Artists & Groups

From Central Otago

Profiles

Gail de Jong

Bannockburn

Art has always been the focus of my working life. After attending Art School in Dunedin and gaining a Diploma in Fine Art, I began teaching at Timaru Girls High School. I …

  • Hunters Arawata

Denis Kent

50 Ashworth St, Alexandra

I was educated in Dunedin and studied at the Dunedin School of Art. It was under the tutorship of Tom Esplin, that I became interested in oil painting, and have been using this …

  • winter on clutha - oil on canvas (110cm x 110cm)

Nigel Wilson

Gallery: Home Gallery. Central Galleries Queenstown. Hullabaloo art space Cromwell. Wanaka Fine arts. Moray G, 8D Naylor Street, Clyde

Nigel has been painting full time for 20 years is well regarded for his large expressive and colourful oil paintings of the Otago landscape with gallery representation in …

Richard Parsons

7 Hyland Street, Wanaka 935

Richard Parsons is an artist and retired farmer from Waikerikeri Valley, Clyde, Central Otago.Now residing in Dunedin and Wanaka Richard has been painting for the past 40 …

  • The Manuherikia Valley looking north towards the Hawkdun Range 95 x 75cm framed - Oil on water colour paper 640G (95 x 75cm framed)

Jane Whitaker

Gallery: Naseby Art Studio, 885 Ranfurly Back Road (Naseby end), Naseby

My work is predominantly impressionistic and focuses mainly on landscapes, though I have recently enjoyed painting a number of portraits in a variety of media.  My enduring …

  • The comrades of the Constructivist Teapot Collective achieve their weekly quota 1 - Ceramic

Marion Mewburn

5 Beaumont Station Road, Millers Flat

I have been potting for 20 years now. In 1996 I started making teapots, first in Waitati, north of Dunedin, then here in Millers Flat. I have had two solo-shows of teapots in …

  • Dorothy Piper - Photo (175x174)

Dorothy Piper

3748 Fruitlands Roxburgh Road, RD1, Roxburgh, Central Otago 9571

A love of art and painting began in my teens and has continued to this day. Following years of working in a variety of careers I am now able to fulfill my long held desire to …

Robert Franklin

Gallery: Fusion Ceramics, 434 Bannockburn Road, RD 2 Cromwell

Robert Franklin Lives and works in Bannockburn, near Cromwell, Central Otago. He was a part-time studio potter for a decade in the 1970’s. “My return to ceramics has …

  • Terreno Grigio

Gretl Barzotto

241 Mc Arthur Rd, Springvale, Central Otago

Gretl Barzotto was raised in Aotearoa New Zealand and spent many years around mountains and lakes in the North and South Islands. Connection to nature in vast open landscapes is …

  • The Girl with the Black Pearl Earring - Acrylic (100cm x 100cm)

Maxine Williams

1078 Earnscleugh Road, Clyde

Central Otago artist Maxine Williams is a Clyde person, born and bred, she knows her district and its people intimately. Like many here she is passionate about the culture and …