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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.

NZ bird art and bird portrait painting by Craig Platt, wildlife artist. Craig paints New Zealand's iconic native bird species in incredible detail based on hours of observation to understand subtleties in each bird's behaviour. Find native nz tui art, and wildlife art at Art by the Sea Gallery. Craig Platt New Zealand Bird Artist Craig Platt is a contemporary wildlife artist, specialising in paintings of New Zealand native birds. Auckland-based, Craig’s realistic bird portrait painting and wildlife art result from hours of observation, demonstrating an almost uncanny understanding of bird life and habits in their natural environments. More > New 2025 Kingfisher - Wings Outstretched Regular Price $3,500.00 Sale Price $3,000.00 New 2026 A Pair of Kea Price $3,850.00 New 2025 Solo Tūī puffed up feathers Price $1,950.00 New 2026 Tūī Study Out of stock New 2025 Pair of Ruru (NZ Owl) Regular Price $4,500.00 Sale Price $3,850.00 New 2025 Kākāpō Out of stock Tīeke (Saddleback) - Māui's Fire Bird Regular Price $5,800.00 Sale Price $4,850.00 Kaka Portrait Price $2,600.00 A Pair of Tūī in a Pōhutukawa Tree Regular Price $3,750.00 Sale Price $3,200.00 New 2025 2 Tūī Portrait Regular Price $2,800.00 Sale Price $2,500.00 New 2025 Godwits - Omaha Bar Price $4,200.00 Kōkako - Māui's Water Bird Price $5,800.00 Tūī in Flight Regular Price $2,600.00 Sale Price $2,200.00 The Flight Price $12,000.00 New 2025 Takapuna Reef - Red Beaked Seagulls Price $4,200.00 The Gathering Out of stock The Welcoming Out of stock Kaka - The Morning Caller Regular Price $5,800.00 Sale Price $5,000.00 Kārearea (NZ Falcon) 2018 Out of stock Pair of Kingfishers Out of stock Exhibitions September Show Craig Platt 2024 Land Sea Sky Craig Platt 2023 Our Birds Craig Platt 2021 Bio Craig Platt is an Auckland-based contemporary artist known for his incredibly realistic oil paintings of New Zealand native birds. Craig’s NZ bird art and his large wildlife landscapes are inspired less by photographs and more by observation and research. Influenced by his background in graphic design, Craig looks for colour and detail in his subjects, while also noting down unique subtleties in their behaviour. I have observed tūī in their natural environment for years. It’s their personality, they almost have an arrogance about them as if they know they have adjusted better than most other native birds to the urban environment. Travelling to remote locations around New Zealand, Craig will sit and study his subjects for hours. It is here, without distraction, that Craig gains insight into certain bird habits and their particular or unusual postures. Māori mythology and New Zealand history have also been influential in Craig’s NZ art, as he shares his learning about the role of our native birds in founding stories and in the sophisticated structure of Māori beliefs and customs. While he observes bird interaction in their natural habitats, Craig is also interested in the way birds engage with man-made objects in urban environments. This shed at Stanley Point wharf, Devonport is the most amazing colour, and the lighting effects the colour generates are beautiful. When the lighting is right on a clear, still day, the angles of the tin create rich dark and light hues of the base colour... I started reading the signage one day as I admired the lettering skills of a profession I was once involved in. The beautiful brush control on the serif font is a skill long-forgotten, and the aging of the sign and the rust creeping into the fixtures adds to the time and history of the shed. Also, the message the sign portrays—the choice of wording goes back to a time when certain language was acceptable… I wonder what the colour of the shed was back then. The modern sign has almost been produced to clash with maximum impact. So what is so dangerous that you can’t dive from this shed? …I have used two species of birds to almost thumb their noses at the authority behind the signage… The terns’ balletic skills, skimming the surface of the bay, and their precise diving skills are a majestic sight. The Kingfishers, ever vigilant, notice any movement in the tidal zone. They pounce on any unsuspecting crustacean moving from cover… Craig’s painting process always begins with sketching and a colour study, to see if all the elements he has in mind will work together. The blocking in of the composition begins with broad brush strokes to fill the canvas and create a base for the painting. The vision is then built up using finer and finer brushes to achieve high detail. By the end of the painting, Craig will be using a tiny brush (almost a pencil) to note fine detail on a blade of grass or the glint in a bird’s eye. Craig developed his understanding of colour and his skills in realism, precision, and detail during his 25-year career in graphic design, where he specialised in illustration and packaging. his passion for birds began at a much younger age when he raised and rescued nestlings; sparrows that had fallen from a nest, blackbirds, thrushes, and many other species spent time in his parents’ hot water cupboard. He moved on to raise and breed budgies for many years and began to draw birds as a child. Craig’s strong interest in New Zealand’s great outdoor spaces grew through his love of surfing, which took him all over the country. Today, his travelling and his love of birds are expressed through his art. Craig Platt has regular exhibitions at Art by the Sea Gallery. His work, particularly his tui painting, is held in private collections across the country.

