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Below is a list of tutors teaching various classes at Uxbridge. Click on the names to view their profile.
Vicky Booth (BA Teach. Dip. Dip Art Ed)
Vicky Booth taught art for 2 years at an intermediate primary school and previously to this she was an art tutor at the former Auckland City Art School. She holds a Diploma in Art Education from the University of Auckland. She is a primary trained teacher with 15 yrs experience both in NZ and overseas.
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Neill Castles (BCom,CA)
Neill Castles previously an accountant, is now a commercial photographer specialising in real estate, with frequent website, portrait and tourism commissions. His main area is stills photography and he regularly ventures into virtual tour panoramas and some digital videos. His other passion is trout fishing and fishing / landscape photography. He is a published photographer and author of a book on New Zealand trout fishing, with other photographic projects underway. Neill's tutoring approach is informative and very supportive to those entering the exciting world of digital photography, where camera skills as well as computer literacy push the boundaries.
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Judy Charlesworth (IYTA, TTT, YFHF)
In 1990 Judy co-authored a book with Kay Martin titled Yoga - A Practical Approach for New Zealanders. Judy has been with Uxbridge for over ten years and has been teaching for over eighteen years. Judy has also been a tutor for the International Yoga Teaching Association for ten years. She is a very popular tutor. Judy teaches daytime Yoga classes on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday.
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Carol Croucher
Carol Croucher is a local glass artist and art jeweller and a member of NZ Glass Bead Artists. Carol has worked for several years creating contemporary jewellery using her handmade lampwork glass beads and is delighted to have the opportunity to teach glass beading at Uxbridge.
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Evelyn Dunstan
Evelyn is a local artist with a background of 20 years as a Designer & Graphic Artist in the fields of Advertising, Illustration, Photography, Publishing and Print. With a lifelong love of pottery and in-depth training in ceramics from Peter Collis in the 70's, she now works as a full time sculptural artist in her own studio in Pakuranga, mainly in Cast Glass and Ceramics, but her passion for creating also extends into Stained Glass and Lead Lighting, Mosaics, Copper Metalwork, Composite Concrete Sculpture as well as landscaping with brick, concrete, stone and water-features. Evelyn is the winner of Ranamok for 2007 with her work titled Ngahere Karauna (Forest Crown). Evelyn is tutoring 'Cast Glass' in Term 1 and Term 2.
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Lynn-Frances Eaton
Lynn has been learning and performing the art of Middle Eastern dance since 1981 and has been teaching since 1990. She has attended classes in New Zealand and overseas from world renowned dance tutors. As well as teaching the art of Belly Dance from Beginners through to Advanced levels, Lynn is a Choreographer in Belly Dance and also directs and runs the Arabesque Performance Troupe. Lynn will be teaching the Belly Dancing classes and workshops.
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Gillian Elmslie
Gillian Elmslie has worked in the Soft Stone medium for 25 years. She exhibits throughout the North Island, participates in symposiums and exhibits in her extensive Herne Bay garden. Her work is generally for the garden. Her popular class has been going for 8 years where students can successfully create a 3-dimensional artwork in one day (Soft Stone Sculpture).
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Maria Fowler
Maria is a local artist who has worked for several years at creating hand built pots and faces using sculpture and terracotta clays. More recently Maria paints primarily cosmic themes in a semi abstract manner. Using acrylic paints, combined with textured mediums and other materials she creates on either stretched canvas or MDF Board. Her inspiration stems primarily from her fascination in the search for the beginning of creation. Man's place in the universe, the tremendous forces of nature and the exchange of energy have fuelled her imagination. Combining textural and flow techniques with bright and intense colours, Maria aims to capture in an expressive, emotional and meaningful manner, the energy exchanges controlling the dynamic processes of creation, birth, death, and rebirth. Her paintings range from quiet resting moons, to explosive webs of spreading matter. Maria will be tutoring the Awaken the Artist Within class on Tuesday afternoon and Tusday night.
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Carys Grant
Carys has been teaching stress management through a type of meditation,for several years.Arka Dhyana is a very simple and effective method which also improves your health,confidence,clarity,focus,peace and harmony within.She has tried many other methods,but has found this to be by far the best.She has recently just returned from the East where she has received further training,with other teachers from around the world.
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Kathie Hewitt
Kathie's introduction to gilding was approximately 10 years ago, while decorating and restoring pieces of furniture. Fascinated by the effects of gilding, she has produced a series of paintings with gilded vessels, which are held in private and corporate collections throughout Auckland. Kathie will teach the Gilding one-day workshop and will show you how to gild on a variety of surfaces using schlagmetal and gold leaf.
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Suzie Illes (Yoga Diploma RYT)
Suzie Illes (Yoga Dip, RYT 500) is a qualified teacher completing her teacher training at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies with Dr Shridhar and Pooja Maddela (India). She has been teaching Integrated Hatha Yoga classes in Auckland since 2005.
Suzie’s classes are based on Traditional Indian Yoga and consist of a wide variety of Yoga asanas (both dynamic and held), as well as Pranayama (breathing) and Yoga Nidra (relaxation).
Suzie believes that Yoga is a lifetime learning and she continues her studies of different Yoga traditions.
She is a Yoga Alliance “500 hours” Registered Teacher.
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Jane Jones (Yoga Diploma IYTA NZ)
Jane is a qualified Iyengar teacher. She continues to deepen her knowledge nad understanding yoga through her practice and study, attending classes with senior teachers in NZ and workshops with teachers from abroad. With all this knowledge Jane will show you how to nurture your body, mind and spirit with yoga postures, breathing and relaxation. Jane teaches four Yoga classes on Mondays and tutors the Beginners Introduction to Yoga Workshops.
