Artist's gallery
A wide range of artists are using Resene paints in their
work, on everything from interior paintings to tactile artworks and
mural masterpieces.
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Andrew Dempster Andrew's life is immersed in art, from a love of art at school, attending art school and teaching art at secondary school. Andrew enjoys seeing young people's creativity unfold and grow while also unleashing his own artistic talents in fresh works... more |
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Angela Croft Angela’s work is based around tourism in Rotorua, inspired by a statement that features on the Resene website. “Rotorua is a natural wonderland of geothermal activity, New Zealand native bush and beautiful lakes. This natural beauty is underpinned by a strong Maori heritage and sense of pride in this unique place.” Her assemblages relate directly to each of these four features with an additional piece on Architecture as an extension on the statement… more |
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Anita Madhav Committed to her artworks for over a decade, Anita Madhav has branched out to interior design study to round out the services she offers. Anita’s work embodies a mixed media abstract art style, with works inspired by nature and what it provides to us. The finished works have considerably texture and depth that can only truly be appreciated in person… more |
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Annette Spanski 'The textured art expresses the universal landscape of the spiral.' The spirals that Annette paints appear in many traditions throughout the world. They can represent cycles in nature, the flow of life, and in some practices even the wheel of fortune… more |
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Beate Minderjahn A passion for colour and textures with a creative mind characterises the work of artist Beate Minderjahn. She believes that colour has the power to affect our well-being, to inspire emotions and to stimulate our minds. She feels that transforming a living space into a comfortable and individual sanctuary makes all the difference of living somewhere or really feeling at home...more |
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Belinda Duffy Urthen is a boutique design art studio specialising in creating innovative designer ranges of artworks that can be custom designed in the size and colour of the customer's choice and placed in series to create timeless pieces. The simplicity of colour, tactile textures and striking balanced design are used to enhance a space's dècor. Symmetry works are created using Resene Zylone 20 flat acrylic while the Trickled works use Resene Lumbersider... more |
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Catherine Jurgens Catherine’s work is best known for its beautiful, vibrant colours and brushstrokes with a focus on simplistic, contemporary designs. Catherine uses high quality canvases, impastos and environmentally friendly paints… more |
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Chantelle Smith |
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Dan Mills Dan started his muralist career by painting murals during his first year of Art school in Blenheim in 1995 when he worked on a community project called 'Murals for Marlborough under the guidance of two professional artists. This laid the foundation for Dan to branch out on his own mural projects, which he continues to do today. In 1996 he undertook a number of mural projects in Lower Hutt and created volunteer pieces for Rainforest action groups that led to some murals at the HQ of the World Wildlife Fund... more |
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Ellen Coup Since 2000, Ellen Coup has been beautifying buildings and spaces with her murals painted using Resene paints. Her work spans a range of sites and sizes, from exterior public project several hundreds of square metres in area to interior private artworks under 10 square metres. She has worked closely with local schools both facilitating projects solely displaying children’s art… more |
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Gaye Hall |
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Gerry Copas |
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Graphic Design Time Graphic Design Time created the famous award winning Moo Suede Shoes themed cow in the Auckland Cow Parade - a modern Elvis bovine style! Moo Suede Shoes was a very popular character amongst the grazing herds created using Resene paints, giving Elvis fans a little reminder of their favourite star... more |
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Hannah Jensen Hannah used Resene paints throughout her studies, mixing together various testpots to create colours to suit her style and themes. Her creative instinct saw her design a technique that uses copious volumes of paint, covering boards with layers of waterborne paints encompassing sometimes fifty layers or more. Then with care she carves intricate and beautiful designs into the surface using a small v shaped lino cutter. The result is distinctive… more |
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Helen Calder Spending six months pouring out hundreds of litres of paint sounds wasteful until one discovers what they have been poured onto. Helen Calder has developed a new artistic technique involving carefully planned pours of Resene Enamacryl gloss waterborne enamel over composite panel to create her works - a departure from her normal preference of Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen waterborne enamel... more |
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Ira McCully Realising there are so many people that want to be surrounded by work that is special to them, that matches their lives and their spaces, Ira McCully has built a business designed to reflect every client's individuality. Clients simply advise the Resene colours used in their space and testpots of these are incorporated into the commissioned piece to ensure it truly fits with the room environment... more |
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Jane Gray Painting professionally since 1989, Jane has enjoyed sell out exhibitions in New Zealand and the UK with numerous showings in press and magazine. Jane's work has extended onto a range of substrates, including working as a resident artist for a Massachusetts restaurant chain and producing paintings for walls and tableware, through to creating paintings... more |
