Artists 2021 online guide
Each year, more and more local artists take the opportunity to welcome the public into their studios to experience the artists’ working environment and passion for their art.
Meet the 2021 artists
Use the filters below to find artists within your area, see images of their artwork, information about them and their studios on the Kāpiti Arts Trail, their contact details, and a link to their location on our Kāpiti Arts Trail map.
There's free entry to all venues, and they're open 10am to 4pm each day during the Arts Trail.
You can also view the artists on our digital map, or find their details in the Kāpiti Arts Guide 2021/22[PDF 2.72 MB].
Accessibility: indicates full accessibility. However, many locations are manageable with some assistance.
Artel Gallery + Store
One of Kāpiti’s best known galleries, Artel was set up in 2009 initially as a co-operative, and evolving into a commercial gallery in 2014, Artel showcases the many quality artists in Kāpiti District...
180 Main Highway, Ōtaki
Bee Doughty-Pratt
For decades, Bee has been painting abstracted land and sea vistas from Milford Sound to the Bay of Islands, creating atmospheric images that capture in colour the emotions behind the paintings.
Artel Gallery, 180 Main Highway, Ōtaki
Big Mac Slabs Creative Centre
Big Mac Slabs hosts many emerging and well-known artists and artisans year-round at the Big Mac Creative Centre, and welcomes additional artists to the site for the Arts Trail.
289 Mazengarb Road, Paraparaumu
Birgit Moffatt Art Studio
Fantastic fibre art creations, handmade from local flora to the finished artworks, await visitors who take the lovely drive up the Ōtaki Gorge and then onto the tiny bridge over the river up to...
32 Parenga Road, Ōtaki Gorge, Ōtaki
Brent Craig | Awatea Pottery
A stalwart of the Kāpiti Pottery community, Brent has been creating pottery art for the past 30 years.
19 Hadfield Rd, Peka Peka
Carole Hirst | Faerie Glen Creations
Carole creates a fairy-tale grotto in her studio home with paintings inspired by nature and artworks made from a variety of textiles and materials.
72 Glen Road, Raumati South
Claire Lever | Diane Vassey Art
Sharing Diane Vassey’s Waikanae studio for the third year in the Arts Trail, Claire presents her distinctive vibrantly coloured artworks, combining stained glass, ceramics and millefiori in wonderful...
53 Ngaio Road, Waikanae
David Owen | David Owen Art & Illustration
David’s paintings feature New Zealand-based imagery, real and imagined, in brilliantly defined colour.
13 Glen Road, Raumati South
Dee Warring | Studio Dee
Working from her Paraparaumu Beach home studio, Dee creates narrative figurative paintings, which are her best-known works, landscapes, portraits, still life, and abstraction.
11 Beach Haven Place, Paraparaumu Beach
Diane Connal
Often based on or featuring natural or found objects, Diane's handmade jewellery is unique and often beautifully colourful, and made to endure.
1a Field Way, Waikanae Beach
Diane Vassey | Diane Vassey Art
Inspired by New Zealand’s natural environment, Diane creates amazingly vibrant images on New Zealand themes, that show her love of her surroundings, from small birds to dramatic landscapes.
53 Ngaio Road, Waikanae
Donna Clarke | Donna Clarke Oamaru Stone Artist
Amazing sculptures for the home and garden in bronze and glowing white Oamaru stone welcome visitors to Donna’s workshop in the low hills at Waikanae Beach.
27 Hicks Crescent, Waikanae Beach
Elisabeth Vullings | The Drawing Board
Totally unique and individual drawings and paintings on recycled boards, doors, and tabletops fascinate visitors to Elisabeth's rustic studio overlooking her garden.
19 Moana Road, Paraparaumu
Ellen Hodgetts | SweetArts
Taking an experimental approach to creating her art, Ellen at SweetArts Studio explores recurring themes of the beauty of the natural environment, the passage of time and our impacts on the earth, the...
7 Langdale Avenue, Paraparaumu
Emily Chippindale | Ruth Cooper Studio
Describing herself as "an artist with a sense of rhythm", Emily draws and paints imaginative, colourful, and whimsical artworks with a sense of humour.
91 Park Ave, Waikanae
Gem Division | Helen Punton
Inspired by materials and unconventional processes and finishes, Gem Division's work reflects the natural environment through texture and form
197 Manly Street, Paraparaumu Beach
Graeme D Hitchcock
Graeme has returned to the Arts Trail after a few years away, in which he travelled to several countries to work and exhibit.