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James Lawrence (BA, BFA, MFA)
James is well known in Auckland and overseas as a printmaker and painter. He has exhibited widely, winning awards in drawing, printmaking and painting. Currently James also tutors at Mairangi Art Centre, and at Whitecliffe College. James will tutor The Joy of Painting and Drawing & Painting classes.
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Juliet Lloyd
Juliet trained and worked professionally as a dancer. She began at the age of 4, and at 16 years of age successfully secured her first professional engagement. From 1985 to 2002 she had various contracts working as a dancer and/or acrobat in Spain, America, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Africa, London, Finland, & Denmark. In 2001 Juliet retrained as a Pilates teacher and in 2002 took the Body Control Mat Work course in Covent Garden London and passed her practical examination starting her new career. After taking her written theory and anatomy exam in 2003, Juliet has taught Pilates group classes to the ballet dancers of the London Central School of Dance, Body Control Pilates studio in David Lloyd in Kensington and Gordon's Studio in Knightsbridge. Juliet has also taught privately to clients one on one. Juliet tutors the Pilates classes and workshops.
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Simon Misdale
I have been in the trade for over thirty years and teaching jewellery for 7 years in Auckland and Cook Islands. I encourage my students to do the best they can, making sure they have the right techniques and be who they are. As an award winning designer, my lyrical style leans towrds the natural and everything in my environment inspires my creativity.
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Raewyn Neale
Raewyn began pottery in the mid 1970’s joining the society of Pakuranga potters and Auckland Studio potters participating in many workshops and exhibitions. In the 1980’s she was co-owner of the Rich Earth craft shop in Howick exhibiting and selling her pottery. Over the last 15 years she has been teaching adults and children specializing in wheel and slab work. Raewyn is also painting acrylics on canvas, a new artistic venture and enjoying both mediums. Raewyn will be teaching the adult Creative Clay class, the teenage Creative Clay & Crazy for Clay for children.
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Marie Sanders
Marie trained as a graphic designer at the Wellington School of Design, which at the time, taught all aspects of drawing, - life, general, technical, perspective and fashion drawing. She then worked as a fashion illustrator with some of New Zealands top fashion designers, and eventually discovered pastels.She found the special quality of pastels were ideal for life and figure drawing, enabling her to capture the movement of a figure in a quick sketch, - she found that the vibrant colours were perfect for landscapes and still life drawings. She now teaches pastel classes across Auckland, to encourage students to learn the fundementals of the pastel medium, and produce still life, portrait and landscape paintings, while discovering the pleasure of painting with pastel. Marie is also the Auckland Representitive for PANZ.
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Ken Tanner
Ken is from the UK where he studied art at school and obtained an RSA in art. In the process of achieving this he studied a number of the masters and visited many of the London galleries. Ken isn't a full time artist but has attended courses on life studies and portraits which were mostly in oils. Ken has also spent a considerable period on water colour painting (mostly landscapes). Over the past few years Ken has been studying "realistic" painting with Tony Clarke. The Art To Start With class will be focused on a technique for using acrylic paint as a medium for realistic art. The technique is time consuming but should provide a good base from which to develop a student's painting skills. The technique can also be very absorbing and produce wonderful results. Although the class is about realistic art even "realistic" paintings are not just a faithful copy of the original subject and so there is huge scope to explore what can be achieved using these methods.
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Ria Van Rooyen
Ria van Rooyen believes in painting subjects that you love! From the eye to the heart, and from the heart to the hand… You see, you love, you paint!
Ria van Rooyen’s love for art over the last 25 years is seen in the many works displayed on wall of banks, corporate offices, galleries, private collections and calendars around the world. Her enthusiasm is obvious. It shows during demonstrations and workshops, painting holidays and in her studio. In four years on local television Ria hosted 4 popular art series ‘How To’ ‘The Drawing Room’ ‘Fast and Effective and ‘Art and Inspiration’.
For 9 years Ria tought adult further education at two highschools: Hornby High and Cashmere High in Christchurch.
She had numerous solo and combined exhibitions over the last 25 years.
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Kristy Griggs
Kristy Griggs (b. 1984) has fostered a talent for traditional art, particularly portraiture, for as long as she can recall. Born and raised in rural North Queensland, Australia, Kristy quickly learned to appreciate the solitude and mysteriousness of the Australian bush. She was able to wander freely in her own natural space, where ancient gum trees and evening birdsong provided a setting for creative and introspective thought. Kristy took to expressing her bushland experiences through drawing, a gift she began to hone from an early age with the encouragement of her family.
Kristy finds great joy and success in drawing portraits, figures and landscapes. She most often works in pencil, charcoal, pastel, and ink, although her palette is ever-changing and expanding. Kristy draws inspiration from an eclectic variety of art styles, ranging from Classical Realism and Impressionism, to 21st Century digital art. Notably, she finds particular affinity with Primitivism, citing Max Ernst and Paul Klee among her favourite influences. “Primordial art exposes the alive quality of an artwork. Its rawness of line and shape conveys a sense of animate motion that I frequently try to incorporate into my own work. Even in the most detailed, photo-realistic portrait, it is still possible to apply these principles in order to capture a stronger sense of expression and character”.
Kristy currently resides in East Auckland with her husband, Jared Marshall, where she is exhibiting new works and accepting commissions. She is a vegan and nature-lover who, when not drawing, enjoys travelling through the great outdoors
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