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Nature painting by Jules Kesby, wildlife artist and oil painter. More than representative, Jules' wild animal paintings build a story of the animal in its natural habitat. Her work includes tiger artwork, lion artwork, and paintings of elephants. Find contemporary NZ artists, exotic animal paintings and Africa wildlife art for sale at Art by the Sea Gallery. Jules Kesby African Wildlife Artist Jules Kesby is a mid-career wildlife artist renowned in New Zealand for her wild animal paintings. Based in Auckland, Jules is originally from Zimbabwe and brings personal personal experience to her incredibly realistic oil painting of African wildlife. More > New 2025 River of Time Price $6,500.00 New 2025 Periphery Price $6,800.00 New 2025 The Stillness Between Breaths Price $5,500.00 Friends in High Places Price $4,000.00 New 2025 Tumbleweed Price $7,200.00 New 2025 The Gathering Price $7,800.00 Embers Out of stock New 2025 Disquiet Out of stock Off the Beaten Track Price $5,600.00 New 2025 What Lies Ahead Out of stock Whispers in the Long Grass Out of stock Afterglow Out of stock Whispered Conversations Out of stock New 2025 Knowing - LTD Print Price $1,450.00 New 2025 Periphery - LTD print Price $990.00 New 2025 The Gathering - LTD print Price $1,450.00 New 2025 What Lies Ahead - LTD print Price $990.00 Interrupted Moment - Sketch Price $1,850.00 Whispered Conversations - Sketch Price $1,850.00 A Warriors Path Price $1,500.00 Whispers in the Long Grass - Sketch Price $1,850.00 Exhibitions Disruption Jules Kesby 2025 Into the Light Jules Kesby 2024 30th Anniversary Group Show 2022 Bio The idea of creating pieces in celebration of the wild and varied beauty of animals has evolved into a journey… My art is a way for me to communicate without the need for words. Jules Kesby is a fine artist and oil painter known for her incredibly detailed and realistic wildlife art and nature painting. Jules is originally from Zimbabwe, now based in Auckland, and is especially known for her incredible oil paintings of African animals. Painting exclusively in oils, Jules is a mid-career artist and is self-taught. She paints with an almost photographic clarity combined with a painter’s understanding of glowing light, brush strokes, and atmospheric abstract backgrounds and wide landscape vistas. I have always had a fascination with the natural world. Detail is important and it gives me a view into the rhythm of nature, so that I can build a relationship with the subject and get a glimpse into their character. It takes time to get to know them which is why oil paints suit my process. The goal is to be more than merely a representation, and this takes gradual layers of paint. With a gentle coaxing, a conversation is begun, a story begins to unfold. Jules has lived in New Zealand for over 15 years. She is passionate about wildlife conservation and this love and care for nature comes through in her work. Her paintings are rated highly by national and international wildlife and nature photographers. Jules is available for commission work.

Vintage style oil paintings for sale NZ by Lee-Ann Toyokawa. Lee-Ann is known for her NZ bird art on upcycled silverware and her canvas wall art NZ featuring still life painting, wildlife art, and nature painting. Find oil artists and contemporary NZ artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Lee-Ann Toyokawa (née Dixon) Vintage Still Life Painting Lee-Ann Dixon is a Nelson-based New Zealand artist specialising in still life painting with a vintage style and aesthetic. Her work draws on upcycled materials, religious iconography, wallpaper patterns, nostalgic collectibles, and native NZ bird art and wildlife art. More > Oliver Tractor Price $1,200.00 Tinker, Taylor..... Price $2,500.00 Mint Fun Ho Tractor Price $1,200.00 Congregation Price $3,700.00 Abandoned Price $3,700.00 Dreaming of Whales Price $3,700.00 Ruffled Feathers Price $490.00 Rapauna Retrospection Price $1,100.00 Korimako - NZ Bellbird 2 Price $490.00 Eroded 2 Price $440.00 Korimako - NZ Bellbird 1 Price $510.00 Fragile Price $1,100.00 Bio Lee-Ann Dixon is a still life artist based in Nelson, New Zealand. Drawing on upcycled materials, vintage wallpapers, religious iconography, and collectibles, Lee-Ann’s work has a nostalgic and haunting quality. She is known for her bird, still life, and nature painted silverware. My ideas are always evolving as I grow older and life changes. I used the cup motif repeatedly in my work to represents domesticity, nurturing, and memories. Lee-Ann developed her artistic style over many years juggling her practice with