Abstract landscape art by Carol Readman, established watercolour artist. Carol's watercolours depict Auckland landscapes in a contemporary style with skilled depth of colour. Find contemporary NZ artists, abstract watercolour art, and affordable original art at Art by the Sea Gallery. Carol Readman Abstract Watercolour Artist Carol Readman is an established New Zealand contemporary watercolour artist based in Auckland. Her abstract landscape art is inspired by the things she sees and experiences during walks taken around her local area. More > New 2026 Whispers in the Wind Price $900.00 New 2026 Nearly There Green Price $900.00 New 2026 Gatherings with Light-house Price $900.00 New 2026 This New Year Price $2,300.00 New 2026 Echo Price $900.00 Winter's Last Gasp Price $900.00 New 2026 Christchurch Girls High School Price $700.00 Conflagration for Two People Price $1,240.00 New 2026 Three Peaks to Vauxhall Price $900.00 Storm Approaching Yellow Tree Price $900.00 Middle Ground with Swimmers and Cricketers Price $1,480.00 Sails at Christmas 2018 Price $900.00 The Road to Calvary Price $900.00 Purple Parasol Price $900.00 The Artist's Studio Price $900.00 Eight Divers Enough Price $900.00 New Year Price $2,300.00 Across the Ditch Price $900.00 Un Parc Pour Enfant Price $900.00 Summer to Autumn Price $900.00 Walking in the Sand Price $900.00 Meeting Halfway Price $900.00 Memories 1 aka One Price $900.00 Memories Two aka 2 Price $900.00 Waiting at the Ferry Price $680.00 Exhibitions Retrospective Carol Readman 2026 Bio Carol Readman is an established contemporary watercolour artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. Carol’s abstract watercolour art is most often painted after a walk around her local area, recalling her impressions of the scenery and activities. Her work is prized, in particular, for its contemporary style and the incredible depth and brightness of colour she is able to achieve, testifying to her skill and experience working with watercolours. Women of my age have seen thousands of pictures so they have a greater interest in simplified, pleasing, and balanced arrangements of one's own ideas and outlooks. By referring to abstraction in painting, I think that my intention is to create the essence of the subject rather than to reproduce the pictorial aspects of what is presented. I personally prefer the work to take on a life of its own as it grows naturally from my memory, vision or perspective. Carol is a self-taught artist who has been exhibiting her modern art for over 40 years. She studied at Christchurch Teachers College, Victoria University, and the University of Auckland. In her working life, she held positions in teaching, social work, personnel management, and industrial relations. As a painter, Carol feels an affinity to artists such as Doris Lusk, Austen Deans, Toss Woollaston, and Colin McCahon, among others. While travelling through Europe in her twenties, Carol discovered the French impressionists and was enamoured, in particular, by Manet. In London, she came across a large J. M. W. Turner painting at the National Gallery. It was this experience that encouraged her to explore atmosphere using watercolour, adding a unique delicacy to the fortitude of colour in her personal technique. Now retired, she is able to paint full time. Colour, form, and linear relationships are important to me with a particular place, event or significant person suggested in the composition. "To thine own self be true" has remained a guiding principal and this allows some personal issues and occasional problems to be resolved as each painting develops. My best advice to an aspiring artist would be to follow your thoughts when it comes to painting. Carol’s watercolour landscapes have been recognised by a number of regional and national awards, including the Pumphouse art awards in Takapuna and the (formerly) Telecom New Zealand Art Awards. She has also received first prizes at the Depot Art Awards in Devonport and the 2002 Royal Easter Show awards in Auckland (watercolour section). Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally. Carol’s abstract modern art paintings are available to purchase unframed, for easy transport, with a few pieces framed up so you can see what they look like in store. Art by the Sea offers a full framing service at an additional cost.

