Amanda Barfoot turns climate data into colour, using the daily temperatures of cities around the world as the starting point for vibrant acrylic paintings. As an emerging artist, she is interested in translating numbers and environmental patterns into visual expression, creating work that sits between data, place and abstraction.

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Andrea Robinson is a New Zealand artist and storyteller whose detailed oil paintings celebrate native wildlife and the importance of conservation. Inspired by her experiences at Pūkaha, she uses colour, symbolism and carefully layered detail to create works with warmth and atmosphere.

Conservation is central to her practice, with a portion of painting sales supporting Pūkaha.

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Angela Whitney is a Wellington-based textile artist working at the intersection of colour, pattern and texture. After two decades as a visual designer, she turned to weaving as a more tactile and intuitive form of expression.

Drawing from architecture, the built environment and nature, her work explores the balance between structure and softness, order and imperfection.

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Anna Campbell is a ceramic artist whose predominantly wheel-thrown work favours simple forms, clean lines and a muted palette. Working with New Zealand clays where possible, she creates her own glazes inspired by the flora and fauna surrounding her workshop.

Her work celebrates the handmade, retaining throwing lines and subtle imperfections as part of each piece.

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Anna Stichbury is a Wellington-based painter known for bold works filled with intense colour and texture. Through rich, vibrant palettes, she creates paintings designed to have an immediate visual impact.

Painting and exhibiting for more than 30 years, Anna works from her Wellington studio and is represented by galleries throughout New Zealand.

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Bella Foster is a Wellington artist whose work combines classic local retro aesthetics with Californian influences. Beginning with photography, her practice has expanded into acrylic painting and coloured pencil.

Inspired by mid-century design, 1980s interiors and liminal spaces, Bella creates bold compositions that explore nostalgia, curiosity and the atmosphere of familiar yet slightly unexpected places.

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Bronwyn Kelly is a Wellington-based photographic artist whose work brings together architectural structure and human emotion. Through deliberate composition and unexpected juxtaposition, her images often carry a sense of quiet melancholy, inviting viewers to look more closely at the spaces, details and moments that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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Catherine Cattanach is an award-winning photographic artist and Grand Master of Photography with the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.

Her Flux and Magnolia series use rippled water to transform flowers into painterly, dream-like images. Created entirely in camera without Photoshop, the works invite viewers to bring their own emotions and interpretations to each photograph.

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Clare Matthews is a mixed-media artist whose work is shaped by the natural world — weather, light, colour, texture and form. Her process is exploratory and intuitive, building and removing layers through painting, scraping, scratching and flooding colour.

The resulting works shift between place, memory and feeling, inviting viewers to find their own connection within each piece.

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Clint Christian is an award-winning contemporary New Zealand artist known for bold, modernist works inspired by nostalgia and pop culture. Drawing on childhood memories, music, games and design, he creates distinctive painted wall sculptures finished in high-gloss resin.

His background in construction and architectural design continues to influence the precision and detail of his work.

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Dan Wilkinson draws inspiration from the dynamic coastal landscapes of Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Wellington’s south coast. Influenced by the region’s shifting geology, weather and exposed landforms, his work explores the ongoing creation and reshaping of the coastline.

Through a range of media and approaches, Dan reflects on the elemental forces that continue to define these familiar surroundings.

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An award-winning illustrator and painter, his work is rooted in the Lowbrow tradition, combining humour, nostalgia and accessibility.

Drawing on shared cultural references, his practice ranges from the In a New Zealand Landscape series to the recent Cone_illogical works inspired by his Wellesley College residency. His work is held in prominent private and corporate collections.

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Em Wafer is a New Zealand artist and muralist known for surreal dreamscapes and intricate microcosmic worlds. Balancing intimacy with scale, her paintings unfold gradually, rewarding sustained looking and revealing new connections over time.

A recipient of the 2025 New Zealand Art Show People’s Choice Award, Em exhibits locally and internationally and has collectors around the world.

Emily Thomas brings a theatrical eye to mixed-media art, drawing on eight years working as a costume designer and maker at The Court Theatre in Christchurch.

Her diorama boxes sit between kitsch and curiosity cabinet, creating carefully staged 3D scenes from props, costumed characters, photography and deconstructed vintage postcards to playfully rearrange familiar images and histories.

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Glen Jorna is an Australian-born contemporary mixed media artist based in Wellington. Drawing on found paper, torn street posters, graffiti, textures and urban surfaces, he builds layered compositions that capture the character of streets and public spaces.