raising four children. She describes her art from this period as working through ongoing themes of identity in relation to motherhood and domesticity. She has been influenced by Sally Mankus’s mixed media and recycled object art, Sylvia Siddell’s “anxious household” still lifes, and Jacqueline Fahey’s portraits of domestic family relations. She especially appreciates Tony Fomison who uses a monochrome palette of thinly applied paint wiped back to expose light; Lee-Ann thinks of this as a metaphor for “wiping clean layers of grim.” Inspired by 17th Century Dutch Vanitas painting, Lee-Ann’s current vintage wall art combines religious icons, wallpaper patterns, and symbolic childhood collectibles with New Zealand native flora and fauna. Some of her most recent work is about her late mother. Her china cabinet was full of treasures she had collected throughout her life, all having her special memories attached to them. Sadly, when I go to the recycle centres and garage sales I see hundreds of these same treasures that have been discarded. I collect and use these treasures in my art, breathing new life into these once loved objects.I think about the memories that might have been attached to each object. I use oil paint on recycled metal trays, doilies, table clothes, tea towels, cupboards, etc. Lee-Ann was born in 1966 and grew up in Marlborough. She has lived in Nelson ever since leaving school. She holds a Visual Arts diploma and degree from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. Her work is held in private collections across New Zealand. Lee-Ann is available for commissions.

Encaustic paintings by Jayne Thomas, mixed media artists NZ. Paintings of dancers and people in a unique style also known as hot wax painting, where the medium is created through a mix of wax and oil paints. Find contemporary NZ artists and modern art oil painting on canvas at Art by the Sea Gallery. Jayne Thomas Encaustic Figurative Painting Jayne Thomas is a figurative artist specialising in the encaustic technique, combining oil paints with hot wax in her vibrant, colourful paintings of dancers and people. Jayne is based in Kaipara in New Zealand’s Northland. More > I Am What I Am Price $2,750.00 Curtain Call Price $2,200.00 Lads Chillin' Price $2,500.00 Taonga Price $1,450.00 Boy in Red Togs Price $2,500.00 Miharo Price $3,200.00 The Birth of Venus Price $3,500.00 The Watching Price $1,450.00 Night Solace Price $1,950.00 Chez Price $2,500.00 The Quiet Conversation Out of stock Little Dancer (after Degas) Out of stock Bio Jayne Thomas is a New Zealand figurative artist based in Kaipara in Northland. She is known for her encaustic art NZ, where oil pigments are mixed with hot, liquid wax and painted onto canvas for brilliant and vibrant colour. Her work mainly focuses on representations of people, including paintings of dancers and modern portraits. …faces, gestures, clothing and possessions all have a story to tell, revealing aspects of the person within the shell. To freeze and transfer a moment. To capture a person’s life. Giving a visual representation is not a summary of that person’s life, and definitely not all there is to tell. It is not possible to read an individual’s life in one image because we are made up of layers and we are complicated. I'm searching for the blueprint, the mark of the maker, the beginning of what we become. Jayne has been inspired by other figurative artists such as Vanessa Beecroft, Rineka Dijkstra, and Marlene Dumas. She is interested in humanity, character, anonymity, and what creates these questions or concerns within us. Contemplating the story of Adam and Eve in one exhibition, she noted that you don’t have to be religious to appreciate the themes in the story, especially the shame associated with nudity. When do we sense our nakedness? When do we stand on that edge which tilts us from being happy in our own skin? When do we become aware of how different we are? I think it is getting younger, that edge, our own tree of knowledge, the internet constantly informing us how we should look, what to wear and who to be. Born in the UK, Jayne immigrated to New Zealand with her parents and settled first in Henderson before moving to Helensville and now Kaipara. Her formal training was conducted at Hungry Creek Art and Craft School for a year before going fulltime at Ruthorford College to attain a certificate in Visual Arts. Jayne went on to teach art at the Get Creatives Suburban Titirangi program. Jayne’s paintings are collected for their vibrant colour and striking presentation. She has work in the UK, Europe, and the USA as well as nationally in New Zealand.

