Preview the Safe Harbour lookbook and collection.

When someone buys artwork, it’s never just a ‘sale’.

Even if you need to consider practical factors like size, colour, shape and budget - the possibilities of what you could buy are almost limitless.

So what makes you choose one piece of art over another?

Artists, illustrators, ceramicists, writers, musicians, knitters, zine-makers, tattooers, printmakers, and so many others are building something personal — often from their kitchen tables, late at night, in between work and family, or during moments stolen from the daily grind.

For many of them, the difference between continuing to create or having to pause (or stop entirely) isn’t a patron or a big break — it’s you. And the tiny choices you make.

I was so happy to receive a merit for my artwork ‘Coastal Track’ at the October 2024 art expo co-ordinated by the Tauranga Art Society.

I was recently offered the opportunity to be featured in the October 2024 issue of NZ Your Home & Garden. This came just after I had finally worked up the courage to change my art direction and explore new work.

This year I promised myself some time off from producing work for shows and for sale, to give myself the space play, experiment and explore.

Sometimes you find something you didn’t know you were looking for.

When people ask me to describe my ‘style’ I guess they are wondering what sort of art container to put my work in. Some typical descriptors people might use for their work are things like abstract, expressionist etc. I’ve always had a little trouble putting my work firmly into one camp. So end up with something rambling (which usually sounds like this ‘well it’s kind of illustrative with a graphic design ish aesthetic, kind of hard edge and blocks of colour sort of thing) that (poorly) speaks more to the output than what my work is about. Yes my artwork can be all of those things, but what it’s really about… is a season. Summer. And it’s about how that season makes me feel.