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Figurative artwork by Paul Hooker, New Zealand artist. Paul is an established oil painter whose oil portraits range from vivid steampunk or circus art to fine art nude painting and NZ landscape painting. Find contemporary NZ artists and portrait art painting at Art by the Sea Gallery. Paul Hooker Contemporary Portrait Artist Paul Hooker is an established New Zealand portrait and figurative artist based in Auckland. Paul is an oil painter most known for his colourful circus and steampunk contemporary oil painting and his fine art nude painting. While less prolific, his beautifully composed still life painting and NZ landscape paintings are equally as popular. More > New 2025 Morning Sun Price $3,200.00 New 2025 Perfect Imperfection Price $4,000.00 New 2025 Slumber in the Abstract Price $4,500.00 New 2025 Life Pulse 3 Price $2,600.00 New 2025 Rust Never Sleeps Price $6,500.00 Waiheke Heat Price $4,000.00 Peacock in the Garden Price $7,000.00 Late Afternoon Sun Price $4,000.00 Beachcombers Price $5,500.00 Respite Price $4,500.00 The Magic Coat Price $4,800.00 Nude 4 Price $2,750.00 Nude 8 Price $2,750.00 Cirque Scarlett Price $4,500.00 Nude in White Price $2,800.00 Steampunk White Price $6,000.00 Electric Blue Price $5,500.00 Steampunk - Playing with Time Price $6,000.00 Ridge Road, Waikato Price $6,800.00 Boy Racer Out of stock Italian Memories Out of stock Exhibitions Eclectic Paul Hooker 2025 Landscapes and Figures Paul Hooker 2022 Cirque Paul Hooker 2020 Bio Paul Hooker is an established New Zealand fine artist known for his highly accomplished figurative and portrait oil paintings. His figurative work ranges from vibrant paintings of women in circus and steampunk dress to sunny beach and garden scenes to softly painted nudes. He has won awards for his fine art portrait painting and been commissioned by a number of well-known organisations. Of his circus paintings, Paul said: These paintings reflect our two worlds, the exterior and interior, the seen and unseen. The effects of our surroundings on our inner essence. Paul is drawn by the inherent strength he finds in people while quietly observing their face and form. He favours a loose brush style with the work evolving on the canvas as he paints, and as he deepens his understanding of the subject. Character imperfections appeal to him and he balances his attempts to capture the essence of poses in the human figure with an interest in the life experienced by the individual person. Paul paints intuitively, through perception, and only uses photographs as a reference tool. Influenced by the American artist Alex Kanevsky, Paul’s figurative work is often given movement and atmosphere through his use of abstract backgrounds. Paul also paints the occasional captivating New Zealand landscape and still life. His interest in landscapes focuses on the extended vistas and rolling hills of the North Island, capturing the NZ summer with a finely tuned sense of light and atmosphere. His intimate still life renditions exploit the contrasting qualities of surface and light reflection, their detail and composition speaking to his senior experience in the craft. Paul has enjoyed a career as an exhibiting painter, professional illustrator and tertiary lecturer in Auckland for more than forty years. In the seventies and early eighties he had an extensive career in illustration, working in several of the top Auckland advertising agencies. He tutored part-time at a number of tertiary institutions, including Whitecliff College of Art, for over twenty years. He has said that teaching life drawing, fashion, and figure studies encouraged him to constantly perfect his own technique. Paul has completed a variety of significant private commissions including oil portraits of all of the America's Cup Skippers, and a series of three portraits for Kings College in Auckland. He has been a finalist in the Adam Portraiture Awards no fewer than six times and, in 2004, he was commissioned to design and illustrate six stamps and two first day cover motifs for the Christmas Stamps for NZ Post. Now retired from teaching, Paul is painting full time. His portrait art painting is collected both nationally and internationally.

