Di Conway

Di Conway





I work in stoneware clays and caste Bronze ,all unique ,mostly substantial Women celebrating the joys and oys of life .

I have a purpose built studio in the home garden and a kiln installed in the retired bike shed ....total bliss !

I am an elected artist and council member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and a foundation and active member of the Pueto Bronze group [in our 22nd year]...Both very important
activities to get me out of my studio !

At times I sketch oil pastel , wash and pencil works on box canvases as a contrast ...

Steve Harris

Steve Harris

Steve Harris was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1953 and is self-taught as an artist. He moved with his family to Australia in 1991. Harris has become well known for his impeccably painted still life compositions, the skillful use of light, shadow and space being a hallmark of his approach. He tends to depict objects which have an everyday function or perhaps have even been discarded, but the work is about much more than simple representation.

'Harris is a master of understated realism which in turn evokes its own sense of ‘atmosphere’ and contemplative mood. His works have been described as ‘meditations in light’, and this is very much the feeling one has when attending one of Harris’s exhibitions – a type of reflective silence emanates from the paintings and imbues them with a spiritual quality that one would not perhaps anticipate.'

Renate Verbrugge

Renate Verbrugge




My stone sculptures are created out of pure inspiration. It should be appreciated with your eyes, your hands, your heart, your soul. No intellectual analysis will speak louder than the emotions my sculptures provoke.

Stone Sculptor at work in Udine, Italy
Born in Belgium in 1964, Renate emigrated to New Zealand in September 1995.

Co-organiser of Te Kupenga Stone Sculpture Symposium, New Plymouth, New Zealand




Introduced to stone sculpture by Filipe Tohi, New Zealand in 1999

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