His work explores colour, typography, decay and renewal, preserving a sense of time, place and history within each piece.

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Hayley Lowe is a mixed media artist whose background in global brand design continues to shape her strong sense of composition and colour. Building works through layers of colour, metallics, symbols and marks, she moves between native bird imagery and abstraction, seeking an emotional rather than literal response.

Her recent recognition includes Best Use of Colour at the 2026 Hutt Art Annual Awards.

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Heather Campbell is a Lower Hutt painter whose practice spans landscape, botanical tapestries and still life. Working somewhere between figuration and abstraction, she builds her paintings through layers of colour, scraping, repainting, pattern and texture.

Her process is one of experimentation and discovery, transforming familiar landscapes and botanical forms into compositions that feel both observed and reimagined.

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Hikurangi Edwards is a Wellington-based kaiwhakairo peita whose practice transforms layers of paint through hand-carved traditional Māori design. Her technique, mahi whakairo peita, offers a contemporary evolution of whakairo.

Rich in koru forms, contrasting colour and Māori storytelling, her work explores ancestral journeys, atua Māori and histories both remembered and revived.

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Jane Blackmore is a Wellington-based artist whose work draws inspiration from the region’s hills, harbour and coastline. Her paintings move between expressive landscapes, florals and abstraction, exploring colour, light and the emotional qualities of place.

Across each body of work, Jane brings a distinctive sense of depth, reflection and joy.

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Jo Kreyl is a Wellington-trained illustrator and artist whose practice spans illustration, design and fine art. Curiosity, research and a lifelong love of making sit at the centre of her work.

Her recent paintings explore her Dutch heritage and long-standing interest in art from the Netherlands and Flanders, bringing historical influences into a contemporary painterly practice.

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Jolene Maciak is a visual artist and printmaker whose practice includes linocut, drypoint, monotype and woodcut. Her process is intuitive and experimental, combining line, form, layered textures and mixed media.

Inspired by Aotearoa’s native bush, rugged coastlines and wildlife, Jolene creates distinctive interpretations of the natural environment and the life found within it.

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Based in rural Kāpiti, the award-winning artist behind Studio Reset creates contemporary encaustic works using beeswax harvested from her own hives. She layers, fuses, carves and polishes handmade encaustic medium onto thoughtfully repurposed surfaces.

Her richly textured, luminous pieces combine one of the world’s oldest painting techniques with a distinctly contemporary approach and strong commitment to sustainability.

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Kirsty White is a printmaker whose work is deeply influenced by the landscapes of rural Wairarapa and Wellington. Combining the fine detail and moody textures of etching with the graphic qualities of woodcut, she explores the beauty and stories of Aotearoa.

Pattern and narrative are woven through her work, reflecting ideas of place, culture, habitation and connection to whenua.

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Leonie Sharp is a Whanganui-based contemporary Māori artist whose practice draws on traditional Whatu Kākahu weaving, feather work and sculptural mixed media. Working with natural and organic materials, she reinterprets Māori symbolism through contemporary forms.

Leonie’s work is held in private and public collections in New Zealand and internationally, and has also featured in a New Zealand Post stamp collection.

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Linda Kirkland is a South Wairarapa abstract artist working from her garden studio near Greytown. Through intuitive layers of paint, mixed media and remembered experience, she explores colour, emotional resonance and the quiet narratives held within landscapes.

Plants, flowers and the natural world often inform her organic forms and shifting palettes, creating works that invite personal interpretation.

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Lisa Call creates large-scale contemporary textile paintings from hand-dyed fabric, using cutting, composing, painting and stitching to build richly layered works.

Originally from the American Southwest and now based on the Kāpiti Coast, Lisa has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Europe and the United States. Her work is held in public and private collections internationally.

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Lizzie Pannell is a contemporary artist whose work is shaped by colour, memory and a strong sense of place. Best known for her vibrant floral paintings, her wider practice also spans landscape, abstraction and symbolic still life.

Drawing on early influences from the Channel Islands, Lizzie’s work explores home, heritage and the emotional connections we form with familiar environments.

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Lucie Anderson is a contemporary artist based in Napier whose work explores flow, texture and transformation. Working with acrylic inks and her distinctive Textured Lightworks, she creates fluid paintings and sculptural pieces from recycled corrugated cardboard.