Abstract mixed media art paintings by Julie Whyman. Julie's New Zealand landscape paintings include native NZ tūī and pīwakawaka (fantails) with abstract mountains, bold colours, and touches of gold paint. Find abstract landscape art, NZ bird art, tui art, fantail art, and contemporary NZ artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Julie Whyman Abstract Mixed Media Art Julie Whyman is a mixed media artist known for her abstract landscape art of New Zealand landforms and native birdlife. She lives rurally in the Waikato region, drawing on the colours and textures of her locale and the coastal Coromandel Peninsula in her NZ landscape paintings. More > New 2026 Architectures of Light Out of stock New 2026 Red Among the Many Price $3,100.00 New 2026 Tūī's Return Price $3,300.00 New 2026 Lumines Price $3,100.00 New 2026 Rivers Dance Price $3,200.00 New 2025 Kārearea Kaitiaki Price $3,200.00 New 2025 Coastal Tapestry Price $3,200.00 New 2025 Glory Price $3,400.00 Winters Moon Price $3,200.00 Kōtuku Kōrero Out of stock New 2025 Carnival Out of stock New 2025 Kaleidoscope Out of stock Summer Feeling Price $3,000.00 New 2025 Kōtare King Out of stock The Secrets We Keep Price $1,600.00 A Time to Fly Price $3,200.00 New 2025 Summer's Last Stand Out of stock New 2025 The Watchman Out of stock Huia Dance Out of stock Saddlebacks Singing Out of stock Exhibitions Exhibition Julie Whyman 2024 Bio Julie Whyman is a mixed media artist based in rural Waikato. Julie’s abstract modern art paintings are representational, using colour and texture to reimagine the structural landforms and branching deciduous trees found in the Waikato plains and the coastal Coromandel Peninsula. Many of her works include native NZ bird art, including depictions of the tīeke (saddleback), kōtuku (white heron), and pīwakawaka (fantail). Alongside texture and colour, there is a stunning depth of layers in Julie's work. Sometimes the birds appear in striking and realistic detail, while at other times they are more abstract, worked into the landscape. She loves metal leaf and these are often featured in her work, or hidden under layers creating luminosity. As a wildlife artist, Julie tells us that she constantly finds herself seeking out birds in her garden, listening for their calls, and noticing them wherever she travels. The changing colours of the seasons are also a fascination, and her palette often changes with them. Julie is self-taught, developing her skill and technique through hours of practice and exploration. Julie paints intuitively, allowing her work to evolve organically as she turns “mistakes” into discoveries. Her process begins with “play” or creative exploration, searching for inspiration. Her studio contains various works in progress, as she adds layers of paint, ink, pastel, collage and various mediums until forms emerge. Julie says that she never stops learning or looking for new sources of inspiration while always maintaining her own sense of style and uniqueness. Her work is held in private collections across New Zealand and abroad.

Steel artwork, stone carving, and outdoor sculpture NZ by Steve Molloy, installation artist. Steve creates eye-catching stone sculptures mounted on charred wooden pillars that can be installed indoors or outdoors. Find contemporary NZ artists and stone garden sculptures NZ at Art by the Sea Gallery. Steve Molloy Installation Sculptor Steve Molloy is an installation artist, wood carver, and stone sculptor from Taranaki, New Zealand. Steve works in stone, steel, wood, and bronze and is most known for his striking installation sculptures of stone carving mounted on charred wooden pillars. More > The Ripple Effect Out of stock New Beginnings Price $7,500.00 Ascending 2023 Price $9,500.00 Eclipse 2023 Price $8,500.00 Equilibrium Price $3,600.00 Polarity 2022 Out of stock Necklace Price $2,900.00 Frequency Out of stock Order Within Chaos Out of stock Eclipse Out of stock Equality Out of stock Ascending 2022 Out of stock Bio Steve Molloy is an award-winning stone, steel, wood, and bronze sculptor from Taranaki, New Zealand. He works predominantly in object and installation work, known for his steel artwork and his large stone garden sculptures (NZ) mounted on charred wooden pillars. Also a painter and photographer, Steve has photographs in magazines, newspapers, commercial businesses, galleries, and exhibitions across the world. An important aspect of his photography is to capture the intended image through the lens with minimal work in post-production. Steve’s art is uniquely defined by his process of incorporating the use of fragmentation, movement, miniaturization, space and illusion as a tool to view normal scenes and objects in an abstract way. Steve has won multiple awards for his art. He has sculptures in national and international galleries and attends sculpture symposiums in New Zealand and overseas. Steve’s sculptures are held in private and public collections across the country, with some of his monumental outdoor sculpture (NZ) installed in public spaces.

