Coromandel Returns.

An eclectic mix of creative arts from the Coromandel co ordinated by Paula McNeill of The Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua. This was one of Heritage Galleries most interesting selections last year and returns by popular demand. Includes work by Paula, Micheal Smithers,  Tom Mutch, Joanne Mahoney, Pam Plummer, Susan Dunster, Suzie Speerstra [...]

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Ray Neumann, Thames artist

Ray is a full-time painter and his work is mainly abstract or constructivist, based on observations of the natural or man-made world, ideas of Western aesthetics or music. Ray majored in painting and printmaking at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Art and later trained as a teacher. He taught art for many years [...]

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Liz Hart, Tairua artist

Liz is a watercolourist and a print maker – etchings and monoprints.  She also dabbles in water-based oils and acrylics. I noticed Liz’s paintings in a Pauanui Beach exhibition a few years ago, standing out amongst some excruciating horrible paintings! “I begin by painting very loosely, I focus on pushing the values of the lights [...]

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Nicky Hartley, Auckland artist

Nicky Hartley is represented at The Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua too;  and I was given a painting of a nude by Nicky for my birthday a few years ago. Nicky finds inspiration in the landscapes in her life as a mother, leading her to create paintings that reflect the human form and [...]

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Susan Dunster, Tairua artist

Susan Dunster is another artist reprsented at The Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua. She paints in abstract colours and shapes. Her influences are post impressionist and early modernist painters, both French and English, and from New Zealand, Frances Hodgkins and from America, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler. I met Susan briefly when I [...]

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Pamela Plummer, Thames artist

Pam Plummer came to our open studio day in December last year, visiting Carolyn Millbank, one of the artists who work there. Pam is also represented at The Little Gallery of Fine Arts in Tairua – a ‘working artist’ for the Gallery so she works in the gallery every now and then. She recognised my [...]

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