KOAST-Kerikeri Open Art Studios Trail-October 20-22, 2018
Distance: 308 km ( 191 miles ) Duration: 1-3 days Last Updated: 26 Aug 2018
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The Kerikeri Open Art Studios Trail {KOAST} is held Labour Weekend {October 20-22} for 3 days of art exploration from 10am to 4pm. Meet and talk to the artists in their studios or at group venues. More than 66 artists will participate this year, and there are 32 trail stops. This is our fifth annual KOAST exhibition with a wide variety of art forms and styles to see. Our artists are members of KOAST Inc.and live or work in Kerikeri, New Zealand. We are proud to have 11 guest artists from other NZ regions joining us this year. Bring your friends, explore Kerikeri and have a great time on the trail. We hope you purchase our original art and come every year. This is our first year using a mobile app and we hope it is helpful. For more details, purchase our 24 page trail guide brochure for $5. at various locations listed on our website: www.koast.org.nz. Or email us at info@koast.org.nz. Admission is free. Look for our blue and yellow flags, yellow roadside arrows and numbered signs denoting each stop on the trail! Add your own opinion!
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Trail Highlights
1 Seed Gallery
2 Artists at this location!
Helen Jean, oil paintings and sculpture. Helen’s works are contemporary and unique. Gallery owner
Lah Herk, creates woven hats from native fibres which are elegant living...
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2 Bay of Islands Golf Club, KK
4 artists at the venue!
Mandy Wood,Guest Artist, bespoke stained glass windows
Allan Gale,Guest Artist, printmaking and carving
Rachel Palmer,Sculptor and Mixed-media artist
Michelle Wright, paintings inspired by NZ sea,bush and birds
3 Barrow Boy’s Coffee Company
Gaz Jarman, mixed-media artist, creates works that refer to the era of Pop.
4 Hugh McKechnie’s Studio
Hugh McKechnie, Wood carver and sculptor, uses recycled native timber
5 Joanne Gardner
Joanne Gardner, paintings in oil or watercolour. Landscapes whose colours evoke hope,pain, joy.
6 Oakridge Villas Venue
3 Artists at this Venue
Charlotte Scott, guest artist,Textile Arts.Her work depicts narrative of nature in fabric.
Judi Soutar works in oil, acrylic, watercolours, and pencil. Famed Kerikeri artist...
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7 Little Black Gallery
11 Artists are showing their work at Anna Hamilton’s Little Black Gallery. See original jewellery made by Anna Hamiton, Lousie Spiers, Stephanie Boyd-Dunlop and Marlene Strode. Meet painters using oi...
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8 Claudia Weifels Studio
Claudia Weifels created naive art in acrylics on canvas, sometimes up-cycled from op shop paintings.
9 Mark Mitchell Studio
Mark Mitchell is a master potter who specializes on hand thrown pottery inspired by speckled birds’ eggs texture and surfaces.
10 Studio 19
Catherine Dunn works in layered acrylics, creating works that shift from figurative to abstract compositions.
11 Springbank School Venue
4 Artists exhibiting Here including an emerging guest artist!
Joan Honeyfield paints with a taste of colour and a touch of place on large canvases.
Brenda Moir draws on inspiration from the wonders ...
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12 Love Art Studio
Group Venue with 5 artists including 2 guest artists, Rudy van der Pol and Brad Walters
Rudy van der Pol is a recognized NZ mixed media sculptor making wall art from recycled metal.
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13 Allyson Waldron’s Studio
Allyson Waldron paints abstracts using mixed media and also creates edible art.
14 The Studio of Lin Marinkovi
Two Artists to see!
Lin Marinkovic painting varied subjects in a realistic style in watercolour and acrylic.
Louisa Millett casts jewellery of metal and stone that hold a special magic for the wearer.
15 Keriblue Ceramics
Meet artist and owner Caroline Moss. See her work and hand painted tableware.
16 Phat House 32 Klinic Lane U
Monika Welch is a mixed-media creative, obsessed with colour, nature, sea, and lakes.
17 Art Studio of Ann Elliott
Ann Elliott incorporates old and newly created objects to make sculptures that are original and a bit quirky.
18 Kaleidoscopes Yurt Studio
Andrew and Robyn Leary create a range of kaleidoscopes as well as dichronic glass that is featured in their jewellery. See their new yurt gallery.
19 Rewa’s Village 1 Landing Rd
A Group of 5 guest artists, The Kaikohekohe Weavers, will exhibit their flax works, both traditional and contemporary expressions as they weave at this perfect venue for their art. Rewa’s Village has...
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20 Studio of Richard Lawty
Richard Lawty is an oil painter of landscapes and seascapes of New Zealand sharing the mood of the moment with the viewer.
21 Studio of Janette Walker
Janette Walker, photographer, captures with her macro lens the delicate,dreamy images of flowers.
22 LynArt Studio
Lynette Taylor, pastel artist, and Kevin Clennick, poet, often collaborate in their creative endeavours to delight us.
23 Studio of Jan Stevenson
Jan Stevenson uses mixed-media to create new dimensions in her abstract and at times political works.
24 Helen Morgan’s Studio
Helen Morgan draws and paints in acrylics witih mixed-media.people, landscapes and animals using abstraction.
25 Yellow Garden Studio
Lynn Pirrie Smith is an abstract expressionist painter using oil sticks on canvas. This is her 5th year exhibiting on the KOAST.
26 Studio of James Dean
James Dean,from San Francisico, brings ’sweet as’ into his vivid acrylic and mixed-media paintings that celebrate people and places.
27 Wendy Laurenson by the Sea
Wendy lives by the sea and her paintings are rich, dynamic, contemporary works infused with colour, movement and metaphor.
28 Studio of Jude Fenton
Jude Fenton’s art in native woods and acrylic paintings are inspired by living on the coast.
29 Potter Family Venue
4 Artists Exhibiting at this location:
Rebecca Potter, painter and photographer, likes to capture light as it falls on shapes, buildings, people or pets.
Mary Potter paints in oil, acrylic and wate...
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30 Burnt Earth Clay Studio
Nicky Jolly
31 Lakehouse Studio
Bruce MacGregor is a multi-media artist...drawing, painting, sculpting, carving..creating art from all he touches.
32 Art by the Aldridges
Eddie Aldridge and Lilian Aldrdge are oil painters at 3A Macadamia Lane. Lilian enjoys painting flowers, animals, landscapes and especially pet portraits. Eddie like to capture the extraordinary and what is overlooked in his oil paintings.