2024 D-G — MAGS ART SHOW

Justine D'Anvers

Ann Davenport

Mariska De Jager

Elise De SilvaElise De Silva is an award-winning artist who works from her Howick studio. Her primary medium is watercolour, although she occasionally works with oils and acrylics. Strongly drawn to dramatic light and water themes, Elise finds that there is something dynamic and magical about water and its light bending properties; painting it is a constant challenge which offers infinite material. President of the Howick Art Group and a passionate plein air painter, Elise has also participated in a number of community art projects.

Helen DeanHelen Dean is a Titirangi-based abstract painter. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Fine Art) in the United Kingdom in 1995, returning to painting in 2015. Working from her native bush surrounded home studio, Helen always starts with colour, developing her paintings intuitively over weeks or months with the gradual addition of layers of thick and thin paint. She explores a range of different marks, some gestural, some more managed, often including ambiguous soft forms and areas where the first layers remain visible. As a work progresses, she aims to balance light and shade, looseness and control. Since she began to paint again, she has had a regular painting practice and gallery presence, and has sent her work to collectors around the world.

Ekaterina Dimieva

Catherine DunnCatherine Dunn is a full-time professional artist based in Kerikeri. She has been a practising artist for over three decades and her main areas of interest are painting, sculpture and printmaking. She works in acrylic, oil and cold wax mediums as well as inks and charcoal. Catherine uses printmaking techniques to extend and add variety to her work, and also enjoys building assemblage sculpture from recycled wood and metal as a departure from painting. She is motivated and inspired by her connection to the environment and people around her and how they shape the various layers of awareness and growth within herself and others. She believes artistic progression expands in direct proportion to one's courage. With this in mind, she tries to increase her understanding of materials and techniques by taking the time to experiment, enabling her to discover new ways of working, a process essential to her practice and development as an artist.

Stu DuvalStu Duval is a professional artist, illustrator and author. Born in the shadow of Christchurch Cathedral, he now resides on the Hibiscus Coast in Auckland. He draws his inspiration from the landscape and bird life within it, often capturing the latter in a whimsical, surrealist manner.

Hikurangi EdwardsNgāruahine, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-Ā-Apanui Hikurangi Edwards lives in Wellington. Her work is hand-carved into layers of paint, a technique she calls mahi whakairo peita or paint carving - a modern take on traditional Māori wood carving. She draws on inspiration from her culture and is often guided by her tīpuna to represent their stories and other passions that are meaningful to her. All of her pieces are original.

Florence EgasseFlorence Egasse is a Christchurch-based self-taught artist who has always had the need to create. As a child, she discovered art in the galleries and museums of Paris, but it was her time studying composition and technique in Bayeux that truly sparked her interest in painting. She went on to explore acrylic painting in London. Florence paints striking abstracts, vibrant ensembles of florals and contemporary landscapes. Drawing inspiration from nature, children's drawings, travel and interior design, her work is experimental and intuitive, a bold and playful style which is constantly evolving as she sets no limitations on her creativity. Each of her paintings is unique and joyous.

Fiona EhnFiona Ehn is a mostly self-taught New Zealand artist based in Rodney, north of Auckland. She creates beautiful, unique, mixed-media artworks which have lots of texture, bold colours - and injections of humour. Fiona describes her style as contemporary, informal, feminine and a little quirky, and she is continually exploring new ways to bring further texture and interest into her constantly evolving repertoire. Fiona aims to produce art that brings a smile to the face of the viewer. Her work is held by local galleries and she has also exhibited in community exhibitions locally.

Val EngerVal Enger’s paintings are inspired by the tumultuous nature of the New Zealand landscape. She enjoys the way colour and form vie with each other, creating natural compositional rhythms. Colour profoundly affects all aspects of her life, especially emotions and moods, and she aims to reflect this in her paintings. Organic forms and shapes are apparent to Val everywhere, connecting her to nature. The essential, biomorphic forms of the land evoke freedom and an opportunity to play and explore, in the search for a visual ‘truth’ that finds its place between the observed and the deeply personal, transitory nature of experience. Val combines a process of application with a reductive approach that, through editing, moves the work into an autonomous space of individual expression.

Inge FlinteInge Flinte is a Melbourne-based abstract artist. She draws inspiration from her background as the daughter of immigrant parents and her experience living in five different countries. The concept of home is a central theme in Inge's work. She begins by taking notes, collecting the essence of the world in all of its myriad forms - marks, shadows, colours, and textures - which inform her creative process. Working primarily on canvas, Inge uses pigment, acrylic, oil pastels and paints, often incorporating natural dyeing techniques as a base layer in her work. Committed to environmental sustainability, she includes in her studio practice botanical dyeing, removing acrylic from wastewater and making her own paint from pigment. Inge’s work has been exhibited in Japan, America, the UK and New Zealand.

Arwen FlowersArwen Flowers is a mixed-media artist. Working from her Helensville studio, she is currently doing a Master of Visual Arts, investigating identity and culture through family stories associated with handcrafted domestic items. Arwen combines dressmaking tissue, graphite, charcoal, foil and paint to create her pieces. Her awards to date include the Inspirational New Zealand Category Winner and Supreme Winner in The Trusts Greater Auckland Art Awards in 2019; being selected as a finalist in the Emerging Artist Awards at the Upstairs Gallery in 2021; and being named the Supreme Winner at the Kumeu Arts Art Awards, also in 2021.

Hazel FootHazel Foot lives in Auckland. She paints expressionist landscapes intended to prompt the viewer to recall personal experiences with nature. Her inspiration comes from the natural environment, perhaps beginning with a photograph or memory which is developed to depict landscapes unspoiled by human interference, emphasising the role of nature in wellbeing and the importance of conservation. She builds up her work using layers of acrylic paint to produce texture and depth, focusing on the use of colour and light to create atmosphere.

Tina FrantzenTina Frantzen began painting in 2005, training at Artstation with Matthew Browne. A member of the Railway Street Gallery and Studios Collective, she has been producing and exhibiting painting and photography ever since. Tina’s works are painted intuitively by a process of revealing, a gradual discovery of previously unknown details which surprises and often delights. Tina was a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards in 2015 and her paintings are held in private art collections.

Vicki Fraser

Jocelyn Friis

Deborah FullerDeborah Fuller has been an artisan since 2000 and currently resides in Little River on Banks Peninsula. Her work is immediately recognisable for its unique style and its blend of photography and mixed media painting. Captured moments of light and cast shadows are combined with textured landscapes of turquoise blue and burnt umber, frequently accompanied by a theme of nostalgia and recollection. Settings which feature dwellings, vacant chairs and objects convey a story of calm and stillness with an underlying tone of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to lend their own interpretation.

Jody Hope Gibbons Matakana-based artist Jody Hope Gibbons is a contemporary abstract painter. Her practice explores colour, gesture, layering and light effects. Working in mixed media, she incorporates a range of materials in her pieces from acrylic paint to crayon, rust, inks, leaf and varnish. Jody’s current body of work explores the materiality of paint, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting practice and techniques. Ever-changing and currently becoming colourful, more gestural and bolder, this work retains its recurring reference back to the land. She credits her style to her early career in the design field; having completed a range of series, each piece she produces offers strong design elements and recognisable compositions that give her work cohesion.

Ulemj Glamuzina

Julie Green

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