Betty Salter // Landscape Painter and Animal Portraiture

You can see from this beautiful example Betty's versatility has delighted her clients for years. Commissions involving animal portraiture, people portraiture, local scenery and fantasy art have been sold both locally and throughout the world.

Donnamaree Hampton // Landscape and Animal Painter

Hello. My husband and I farm in the beautiful Maruia Valley past Murchison, but I was bought up in the Nelson Lakes District (Lake Rotoiti) so my passion for the great outdoors and country life was forged from a very early age. I have been painting on and off for about 10 years but only ventured into landscapes in 2009.

Fran Gould // Oil Painter Artist

Fran has been fortunate to be a part of an artistic family, her grandfather painted in Australia, and on a visit recently to one of the places in the paintings a rural scene with paddock and horses, now reveals a sprawling city.

Inez Kolff // Contemporary New Zealand Artist

Inez began painting in 1971. Over the course of years she persisted in painting using workshops and courses for support, direction and wisdom. In the past decade Inez has moved away from subject matter alone. The passion for paint and texture using collage materials creates paintings that are spotaneous, rich and different. They identify with either manmade or natural environmental influences, invariably the West coast of the South Island or the Nelson region.

Jacqueline van den Berg - Coastal Images Wellington // New Zealand Artist

The tide moves back and forward with regular flow, but colours of the sea, moods of the island and other visual stories of nature, are new experiences every day.

Lori Davis // Portraits and Landscapes in Gouache Watercolour

Lori has a wonderful affinity with landscapes and still life in which she is concerned with the juxtaposition of patterns and colours: The movement in the lie of a landscape or the random arrangement of objects left on a table.

A major part of Lori's work is portraits by commission. The patterns and shapes in a face, head and figure are compelling and wonderful to capture.

Maria Middlebrook-Wells // Multimedia Artist

Maria's work has been described a "eclectic exciting and dynamic". Her surprising mix of texture, colour and media shows through in her many works. From her tiered hillscapes in translucent, sunset pastels hills and seas of Nelson and Taranaki to the subtle eyeless horses caught up in the Australian bushfires.

Marion Towns // Chalk Pastel Landscapes and Nudes

Many of you will know Marion Towns' work from Waiheke Island. A recent convert to the Nelson climate and lifestyle, this has been a blessing for lovers of her art. We enjoy seeing the different inspirations our scenery has reflected in the work on this world reknown artist.

Michele Surcouf // Seachel Art & Images

Multi-dimensional Nelson artist, Michele Surcouf, expresses her vision of the world through different mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing and computer graphics. After receiving the highest recognition in art at her High School, Surcouf went on to study art, sculpting, and photography in the US, and art history in Paris.

Phill Krammer // Gallery 8 - Landscape Painter

My paintings are mindscapes of places that I have in my memory from past visits to the Marlborough Sounds and also the Golden Bay area where I often visit and paint, so they are a collected memory not an actual place.