March / April 2021
"If you Can't travel to Bali - then Bali will come to us"
Gallery 1, 2 and 3
23 March to 18 April 2021
Exhibition opening Saturday 27 March, 3pm to 5pm
We are fortunate in more ways than we can imagine. While so many of our family members and friends abroad are still living in Covid Lockdown’s we are enjoying a relatively carefree kiwi summer. Sure we can’t travel abroad but we can travel locally in our gorgeous country. We can also work with charities such as the Kindness Project to bring diversity to our gallery. In March we are pleased to host Kindness Furniture who will bring a bit of Bali magic to our galleries.
Kim talks to founder Gary Parkinson:
What is Kindness furniture? Kindness furniture was born out of travels to Bali and falling in love with the authentic handmade range of furniture and homewares! I was looking for a new direction where business could be a force for good! Enabling and empowering others with the motivation that what was offered was kind for the planet also! Hence the name!
Where is the furniture made? The Balinese people are gentle, humble, caring, very skilled in crafting natural materials and recycling what’s available! The more I travelled (mostly in the villages) the more I realised how the sale of these unique products could benefit the
village economy and generate a ripple effect.”
Tell us about your passion to reduce our carbon footprint to help the planet? As a consumerist society our obsession for things is straining the planets ability to survive! Using materials that are not planet friendly and take hundreds of years to break down once discarded! Through our offerings not only do we help people survive in time honoured traditions, we also become part of the solution for being kind to the planet! We have wonderful partners in Bali that ensure the sources are genuine and the supply chain has integrity!
How is the Kindness project helping and where do proceeds go to? More than ever Bali is really hurting right now with the huge drop off in tourism with normally bustling tourist spots reduced to ghost towns! Most struggle just to get food on the table so any orders made for products that we sell have a lot of impact! We support an orphanage started in 2009 by a passionate local teacher called Ketut whose father donated the land and with the help of family built the first simple building and took in 7 children! There are currently 29 children from 6 to 19 years! For funding they are reliant on local donations which have almost dried up because of Coronavirus! By purchasing these Balinese products you are helping these small villages and this orpahage in particular.
What is B1G1? The Kindness Project is linked to the Global Giving Initiative, B1G1. B1G1 helps businesses become a real force for good. It means we are able to embed giving right into our operations. With B1G1, more than 2,300 businesses from 43 countries have made 176+ million impacts. Together with our customers we are making a massive difference!
23 March to 18 April 2021
Exhibition opening Saturday 27 March, 3pm to 5pm
We are fortunate in more ways than we can imagine. While so many of our family members and friends abroad are still living in Covid Lockdown’s we are enjoying a relatively carefree kiwi summer. Sure we can’t travel abroad but we can travel locally in our gorgeous country. We can also work with charities such as the Kindness Project to bring diversity to our gallery. In March we are pleased to host Kindness Furniture who will bring a bit of Bali magic to our galleries.
Kim talks to founder Gary Parkinson:
What is Kindness furniture? Kindness furniture was born out of travels to Bali and falling in love with the authentic handmade range of furniture and homewares! I was looking for a new direction where business could be a force for good! Enabling and empowering others with the motivation that what was offered was kind for the planet also! Hence the name!
Where is the furniture made? The Balinese people are gentle, humble, caring, very skilled in crafting natural materials and recycling what’s available! The more I travelled (mostly in the villages) the more I realised how the sale of these unique products could benefit the
village economy and generate a ripple effect.”
Tell us about your passion to reduce our carbon footprint to help the planet? As a consumerist society our obsession for things is straining the planets ability to survive! Using materials that are not planet friendly and take hundreds of years to break down once discarded! Through our offerings not only do we help people survive in time honoured traditions, we also become part of the solution for being kind to the planet! We have wonderful partners in Bali that ensure the sources are genuine and the supply chain has integrity!
How is the Kindness project helping and where do proceeds go to? More than ever Bali is really hurting right now with the huge drop off in tourism with normally bustling tourist spots reduced to ghost towns! Most struggle just to get food on the table so any orders made for products that we sell have a lot of impact! We support an orphanage started in 2009 by a passionate local teacher called Ketut whose father donated the land and with the help of family built the first simple building and took in 7 children! There are currently 29 children from 6 to 19 years! For funding they are reliant on local donations which have almost dried up because of Coronavirus! By purchasing these Balinese products you are helping these small villages and this orpahage in particular.