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Jil Sergent In a career spanning back to an innocent 2 year old, Jil Sergent has had a long history in creating ground games. Sent outside by her mother with house size paintbrushes and a bucket of water, Jil created her first ground games before she had even started kindergarten. For the past 12 years this talent has been generously shared with Hawkes Bay children to nurture 'zest for life' and a 'respect for life'. Ground games are created by painting Resene Super Gloss enamel directly onto concrete using an array of bristle brushes in a myriad of bright hues to suit the game selections... more |
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Jo Blogg Painting on man made surfaces using a myriad of Resene testpots is Jo's specialty, allowing her to "flaunt house paint as the greatest, most cost effective product available to artists today". A Black Barn Gallery exhibition will feature 209 paintings on Perspex, plastic tile and CD cases... more |
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Joanne Thomas Jo invented the photographic process she uses in 2004 through study of photography with a focus on commercial and alternative photography, enjoying a faultless 100% grading when she produced her painted canvas hand developed photos for an assignment. As the only artist producing this type of work... more |
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Jonathan Grange Jonathan Grange, is a self taught airbrush artist who has painted murals around the Rodney district and on the North Shore of Auckland, including a residential mural that came second in the professional category of the Resene Mural Masterpieces competition. He started airbrushing about 25 years ago, doing the usual painting onto cars trucks etc.. then he progressed to commissioned paintings... more |
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Juria Chuah aka Shorty Shorty comes from a mixed creative background. With art and design being consistent strengths and passions throughout school, she completed a Diploma of Art & Design, studied a Bachelor of Spatial Design and then moved onto a Diploma of Computer Graphic Design. After noticing more and more art exhibitions around Auckland, Shorty was inspired to get her work onto the art scene... more |
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Karen Beckett From existing and new buildings to shipping containers to bus exteriors, if it stands still long enough it is likely to become another piece of Meaningful Art's gallery of work. An environmental artist with a quarter of a decade of work history spanning the mediums of murals, watercolours to oils, stain glass art, pottery sculpture, wearable arts and tapestry wallhangings, Karen Beckett is well... more |
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Karen Oberg Karen's mixed media work is bold, colourful and intriguing. Her mission is simple. She loves what she does and hopes her passion is contagious. As a mixed media artist Karen is unconfined to any particular technique or medium. Each time she employs a new medium she plays with it; exploring and probing its qualities and limitations. Once familiar with the new medium she then takes it to a new height by combining it with other media. The possibilities are never ending... more |
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Kate Allan, Kate Allan Art and Design As long as Kate can remember she has concentrated on drawing female portraits. In fact she still has some she did as a 10 year old. She gets inspired by "awesome Resene colours and different jewellery and clothing items" that she sees in magazines and on friends etc... more |
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Katherine Lawrence Katherine Lawrence, trading under the business name Little White Dog, started her creative career when she wanted to try something different. At the time she was living in the country. She had made a large garden, rock walls, willow hurdles and lots of needlepoint and was looking for a fresh way to show off her creative talents. Today, Katherine paints mats which can be used on the floor or as wall hangings... more |
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Kathie Watson Stand back and view works by Kathie Watson - her exhibition 'Answering Hanly in a BIG way' is a pure expression of her response to him as an artist, silent mentor and guide. While she never knew Hanly personally, she responded to his art in a way that makes one wonder if they had crossed paths somewhere. Clearly Watson's work shows the influence of Hanly, with her 'poured chance' of trickles of enamel paint... more |
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Kirsty Britton Through four years of studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Auckland, Kirsty has developed paint techniques to create her works. Resene paints have been used throughout... more |
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Korana Wilson Since a very young age Korana has drawn upon pop culture's iconic imagery to reflect and often construct contextual narratives within her work. She’s often reminded of a scene from a movie or a story told to her when viewing completed paintings, inspired much by the entertainment violence found in many parts of the media... more |
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Lisa Antonelli Largely self-taught, Lisa enjoys the isolation that accompanies the artist's lifestyle. A chronic thinker, painting brings a lovely blank to her otherwise busy mind and allows her to paint from the soul. A fascination with imagery and form led to a 15 year stint as a freelance photographer. The natural progression along this same pathway brought her to painting... more |
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Lois Perry In the words of the artist herself, Resene Enamacryl has been subjected to, and withstood, considerable abuse in the course of new art. Lois Perry, an up and coming Auckland artist, focused exclusively on using Resene Enamacryl gloss waterborne enamel with a Resene Quick Dry acrylic primer undercoat over substrates of aluminium, canvas and board as part of a final study year for a Master of Fine Arts at Elam... more |
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Lyn Bergquist Carving a niche for oneself in the art world calls for the development of an innovative style to draw in art lovers and to clearly differentiate one's work. Lyn Bergquist has taken this in his stride combining unique themes and compositions while foregoing traditional restraints on material choices such as replacing the usual Gesso as canvas preparation with Resene Quick Dry Acrylic Primer Undercoat and the artist topcoats with Resene Lumbersider... more |
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Marcia Scott Artist Marcia Scott uses an unusual yet practical canvas for her colourful artworks. After two decades of creating artworks for walls, Marcia Scott decided she wanted a new type of canvas. She came up with the concept of a stool which, at 500mm tall, also works well as a little table. 'I like to think of them as artworks for the floor... more |
