Tracey Finch makes artwork that wraps you in golden sunshine and transports you to a special time or place where childhoods were shaped and memories were made.

Tracey is a New Zealand artist who creates coastal artwork with a modern twist that feels both fresh and nostalgic. Her obsession with capturing moments from summer days, springs from spending many homesick years in the UK, where the winters are long and the cold seeps into your bones. She yearned for blue skies, sun kissed skin, salty hair, sand under her feet and to feel the intense summer heat remembered from her Kiwi childhood. To Tracey, summer is a season of fun and hope - a return to simple pleasures, ocean adventures, starry nights and time spent outside in nature, with people you love. It’s a grounding season that can help you discover a deeper connection with your whanau and the environment.

Through her use of colour and composition, Tracey aims to capture the essence of a scene. Distilling it down to the essential elements so that the viewer isn’t bound to what actually was and instead is free to weave their own stories and reconnect to their own experiences.

Tracey is also part of a small team of artists who brought the first BOP Open Studios art trail to life in Feb 2024, connecting artist with local art lovers across the region.

Galleries

The Little Gallery - Whangamata and Tairua

Soul Gallery - Hamilton

Waihi Beach Gallery - Waihi Beach

Upcoming exhibitions & Events

NZ Art Show - May/June 2024

BOP Garden and Art Festival - November 2024

Past events

BOP Open Art Studios (organising committee) - Feb 23-25 2024

Harcourts Artex National Exhibition October 2023

The NZ Art Show June 2023

The Little Gallery - Labour Weekend Group exhibition 2022

Tauranga Art Society Group Exhibition 2022

Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival (TAS) 2022

The Collaboration Zone Sept 2022

The NZ Art Show 2022

MAGS Art Show 2022

The Collaboration Zone 2021

Behind the scenes - follow me on Instagram or Facebook

N Z A R T S H O W - having a trees moment 🌲 This piece will get its final flourishes and it will be available at the NZ Art Show in Wellington at the end of May. #nzartshow #mountmaunganui #nzbeaches
S A T U R D A Y S E S S I O N S - I loved the challenge of creating these small beachy pieces with a limited palette. To be honest when I sat down at my studio desk I had no idea what I was going to create on these pre-prepped blue backgrounds. But
S H A D O W S - Another one completed for the @nz_art_show with the exception of some finishing touches and a good varnish ✌️ I have a bit of a fascination with trees. The length of time they’ve been around. The people who’ve sat under t
P R I N T C O L L E C T I O N - I’m having a lovely long weekend with the family - I hope you’ve found some time to have some fun and rest & refresh too. I’ll be back in the studio soon though to finish some final pieces for th
I read something by @tanyablong a year or so ago that said the best advice she ever had was ‘Slow down your work, exhaust all angles in one narrative, stretch your colour palette, follow up on the decisions you didn’t take in the previous
Off to Whangamata for Beach Hop this weekend? Drop into The Little Gallery for a fab mini exhibition of @clintc.artist latest work. Brilliant if you love the 80s! Plus you can find this painting ‘Endless Summer’ in among all the great r
T H E B L U E S - research and development 🌊
P R I N T C O L L E C T I O N - a small collection of limited edition prints are available on my website. From the ever popular caravans to baches and beaches, this is a collection of my favourite paintings now available as wallet friendly prints.
S P A R K - I’ve had this unformed idea rolling around in my head for a couple of years now. Knowing there was something there but missing parts of the puzzle. Tonight in the space of 20mins the universe offered me two huge visual cues that cou