Found object sculpture and wall art Auckland by Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, New Zealand artist. Alysn stitches, knits, and crochets metal wire and found materials in her sculpture and wall art. Find NZ art and contemporary NZ artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Alysn Midgelow-Marsden Mixed Media Textile Artist Alysn Midgelow-Marsden is a textile and mixed media contemporary artist from Auckland, New Zealand. Alysn creates intricate found object sculpture and wall sculptures (NZ) using materials that include (but are not limited to) stitched or crocheted wire, metal, gesso, verdigris, canvas, and gilded textiles. More > New 2025 Plume V11 Price $1,850.00 The Past in the Present Price $945.00 An Eerie Silence Price $945.00 As Simply as Breathing Price $1,235.00 Volume Without End Price $3,000.00 Fractured Flow Price $3,385.00 Gravitational Lensing Price $945.00 The Sun, the Moon, and the Hairclips Out of stock Bio There is a contemplative narrative formed through the patterns and figures in my works, along with the working of a mostly unconscious human ancestral memory swaying in the tides of unseen forces. Alysn Midgelow-Marsden is a contemporary fine artist from Auckland with a northern European heritage. Her sculptures (tabletop and wall-mounted) are intricate mixed-media combinations of textiles, metal or found plastics, gilding, canvas, gesso, verdigris, and stitching. Alysn’s work is inspired by her curiosity with the human psyche. She is driven by her background in science, her continuing interest in the natural environment, and her attention to the social stereotypes associated with textiles and stitching. She combines her environmental interests with a fascination for the traditions of different cultures and times, finding connections in shared human experience. My practice delivers an invitation to create pleasurably intimate connections to personal experiences through subconscious, visceral, and emotive interactions. Marked visually by a complex, lyrical fluidity, the sculptural works articulate connections, responses, fragility, and strength. Alysn’s complex mixed media textile art presents forms and figures whose meaning are largely open to the viewer’s interpretation. Themes emerge slowly in her gentle yet obsessive mazes of stitching or crochet as she exploits the boundaries of the surfaces and creates subtle combinations of colour and material. Alysn has received awards for her work at national and international exhibitions, including the Mandurah Wearable Art show in Australia (for a work entitled ‘What Lies Beneath’); the Wall Brooches II exhibition in Australia (for ‘Taniwha’); and Nelson’s Changing Threads show in New Zealand (for “The Spaces Between VII”).

