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
I was educated at Auckland University and Auckland Teacher’s Training College. I married at an early age and reared two sons. Now I am a grandmother with three beautiful young grandchildren. I have travelled extensively overseas, and visited and lived in India, where I spent much time in ashrams, studying Eastern philosophies. I have learnt several types of Meditation, but I found Arka Dhyana to be most simple and highly effective. Arka Dhyana has been developed by Srinivas Arka, who is a modern day yogi, philosopher, author and inspirational speaker, travelling around the world sharing his experiences and inspiring people to discover their inner potential. When he visited New Zealand, I was fortunate to attend his workshop on Arka Dhyana and started practising it. I have since then attended advanced Arka Dhyana workshops for teacher training in India and the UK. I was then inspired to become a teacher and join the international team of Arka Dhyana teachers around the world. It has brought me much peace, self confidence, and happiness, and now I could share this special meditation method with others.I sincerely believe that it is a basic tool, which all people need to survive in today’s time pressured and increasingly stressful lifestyles.
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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)
Yoga is a timeless science evolved over thousands of years, dealing with the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of man as a whole. Suzie Illes leads a traditional Indian Yoga class incorporating postures, breathing and deep relaxation. Suzie is passionate about yoga and welcomes participants at all levels. Suzie will be teaching her yoga classes on Wednesdays.
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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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Anny Ma
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Megan Maher
Megan is an international multi-media artist exhibiting in NZ and in the USA. As an award winning artist she has had more than 20 years experience in fine arts and design. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts and Design with honors from the Auckland University of Technology 2006 and a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design from the Eastern Institute of Technology Hawkes Bay 2003.She is recognized as one of the top New Zealand emerging artists in the prestigious Mazda awards in 2003. Currently Megan divides her time between California USA and New Zealand exhibiting and conducting workshops.
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Brendan McGorry
Brendan’s art is a fascinating combination of fine figurative drawing, Abstract gestural expressionism and storytelling akin to Giotto using Dubuffet’s paint box. This is expressionism but not as we know it.
Brendan has been an exhibiting artist for 20 years, last year he was a finalist in 5 national Art Awards. He has recently returned from Italy where he studied with the prestigious New York Studio School. From the hilltop town of Orvieto he was able to gain a unique insight into the work of the Italian renaissance. He arrives at Uxbridge with a passion to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for fine art in all its forms.
Runner up in the Wallace Art Awards
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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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James Moore
James has been a tertiary art tutor for the past 13 years. He has worked at all the main art institutions in Auckland as well as tutoring various workshops and night classes.
As a practising artist James began exhibiting in Auckland in 1989. He graduated with an MFA at Elam in 2004, and works from his home studio in Avondale.
James is also a keen musician/singer/songwriter. He is founding member of the rock band the Lure of Shoes who released a debut album in 2007, and a soloist in the Jubilation gospel choir, a 30 strong a cappella choir who’s live performance regularly receive standing ovations.
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Margaret Nalder
Margaret enjoys meeting people and her friendly, relaxed tours make for a great day out. As owner operator of Auckland Wine & Garden Tours since 1998 she specialises in Private Garden & Wine Tours but has many other unique tours to suit people from all walks of life. As your driver and tour guide, Margaret will make sure you have a comfortable, fun time with lots of laughter. Margaret will be your guide for the Lavender Farm and Puhoi Cheese & Wine Tasting Tours as well as the Christmas Lights Tours.
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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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Alison Smith
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Temoa Rua (Matt)
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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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Lauren Worsley
Lauren Worsley is a South African Auckland-based self-taught artist who started her art career in earnest in April 2008. Her bold oil paintings are inspired by a constant quest to capture a sense of energy and life force in her surroundings and to transport the viewer to a more spiritual/different place/time. She favours the luminosity, challenge and depth of oil paint and currently most of her work involves capturing the drama, gesture, life essence and rhythm of the human form by using contrasts and rich colour. Fascinated with creating mood and presence, her work attempts to discover and portray these by experimenting with layering, colour, contrast and texture. Lauren will be tutoring the “Finding the Still Point – Portraiture” class on Friday mornings which is focused on capturing likeness, mood and gesture of the model using pencil or charcoal initially and later on working up to paint if desired. This class is designed for all levels, however some previous life drawing experience would be advantageous.
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Jacqui Reid
Jacqui Reid has recently returned to New Zealand from overseas. She lived in France for 15 years where she was a lecturer in Art History at the University of Provence and has travelled extensively. Sh also taught painting and drawing. She encourages her students to actively participate in their learning through discussions and activities. Her goal is to help her students to become informaed and make their own value judgements on artwork.
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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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Kiri Whitford - Joynt
“…Kiri has a strong talent for working with people. She is able to provide encouragement and support while effectively teaching presentation, modelling and deportment skills. Her warm, friendly and patient approach, especially when working with novices, enables her to develop a strong rapport with her students.”
Key experience
• deportment tutor and make-up trainer in a successful Dunedin Modelling Agency
• managed and choreographed the Auckland Caltex Stars Dancers and managed the Rebel Sport Auckland Basketball Team Dance Group
• co-ordinated and choreographed 20 fashion shows and beauty pageants for Star Academy and Star Pageants of NZ.
• Tutored courses including modelling, deportment, dance, and television auditions for 5yr olds to adults
• choreographed and directed the Waipuna Bridal Fair from 1998 – 2000
• choreographed, produced and directed three Fashion Extravaganza’s at Somerville Intermediate
• worked in Advertising supervising talent for TV and radio commercials and organising the total production process
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Whetu Silver
BA (Hons) Ngapuhi descent, 24 years old Whetu Silver has always been surrounded by the arts, whether it be theatre, dance, music, painting, photography or weaving. Naturally, following in the footsteps of her mother and aunties, weaving (raranga) has been one of the traditional Maori art forms that she has pursued within her studies. Taught by renowned weaver Donna Campbell at the University of Waikato as a part of her Bachelor of Arts Degree Whetu spends much of her creative time exploring innovative ways to use flax (harakeke) and traditional weaving styles. She is currently working on some contemporary expressions of weaving which include adornments, wall hangings and wearable arts.
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Kate Sellar
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Susanne Khouri
Susanne Khouri was born in Sweden and the Swedish light during the different seasons, there as well as here in NZ, has been a strong influence in her work.
Many years of work in art related fields, teaching at community centres and part time art studies led to the completion of a Bachelor of Visual Arts, with a major in printmaking. Susanne works in her studio at home in Mount Eden and her interest lies primarily with screenprinting. She also enjoys combining different printing techniques in her work.
Year 2008 Susanne established a course in screen printing at Lake House Art Centre in Takapuna.
Some of Susanne’s work can be seen at the web site http://printmakers.ning.com/
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Dee Pigneguy
Today when Dee is not writing books or articles for magazines she can be found in her garden. Her organic gardening classes teach parents how to create a child friendly backyard garden with an abundance of fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables. She believes that organic gardening is probably the single most effective action you can personally take to help our planet.
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Susan Clark
Local Howick girl, who loves the pleasure of creating funtional works of art, using a loom to manipulate natural and synthetic fibres, wool, fabric and buttoms.
I have been weaving begs for the last 3 years. Each bag is individual, portraying the New Zealand Landscape and coastal colours.
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Alison Smith
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Nikki Wood
Nikki is from Scotland, however, has lived in New Zealand since 2001. She began making beaded/costume jewellery when she was 15 years old. Nikki loves the colour and sparkle and the limitless options from beaded jewellery.
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