Welcome to the imaginarium of Bill Hayes, well-known bronze sculptor and pottery artist. Bill's unique pieces include mountain climbing figures, nz bird pottery vessels, cast bronze seascapes with sailing ships, bronze garden sculptures nz, and ceramic bird placques. Find New Zealand contemporary art for sale and bronze sculpture nz at Art by the Sea Gallery. Bill Hayes Imaginative Sculptor and Auckland Potter Bill Hayes is a bronze and ceramic sculptor and pottery artist from Auckland, New Zealand. His diverse range includes (but is not limited to!) surreal alien bronze sculptures, quirky ceramic vessels with suspended ceramic birds, landscape and seascape ceramic wall art, and large bronze nautical pieces with sailing ships or waka. More > Ruru Price $1,200.00 New 2025 Blue Bird Price $1,200.00 New 2025 Blackbird Breakout Vessel Price $1,800.00 Flying Gannet Vessel Price $1,200.00 New 2025 Men at Work Price $1,800.00 Raptor Out of stock The Spire Out of stock Repellers Price $1,100.00 The Crossing Price $10,000.00 Flying Ruru Wall Plaque Price $650.00 Tūī in the Kōwhai Price $2,200.00 Diving Gannet Wall Plaque Price $650.00 Diver and Fish Dome Out of stock Green Finned Vessel (Extra Large) Regular Price $2,800.00 Sale Price $2,000.00 Bird Dome Out of stock Hammerhead Shark Vessel Price $780.00 Night Flock Vessel Price $900.00 Sky Flock Vessel Price $900.00 Task Price $5,200.00 Artist's Tribune Price $5,200.00 To Sea Out of stock Orb 1 and 2 Price $10,000.00 Art is Art Price $3,500.00 Hydro Dynamic Electro Guide Price $1,200.00 Exhibitions Works in Cone 6 Bill Hayes 2024 A Life Between Breaths Bill Hayes 2022 Bio Bill Hayes is a leading NZ bronze sculptor and ceramicist who has been making a name for himself as a commission artist for well over 25 years. He works in cast bronze and hand-crafted ceramic, and has taught many classes and workshops on these mediums. I have been enthralled in the act of creation for many years now . . . [My bronze sculptures] have a textural quality that is so much a part of working with cast metals, and they show the physicality that is required to produce a finished work . . . they challenge the viewer to look, contemplate, and bring their own aesthetic sense of form and texture to the work. Bill’s earlier weird and wonderful New Zealand contemporary art featured chevron shapes in many forms, interactive wall pieces with travelling marbles, and alien or underwater imaginary creatures with spines and pods. Today, his vessels and wall plaques depict NZ seascapes and landscapes with diving gannets, soaring tūī, and swimming hammerhead sharks. His large bronze ocean scenes with historic sailing ships and waka have appeared in exhibitions and prompted several commissions. Some of Bill’s commissions include: a giant “Pelagic Chevron” public sculpture at the corner of Tangihua Street and Quay Street in Auckland City; a large, bronze interpretation of Captain Cook’s sextant; a bronze entranceway for the Wairakia Golf Course; a copper and ceramic fountain for the entrance to the Lake House Art Centre; bronze plaques for the Sir Edmund Hillary Ice Axe memorabilia case; and a sculpture of renowned art benefactor Lady Becroft’s hands.

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.

Metal animal yard art by Rustic Twist. Large outdoor corrugated iron artwork including metal sheep, metal goats, and copper kiwis. Find garden sculptures NZ, iron animal sculptures, and metal art New Zealand at Art by the Sea Gallery. Rustic Twist Metal Animal Sculptures Rustic Twist is an outdoor sculpture NZ business owned and operated by artist Reuben Trask out of Whangārei in the North Island. Rustic Twist creates highly unique, hand-made garden animal sculptures out of recycled corrugated iron. More > Lamb Price $700.00 Medium Ewe Price $920.00 Large Sheep Price $1,500.00 Baby Angora Goat Price $1,200.00 Medium Angora Goat Price $1,500.00 Large Angora Goat Price $2,080.00 Baby Billy Goat Price $800.00 Medium Billy Goat Price $1,200.00 Large Billy Goat Price $1,650.00 Wild Piglet Price $800.00 Medium Wild Sow Price $1,200.00 Large Wild Boar Price $1,450.00 Saw Blade Piglet Price $750.00 Large Merino Sheep Price $1,600.00 Sheep Dog Price $1,450.00 Hen Price $720.00 Mini Saw Blade Kiwi Price $700.00 Alpaca Price $6,500.00 Copper Rooster Price $820.00 Mini Deluxe Copper Kiwi Price $850.00 Copper Hen Price $820.00 Peacock Price $1,500.00 Cactus Price $4,800.00 Bio Rustic Twist is a New Zealand business specialising in life-size metal animal yard art made from New Zealand steel recycled materials. These garden sculptures NZ are sturdy and highly unique, each piece individually hand-crafted and made to age well in the elements. What began as a hobby turned into a business in the year 2000 when the artists were asked to make a life-size pregnant cow out of corrugated iron. This sculpture launched a metal art New Zealand business and the name “Rustic Twist” evolved out of that. While the lamb, medium sheep, and angora metal goat are the most popular, Art by the Sea has also hosted several life-size metal lamas, wild boars, the occasional peacock, and a giant cactus. We have also transported a life-size Friesian cow to Southland, and hosted a one-off flock of sheep art installation piece for the Milford Centre Sculpture Trail (2020) in support of the Key to Life Trust. All of Rustic Twist animals are made from recycled metal on a steel frame. The large animals, like the sheep and goats, are handmade from recycled corrugated iron roofing. Some of the smaller bird sculptures are made using repurposed sawblades or pieces cut out of old copper hot water cylinders and then assembled by hand. All sculptures are made to order, so please contact us at least three weeks in advance of the date the artwork is required. We regularly arrange international shipping for these pieces; please contact us for a quote.

