Art Week Whakatane

2021 Art Week in Whakatane (19th - 28th March), included exhibitions by Positively Patchwork, School Student art and the Whakatane Art Society. Also running for the whole week is the stone and wood carver symposium, so interesting watching these artists at work, its the whole experience - seeing hearing and smelling . Everyday during art week there is either an artist in residence demonstration or a class where you can join in going on. Thanks to Whakatane Art Society, I was invited to be Fridays guest artist. I had a fabulous day creating Fab Floral #6, and meeting wonderful people. Art week was a family affair too, exhibiting alongside my parents Malcom and Cis Akehurst.

Demo set up; hand painted paper collage “Fab Florals #6”, various hand painted papers ready to use, landscape of the Horomanga River in Galatea (this is my first landscape in this style and I have only collaged across 3/4 of the hills and trees in the background to date), under my trolley are boxes of painted paper in colour order.

One more flower to collage, can you spot it?

Fellow artist Rodney Thompson giving a graphite drawing demonstration.

Barbara Johnson demonstrating Kumihimo Japanese braiding