This blog was created by the previous owner of Creative Matters, Mandy Jakich.
The current version of this blog is available at creativeconnections.nz

Visual Arts PD for teachers and community projects

Lucy is a full time artist living in the small seaside town of Snells Beach, an hour North of Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband & 3...

Hadleigh Vernall talks about the range of BLANK INSPIRATION pre framed canvases.

Jim Wheeler is a veteran NZ sculptor living in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Jim generally works in cast metals such as bronze, aluminium and...

Lucy Melville is a painter, creative entrepreneur, business coach and Mum based in Mt Maunganui. Lucy’s work centres around energetic...

Coral Noel Yang is a Waitakere-Auckland based, Taiwanese born, multidisciplinary artist who specialises in expressive figurative and...

Fraser Williamson a.k.a. ‘Fraz’ has had a love of art since he was a young boy and has been creating incredibly distinguishable paintings...

Shane Hansen is an artist, a designer of graphics, furniture and fashion, a loving husband and doting Dad to two boys. Born in New...

Helen Dean is an artist based in Titirangi, Auckland. Her abstract paintings begin with colour and are created through many layers of...

Kell Sunshine, a.k.a Kelly Spencer, is a lettering artist, muralist & illustrator from Gisborne with a big love for Mother Earth. Her...

Sarah Barton-Hills is a painter and photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. As a girl, Sarah was drawn to pattern, colour & texture....

We have trialled our very first series of online visual arts professional development workshops in term 1 2022, with Kaiako from Te Kura...

Kate Hursthouse is a New Zealand artist, illustrator, creative entrepreneur and mother of one living in Te Atatū Peninsula, Aotearoa NZ....

I have just completed a very big exciting Creatives in Schools Mural Project (Ministry of Education NZ) with year 7 and 8 children from...

Gae Webster is a multi-disciplinary artist from Auckland in Aotearoa NZ. She works in paint, print, paper, fibre, glass, sculpture and...

Toipoto, which means Closer Together in Te Reo Maori, is a free mentoring programme for the creative sector in Auckland NZ. Developed...

Eric Schusser is a photographer from Central Otago in New Zealand. He has a diverse style and portfolio that includes social documentary,...

Photographic artist Annemarie Hope-Cross was born in Wellington NZ, grew up in Auckland and has lived in Alexandra, Central Otago, since...

Erika Pearce is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Auckland Aotearoa NZ and now based in the beautiful Bay of Islands. She is well known...

Philippa Bentley is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired by nature, with ecology and environmental concerns at the heart of her work. ​...