Oil paintings for sale NZ by Nicky Thompson, New Zealand artist. Nicky's South Island landscape paintings showcase NZ's most dramatic scenery, featuring native birds and tapa designs. Find contemporary NZ artists, NZ bird art, nature painting, and NZ landscape artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Nicky Thompson NZ South Island Oil Painter Nicky Thompson is a contemporary artist and oil painter known for her large NZ landscape paintings featuring South Island mountains, rivers, lakes, and native birds. Nicky is originally from Auckland, now based in Cromwell. More > Escape - Skippers Canyon Price $2,850.00 Escape Price $2,500.00 King of the Mountain - Skippers Canyon Price $4,400.00 The Shadows (Sleeps 18) Out of stock Big Sky Dreaming Price $3,800.00 Bullendale Hut Out of stock The Naked Possum 11 Out of stock Tangiwai - Weeping Waters Out of stock Luxury Accomodation Out of stock Bio Nicky Thompson is a New Zealand contemporary artist and painter based in Cromwell in the South Island. Nicky is known for her large New Zealand landscapes of the South Island, showing mountains, rivers, and lakes. Many of her paintings feature native NZ bird art and intricately detailed lace veils or tapa cloth. Experienced in the use of both oil and acrylic paints, Nicky draws from her own intimate experience of the New Zealand landscape as gained during her many hikes and trips around the South Island with her partner, Mike. I like to think my work evokes a peaceful and restful feeling. I love to capture a moment in time, when for a split second you stop and almost feed on something that slows your breath. Nature has lent me these moments. Inspiration for my work comes from my love of our surroundings that we are so privileged to have. On the depiction of lace and tapa cloth in her paintings, Nicky has said that for her it is about the movement the fabric lends to the work and the stories each piece tells. Lace patterns have histories in European culture, just as tapa cloth contains stories that speak to cultural identities and histories in the Pacific. My work has a common theme of our native birds, their diverse nests and feathers, combined with layers of fragile voile lace and highly tropical patterned fabrics intertwined with crisp glass vessels or placed with naïve, organic shaped urns. Movement is created with a wispy breeze playing through the fabrics and allowing a feather or two to float gently across, often coming to rest on a delicate flower—a quiet, peaceful time. Sometimes I use tapa cloth with its illustrated stories. I mix acrylic, oils, conte sticks, oil pastel, and resin together to create this feeling of quiet tranquillity. A private moment suspended in time with paint forever. Nicky studied graphic design at Auckland Institute of Technology and worked for an advertising agency for a number of years before taking a job with Finished Artist Auckland Type Setters in the mid-80s. She worked on private and commercial commissions in her spare time, including murals for children’s rooms (many featured in the NZ House and Garden magazine and the Herald newspaper). She also completed a large commission for Starbucks and another for the Belgium Beer House Restaurant. Nicky began working as a full-time painter in 2005 with her first solo NZ landscape art exhibition held at Art by the Sea in 2007. She has had a number of solo exhibitions since and participated in many group shows through Art by the Sea.

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.

Still life painting, NZ landscapes, and paintings of Europe by Holly Haines, oil painter. Holly's realistic oil painting of landscapes often include expansive skies with expressive cloud formations. Find NZ landscape paintings and affordable original art at Art by the Sea. Holly Haines Classical Oil Painter Holly Haines is a fine artist from Auckland, New Zealand. Painting in oils, Holly’s striking NZ landscape paintings are complimented by her city, land, and sky scenes from her travels in Europe. More > New 2025 Sky Symphony Price $7,500.00 New 2025 Last Light Price $7,500.00 Princes Street - Edinburgh Price $4,200.00 Milford Sound Price $4,200.00 New 2025 Guiding River Price $3,200.00 Golden Hues Price $4,200.00 New 2025 Gold Horizon Price $4,200.00 New 2025 The Shifting Sands Price $5,400.00 Parisian Window Out of stock Storm at Lake Tekapo Out of stock Colours of Antibes Out of stock Height Out of stock Moody Blues Out of stock Leaving the Storm Out of stock Exhibitions Landscapes: A World Apart Holly Haines 2025 A Journey in Oils Holly Haines 2023 Bio Holly Haines is a fine artist from Auckland, New Zealand. Her landscapes, skyscapes, and urban scenes capture passing moments that have struck her while out travelling or hiking—a small red barn in a hay field, a complex cloud formation, bright red tomatoes spilling out of a wooden crate, a perfectly still and reflective lake. Landscapes have continually changing aspects and I enjoy working with the fluid motion this engenders. The sky plays an important role in the landscapes I paint, its vastness and expressiveness is a constant source of inspiration. Holly began painting at an early age and attended several years of portrait painting workshops and untutored still life painting sessions. She works mainly in strongly pigmented oils, enjoying the depth of colour, vibrancy, and texture offered by this medium. Her work has been further enhanced by attending courses at an Atelier in Edinburgh where she refined her skills in classical and traditional realistic oil painting and returned to New Zealand with a stunning selection of paintings of Europe. My main inspirations for painting are light, colour and atmosphere. I aim to use these elements as a means of creating an integral connection with the subject. Growing up in New Zealand surrounded by natural beauty, has inspired in Holly a passion for expressing sky and light on the canvas. The sky takes on a special significance and its vast and ever-changing nature is an inspiring subject matter for Holly’s work. New Zealand landscapes continue to influence her alongside the Scottish and European historical architecture and scenery that has brought to light new creative possibilities. Whether the moody atmosphere of a misty sound, or a Parisian windowsill with fluttering gauze curtain, Holly’s paintings open a door into a different time and place, one that may speak to us in its familiarity, or offer an imaginative escape.