Featured Artist: Maree White

4artsake — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:12:08 +0000

Maree White is a self taught Artist who has been painting for over Twenty years. Born in Waimate South Canterbury. White then moved to the West Coast and spent Ten years at Ikamatua attending boarding school in Christchurch before moving to Blacks Point Reefton where she painted Murals around the Town. She took up teaching art after moving back to Waimate and continued to paint Landscapes and Murals.

Since 2000 White has lived in the Bay of Plenty painting professionally in her converted Cow Shed Studio. For the last ten years she has had Solo shows in the Mckenzie District and Canterbury and also supports Galleries in the Bay of Plenty and the Hawkes Bay. Whites objective is to bring Clarity Balance and Light into her painting using New Zealand Landscape.

Featured Artist: Sarah Spence

4artsake — Sun, 29 May 2011 01:19:39 +0000

What started as a life-long love of drawing and art flourished into a preoccupation with natural forms while living in the bush near Bethels Beach for Gisborne artist Sarah Spence.

Nikau palms and flaxes growing behind her home inspired her to create new forms inspired and dictated by nature, which eventually developed into award-winning vases and lamps embellished by woven flax and natural elements from the bush and beaches nearby.

Sarah had already learned the rudiments of flax weaving by watching a local resident while spending long summers camping with the family at Waipiro Bay on the East Coast and adapted these techniques to weaving large baskets fom supplejack vines harvested from the bush.

Returning to Gisborne she refined her techniques while studying for a National Certificate in weaving at Te Poho o Rawiri Marae in Kaiti.

Combining these skills with her Nikau sculptural work she began exhibiting pieces in exhibitions around Gisborne, leading to awards such as the Emerald Hotel Xtreme Artwear competition, the Opotiki fibre and Fleece Exhibition and ultimately the award for sculpture in the WAX National Womens Art Exhibition.

Sarah’s work continues to evolve, inspired by her garden and the native bush of the East Coast and Urewera district.

She has just been commissioned to produce her first wedding dress, woven entirely from fine, hand-dyed flax, and continues making Nikau lamps, vases and wall hangings aimed at using the effects of light and shade for sculptural effects with a strong Kiwiana flavour.

Welcome

4artsake — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:46:52 +0000

Walking into the Gallery you are submerged into a complete sense of serenity. Outside the summer days are a playground for beach seekers.

Visiting 4 Arts Sake in seaside Ohope is a visual experience that lingers. Ever changing, you draw it in with all your senses and exhale with contentment knowing that you too have just discovered a diamond.

Featured Artist: Jamie Boynton

4artsake — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:09:31 +0000

Jamie Boynton (BDes) – Ngai Tuhoe, Te Whakatohea

E nga mana, e nga waka, e nga iwi. Tihei Mauri ora!

The artistic career of Jamie Boynton first emerged from the renowned school of Visual Communications and Design in Wellington, New Zealand. From there Jamie launched his career as an Illustrator and Graphic Artist in 1995. Over the years he has steadily developed a style that reflects his artistic passion for the European Renaissance, Pop Art, indigenous and contemporary cultures, and both traditional and contemporary Maori art. Jamie identifies his whanau (family) and the natural environment as his primary source of inspiration.

Jamie’s life and work has been recorded as the subject of two television documentaries. The first was part of a series (The New Migration) sharing the stories of young Maori who have successfully left the city to return to their tribal homelands. The second documentary (Te Kete Aronui) focused on Jamie’s practice as a contemporary Maori artist.

From delicate illustrations to stunning glass carvings and design, Jamies’ art shows a tremendous level of proficiency across a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. It is this versatility that has allowed Jamie to carve out a successful career as one of this countrys’ leading contemporary Maori artists. He is committed to using his artistic skills as a vehicle to influence positive social change…

“I see art as a powerful tool with which we can project clear visions, illuminating pathways for the future development of our culture and collective society.”

Together, Jamie and his wife Tina, formed the business partnership JamiesArt. Founded on the principle of sustainability, JamiesArt uniquely combines their skills and knowledge in Energy Medicine, Strategic Development, Art and Design. Their highest vision is to create a better world, utilising the arts to ignite a soulful re-connection of people, to one another and the environment.

