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Ian Hamlin

My works are eclectic in subject but united by the common theme of 'chasing the light'. I'm drawn to the the play of light, there's something primal in the urging, that desire to get in the sun, to feel the warmth. The illumination that's symbolic of a deeper understanding or knowing, yearning.

The works also reflect special places that have imprinted on me.

Nieske Hutchison

This is the first time Whanganui's Nieske Hutchison has exhibited at the Academy. Her work is in ink, watercolour, and acrylic on paper and canvas using a restricted palette of colours and collaged with oriental rice paper.

"I work intuitively and endeavour to paint a delicate course between representational landscapes and abstractions" she says.

Stewart MacKay

When his business sold with the new millenium, Stewart McKay became a fulltime artist. Today he is an elected artist member of the Academy, an active exhibitor and curator of solo exhibitions.

His talent was recognized when he was awarded the inaugural Gordon Harris Art Award by the Academy. He studies art history at University while painting.

Rosalie Jurzencko

Rosalie's still-lifes are inspired by Japanese ceramics. "The interweaving of oil paint, glazes, form and light act as metaphors of an interior world reflecting the exterior.

Mark making, allowing the paint to run or drip are a deliberate contrast to delineated forms and suggest movement of wind, plant growth, flight patterns or one's own hand."

Sue Scobie

Sue's work captures the essence of our wild places and is intended for quiet contemplation in a world which is far too busy.

"All my work is hand-formed by pinching and coiling using combinations of coloured porcelain and stoneware clays. Surfaces are highly tactile, with the silky, translucent poreclain contrasting with the rough, gritty stoneware."

Lisa Taylor-King

The paintings explore diversity and balance through manipulating colour and form in abstract and impressionistic style. The result, obscured reimaginings of the scenery, tracings of emotions, from minimalist monochromatic to layered and deeply nuanced. The works balance positive and negative space, high definition and ambiguity, the tensions between craft and spontaneity. They suggest balance requires exploration and accommodation of all potential responses.

Ronda Turk

Ronda painted from an early age. She recalls having work printed in the Evening Post. Today her paintings are in collections globally - Tuscany, USA, England and Australia.

From painting theatre sets she now works from home in the Horowhenua. "I paint contemporary still life. Oil on canvas is my favourite, but I also paint in acrylics."

Susan Hurrell-Fieldes

The main body of work deals with loss of innocence, of structure, of relationship which had hitherto been taken for granted and assumed inviolable

The second series is titled leitmotiv. I am interested in the icons by which I, as an individual, am recognized, am identified and the process of creating, of developing these motifs.

Susan is currently in New York opening another show there.

Amanda Olson

Each piece began with a phrase, pun, a play on words; others evolved. Each piece reflects my past and present - my father's wry sense of humour, from my mother; colour, tecture, design, pattern, my children; fantasy, creativity, my partner; support.

Finally the clay - my voice, teacher, leveller, my work, play, life.