Lindsay Crooks paintings sale. Colourful paintings by New Zealand artist Lindsay Crooks, oil painter and "artist of the people," who was beloved in Dunedin for his joyous kiwi beach scenes NZ. Find affordable art to invest in for your personal art collection at Art by the Sea Gallery. Lindsay Crooks The Art of Everyday Life Lindsay Crooks (1957–2005) was a nationally renowned fine artist and oil painter based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Known for his figurative work and nz beach art, Lindsay worked in bright, colourful oils and pastels. More > Private Sale Pink Ladies 3 | Lindsay Crooks Regular Price $2,800.00 Sale Price $2,300.00 Two Body Boarders Price $10,000.00 New to Market The Performers Price $8,000.00 Private Sale Rangitoto and the America's Cup Price $1,500.00 Recreational Fisherman Out of stock Harbour Out of stock Blue Pool Out of stock Boat Builders Study Out of stock Bio I like to paint things going on around me. I don’t use photographs; everything’s based on what I’ve seen. Lindsay Crooks was an iconic fine artist based in Brighton, Dunedin. He was known for his bright, colourful paintings of happy beach scenes (NZ) and people enjoying typical New Zealand outdoor activities like surfing, fishing, and gardening. Around Dunedin and nationally, Lindsay was known as an ‘artist of the people.’ The following are excerpts taken from poet David Eggleton’s introduction to the book Venus on a Beach Towel (Longacre Press, 2003) about Lindsay and his art: A teacher of life drawing for twenty years, Lindsay Crooks' main subject as an artist is the human figure. His people are buoyant, jolly, life-affirming figures - their chunky body shapes worked into careful compositions which celebrate ordinary things, ordinary pleasures and the everyday world. Lindsay Crooks paints life as a kind of incessant activity. His paintings are full of movement. Figures walk with a rolling sailor's gait, or they dance, flex, stride, saunter, or they hurtle along on bicycles, dive down to seabeds and engage in frenetic beach activities… He explores the human comedy of domestic life and invests the small objects of daily life with both simple magic and comic dignity… He notices things: steam from a kettle, a cat curled up, a vase of flowers, the way snow fluoresces, the ocean view through an open door. Perhaps the primal site for Crook's studies of the figure is the beachscape… In a typical beach painting […] we will see children running towards the water, which will be alive with surfers and swimmers. Family groups will be picnicking. Teenagers gambol and frolic. The figures are solid, anchored, grounded. They grow out of the spaces they inhabit, indeed, they may be almost submerged in their surroundings: semi-transparent, camouflaged. And there is, as always, the signature knack for balanced colours and shapes—of sand tones and sea tones, of boardriders and sandsitters. Things happen in a blaze of light. Lindsay sadly passed away in 2005 after an 8-month battle with cancer. He is sorely missed. Lindsay was represented by Art by the Sea Gallery for over five years and we developed a close relationship with him. We have a list of Lindsay’s works that have come from personal art collections and that we are selling on behalf of our clients. These include signed original pastels, smaller framed original oils, and art prints on canvas and paper. A percentage of all profits will be returned to the beneficiaries of Lindsay's estate. A short list of Linday's exhibitions: 1990 Carnegie Gallery, Dunedin 1991 Port Chalmers Aero Club Gallery, Dunedin Moray Gallery, Dunedin, Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge 1992 Stanley Street Gallery, Auckland, Southland Museum & Art Gallery, Invercargill ( Celebrating the New Zealand worker) 1993 Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown Carnegie Gallery, Dunedin Mrgan Le Fay Gallery Auckland, CSA Gallery Christchurch 1994 Gisbourne Museum & Arts Centre, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, Page 90 Gallery, Porirua 1995 Art works, Wanaka Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown, Taupo District Museum 1996 Salamander Gallery, Christchurch 1997 Bond Street Gallery, Dunedin Salamander Gallery, Christchurch Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru 1998 Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport, Auckland 1999 Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill ( Immigrant Series) 2000 Forrester Gallery, Oamaru Acanthus Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK Neville Studios, Dunedin 2001 South Seas Gallery, Brighton, Dunedin, Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport, Auckland Turnbill House, Wellington 2002 Neville Studios, Dunedin Otago Museum, Dunedin 2003 Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport, Auckland 2004 Colour, Clay, Canvas Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport, Auckland