Inspired by nature and organic forms, Lucie’s work celebrates movement, detail and the unexpected beauty found through experimentation and transformation.

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Mel Waite is a Porirua-based photographic artist whose work celebrates overlooked details of the natural world. She transforms fallen and washed-up objects into intricate photographic compositions, often finished with hand-applied 24-karat gold leaf.

Her Kintsugi series draws on the Japanese tradition of celebrating repair, highlighting the beauty, resilience and history held within damaged leaves.

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Michael McCormack is a Wellington landscape painter whose work explores light, atmosphere and shifting perspectives across the local landscape and places encountered while tramping. Rooted in real locations and observed moments, his paintings are quietly autobiographical.

Originally trained at the Crawford College of Art in Ireland, Michael has painted and exhibited internationally as well as throughout New Zealand.

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Natalie Holland is a Wellington textile artist creating bright, colourful works from 100% New Zealand wool. Inspired by the motifs and designs of hiapo, or Niuean tapa cloth, her practice connects strongly with her Niuean heritage.

Using punch needle and tufting, Natalie combines botanical and geometric motifs with rich texture and unexpected colour combinations.

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Nicola Jackson is an award-winning artist and printmaker working from her studio in Island Bay. Combining screen printing, painting, ink and collage, her practice builds on a successful earlier career in textile design.

Inspired by mark-making and an intense love of colour, Nicola creates vibrant works that are exhibited in selected galleries throughout New Zealand.

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Niki Pennington’s practice explores the balance between analogue and digital, chaos and calm, abstraction and representation. Through gestural marks and structured forms, she creates layered paintings exploring memory, place and lived experience.

Since 2020, Niki has painted full-time from Twin Island Gallery in Eastbourne. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in private collections worldwide.

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Owie Simpson is known for colourful, expressionistic abstract paintings rich in line and texture. Working in series, her practice moves between elements of realism and abstraction depending on the subject and ideas being explored.

Across more than two decades of painting, Owie has developed a distinctive approach to creating statement works that continue to reveal detail over time.

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Rebecca Kempton is an award-winning Wairarapa photographer working across fine art, commercial and portrait photography. Her painterly images use the camera as a paintbrush, transforming landscapes through colour, tone and texture.

Named New Zealand Landscape Creative Photographer of the Year in 2025, Rebecca exhibits predominantly through Greytown Art Gallery and works with collectors throughout New Zealand and internationally.

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Richard Thurston is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, fine art photography and mixed media. His practice explores mystery, perception and the spaces between what is seen and what is felt.

Often working at large scale, Richard juxtaposes light and dark, calm and tension, abstraction and representation to create immersive works that invite contemplation and individual interpretation.

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Rieko Woodford-Robinson is a self-taught artist and illustrator known for detailed portraits of anthropomorphic animals and well-loved toys. Born in Japan and based in Wellington for more than two decades, she has exhibited extensively through solo and group shows.

Her work combines humour, character and meticulous detail, and is represented by galleries in both Wellington and Auckland.

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Sandy Seymour is an Kapiti Coast artist whose work explores the inner self through organic forms. She creates her work in her home studio creating both functional pieces as well as sculptural forms. Her tactile sculptures invite reflection and connection. Sandy continues to push clay beyond function, using it as a medium for self-expression and transformation.

Sandy’s works are distinguished by tactile surfaces, flowing contours, and earthy palettes. Her pieces blur the line between object and presence; evoking both vulnerability and strength.

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Sarah Albisser creates expressive female figures exploring identity, movement and our relationship with nature. Her background in contemporary dance strongly influences a visual language built around movement, self-expression and striking monochrome forms.

After many years working predominantly in black and white, Sarah is increasingly introducing metallic tones and minimalist, surreal compositions. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally.

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Sophie Gardiner is a contemporary New Zealand artist whose layered work explores resilience, motherhood, memory and the quiet strength found in nature.

Drawing on symbolism, folklore and decorative pattern, she blends mixed media with Japanese aesthetics and New Zealand flora and fauna. The endangered Black Robin appears throughout her work as a powerful symbol of hope, survival and renewal.

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Tim Christie is a New Zealand-based, internationally represented artist exploring the interplay between geometric design and figurative form. His work sits between abstraction and representation, combining influences from op art, pop art, geometric abstraction and new media.

His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, lightworks, weaving, digital and immersive art, with exhibitions and projects across New Zealand and internationally.