Michael Sass has pursued art seriously since he semi-retired in 1998. His preferred medium is pastel but he also works with oils and acrylics - mostly in landscape realism. Michael has exhibited at numerous exhibitions and was honoured to be awarded best pastel drawing at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards in 2005 and again in 2007. Michael has a unique painting method with pastels, preferring to produce much larger paintings than the small paintings this medium is usually associated with.
www.michaelsassartist.com

Bryce Brown's paintings capture the boldness of the Modernists, the grace of the Masters and exude a true sense of the classic New Zealander. Of his distinctive figurative style, Bryce says "I like to explore human nature and movement through my paintings. I use strong line, texture and colour to accentuate human form and emotion."
www.brycebrownart.com

Songs always have two elements - music plus lyrics/poetry - while painting usually consists of the purely visual. What Padraig Casey tries to do is marry the visual with the poetic, using Brian Flaherty's words to create "songs on canvas".
www.padraigcasey.com

Lisa Christiansen is a fulltime artist with a strong focus on creating figurative works, especially the female form. She is known for her whimsical, stylised, surreal, finely detailed, waif like girls, often with metallic accents of gold and silver.
www.lisachristiansen.co.nz

Rozi Demant paintings refer to representation surrealism, a genre championed by Dali and Magritte, whose philosophies encouraged the depiction of fantasy and dreamlike scenarios. As a self taught artist, however, Demant's imagery is gleaned entirely from her own imagination.
www.rozidemant.com

Colleen Dewhurst is an artist based in Tauranga. Her paintings are exhibited in galleries throughout the northern North Island and her work features regularly in regional art festivals.
Website: Colleen Dewhurst

Miriam Jones works in acrylics and started painting from scratch in 2003. Self taught, she experiments in a varity of styles and subject matter, every painting being an exciting journey. Miriam exhibits in galleries and cafes in the BOP and Waikato.
www.miriam.vc.net.nz

Pamela Tapp is a Mount Maunganui based artist who loves working with abstraction, colour, texture and shape. Trying not to think out her work but rather enjoying the randomness and freedom that working in an abstract expressionism style allows.
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Jonathan White is a New Zealand traditional representational landscape artist, whose work is well known both in NZ and internationally. With interests in botany, ornithology and being a keen tramper, Jonathan's paintings reflect his love of remote places and wilderness areas and the unique flora and fauna of his homeland.
www.jonathanwhite.co.nz

Andrew Whyte is a top New Zealand landscape oil painting artist with many available works featuring the wonderful colour and texture of his beautiful country. Paintings by Andrew Whyte are in private collections in New Zealand and all over the world.
www.andrewwhyte.com