Neo surrealism art for sale by Robert Campion, NZ contemporary artist and oil painter. Robert's paintings of NZ have a compelling ghostly or dystopian surrealism atmosphere. Find NZ artists and contemporary oil painting at Art by the Sea Gallery. Robert Campion Neo Surrealism Artist Robert Campion is a New Zealand contemporary artist and oil painter of neo surrealism art. Originally from Auckland, Robert's contemporary oil painting has a compelling ghostly or dystopian surrealism atmosphere. More > Fury Regular Price $7,000.00 Sale Price $6,000.00 Delirium Regular Price $7,000.00 Sale Price $6,000.00 Manifestation Out of stock Awakened Regular Price $8,200.00 Sale Price $7,000.00 Lucid Out of stock Nocturnal Out of stock Disturbing Out of stock Bio surrealism noun 1. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. (Oxford Reference online) Robert Campion is a neo surrealist artist from Auckland, New Zealand, who works exclusively in oil on canvas. His intricately detailed paintings of NZ reflect his love of the New Zealand bush, particularly geographical spaces with which he has a personal connection. A fan of the Flemish painter Vermeer, Robert paints in greys first to achieve tonal balance before applying colour. He is a realist painter and has extensive experience in figurative studies with a specialisation in portraiture. Robert is available to do private portrait art commissions. Robert has been a professional teacher and artist for over 20 years. He has works in many private and public collections nationwide and overseas. A major commission now hangs in the Auckland Town Hall. He has had several exhibitions at Art by the Sea, all of which incorporate his love of surreal, imaginative, and powerful imagery. His surreal landscape art and dystopian art is held in private collections nationwide.

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.

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.

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 > New 2025 The Fruit Catcher Price $1,200.00 New 2025 The King Price $1,200.00 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.

New Zealand contemporary art by Christian Nicolson, New Zealand artist. Christian's NZ art is jouyful and nostalgic, remembering iconic music and storytelling scenes across the decades. His work includes beach painting, surfing art, and pop art. Find modern art for sale nz and contemporary NZ artists at Art by the Sea Gallery. Christian Nicolson Contemporary Pop and Landscape Artist Christian Nicolson is a contemporary abstract artist and installation artist specialising in NZ landscape paintings and NZ pop art. Based in Auckland, Christian is renowned for his free and colourful beach and surfing scenes, and for the joyful nostalgia of his pop art celebrating film and music icons from different decades. More > See inside Christian's studio > New 2026 Own Private Idaho Price $6,000.00 New 2026 Tāwharanui Price $6,500.00 New 2025 The Black Knight Out of stock New 2025 The Dawn of Romance Price $7,000.00 Small Vessels, Big Water Price $5,700.00 New 2025 Reynisfjara and the Whale Price $7,800.00 New 2025 Skogafoss Price $6,200.00 New 2025 Crazy, Crazy Tokyo Price $8,200.00 Waiake Creek Price $3,700.00 New 2025 A Room with a View Price $6,000.00 Barebottomland (Bad Jelly the Witch) Price $3,700.00 The Morning Surf Crew Price $11,500.00 Sid and Nancy Price $8,500.00 New 2025 The Best Ice Creams in France - St Tropez Price $3,700.00 Tough Day at The Office Price $4,200.00 Am I At the Right Beach? Price $11,700.00 Sweetwaters Out of stock Matapōuri Bay Price $4,700.00 Batman and Kennedy Price $4,200.00 Morning Crew Hot Water Beach Price $12,500.00 Mad Metropolis Price $5,900.00 Exhibitions The Kiss Christian Nicolson 2026 The Iguana and the Wolf Christian Nicolson 2025 Further Anecdotes of My Youth Christian Nicolson 2023 My Trip to the South Island Christian Nicolson 2022 30th Anniversary Group Show 2022 Ready to Roll: The Kiwi Music I Grew Up With Christian Nicolson 2021 Bio Christian Nicolson is a contemporary abstract artist from Auckland, New Zealand. In his pop art, Christian has the unique ability to capture memory in a way that is both nostalgic and joyful. His style is at times subtle, comical, and personal, compared with other pop art that may be more cliched or appropriative. Meanwhile, his landscape paintings evoke feelings of joy and freedom, celebrating Aotearoa New Zealand's incredible surfing beaches. Speaking to his love of the great outdoors, Christian’s surfing and contemporary beach painting comes from his own experiences exploring Aotearoa’s coast lines in the North and South Islands. His abstract modern art paintings and sculptures are inspired by his childhood memories, film and music media of different decades, and festivals and famous people from the past. Christian's artwork touches the nostalgia nerve within a wide variety of ages, inviting us to remember the golden years in all their glory. I like to be creative in as many ways as possible. Whatever it is to get across my idea and explore what I am doing. I make sculptures. I do large installations in the landscape. I use photography, paint, screen printing, have a rock band, I make videos and film. This is the way I want to