54 Kotare Street, Waikanae
Hall of Clay
Having worked together for the last year, four artists and artisans have recently formed this hub in the old Rotary Hall in Ōtaki to display and demonstrate their creative processes during the Arts...
Rotary Hall, 25 Aotaki St, Ōtaki
Hamish Macaulay
In his stunning artworks that combine painting, printmaking, mixed media, and digital manipulation, Hamish expresses his love of the New Zealand landscape, and how angular modernist architectural...
6 Matipo Street, Waikanae
Isabel Fernandes-Day
Step into Isabel’s magical world in her fabulous cottage garden and studio at her Waikanae Beach home.
18 Weggery Drive, Waikanae Beach
Jaki Marston | Jaki Marston Studio
Jaki's vibrant, joyful abstract paintings convey clearly what inspires her: exploring the spiritual side of what our lives mean, and expressing visually the emotional and spiritual.
21 Taranui Way, Paraparaumu Beach
James Carter | James Carter Pottery
New to the Arts Trail this year, James was inspired to start his artistic career in potting in 2019 after meeting senior potter Frank Light on the Kāpiti Arts Trail, who subsequently became his...
4 McGregor Place, Paraparaumu
Jan Waterfield | The Huia Gallery
Unique, sometimes fantastical artworks created with love and passion adorn the walls of Jan's gallery in her home on the eastern Waikanae hills.
25 Huia Street, Waikanae
Jane Santos | Jane Santos Mosaic Artist
Using colourful mixed media to create her detailed mosaics, Jane draws inspiration from her wider environment and in particular from cityscapes of Wellington.
3 Kohekohe Road, Waikanae
Janet McDonagh | Two Sisters Pottery
In a garden full of engaging and colourful, imaginative and whimsical ceramic and multimedia artworks, Janet works with her sister Sue Wilson in their Two Sisters Pottery studio on a Raumati Beach...
29 Kaka Road, Raumati Beach
Jennifer Turnbull | Jailhouse Studio and Garden
Drawing inspiration from New Zealand’s landscape, her beautiful garden, and from the history of pottery making, Jennifer creates unique ceramics both decorative and for everyday use in the home.
3 Iti Street, Ōtaki
Jenny Pritchard | Jenny's Studio
In a Waikanae Beach hill studio, Jenny produces appealing watercolour paintings and hand-painted cards, in a range of styles.
11 Pine Ridge Terrace, Waikanae Beach
Jenny Shearer | Shearer Pottery
Jenny, one of New Zealand's most experienced and established ceramic artists and potters, creates refined works that (mostly) can be used in our everyday urban rituals such as pouring tea or placing...
48 Manly Street, Paraparaumu Beach
Joe Buchanan | Diatom Press
In an old railway hut set in a fabulous cottage garden in Paekākāriki, Joe works with an array of traditional printing presses, surrounded by inks, trays of type, and Japanese wood carving tools to...
34 Ocean Road, Paekākāriki
John Holden | John's Studio
Experimenting with style and different mediums, most recently house paint, John creates paintings centred around ground-figure shift - where the eye sees a scene and simplifies it to a main object.
27 Hona Street, Waikanae Beach
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes | Jordan in the Studio
In a peaceful setting over the road from the Otaihanga Domain, Jordan’s studio welcomes visitors in with colourful artworks – abstract paintings inspired by flowers, nature, her own story writing, and...
42a Makora Rd, Paraparaumu
Jos Smith | Jos Smith Art Studio
Semi-abstract watercolours and mixed-media artworks in vivid colours and textures strike the visitor’s eye when entering Jos’s home gallery.
7a Lemon Street, Ōtaki
Josh MacKinnon | Josh MacKinnon's Studio
Working from his studio a few moments from the northern Waikanae Beach seashore, Josh draws and paints diverse and fantastically detailed images of New Zealand and exotic invertebrates, including the...
4 Atua Street, Waikanae Beach
Julie Davidson | JD Arts
Richly layered artworks are full of symbolism and meaning in Julie’s pastels, photography, and illustrated children’s books.
56 Awanui Drive, Waikanae
Kāpiti Arts & Crafts Society Inc
Well-known for their collection of diverse arts and crafts, Kāpiti Arts & Crafts Society’s gallery and shop has showcased the work of society members for 40 years.
20 Raumati Road, Raumati Beach
Kāpiti Gallery
Kāpiti Gallery, located at the back of the Matai Road Reserve in Raumati Beach, is a well-known feature of Kāpiti’s art scene.