What is B1G1? The Kindness Project is linked to the Global Giving Initiative, B1G1. B1G1 helps businesses become a real force for good. It means we are able to embed giving right into our operations. With B1G1, more than 2,300 businesses from 43 countries have made 176+ million impacts. Together with our customers we are making a massive difference!
"Expressions of Colour" by Catherine Mitchell and Diane Taylor
Gallery 4
24 March to 18 April 2021
Exhibition opening Saturday 27 March, 3pm to 4.30pm
Capturing the colours of life can lead to many different expressions and feelings. Colour can be bright, invigorating and uplifting, or it can be subdued, quiet and relaxed. Depending on how we feel, can relate to the colours we like to surround ourselves with.
Colour has traditional definitions, White for purity, black for darkness, red being fiery, green being clean and eco-friendly. Blue can be cool and fresh like the sea and yellow, warm like the sun.
We have created a mixture of feelings and expressions with this collection.
Catherine Mitchell
Having lived and painted on the Hibiscus Coast for over 30 years, I am never short of inspiration to get my creative juices going. I am a self-taught Artist using mainly acrylics but love to try anything that catches my attention. My early focus was mainly on detailed realism but I am now discovering the visual language of colour and shape in an abstract form and am drawn to the beauty’s I find in my own garden. I am happy to pass on my knowledge to students and have taught at a number of venues including Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa.
Diane Taylor
I am an acrylics artist based in Redvale and this year I am enjoying allowing my creative energies to magnify the small visual details I observe in nature so they coalesce on the canvas in a new and interesting way. Current works have focussed on the way light plays on water and have become increasingly interpretive and abstract.
In previous years I have concentrated on detailed realistic painting of wildlife, mainly NZ birds and plants, and have undertaken several commissions and sold work at Orewa’s Boulevard Art Festivals, Estuary Arts Centre and overseas. In 2019 was awarded Estuary Art Centre’s Student Merit Award for my detailed painting of a field hare entitled ‘Nibble.
This year I have 2 Exhibitions planned: ‘Expressions of Colour’ at Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa, in March and ‘Wild About Colour’ at Lake House Arts Centre, Takapuna, in April where I explore the power and vibrancy of colour and shape in nature.
24 March to 18 April 2021
Exhibition opening Saturday 27 March, 3pm to 4.30pm
Capturing the colours of life can lead to many different expressions and feelings. Colour can be bright, invigorating and uplifting, or it can be subdued, quiet and relaxed. Depending on how we feel, can relate to the colours we like to surround ourselves with.
Colour has traditional definitions, White for purity, black for darkness, red being fiery, green being clean and eco-friendly. Blue can be cool and fresh like the sea and yellow, warm like the sun.
We have created a mixture of feelings and expressions with this collection.
Catherine Mitchell
Having lived and painted on the Hibiscus Coast for over 30 years, I am never short of inspiration to get my creative juices going. I am a self-taught Artist using mainly acrylics but love to try anything that catches my attention. My early focus was mainly on detailed realism but I am now discovering the visual language of colour and shape in an abstract form and am drawn to the beauty’s I find in my own garden. I am happy to pass on my knowledge to students and have taught at a number of venues including Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa.
Diane Taylor
I am an acrylics artist based in Redvale and this year I am enjoying allowing my creative energies to magnify the small visual details I observe in nature so they coalesce on the canvas in a new and interesting way. Current works have focussed on the way light plays on water and have become increasingly interpretive and abstract.
In previous years I have concentrated on detailed realistic painting of wildlife, mainly NZ birds and plants, and have undertaken several commissions and sold work at Orewa’s Boulevard Art Festivals, Estuary Arts Centre and overseas. In 2019 was awarded Estuary Art Centre’s Student Merit Award for my detailed painting of a field hare entitled ‘Nibble.
This year I have 2 Exhibitions planned: ‘Expressions of Colour’ at Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa, in March and ‘Wild About Colour’ at Lake House Arts Centre, Takapuna, in April where I explore the power and vibrancy of colour and shape in nature.
