Artists & Groups

From Central Otago

Profiles

Nicola Bennett

Gallery: Nicola Bennett Studio, 66 Tarbert Street, Alexandra, Central Otago

Nicola is an abstract expressionist painter, inspired by the sensory deliciousness of food. Often collaborating, she works on large scale canvases, with oils and mixed media. …

Odelle Morshuis

Gallery: Odelle Morshuis Studio/Gallery/Cellar Door, 128 Cairnmuir Rd, RD 2 Cromwell 9384

Odelle Morshuis (M.F.A) has a studio and gallery at her home in Bannockburn which you are welcome to visit. Her work is varied from large scale steel figurative sculptures to …

Maurice Middleditch

Gallery: Aurum Gallery, Corner of Lawrence and Short Streets., RD 2 Bannockburn

Maurice Middleditch is a landscape artist who works in oil and watercolour. His work can be seen in the Canterbury Museum and the Antarctic Visitors Centre at Christchurch …

Ross Cowie

5 The Stonestack, Clyde, Central Otago

A lifelong interest in art has been maintained during a busy business career. I specialise mainly in printmaking, being part of a strong school of printmakers emerging from the …

Marie Velenski

Old Cromwell Historic Precinct, Melmore tce, Cromwell

Fused glass jewellery, small framed works and wire work. I have been experimenting with glass fusing since 1999. I am self taught. I locked myself away in the garden shed with my …

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 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 …

Eric Schusser

4 Larch Crescent, Alexandra 9320

Photography has fascinated me since I was a boy and watched my father taking photographs and printing in his darkroom. It was a special time of walking and talking together along …

  • Forms of Water 1

Megan Huffadine

12 Miners Terrace, Bannockburn RD 2, Cromwell

Bannockburn based artist Megan Huffadine has a BFA in Fine Arts from Canterbury University as well as a BA in Anthropology from Otago University.This background, which includes …

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 …