192 Matai Road, Raumati Beach
Kāpiti Youth Support – KYS
Unique to the Arts Trail is this exhibition of art by talented young people, often created as a way of expressing themselves as they move along a journey towards health and well-being.
15 Tutanekai St, Paraparaumu
Karen McCall | Organic Design Studio
In creating new and highly individual artworks to wear or display, Karen gives new life to discarded or unwanted jewellery, watches & mementos with each creation.
497b Te Moana Road, Waikanae
Kim Entwisle | Twisle Designs
In her north Waikanae Beach studio, you will be able to see how Kim works with glass, silver, and fire to create Intricate, decorative, and colourful jewellery.
166 Field Way, Waikanae Beach
Komo Clay Collective
A diverse range of ceramics in a beautiful rural setting in the eastern Paraparaumu hills, by a group of artists new to the Arts Trail in 2021.
159 Valley Road, Paraparaumu
Lindsay Hey | Lindsay Hey Artist and Printmaker
Recently moved full-time to Kāpiti, Lindsay paints in an eclectic and original expressionist style, recording her reaction to what she sees or experiences delighting the eye with her use of colour.
6 Kingi Te Ahoaho Place (Off Millhaven Place), Ōtaki
Lisa Skett | Oamaru Stone Carving Studio
Using hand tools to carve Oamaru stone sculptures. Lisa creates beautiful artworks for gardens or entranceways, that are inspired by nature, various cultures, other people, and personal experiences or...
72 Martin Road, Paraparaumu Beach
Luke Kelly Fine Art Studio
Luke creates dynamic artworks from wood and other materials, that are small enough to hang on your wall but are intriguingly interactive.
11 Matai Road, Raumati South
Marcus Ebbett | Marcus Ebbett Artworks
Marcus enjoys working with a wide range of materials over an equally wide range of subject matter.
120 Rosetta Road, Raumati South
Margaret Hunt
The elegant delicacy and luminous colours of Margaret's ceramics delight visitors to her studio at her Ōtaki home. Mainly domestic ware in a variety of style, colour, and decoration, all her ceramics...
173b Waerenga Road, Ōtaki
Maria Vittoria Urbinati | Mavi Art
These elegant and captivating wire sculptures are dynamic, arresting, and unique. From smaller sculptures to enhance the home, to striking large outdoor artworks, Vittoria uses recycled wire and other...
5 Palmer Court, Paraparaumu
Mariana Collette
Mariana’s striking paintings are inspired by colour, shape, and narrative. Visitors to her studio at her home in Waikanae Beach will be impressed by the variety of subjects and styles in her artworks.
24 Weggery Drive, Waikanae Beach
Michelle Retimana Studio Gallery & Garden Art
On the dunes of the northernmost part of Waikanae Beach, Michelle’s amazing home and garden is the setting for her remarkable free-standing and wall-hung ceramic, bronze, and mixed media sculptures,...
83 Rutherford Drive, Waikanae Beach
Morag Stokes | Morag Stokes Art Studio
Morag adopts an experimental approach to creating her artwork, inspired by watching how materials behave when manipulated in different ways. Her artworks are unusual and will appeal to people who...
14 Morepork Drive (at end of Waipunahau Rd), Waikanae
Nalene Morton | Arthouses
Working from her home overlooking the Waikanae River Estuary, or in her artist's studio in her characterful garden, Nalene creates her artworks in ceramics and glass separately and combined, to grace...
268 Manly Street, Paraparaumu Beach
Neil Hey | Neil Hey Studio Pottery
Form follows function in the fine pottery at a brand-new studio in Ōtaki. Highly coloured and decorated glazed pottery suitable for everyday use reflects Neil's pursuit of enhanced form.
6 Kingi te Ahoaho Place (Off Millhaven Place), Ōtaki
Nicola Redvers-Newton | Green Gecko Studio
Inspired by the birds that live at the nearby marine reserve on the Waikanae River estuary, Nicole aims to preserve their images in her oil paintings and on her ceramic art.
49 Kotuku Drive, Paraparaumu Beach
Old Courthouse Gallery
Just by the north Ōtaki roundabout, an interesting and historic building houses an eclectic collection of unique artworks and handcrafts.
Centennial Park, 239 Main Highway, Ōtaki
Ōtaki Pottery Club
An important centre for Kāpiti’s many potters and ceramic artists, many living in and around Ōtaki, the Ōtaki Pottery Club is wonderfully thriving in its new premises at the Ōtaki Māori Racing Club a...