continue. I pride myself in doing different things. Christian has a diploma in design (Visual Communications) from Unitec in Auckland. He worked as a designer directing ads, magazines, and logos for several years before leaving that work to follow his dream and become a full-time artist. For a conceptual artwork, Christian begins with idea and composition. He then searches for hours for the type of images that will support this composition. Mostly they are a mix of images taken from online and his own drawings. He then uses a coarse screen (like the old fashioned newspaper screen of 60 dots per inch) to transpose the image over his painting technique. This process is reminiscent of comic book artworks from the 60's and 70's. Actual painting starts in the beginning and is applied throughout the entire process. The final piece of pop art contains layers upon layers of painting, design, and screen printing, often with some oil pastel stick as the final layer. Christian continues to be remembered for some of his more daring artistic endeavours. This includes his “Toetoe” installation series placed in several iconic Auckland locations, including in Auckland City Harbour (with the tide coming in!). Today, alongside his contemporary art followers, collectors, and investors, Christian has a small fanbase as a result of his feature film, This Papier Mache Boulder is Actually Really Heavy (2016), for which he won a number of international film festival awards. Christian has been represented by Art by the Sea Gallery since 2006. He is a prolific artist and has had many, highly successful exhibitions in our gallery. He has also appeared in public exhibitions and sculpture symposiums across the country. Christian has produced art on commission and continues to be available for such work. His work is held in many private collections, including the Wallace Trust which has over 40 of his pieces. Art for me is a passion. Sometimes pure instinct, sometimes quite structured, but usually it’s a fairly organic process. It makes me feel good to express myself. And it’s great to be able to share that with others. Thank you for the love. See inside Christian's studio >

Oil paintings for sale by Catherine Mansfield, oil painter. Catherine's current and ongoing body of work is inspired by a wild and windy Wellington night when her TV began producing pixelated images. Find NZ art, abstract art NZ, and affordable original art at Art by the Sea Gallery. Catherine Manchester Abstract Oil Painter Catherine Mansfield is a trained fine artist specialising in abstract and figurative work. From Wellington, Catherine thinks of her paintings as “landscapes of the mind” and often includes elements of the sea in them. More > 2020 Price $1,680.00 Figures from the Anthro Scene Price $1,850.00 Figuring the Multiverse Price $1,850.00 Bio Catherine Manchester is a mid-career abstract and figurative artist from Wellington, New Zealand. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Fine Arts. Her paintings often have elements of the sea; she thinks of them as “landscapes of the mind.” Her current and ongoing body of abstract art (NZ) is inspired by a wild and windy Wellington night when her TV began producing pixelated images. The wild distortions of the images and changing bands of colour were my weird gift from the wind to the wire. I ran to get my cell phone and captured some of the fast changing images. I printed them off and for the next year or so I stayed with them, imagining how I would paint them. Catherine grew up in a coastal settlement of Eastbourne in Lower Hutt. Her early memories are of beaches in Auckland. As a teenager, she wrote her hopes and dreams into poems. When she was 19, the death of a friend plunged her into sorrow and her work is often about working her way towards the light and giving a permanence to those early dreams of love. I am interested in where we come from and the places we love and inhabit. When I turned 65, I wanted to know about my ancestors so I sent off a DNA sample and was surprised and delighted to find I was 51 percent Celtic and 41 percent Scandinavian, and with Italian, Spanish, and Greek for the rest. My ancestors lived by the sea in Cornwall, and some came from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Scandinavians are seafaring people. One of my early dreams was ancient artefacts being washed up on Days Bay beach. They looked Roman! Catherine is a writer and poet, as well as an artist. She spent 15 months in Auckland in Laingholm, a seaside settlement near Titirangi. It was a perfect place to paint, work on films and to start a novel in between covid lockdowns. Catherine has work in both private and public collections throughout New Zealand. Public collections include the Christchurch Law Society and Timaru's Aigantighe Art Gallery. In 2025, one of her works was published in The Orion Powerhouse Gallery Akaroa: A Half Century of the Arts by Marie Connolly. She was a finalist in the 2006 Adam Portraiture Award, the Greater Wellington regional art award in 2018, and the Whirinaki Whare Taonga Wellington Arts Review.

