Creations by our Jewellery group members are complemented in our 2023 exhibition with sparkling mosaics by guest artist Sandy Miller. You can read her bio on our guest artists page.
BEADazzled – jewellery and mosaics
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All the NEWs
New Year
and newly refurbished Gallery!
It’s all happening at Kapiti Arts and Crafts, your local art and craft community! Click on the links for more information.
For coordinator details, please use the enquiry form on our Contact page.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE in our Xmas Show!
Eclectic – varied – exciting – bright – accomplished – these are just few descriptors for our end-of-year Exhibition at Kapiti Gallery.
The “Christmas Show” has plenty of gifts to choose from, as well as art in several media, jewellery, pottery and stitching, sculptural works, greetings cards, art prints… and so much more.
ATTRACTIVE FAMILY LOCATION
Bring a friend and visit your local gallery on the coast: Kapiti Gallery in the Matai Road Reserve at 192 Matai Road, Raumati Beach. Children will enjoy the recently refreshed playground; there are a couple of picnic tables and plenty of on- and off-street parking.
BUY LOCAL!
Every item is for sale, and each one is made by a Kapiti Coast artisan, crafter and/or artist.
JOIN US to create in great company: 2023 subscriptions – payable by the end of January – work out to less than $2.00 per week. You can join as many groups as you wish, and display and sell your work in our gallery or Arts and Crafts shop in Raumati village. If you’re already a member, share this post with a friend and encoourage them to join.
We’re open Thursday to Sunday, 10.00 am-3.00 pm until Christmas Eve.
The gallery will then be closed for a refresh & refurbishment until mid-January 2023.
Happy holidays!
Guest & featured artists
A new page on our website will feature the guests we invite to join exhibitions in Kapiti Gallery; sometimes members of the Society are “featured artists”, and we’ll include them, too. The new page is a work-in-progress as we bring it up to date. You can also see some of the guests who’ve exhibited with us on our Pinterest page.
Vivid – pure – luscious – exciting Pastels
See the latest works by local pastel artists at your local gallery on the coast:
Positively Pastels Exhibition
Thursday 4 – Sunday 28 August 2022
Kapiti Gallery, 198 Matai Road, Raumati Beach
Gallery hours: 10 am -3 pm, Thursday to Sunday
Vivid – pure – luscious – exciting
“Pastels are very versatile; they can be used as both a drawing and a painting medium. By twisting and turning the pastel stick you can create several different effects – fine, precise lines; broad, sweeping strokes, and solid dense layers of colours – and these can be combined in an almost infinite number of ways.
Pastels are quick and direct, have pure vivid colours and can be mixed with a variety of other drawing and painting mediums, for example: watercolour, acrylic and oil paints, pen and ink, monotype prints, pencils and ball point pen…
Pastel is an immediate, spontaneous and luscious medium to work with. It can be used in many exciting ways and, with proper care and attention, will never discolour or darken, crack or fade.” – Pastel Artists NZ
KA&CS Award winners 2022
Congratulations to all KA&CS Award winners and thanks to everyone who entered work in the “New Zealand Icons” exhibition.
We had a good crowd of members, friends and family at the Celebration of the Awards on Saturday afternoon (despite the weather!) See some photos below, and more on our Facebook page.
Results are:
Art Awards – Winner: Nancy Anderson, “Thermal Wonderland”
Highly Commended: Merlene Beard, “Anything Goes” and Valerie Falkner, “The Voyage”
Craft Awards – Winner: Pam Stapleton, “Piwakawaka (Small)”
Highly Commended: Alison Parsons, “Red Beech Forest” and Val Waugh, “Beehive”
Our special thanks to Harriet Bright for judging the work.
Morning Light or Evening Glow?
Come to Kapiti Gallery’s Exhibition & sale of work by Society members – and see how featured artists Marion Henderson, Pauline Medhurst, Heather Chambers have responded to the challenge of this first exhibition of the year, with the theme “Morning Light or Evening Glow“.
Storm Davenport guest at Clay Expressions exhibition
“Clay Expressions” exhibition is now open at Kapiti Gallery, featuring work by our Pottery Group members, including guest artist Storm Davenport. Storm, a painter and sculptor, has spent fourteen years exhibiting throughout the Wellington region and greater North Island with work being held by many collectors both nationally and internationally.
Showing work her in galleries, art shows, fundraisers, community events and awards, she has won awards in both painting and ceramics.
Specializing in ceramic sculpture, she works from her home studio in Paraparaumu Beach where she has a gallery open to the public by appointment. Her work is inspired by ancient lost civilizations, and traditional firing techniques used to create refined but rustic artworks that tell a story.
From small wall-hung works to seven foot tall outdoor sculptures her works include:
- The Warrior series: life sized warrior heads, breast plates and weaponry
- Oceanic Life series: with whales, sharks, stingrays, jellyfish and kina
- Animal series: white Rhino, bulls, war horses, buffalo, bear, warthog, mammoth, bees
Large outdoor totem series:
- Black Arts
- Life’s Backbone
Paintings:
Current series exploring themes of human contact and connection
Collaborative lighting artwork series with artist Peter Robson
FUNDRAISING
Some examples of fundraising work are:
- 5 years of gifted artworks to The Wellington Supper Club Auction for Ronald Ma Donald House with sales of over $10,000 gifted.
- Ronald MacDonald Retreat Fundraising event 2015 gifted a painting which sold for
- Wellington hospice Art from the Heart exhibition 2020
- Kapiti Vaulting art show fundraiser The Vault, set up plus donation of commission 2019
- Wellington Free Ambulance Art Show Fundraiser Artrove 2017 & 2018
CURRENTLY SHOWING AT:
- Red Peach Gallery, Ahuriri, Napier
- Artmospere Gallery, Waipawa
- Artel Gallery, Otaki
- Kāpiti Gallery, Raumati Beach
Images below include Storm’s current work and items exhibited at Kāpiti Gallery 2017 – 2019.
1/2 year sub, exhibitions, new convener, group news
If you join the Society later in the year, the subscription from 1st August 2020 is reduced to Single – $60.00 : Double – $115.00 : Student – $45.00
An amended Groups list is posted, with a new convener for the Embroidery Group and the Portrait painting group deciding to meet once a month rather than twice. You can pick up a copy of our monthly newsletter from the shop or gallery, along with the updated groups list.
Kāpiti Gallery reopened with a successful exhibition of “Lock down work”. The current exhibition inspired a range of artworks with “Drip, Dribble and Splash” as their theme! See more on our Facebook page.
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