at work.
www.badcock.co.nz
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Philip Beadle works in oil, water colour, drypoint and monotype. He enjoys working with form, colour and light, especially low winter and evening light which facillitates the wide tonal range in which he relishes.
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Colin Higgins is a versatile artist who works in a variety of media, his subject matter is contemporary and diverse with themes of an emotional nature. Colin lives and works as a full time artist in Temuka and is currently the President of the South Canterbury Art Society.
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Since moving to South Canterbury in 1998 Elizabeth Love has extended the range of expression in her chosen craft incorporating script in richly textured, multi-layered paintings.
Interest in Love's work has further cemented the commitment to working full-time as an artist, developing her soul, not just her hand, to enable communication through the symbolic aspect of her work.
www.nzart-lizzie-l.blogspot.com
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Mike Mayhew's art looks to nature to best describe his thoughts and ideas on today's current climate and issues in this country. The ocean is a big inspiration for Mike, and his art reflects that movement, and flow of nature.
www.mayhew.co.nz
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Adrienne Pavelka's special love is watercolour paintings. Her inspiration and compulsion to paint is charged by the effect of light on the landscape and the atmospheric patterns of the sky. Using colourful washes and transparent colours she endeavours to simplify the forms and shapes of the land.
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Helen Rockel is a New Zealand painter living and working in Christchurch. Her work has always been strongly figurative, with its focus often being the personal and universal experience of living.
www.helenrockel.co.nz
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Alice Spittle is a Maori Contemporary Artist based in Canterbury. Her life experiences are expressed within her artworks and every painting tells a story!
Alice successfully sells her work nationally and internationally.
Alice has exhibited in throughout New Zealand.
www.inspirationalarts.co.nz
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