Ōtaki Māori Racing Club, 47 Te Roto St, Ōtaki
Owie Simpson
Arresting abstracts, expressionistic, and part-realism are all part of Owie’s wide range of styles of oil painting and prints. Inspired by many diverse impressions and experiences from her travels,...
38 Rauparaha St, Waikanae Beach
Pam Mundell | Pam Mundell - Studio
Pam creates vivid paintings and portraits of landscape icons in paint and collage. Her images range from highly detailed hyper-realistic depictions of New Zealand landscapes and birds to a...
171 Raumati Road, Raumati Beach
Paula Archibald | Clay Art Ceramics
Walk up the drive to Paula’s studio gallery and garden to view spectacular and original, one-off ceramics to enhance indoor and outdoor spaces.
3 Bell St, Ōtaki
Philip Markham | Philip Markham Studio
Philip’s varied paintings reflect his love of nature, his mastery of all media, and his theatrical involvement throughout his life are displayed together in his studio overlooking the Raumati...
173 Rosetta Road, Raumati South
Rebecca Bond | Renown Art Studio
Rebecca creates exquisitely handcrafted jewellery in silver or gold and precious stones, including bespoke individual, stand-out jewellery for people who like to be original.
100 Renown Road, Raumati South
Rebecca Neal Ceramics | Greendale Studio
Follow the signs from Otaihanga Road (near Southward Car Museum) to discover Rebecca’s lovely rural home and studio and gallery full of her colourful, high quality pots and ceramic art.
96 Greendale Drive, Otaihanga, Paraparaumu
Rita Schrieken | Renown Art Studio
Painter and sculptor for over 35 years, Rita creates a range of original indoor and outdoor pieces in various mediums and with a Pasifika feel.
100 Renown Road, Raumati South
Rod Graham | Clayworks Ōtaki
Rod is one of Kāpiti’s outstanding potters. During his 54-year career, he has not only created astounding garden art and domestic ware but is a key figure in the district and neighbouring regions for...
35 Ngaio St, Ōtaki Beach
Roger Daniell
In his home and studio overlooking a beautiful garden and an extraordinary view of the Raumati shore and the island, Roger displays artworks ranging from the most delicate of portraits to arresting...
61 Wharemauku Road, Raumati Beach
Rose Lawson | Jungle Botanics
Recently arrived in Kāpiti, Rose has set her spacious Jungle Botanics studio up as a celebration of the natural world.
3 Robert Grove, Paraparaumu
Rosemary Mortimer
Award-winning printmaker for over 40 years, Rosemary creates extraordinary and beautifully detailed artworks from her unique use of abandoned birds’ nests around her home and studio in rural Te Horo.
306 Te Waka Road, RD1, Ōtaki
Ruth Cooper Studio
Evocative and colourful landscapes painted in acrylics depict scenes inspired by travelling to scenic areas and from Ruth’s imagination.
91 Park Ave, Waikanae
Sara Boland Art Studio
In her studio nestled in the back garden behind her home in Waikanae, Sara creates intricate, non-traditional fabric pieces that blur the line between Art and Craft, to explore and express quiet inner...
1 Kowhai Grove, Waikanae
Sarah Pou | Sarah Pou Illustration & Art
An eclectic range of painting and illustrative artworks greet visitors in Sarah’s studio at her Paraparaumu Beach home.
76b Eatwell Ave, Paraparaumu Beach
Sarah Shaw | Organic Design Studio
Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of Organic Design - striving for balance between the natural and the man-made, Sarah handcrafts metal jewellery and sculptures from silver, gold, copper, and...
497b Te Moana Rd, Waikanae
Selwyn Palmer | SP-artstudio
Using indigenous carving and painting techniques and styles from Solomon Islands, Selwyn produces traditional and contemporary artworks that reflect his relationship with nature, the Pacific Ocean,...
4 Arlington Avenue, Waikanae
Sheryl Gibbs | Sheryl Gibbs Artist
Contemporary watercolours and mixed media abstract paintings in natural earthy and vibrant colours engage the viewer with their imaginative, intriguing imagery.
31 Tennis Court Road, Raumati South
Shirley Petkau | Kokopelli
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Shirley has been painting for many years. On her arrival in New Zealand in 2013 she has focused full-time on her art, creating abstract paintings in brilliant colours...
8 Rimu Street, Waikanae
Shirley Sutton | S.A. Sutton Studio
Shirley works with oils, acrylics, and watercolour on her marvellous landscapes in her little studio overlooking her wonderful garden, complete with stream and bridges, cradled in the Waikanae East...