Jamie and Tina are currently working on their latest project. They have received sponsorship from Creative New Zealand (Te Waka Toi), to generate a major new exhibition series, titled Mauri Ora – Breath of Life. Mauri Ora is a synthesis of wisdom gathered from scientific disciplines, philosophies and religions. It presents the story of creation as an indigenous metaphor, modelling the universal process of creation and, providing the landscape for a profound artistic experience (see more info).

Jamie and Tina have two beautiful girls and currently live within the small rural community of Opotiki, in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Awards:
Highly Commended 2009 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award for painting and drawing: “Te Oho”

Merit Award at the 2008 Combined Bay of Plenty Art Societies Exhibition: “Te Ahuatanga Print”

National Merit Award at the 2008 Fibre & Fleece Exhibition: “Mauri Waka”

Media:	Drawing, Glass, Mixed Media, Other Media, Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Wood
Region:	Bay of Plenty
Commissions:	yes

Jamie Boynton (BDes) – Ngai Tuhoe, Te Whakatohea

E nga mana, e nga waka, e nga iwi. Tihei Mauri ora!

“I see art as a powerful tool with which we can project clear visions, illuminating pathways for the future development of our culture and collective society.”

Jamie and Tina have two beautiful girls and currently live within the small rural community of Opotiki, in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Awards:
Highly Commended 2009 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award for painting and drawing: “Te Oho”

Merit Award at the 2008 Combined Bay of Plenty Art Societies Exhibition: “Te Ahuatanga Print”

National Merit Award at the 2008 Fibre & Fleece Exhibition: “Mauri Waka”

Media:	Drawing, Glass, Mixed Media, Other Media, Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Wood
Region:	Bay of Plenty
Commissions:	yes

Jamie Boynton (BDes) – Ngai Tuhoe, Te Whakatohea

E nga mana, e nga waka, e nga iwi. Tihei Mauri ora!

“I see art as a powerful tool with which we can project clear visions, illuminating pathways for the future development of our culture and collective society.”

Jamie and Tina have two beautiful girls and currently live within the small rural community of Opotiki, in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Awards:
Highly Commended 2009 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award for painting and drawing: “Te Oho”

Merit Award at the 2008 Combined Bay of Plenty Art Societies Exhibition: “Te Ahuatanga Print”

National Merit Award at the 2008 Fibre & Fleece Exhibition: “Mauri Waka”

Media:	Drawing, Glass, Mixed Media, Other Media, Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Wood
Region:	Bay of Plenty
Commissions:	yes

Jamie Boynton (BDes) – Ngai Tuhoe, Te Whakatohea

E nga mana, e nga waka, e nga iwi. Tihei Mauri ora!

“I see art as a powerful tool with which we can project clear visions, illuminating pathways for the future development of our culture and collective society.”

Jamie and Tina have two beautiful girls and currently live within the small rural community of Opotiki, in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Awards:
Highly Commended 2009 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award for painting and drawing: “Te Oho”

Merit Award at the 2008 Combined Bay of Plenty Art Societies Exhibition: “Te Ahuatanga Print”

National Merit Award at the 2008 Fibre & Fleece Exhibition: “Mauri Waka”

Media:	Drawing, Glass, Mixed Media, Other Media, Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Wood
Region:	Bay of Plenty
Commissions:	yes

4 Art Sake Gallery / Ohope

4artsake — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:42:29 +0000

Every week visitors from all over the world applaud 4 Arts Sake as being one of the most beautiful galleries they have ever been to. Just 140 square meters inside with an 80 square meter garden, it is overflowing with an abundance of treasures. Fine Art is predominant, but you will find lots of hidden gems ranging from three dimensional sculpture and pristine glassware to jewellery and pop art.

Ninety percent of the works are created by New Zealand artists. Take a piece of Aotearoa home with you when purchasing genuine Maori Whale Bone Carving, New Zealand Paua (Abalone shell) and New Zealand Greenstone Paunamu (Jade).

Sit back in the garden and cast your eyes across the many unique art pieces. Quench your hunger as you soak in the water features and the hand crafted outdoor pizza oven.