Fine art portrait painting by Luke Hollis, classical oil painter. Warmly lit oil portraits and NZ landscape paintings in a classical style with looser, painterly brushstrokes. Find NZ art, oil artists Auckland, and original art for sale NZ at Art by the Sea Gallery. Luke Hollis Classical Oil Portraits Luke Hollis is a fine art oil painter from Auckland, New Zealand. His style merges traditional training with more contemporary approaches, attaining realism in his beautifully lit landscapes and figurative work. More > New 2026 The Colour of Silence Price $2,850.00 New 2025 Cyan Out of stock New 2025 Reverie Price $6,500.00 Wild Price $2,200.00 New 2025 Captivate Price $2,850.00 Illumination Price $2,500.00 Luminance Price $2,000.00 Clearwaters, Wānaka Price $2,500.00 Red Feathers Price $6,000.00 Solace Amongst the Ruins Out of stock New 2025 Alazarin Out of stock Elsewhere Price $4,200.00 New 2025 Golden Hour Out of stock Cliffscape Price $2,200.00 View to Rangitoto Price $2,500.00 Secret Forest Price $1,600.00 Water Under the Bridge Out of stock Little Thinker Out of stock Bio Luke Hollis is a New Zealand figurative and landscape artist based in Auckland where he teaches drawing at Auckland University of Technology. He is particularly known for his fine art portrait painting, capturing the beauty of his subjects in their expressions and his use of soft, glowing light. Fuelled by a passion for capturing the real and fantasy alike, Luke’s pieces mix contemporary with traditional styles accentuated by loose and painterly brushwork. He is continually developing his work through experimentation. One of his primary passions is conceptual art with most of his free time spent on his often bizarre figurative pencil works. Luke is influenced by traditional artists like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Whilmer Dewing, as well as contemporary artists such as Richard Schmidt, Zhaoming Wu, Morgan Weistling, and Ron Hicks, to name a few. His line work has received high acclamation by fellow contemporary artists and is a strong foundation for his detailed oil pieces. A self-taught artist, Luke has been painting professionally since 2004. He is known throughout the country, having begun his painting career in the Bay of Plenty followed by sell-out shows in Whakatane and Tauranga in the early 2000s. Viewed as one of New Zealand's leading young emerging artists, he was awarded runner-up in the Molly Morpeth Canaday art awards in 2004, followed by First Equal in the same awards in 2005 where he was also honoured as the winner of the People’s Choice Award. Luke has received notable acclaim from art critics and the art community alike. His oil portraits and NZ landscape paintings are held in private collections both nationally and internationally.

Inventive New Zealand pottery and functional art for sale by Brendan Adams, ceramic designer. Brendan's little ceramic cars and ceramic wall art nz are creative, playful, and often come with a practical use. Find NZ art and Auckland potters at Art by the Sea Gallery. Brendan Adams Inventive Ceramic Designer & Auckland Potter Brendan Adams is an inventive contemporary ceramic designer and Auckland potter. He is known for his pacific colours, inventiveness, creative play, ceramic wall art, and clever functional art. More > See inside Brendan's studio > Blue Figure with Yellow Bramble Price $300.00 Broken Edge Bowl Price $580.00 New 2025 Panel Bowl: Circle, Red Dots Price $420.00 Milk Cans Price $520.00 New 2025 Ascension Price $800.00 New 2025 Yellow Vase Out of stock Careful Now, It Will Take Your Eye Out Out of stock Endangered Bird Car Price $520.00 Plymouth Belvedere Out of stock Graceland Price $1,200.00 Blue Racer Price $950.00 Hollow Block Car Price $950.00 Passenger Price $1,850.00 Driver Five Price $2,200.00 Driver Six Out of stock Driver Four Price $2,200.00 Kauri Point Magazine - Tall Price $1,000.00 Terracotta Kitchen FM Radio Out of stock Exhibitions Are We There Yet? Brendan Adams 2023 30th Anniversary Group Show 2022 Bio I trained as a painter but it was colour and all the possibilities of form and texture that attracted me to ceramics, and I am still stuck in the mud! One of the great things about clay is that there never seems to be an end to what you can do with it. As someone who likes to muck around with lots of ideas, clay has been the perfect partner in crime. I really do feel I have only just started. Brendan Adams is a pottery artist and ceramic designer who has amassed a large following of clientele drawn to his creative and highly innovative sculpture and ceramic wall art (NZ). He is known for his brightly coloured slipcast ceramics, originally using Crown Lynn clay. More recently, his contemporary abstract and figurative designs have seen