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Your indispensable guide...
A big feature of this year’s Open Studio
tour is the ‘new look’ guide, a 156-page
invaluable pocket reference manual that
features each member’s artist biography
and images of a selection of their work
in a double page feature.
“The Guide includes our 12 new
members and a variety of new
medium,” says Marion Manson,
Administrator and Curator for the
MBAE Trust. “It also lists many cafes,
galleries, wineries, breweries and B&B’s
in the area so you can plan your trip well
ahead.”
The guide is available from the website
or local stockists listed online.
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Natasha Courtney
lives in Hahei and
designs and makes
a variety of fine
woodwork creations
and furniture. She
graduated from the
Centre of Fine Woodworking in Nelson in 2012.
Meet some new tour artists...
In my first year as Administrator I have
been continually blown away by the
variety and depth of artistic talent right
here on our doorstep. I was looking
forward to my visit to Lloyd and Dan
Franklin’s Knife workshop in Kuaotunu,
and it did not disappoint. I learnt that
technically they are ‘bladesmiths’ – ie,
they forge and hammer a blade –
rather than ‘knife makers’, who grind
away metal from a stock shaft.
I was fascinated watching Lloyd beat
– with his anvil, forge and hammer – a
car coil suspension into a beautifully
crafted, hand forged knife. For
handles, Lloyd uses hardwood native
timber, bone or deer antlers, then he
adds quality brass fittings.
When a semi-precious stone handle
is called for (including pounamu),
he casts the silver fittings himself.
Some knives are presented in a hand
stitched and knotted leather sheath.
Sam Bruce
a
photographer of
Whitianga uses a
Rolleiflex medium format
camera from the 1950’s
to capture his current
stark prints focusing on
man’s interference in
our land. He prefers the use of more traditional
processes such as shooting on film and printing in
the darkroom, a dying art in this digital age.
Christine Bannan
From Marion Manson, Administrator and Curator for the MBAE Trust
Ginney Deavoll
Sheryl Savage
Look for
the flags!
STUDIOS
OPEN
MARCH
7-8 &
14-15
Anna Kitchingman,
a landscape architect
from Christchurch, has her second base in
Cooks Beach, where she paints in her unqiue
style of cubism.
Her inspiration
was the artist
Umberto
Boccioni. Her
other love –
decorating
cupcakes!
Gary Nevin
They produce a variety of
knives for chefs, fishermen,
hunters and collectors. Lloyd
also makes wooden spatulas
using 1870s kauri sarking from
an old Whitianga saw mill.
Within a short drive of 4km,
Kuaotunu offers a variety of
art genre including sculpture
and photography from Carolyn
Millbank, stunning landscape
paintings from Claire Elliot
(who is exhibiting at Luke’s
Kitchen), Ian Webster’s
pottery studio, and Lutz
Gaebler
(seen right)
and
Colin Verner creating mixed
media and sculpture.
Then there is the quaint
little shoreline village of
Kuaotunu itself...And a
pizza from Luke’s Kitchen
is, of course, a must.
KUAOTUNU
AREA...
Lucy Horne
Anna Kitchingman
Art Escape
Paula McNeill
OPEN STUDIOS, YEAR ROUND...
Can’t make the tour dates? Arrange private visits
with the artists. Contact info is in the guidebook
or visit
www.mercurybayartescape.comStudio Highlights
Peninsula Gold
by Claire Elliot