Artists & Groups

From Central Otago

Profiles

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 …

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 …

  • 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 …

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 in Millers Flat.I have had two solo shows of teapots in Moray …

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 …

Marion VIALADE

10 Success Street, Alexandra, Central Otago, New Zealand

I’m MARION VIALADE, an artist made in France! No Diplomas, no art school, just me, a real self-taught artist. As far as I can remember, I always loved drawing. But being the …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Nigel Wilson

Gallery: Eade Gallery, Clyde. Central Galleries, Queenstown. Wanaka Fine Arts, Wanaka. Athol Gallery, Athol. , 8D Naylor Street, Clyde

Nigel has been painting full time for 25 years is well regarded for his large expressive and colourful oil paintings of the Otago landscape with gallery representation in Wanaka, …