Nicki currently works from her studio in South Wairarapa and has been painting since 1998.

She paints in acrylic/mixed media on canvas and, more recently, in encaustic (wax and dammar resin) on plywood panels.
A background in textile design has had a profound effect on the work with texture being vital to the finished image.

Each piece is carefully constructed, built up layer by layer using structural material, adding extra dimension to the work with rough surfaces and layers of colour.
It is then richly embellished with metal leaf lending a spectacular intensity to the finished image creating an iconic presence in the work.

The consequences of this process are beautifully constructed and powerful compositions, strong in their use of both form and colour. Nicki succeeds in expressing a deeply felt sense of ‘unity’ and ‘wholeness’, balancing colour, form, and composition.

12016 - Stewart, Nicki Geo Tryphtych

12018 - Stewart, Nicki Out of The Blue

12016 - Stewart, Nicki Geo Tryphtych

12020 - Stewart, Nicki Pacifique

12021 - Stewart, Nicki Sundari

artistic statement — James Lawrence
Like all artists I am concerned with light. I draw inspiration from nature and the New Zealand landscape as well as using my own personal pictorial language.

I enjoy energy, movement and color. My paintings are a rhythmic combination of feeling and thought combined with formal considerations. I tend to paint intuitively, and work on several paintings at any given time. I use expressive brushwork and layering which allows for chance discoveries. I often re-work areas creating a layered history of the process thus adding to the autobiographical nature of the painting. For me a successful painting is flat and spatial at
the same time with a balance of structure and expressiveness, and with a spontaneous, complex and sensual surface, creating layers that one may “enter”.

I believe that painting non-objectively allows the intuitive nature of the painter a voice. It also affords the widest range of interpretation including contradiction. I feel as though I have internalized the energetic and quickly changing elements of sky and water and often use a linear “horizon” as metaphor for remembered and future experience. I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing.

12012 – Lawrence James – Tokyo Subway

12007 – Lawrence James – Anima Gemella

12006 – Lawrence James – Red and Blue Drip

12005 – Lawrence James – Southern Cross

11999 – Lawrence James – Kando III

11998 – Lawrence James – Kando II

Hobbit Island Justin Summerton

Hobbit Island

“This was initially titled Waiheke Island it was part of a whole show I did on Islands and relates more to some of the smaller Islands you can see in the Hauraki Gulf. I always thought if funny how you can live on an Island (Waiheke) within an Island (NZ) and also live in an Island in your mind (the artist condition). The Hobbit series of works dates back to about 1998, when I first moved to Auckland. Actually before Jackson started on Tolkien’s novel”.

Net Dance Mark Wooler

Botanical Composition 11 Emma Davie

Painting in 2008 / 2009 has been a continuation from my inspiration of trees and nature forms. However with these works I have purposefully stepped away from intense colour to be able to explore line and space and how it interacts within a chosen format. It’s important in my works that the piece will sit weighted or grounded within the confines of the board, giving a feeling of searching, by layering and interlinking lines while being contained.

They way the work is made: I want to stimulate the eye across the surface of the piece and be drawn into a particular area. This helped by the charcoal lines and often the relationships between forms butting together or over each other. Using mixed media, such as canvas, mull, and paper, allows different textural surfaces to come forward and add dimension to each piece.

Samoan Landscape Justin Summerton

Samoa Landscape

“This was a piece I did shortly after I returned from a month in Samoa. I studied the plants there a lot the clouds were based on ones I saw there too.
The composition is really sparse – it’s simple and meditative, and kind of empty, which is exactly how I felt after a month in that stifling heat, in an Island of Three hundred churches and not a good bar or night club to be found”.

Kapiti Island Janine Prowse

Brazilian Tribe David Danilo Santana

Cabbage Trees Tutukaka Kirsty Nixon

New works in stock from the following artists

Jason Summerton

Kirsty Nixon

Belinda Wilson

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