Peter Collis
Peter Collis is one of New Zealand's foremost ceramic artists. He specialises in throwing beautiful forms, which use fabulous coloured glossy glazes, metal lustres, leaf and coloured enamels. His energetic design elements ensure that each piece is individually crafted and unique.

FEATURED WORK: Flanged Vase $200

Darryl Fagence
Darryl has an intense passion for creating new pieces. Creating new pieces sets the challenge and finishing the pieces completes the dream. Daryll slumps his glass platters into stainless steel moulds enabling him to create his form right every time. For the gold platter, his most challenging technique, the gold and glass are kiln fired together producing an absolutely stunning finish, taking years to perfect, the gold, if too hot burns out and if too cool the design will not take to the bowl. Beautifully crafted designs are available in various shapes and sizes.

FEATURED WORK: Koru Sculpture $450

Fran Anderton

Born: London, England 1951.
Moved to New Zealand 1962.
2003 completed 3 Year of Diploma in Glass Design and Production programme at UCOL, Wanganui.
Artists statement
After owning and managing a small craft business in Dunedin for seven years I returned to the North Island to study Glass Design and Production at Wanganui Polytechnic in 2001. Wanganui has a rich art community boasting the only Glass School in New Zealand, and creates a stimulating environment for budding glass artists such as myself.
My family includes a sister who is a florist and a mother who is a plant propagator so it was inevitable that the pieces I produce reflect a certain amount of botanical content. When designing my pieces the natural environment and the uniqueness of our beautiful native bush, beaches and scenery influence me.
While being a student I have been fortunate to be able to learn many skills and techniques of making glass pieces. I now use two disciplines – cast and hot blown glass to produce my work. Perfume bottles, bowls and sculptural cast pieces make up the body of my work to date
My ambition as a glass artist is to make beautiful objects that will bring pleasure to the viewer for many years to come.

Featured work: Blue Wedgewood Vase $170

Elizabeth Fyfe-Morgan
Elizabeth describes her uncontrollable urge to create sculpture as being as important to her as breathing. To be able to produce a three-dimensional form for everyone to see and touch, allows her to convey her feelings, thoughts or desires.
What is her work about?
Elizabeth says – “Sculpture is my first language
In this hectic world all live in, we don’t often pause along the way to admire or reflect upon the gentler, beautiful aspects of life. We don’t often have time to feel in any depth true emotions or feelings and mostly we are instructed on how to think.
My work is an offering, in many different facets, to the observer, to take the time to enjoy, reflect, feel and touch the neglected portion of themselves.
The sculpture itself is my offering. In each piece of sculpture I have placed a small piece of my soul.
Each one of my sculptures I name individually to inspire an emotion, thought, or simple reaction from the observer. Whatever the observers are in their journey of life, I hope I am able to bring to them, something special to carry with them.”

Featured work: Tempest (Stone) $637

Peter Viesnik
Peter is well known for his loose, sometimes flamboyant goblets, which are designed to exhibit the qualities of molten glass. He makes a range of blown work that includes stoppered bottles, paperweights, vases and bowls. He enjoys giving his works individual personalities and the most dynamic pieces are exuberant and fluid, often organic in form – one can visualise the dance of their creation.

FEATURED WORK: Diochroic paperweight $212

Brian Gartside
Brian was born in England and now lives in South Auckland. He was commissioned to create a work for the ‘Treasures of the Underworld’ exhibition by Te Papa Museum, which toured to the World Expo in Seville in Spain in 1992. His works are characterised by strong colour which has been impressed on the artist by his new country’s very “geographical” land.

FEATURED WORK: Vessel $636

Gary Nash
For twenty years Gary Nash has created enduring works of art in hot glass. He exhibits both internationally and in New Zealand and has pieces in public collections worldwide. Hot glass; the alchemy of sand, air and fire is pushed to the limit at Nash's Auckland studio where he has developed a unique and distinctive collection of contemporary work.

FEATURED WORK: Red crackle vase $NZ 414

Ron van der Vlugt
A renowned New Zealand glass artist, Ron has been self-employed as a glass blower since 1999.A Lifelong fascination with moving light and colour motivates glass blower Ron van der Vlugt. His work has a sense of movement, an instant of fluid light and colour frozen in glass.

Featured Work: Paua Series Cylinder Vase $NZ 300

Rick Rudd
Rick Rudd is by self-definition a studio potter, in the 30 years he has been domiciled in New Zealand he has earned himself a significant place within ceramic art achievement in New Zealand.
Rick's work is hand-built, the majority pinched and coiled, a technique of adding thick coils of clay to the piece and then pinching, squeezing and shaping the clay as it is extended. Once the forming process is completed the work is scraped and the form refined. The making process being relatively slow necessitates several days work being spent on some pieces. Rick's shapes evolve rather than begin as separate ideas and whole new works often link back to previous pieces but take on a new dimension (see essay ).
He has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand, regularly in solo exhibitions, numerous times as guest exhibitor and his work has been included in international exhibitions.
He has curated and selected national exhibitions and conducted workshops for many potters' groups, and polytechnics around New Zealand. He was president of the New Zealand Society of Potters (1988-1991), a participant in the first New Zealand Ceramics Symposium (1988), has received two Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grants (1984, 1992) and was a member of the Trust Board of the Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui (1991-1997).

Featured Work:Tiny Teapot $NZ 350

Denise Belinger-Taylor
Imigrated to New Zealand in 1995 Denise Belanger-Taylor was born in 1952 Montreal Canada and Completed a Diploma of Art and Design at Georian College Barrie Ontario. On completeing her studies she attended many workshop by a large number of Canadian and international glassblowers gaining a great deal of experience.
Working in a very delicate way she has produced a wide variety of softly coloured work which capture the imagination. On coming to New Zealand her work has become widely recognised here as well as internationally.

Featured Work: Featuring Paper Weight Millenium Party $NZ $60

Lynden Over
Artists Statement: "I work with glass in its hot state, I love the fluidity and movement it allows. My inspiration is the natural environment and the spaces beyond our earth."
He is a glass blower from the Pacific Region, which is expressed in his work. Lynden's training in glass blowing, jewellery and sculpture brings to his pieces a unique quality of form.

Featured Work: Tall Red Bowl $NZ 160

Mark James
Mark has been making Raku pots for ten years now and still gets a thrill from this type of firing.
Most pieces are wheel thrown vessels and he usually distorts them while soft, to capture the loose quality of the wet clay.
Mark James makes the Raku pots in a gas kiln, they are colourful copper/barium pots and he fires them at earthenware temperatures, and again in a gas kiln.

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Graham Ambrose
Strongly influenced by the modernist movement, his primary interest is in creating minimalist forms.
He is particularly known for his mastery of a bold red glaze that complements these unadorned shapes.
His determination to produce aesthetically satisfying pots drives his ambition to control the ceramic process.
However Graham has learned that, unlike wood, clay takes on an impetuous life of its own.

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Jean Greenhorn

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Cheryl Oliver
“The human form appears often in my work through which I endeavour to portray issues of relationship, emotion and thought and to reflect on the complexities of what it is to be human.
Humour is used to keep the work accessible and light hearted.”

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Katie Gold
I use the icon of the vessel.
I aim to express my art as simply and directly as possible and have chosen the vessel as a vehicle because of it’s qualities of shielding and containment.
Over time my work has intensified, the forms become more open, the vessels more delicate and the colours more intense.

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