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Creative activism fine art by Dean Raybould, NZ artist. Dean's incredible large canvas wall hangings, painted guitars and headboards, and smaller wall placques feature NZ bird art, new zealand landscapes, and pop art woven with social, political, and environmental wordplay. Find contemporary NZ landscape paintings, NZ artists, artivism, and large wall art NZ at Art by the Sea Gallery. Dean Raybould New Zealand Creative Activism Dean Raybould is a contemporary NZ artist based in Oamaru. His contemporary oil paintings, overwritten with clever wordplay, present recurring themes of New Zealand land formations, histories, and social and ecological politics, all firmly grounded in an inimitable "tongue-in-cheek" style. More > I-(s)La/ender$ Price $16,000.00 Serf's Up Out of stock May the Forest Be with You Price $7,500.00 Nightsongs Price $1,100.00 Sing to the Stars Out of stock The Hand of Hammond Price $1,100.00 Skull (with Huia Birds) Out of stock Huia in the Hills Out of stock Retardus Out of stock The Chameleoman Out of stock Happy Travails Out of stock I(slan)dealogy Out of stock Bio Dean Raybould is a New Zealand contemporary artist based in Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. Dean’s New Zealand contemporary art is highly illustrative, dream-like, and somewhat surreal with recurring themes of New Zealand land formations, social and ecological politics, and native NZ bird art, all firmly grounded in an inimitable "tongue-in-cheek" style. Through illustration and wordplay, Dean’s artworks offer a humorous yet meaningful take on social justice issues, environmental rights, national identity, conservation, and questions of human existence. In this, Dean's art might be acknowledged using political art terminology such as artivism, protest art , and art activism. As ecological art or wildlife art, conservation issues are symbolised in our most famous extinct bird, the huia, which appears in most if not all of Dean’s paintings, sometimes personified. Many of Dean's NZ art pieces also draw from popular and historical culture. In some NZ landscape paintings we might spot a Millenium Falcon or the Owl and the Pussycat, while others act as irreverent tributes to David Bowie, Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and James K. Baxter. Art can be seen as an unconscious search for an authentic self, and here searching is the main narrative thread. Stringing loosely together universal questions of belonging and identity—national and cultural, personal and spiritual—or joining knotty contemporary realities with humanity's hardwired hunt for a tribal hearth. Salient searches that are often unresolved like the ambiguities portrayed in these works. Dean paints in oil on a variety of mediums, including large canvas sheets or cut-out boards and recycled materials such as headboards, guitars, and old cellos. Whether on canvas or found objects, Dean’s paintings are woven with social, political, and environmental commentary. This writing appears not only in the titles of the works but delicately worked into the paintings themselves. There is wit, quirky humour, and deliberate ambiguity in Dean’s wordplay. We could spend hours travelling through a single piece, noting the multiple meanings suggested by each lyric and image. His paintings of NZ are collected for this lyrical and often humorous takes on important national issues. The interplay of words, land formations, birds, and patterns all combine to create a mystical, dream-like trance of finely executed treasures. As Dean only paints a few pieces a year, his work is sought-after. His pieces are held in private collections nationwide with some available to see in public galleries and outdoor spaces.