Umbrage: noun: archaic: shade or shadow especially as cast by trees. With the increased density of housing in the cities, and the felling of many...

Bohemian style is synonymous with a counterculture associated with creativity, artistic expression, and a disregard for social norms and mainstream aesthetics. The origins of this...

Railway Group Artists present expressions of nature or more abstract concepts representing winter. A painting may convey a sense of stillness and peace or a visual rendering of...

Movement and stillness are not separate; they are integrated, and they inform one another. Movement in daily life is constantly encountered but seldom given thought...

Artist Jane Thorne recently discovered a kinship with the philosophy of Katherine Mansfield. Like Mansfield, she blurs the boundary between the human and the nonhuman,...

BMK’s paintings might look like compilations of ordinary flowers, but together they tell a specific story of painting; an investigation through art lineage, symbolism, and...

Behind most contemporary artists hides inspiration of an old master. Some artists reveal a dialogue more than others. Whether they represent classical subject matters in...

Kathryn has continued to paint in Northland since her last exhibition Rangitapu in November. She has spent time in the Bay of Islands over the...

It’s easy to assume that good art is measurable by a works’ originality, but delving into some of the world’s most highly valued artistic practices...