43 Tui Crescent, Waikanae
Slim Petkau | Kokopelli
Slim works out of Kokopelli Studio with wife Shirley Petkau (also in the Arts Trail), set in their Waikanae garden.
8 Rimu Street, Waikanae
Sonia Savage | SAVAGEART
Sonia’s large paintings, rendered in lush textural oils, communicate directly to viewers to share a sense of joy and elation.
35 Ngaio Street, Ōtaki Beach
St Paul's Church Hall
Centrally located St Paul's Church hosts this hub in the church hall, a wonderful display space.
Corner of Langdale Avenue and Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu Beach
Storm Davenport
Storm combines ancient techniques of firing with modern art practices to produce her textured, organic ceramic sculptures. Her compelling, arresting paintings create a charged atmosphere in her studio...
24b Mahana Rd, Paraparaumu Beach
Studio Reset
Inspired by Nature and her commitment to sustainability, Kim now uses wax from her own beehive to create organic, layered, and multi-sensory artworks through the ancient Egyptian technique of...
239 Hautere Cross Road, Te Horo, Ōtaki
Sue Wilson | Two Sisters Pottery
Highly individual and appealing ceramics and wire art mainly destined for the garden, each artwork is a part of the heart and soul of this artist.
29 Kaka Road, Raumati Beach
Summerstone Gallery
In an exciting development for Summerstone Ceramics and for Kāpiti, Ōtaki ceramic artists Mike and Judy Page have set up their new Summerstone Gallery on the corner of Kāpiti & Te Roto Roads in...
122–126 Kāpiti Road, Paraparaumu
Sushei Hamlin-Sullivan Studio Gallery
Sushei creates vibrant, contemporary, textured paintings and textile art, from seascapes to abstract. Visitors will be blown away by the strength, intensity, and the brightness of colours, especially...
98 Hillcrest Road, Raumati Beach (House at rear of driveway)
Taja Farslow
In her studio atop a hill close to the ocean in Paekākāriki, Taja creates expressive paintings and figure drawings in bold colours and with minimal lines to convey huge feelings.
144 Wellington Road, Paekākāriki
Tania Dally | The Boat Shed Studio – Tania Dally Art
Huge, brilliant canvases line the seashore-facing studio and stand in the dune garden of Tania’s studio right on Raumati Beach.
Marine Gardens, 15 Matatua Road, Raumati Beach
Tanya Shearer | Shearer Pottery
Practising from her home studio in Paraparaumu Beach front, alongside her mother Jenny Shearer, Tanya creates her striking stoneware ceramics that are both functional and fun.
48 Manly Street, Paraparaumu Beach
Te Ara Korowai
Te Ara Korowai Wellbeing Centre is a peer support and well-being hub located in Raumati. Our workshops and events welcome all ages, backgrounds and abilities with a special focus on those facing...
8 Weka Road, Raumati Beach
The Garage Gallery
Together at The Garage Gallery in Waikanae, two painters and one potter have gathered to recreate their Kāpiti studios, demonstrating their processes and showing paintings, drawings, limited edition...
32 Tutere Street, Waikanae Beach
Toi Matarau
A richness of all forms of Ngā Toi Māori greets visitors to Toi Matarau at the Māoriland Hub in Ōtaki Village.
68 Main Road, Ōtaki
Toi Tangata Studio Gallery
Look for the wonderful mural brightening up the corner of Main St, Ōtaki, and hear the lovely sounds of Māori music as you step into this welcoming art space, where many local artists create and show...
35 Main Street, Ōtaki
Tom Beauchamp | Natural Build Raw Earth Designs
In this integrated artform, wood, aggregates, and binders of clay and lime are combined with different fibres including straw and harakeke, to create representational and abstract work in stand-alone...
35 Ngaio Street, Ōtaki Beach
Tracey Devlin-Bailey
Striking, brilliant, and textured acrylic paintings of trees, flowers, and land- and seascapes reflect light in highly interesting ways to create great depth.
10 Terry Lane, Paraparaumu Beach
Vanessa Owens
Inspired by the abundant bird life found living on Kāpiti's rivers, reserves, and lagoons, Vanessa creates realistic paintings of native birds in their natural environment in acrylic, watercolour, and...
28 Harry Shaw Way, Raumati South
Yvonne de Mille | Mahi Toi
Unusual and thought-provoking prints and paintings reflecting the vagaries of human nature are but some of Yvonne’s range of artistic output.
50 Kirk Street, Ōtaki