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Michael Smither |
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Mindalive In a departure from a facts and figures based teaching regime, MindAlive nurtures attitude and state of mind to assist students aged over seven to understand the value of learning and gain a thirst for knowledge and skills. Incorporating a range of subjects from which students may select 3-6 tutorials, art is a compulsory element in every student's program. MindAlive buy literally thousands and thousands of litres of Resene Lumbersider in a myriad of colours that students determinedly convert into amazing works of art. ... more |
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Oliver Walker – Aardvark Images Oliver was always doing art and winning competitions from his early primary school days. He started painting traditional silk hangings with his mother in 1988 and then began tutoring the same year in her studio and doing live demonstrations and workshops from then on. He began working on a larger commercial scale from 1993 onwards and the business has continued to grow to its current size. At Aaardvark Images Oliver and the team provide a vast range of services from murals, commercial painting, signs, interior design, illustration and design, graffiti, custom clothing and vehicles, workshops... more |
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Rodney Edge Brightly coloured with a preference for primary hues and intensely idiosyncratic, the sharp-edged, carefully blended images explore icons of faces, flames, frames and symbols cleverly juxtaposed into works that seemingly create their own direction. Rodney has combined his artistic painting with his paint retailing since his mid teens. Not surprisingly he uses Resene paints, primarily acrylic house paint combined with Resene Enamacryl Metallic... more |
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Rohan Wealleans Rohan Wealleans pushes the painterly expressionist tradition of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning to its limits and in doing so reflects on primal and instinctive in art, making sculptural paintings with knives and mannequin busts. His marble-like monumental and simultaneously delicate millifiori-like works stimulate a discussion between objects and painting, and challenges the stereotypical heroic sculptor to a brawl on a painter’s turf… more |
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Romp artworks Fun, funky and original - those three words sum up the artwork created by Stephanie Swetman to brighten up children's bedrooms and play spaces. Romp artworks works are not only popular with children but also with adults that cannot help to be drawn to popular works.... more |
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Sabine and Doug Ford Sabine and Doug Ford have turned their art talents to beautify Auckland streets by transforming unsightly traffic boxes and walls into works of art...more |
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Sally Simpson Sally was a late starter in the painting stakes, and is mostly self taught in the abstract field, so her work is all her own, hopefully unaffected by anyone else's ideas, rules or restrictions. Sally's paintings tend to zoom across the canvas in bright streaks of colour - nothing dull or boring here... more |
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Sheryl Ross Sheryl Ross has always enjoyed creating artistic pieces. After renovating their first home she decided to turn her love of colour and design into a career and did a Diploma in Interior Design. Inspiration for her contemporary art comes from many sources including the environment - the city, nature, the sea and places she has traveled to. Sheryl loves working with colour and texture and many pieces have 3D elements… more |
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Susanne Morning With working time divided between New Zealand and Asia, Susanne Morning uses both cultures as inspiration for her artwork, characterised by a bright, broad palette often punctuated by loose disjunctive patterns, and her poetry... more |
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Theresa Reihana Far North based Theresa Reihana combines Maori artistry and motherhood, culminating in recent exhibitions in Melbourne and Italy after only a five year history of painting. All her work is completed using Resene paints, predominantly Resene Lumbersider satin acrylic that she purchases in 1 litre pack sizes before transferring it to testpots for convenience of use while painting... more |
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Tracy Day Creator of Stiles Wall Tiles, a tile comprised of stretched Hessian coated in various designs. Each colour group consists of four stiles, designed to be sold individually to allow customers to mix or repeat tiles as desired. The ever versatile Resene Lumbersider satin acrylic has become a key element of 'stile' ... more |
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Tracy Rasmussen |
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Tricia Osborne Creating one masterpiece is enough of a commission to keep most artists busy. Multiply that by thirty and you have the project that Modern Masters has just completed for a Melbourne hospital. The thirty pieces range from 14 pieces 900 x 1200mm to the largest piece, a triptych called Orchestrate... more |
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Val White Painting is in Val's blood, having dabbled in the arts since school days, albeit without monetary reward until more recent years. Her love of art inspired her to complete an Interior Design degree, from which it seems like a natural extension to offer her artistic services... more |
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Wellington banner
artwork The Wellington City Council in conjunction with Resene have taken artwork to the streets enlisting 32 schools and a selection of local artists to turn blank banner canvases into works of art. The banner collection finished with Resene Lumbersider testpots was displayed along the streets of Wellington, delivering a bright, bold, colourful statement to vehicular and foot traffic alike... more |
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Whimsy & Frivols
Located in rural Manawatu, Whimsys & Frivols is the collaborative adventure of two mature artisans with a collective professional art experience of over eight decades. Their creativity extends to painted mirror frames made of solid wood and crafted with attention to detail... more |