him include other materials such as steel, brass, aluminium, and wood. While many of his pieces are decorative, some also serve a function, as we see in his ceramic art bird feeders, candle holders, smartphone speakers, and working radios. Brendan has been making a living from clay since 1987. He and his wife Kathryn set up a ceramic shop selling affordable original art in Kingsland, which they ran for ten years. In 2013, they opened Front Room Gallery where they exhibited their own work and featured other New Zealand potters. Together, they now run Brendan Adams Designs from their home studio in Auckland. Brendan has a diploma in Fine Arts from Otago Polytechnic, where he majored in painting. He has taught at Auckland's Unitec and the Auckland Studio Potter Society (Auckland Potters). His work has been exhibited throughout the country in major competitions and exhibitions where he has won several awards, and is represented in the Auckland Museum, James Wallace Trust, and regional collections. Brendan’s domestic ware is well recognised for its pacific colours, easy kiwi attitude, and inventiveness. See inside Brendan's studio >

NZ landscape paintings by Nigel Wilson, New Zealand artist. Dramatic artwork showcasing New Zealand's South Island including incredible mountain, lake, and river scenery. Find NZ landscape artists and contemporary NZ artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Nigel Wilson NZ South Island Landscape Painter Nigel Wilson is a New Zealand landscape artist well-known for his stunning paintings of NZ, especially the Central Otago region. Nigel is based in Clyde in the South Island. More > The Remarkables Price $3,500.00 Matukituki Valley Price $3,200.00 Make the Day - Lake Dunstan Price $3,500.00 Winter on Lake Dunstan 2 Price $3,750.00 Hakataramea Valley Price $3,500.00 Wānaka Hills Price $3,200.00 Lower Shotover River Price $7,500.00 Arrowtown River Walk 2 Price $2,800.00 Ferris Road Price $1,750.00 Tora - Wairarapa Coast 1 Price $3,800.00 Manuherikia River at Galloway Price $3,200.00 Tora - Wairarapa Coast 11 Price $3,800.00 Bio Nigel Wilson is a landscape artist based in Clyde in New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. He is known for his large NZ landscape paintings capturing different regions and seasons in Central Otago including mountain paintings and paintings of NZ rivers South Island. During his fine arts degree at Ilam, University of Canterbury, Nigel was tutored by Don Pebbles. Since then, he has exhibited regularly, winning a number of painting awards, and has nearly 30 solo exhibitions to his name. In a statement following one of Nigel’s exhibitions, an art critic said: Nigel Wilson's work captures the raw, natural beauty and distinct character of New Zealand's southern landscapes through expressive, impassioned brushwork and vibrant, descriptive colour. From a distance, Wilson's works provide an imposing scene, but up close, they are even more arresting. Oil paint has been applied with variety, energy and certainty, with each stoke having a compelling autonomy. Nigel grew up in Wellington before moving to the South Island. He became a full time artist after leaving a teaching profession at Cargill High School, Invercargill, in 1997. He moved to Alexandra in the year 2000 where he continued to boldly paint the Otago landscape. He was appointed president of the Central Otago Art Society in 2008 and again in 2009. Nigel and his New Zealand landscape art is well represented in public and private collections throughout New Zealand.

Sculpture art by Anna Korver, world-class wood carver and sculptor. Anna is an internationally-recognised sculptor whose female figurative pieces appear in positions of strength and confidence balanced with elegance and delicacy in the design. Find stone carving, steel artwork, corten steel, garden sculptures NZ, modern sculptures, and metal art New Zealand at Art by the Sea Gallery. Anna Korver International Award-Winning Sculptor Anna Korver is an established New Zealand stone, wood, bronze, and steel sculptor from Taranaki, now based in Benin. She is renowned nationally for her strong, female figure sculpture art and has an international reputation as an invited sculptor attending symposiums in countries across Europe, Central America, Australasia, and the Middle East. More > New 2025 Mauve and Black Steel Dart Formation Price $950.00 Carrara Marble Dress Figure 3 Price $1,200.00 New 2025 Flight Squadron - Darts Price $1,800.00 New 2025 NZ Black Marble Dress Figure Price $4,500.00 Lifeboat Price $8,500.00 Red Facet Dress on Staircase Price $7,200.00 Dart (Ebony) Price $3,500.00 Dart (African Wood) Price $2,850.00 Carrara Marble Dress Figure 5 Price $1,200.00 Mauve Facet Dress Figure Price $6,500.00 Ebony Dress Figure