Allyza is a digital illustrator and animator with a certificate in Digital Media + Design from the Open Polytechnic. Allyza is currently a student at Whitecliffe College pursuing a Bachelor’s in Design + Digital Media. She has a passion for 2D & 3D animation and illustration, experimenting with a variety of digital mediums, such as Procreate and Procreate dreams. As well as different styles, from cartoons to realism. Allyza enjoys sharing her passion and love for the digital arts and is eager to help build other people’s confidence in their skills to create their own beautiful and fun artworks.

Bo is an illustrator with experience in many artistic fields, specializing in character and creature design, who takes inspiration from the natural world and the many wonderful things to be found if you look a little more closely.

Gavin is a practicing artist whose main focus is painting. He also has experience with drawing, printmaking, art installation, exhibition design as well as working as a materials consultant for an art supplies store. Gavin’s painting methodology is loosely structured intentionally; this allows him to unlock new shapes and locate them within a pictorial space so that an alternative meaning can emerge.

Grae Burton is a visual / performing artist and filmmaker. He has over 160 artworks in the Wallace Arts Trust Permanent Collection.

Hannah is a watercolour artist and teacher, new(ish) to Auckland after teaching watercolour for the past three years in the lower North Island. She is also a previous president of Watercolour New Zealand. Passionate about watercolour and making it accessible to others, her classes are geared towards beginners and developing fundamental watercolour painting techniques.

Jack Cathro is a Titirangi-based Potter and Ceramic artist. He takes special interest in using wild clays and found materials in his making process, and draws inspiration from both an Eastern Wabi-Sabi style as well as the more country rustic production pottery of Europe and the UK. An enduring focus for his work is the relationships and rituals that grow around the objects in our everyday lives.

Kyung’s art practice floats between the mediums of textiles, painting, text, and publication. She studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, experimenting with various new modes of expression before finding her own artistic voice. Kyung enjoys sharing her passion for art and is excited to help others experience the same enthusiasm through a playful approach to creation.

Livia had formal ceramic training in both throwing and hand-building. She started her clay journey in an art centre in Wellington, NZ in 2018, then got back to China’s ceramic capital Jingdezhen ( 景德镇) many times in different years to have formal training for different themes. She was trained and influenced from both NZ & China pottery styles.

Marcel attended Elam school of Art in the early 2000s. He has contributed to various group shows such as Art Ache and Artist on Artists.

Devonport based artist, Michelle Garner has been fine tuning her skills as a portrait and landscape painter in watercolour, acrylic and oil over the last 20 years.

Natanahira graduated from the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute as a wood sculptor. He has extensive experience managing sculpture symposiums and creating public sculptures around New Zealand.

Navid Masoudnia is currently pursuing a PhD in Media and Communication at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.

Dip. Performing Art. Music composer, producer and director. Guitar, piano, percussion and vocals.

Rosemary has a passion for pottery using the wheel, whilst also using molds and hand-made methods.

Shiraz is a fine artist who has exhibited internationally, created murals with children and is currently immersed in the art of paper quilling.

Susan has technical experience working with ceramic including hand building; slab method, pinch potting, coiling, slip casting and clay modelling.

Susannah is an exhibiting artist specialising in water colour, oil and acrylic painting and drawing, a published author, illustrator, and art teacher both for adults and children.

Trina is an artist with a passion for helping children who think in pictures. Her classes are geared for primary age children where they get to sculpt, paint and draw.