Price $6,000.00 New 2025 Bowenite Dress Figure Price $6,000.00 Dark and Light Figures Price $8,000.00 Pink Faceted Dress Figure 2021 Price $3,500.00 Lighthouse Price $1,250.00 Blade Price $2,500.00 New 2025 Flight Squadron Price $2,000.00 Purple Facet Dress Figure Price $7,000.00 Basalt Lifeboat on Stand Price $2,000.00 Bronze Dress Series Out of stock Blackwood Figure Price $6,500.00 Exhibitions Collections Anna Korver 2025 Exhibition Anna Korver 2023 The Lighthouse Anna Korver 2021 Necessary Protection Anna Korver 2019 Bio Anna Korver is an established New Zealand sculptor with a national and international reputation and a wide and varied skillset. She is a wood carver and a sculptor working with stone carving, steel, corten steel, and cast bronze (NZ). She does her own welding for her faceted steel artwork and outdoor garden sculptures (NZ). Originally from Taranaki, Anna is now based in Benin in Africa but returns regularly to create her New Zealand sculptures. Anna has a BFA in sculpture from the University of Canterbury. In her modern sculptures, she works with themes of the female form in relation to strength and fragility, balance, identity, and symmetry. Her more abstract and minimalised forms conceal complex ideas about feminine roles and the projection of the inner self through the outer form. Anna’s works are autobiographical, using the female figure to communicate her experiences. Of her 2023 exhibition, she said: This exhibition explores the two sides of my reality from the static works portraying myself in the present form conjuring hard, but delicate lines to the light hearted, tender works which refer to memories and dream states produced from a distortion of reality and transient, personal thoughts that revisit the playful mischief and mystery of childhood. Anna is a regular participant in sculpture symposia and sculpture park exhibitions both locally and abroad. Anna has participated in (and won prizes in) international symposia in Qatar, Montenegro, Cyprus, Australia, Denmark, Romania, Albania, Macedonia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Korea, and Costa Rica, among others. Many of her symposium pieces have been installed as public art sculptures following the event. In New Zealand, Anna was awarded first prize for her work at sculpture symposia in Rotorua (2014), Whangarei (2012), and the Coromandel (2008). She has been exhibited on multiple occasions at Sculpture Onshore (Devonport), Sculpture on the Peninsula (Banks Peninsula), Art in a Garden (Canterbury), and Shapeshifter at the Dowse (Lower Hutt). She has twice been a finalist in the prestigious Wallace Art Awards (2016 and 2018). Anna was a trustee on the board of Eco Artists New Zealand, a charitable trust that uses funds from the sales of art to help environmental projects, specifically focusing on native New Zealand species and their ecosystems. On her views about the relationship between humans and environments, Anna said: …the figure represents myself in varying states of tension and emotion but the new elements are recognising the structure, the strength, and with that the weakness of the communities we are connected to. Anna has completed many commissions of indoor and outdoor sculpture and is available for more.

Contemporary Māori art by Ngahiwi Walker, wood carver. Ngahiwi's Māori pou are hand-carved and finished with a charcoal effect. Each pou has its own unique story, as told through the carvings. Find New Zealand wood carvings, outdoor art NZ, and Māori totem pole carvers near me at Art by the Sea Gallery. Ngahiwi Walker Māori Pou Wood Carver Ngāti Porou, East Coast (Tai Rāwhiti) Ngahiwi Walker is a Māori wood carver from Te Araroa (Gisbourne Region), now based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He is known for his beautifully carved Māori pou (Māori totem pole), each with their own story. His work is very popular and each piece, when completed, is rarely in the gallery long. Ngahiwi is available for commissions. Please contact us for information about available works. More > Portfolio of Artwork Aroha Atu - Aroha Mai Love given is love received. These two pou (pillars) encapsulate the reciprocal nature of aroha (love/respect/compassion). It suggests that when we give aroha we open ourselves up to aroha in return. The green colour represents Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) the blue represents Ranginui (Sky Father). Tāne's Ta Moko A carved and charred tōtara sculpture set in a bound platform of heavy rope. This work represents the moko (tattoo) of Tāne-Mahuta, god of the forest in te ao Māori. Te Pou o Taku Ate She wears her ‘moko kauae’ – chiefly tattoo on her chin to acknowledge her leadership within the whanau environment, her connection to her ‘whakapapa’ (geneology/whanau) and her status within her community He wears his ‘mataora’ (chiefly facial tattoo) to also acknowledge his mana, leadership and standing within his whanau and the wider community. They wear their chiefly ‘korowai’ tightly around their shoulders as a sign that they are fierce protectors as husband and wife for their whanau and those they love. These pou have been blessed in the 'Nga Wai O Tāwhirimātea' (the waters/rain of Tāwhiri) who is the atua (god) of winds and rains. Poutiaki and Pouawhina Carved Poutiaki (male) and Pouawhina (female). Awatoto Commission Te Ira Wahine – Hine-o-te wai , Te Ira Tangata , Te Tane – Tane kaha. These are 3 pou te whenua (from the land). They were commissioned to give a visual story telling of the whenua (land) of Awatoto in Napier, the people of Woolworks NZ and how they, as a community, came through the devastation of Cyclone Gabriel of 2023. Pou te Whenua Exhibitions 30th Anniversary Group Show 2022 Bio Ngahiwi Walker is a Māori wood carver known for his beautifully crafted Māori sculpture or pou (pillars). His iwi (tribe) are Ngāti Porou in Tai Rāwhiti (the East Coast) of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island). Originally from Te Araroa in the Gisbourne Region, Ngahiwi is now based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Ngahiwi works mostly with macrocarpa and occasionally NZ tōtara. He hand-carves each piece, creating a charcoal effect with a blow torch and finishing with a bristled brush. Every pou tells a story in the Māori wood carving and the moko (tattoo), some tales and memories passed down by elders, others speaking to the mana (spiritual energy/standing) of men and women and their position within the iwi (tribe) and hapu (community). Ngahiwi began carving in 2003 to help someone he knew who had undergone a traumatic experience. He wanted to do something for them so he carved a pou. The family was taken away by it and very grateful. My first carvings were gifts for family members whose lives had been affected in some way by death or birth. Since then, I have been carving stories that I remember from way back. Ngahiwi’s contemporary Māori art is in high demand, often carved on commission. Pieces that do come into the gallery are gratefully received as they contribute much to the wairua (spirit) of our space. Ngahiwi is available for commissions. Please contact us for information about available works.

Abstract modern art paintings by Carl Foster, New Zealand artist and oil painter. Carl's NZ landscape paintings and still life painting appear in a unique, geometric style that comes from his experience pin-striping hot rods. Find contemporary NZ artists and abstract art nz at Art by the Sea Gallery. Carl Foster Geometric Modern Art Carl Foster is a New Zealand abstract artist and oil painter known for his NZ landscape paintings, portraits, and nomadic travelling scenes with a cubist style. Based in Auckland, Carl is self-taught with a style influenced by his trade experience pin-striping Hot Rods. More > Whites Beach (2021) Price $2,000.00 Hawaiian Tiki Price $2,200.00 Wigmore Bay, Bethells (2021) Price $2,300.00 Māori Bay (2020) Price $2,500.00 Muriwai Beach (2020) Out of stock Wild Goats, Ranfurly Price $3,200.00 Travellers 4 Price $3,200.00 Travellers 3 Price $3,200.00 Nomadic Way Price $3,200.00 Oneill's Beach (2020) Out of stock Wine Bottle and Guitar Price $3,200.00 Bethells Beach (2020) Out of stock Asteroids and Meteors Price $3,800.00 Exhibitions 30th Anniversary Group Show 2022 Bio Carl Foster is a self-taught fine artist from Auckland, New Zealand, specialising in abstract modern art paintings. He paints intuitively, rarely using preparatory sketches but instead allowing the work to take shape organically. A key focus for Carl is achieving balance in line, tone, colour, and overall composition. The incredibly precise lines and 3-dimensional shapes in Carl’s abstract fine art comes from his industry background in sign writing with a specialty in pin-striping for Hot Rods—a trade he learnt from his father. His artistic influences include cubists and impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Wes Freed, Wifredo Lam, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Carl’s passion is the outdoors and interpreting the many varied people and experiences that colour his life. Some of his landscape scenes and NZ beach art have been painted en plein air in and around the west coast beaches of Auckland. Each of Carl’s geometric modern art paintings is meticulously and painstakingly hand-painted and then sealed with a final protective varnish. Symbols and intersecting planes suggest a way into deciphering his paintings, but the real beauty lies in discovering something new every time you look them.