Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary Art Auction

Media: A framed hand-pressed linocut print. Water based printing ink on A5 250gsm acid free card

Approx Size: 23x28 cm

Artist: Emma Kitson

Emma Kitson (BFA, B.Des) is an artist and designer living in Island Bay, Wellington. Native New Zealand flora and fauna and Te Ao Māori inspire her work.

Instagram: kitsonemma

Facebook: @KITE.art.design

Etsy shop: kiteartdesign

Media: Recycled bottles, Driftwood

Approx Size: 43.5x65 cm including string

Artist: Georgie

Recycled Bottle Wind Chimes

Made from recycled beer bottles and driftwood collected from the beach. The green from original green bottles and the colour from clear bottles she painted with permanent glass paint. The shapes are formed by cutting the bottles and melting in a glass kiln. Since retiring from trading at markets in Australia she moved to live at the beach with her partner and cat. She is experimenting with glass and making recycled bottle wind chimes.

Media: Recycled bottles, Driftwood

Approx Size: 47x74 cm including string

Artist: Georgie

Recycled Bottle Wind Chimes

Made from recycled beer bottles and driftwood collected from the beach. The green from original green bottles and the colour from clear bottles she painted with permanent glass paint. The shapes are formed by cutting the bottles and melting in a glass kiln. Since retiring from trading at markets in Australia she moved to live at the beach with her partner and cat. She is experimenting with glass and making recycled bottle wind chimes.

Media: Embroidery

Approx Size: 12.5x8 cm

Artist: Barbara Hercus

Barbara Hercus is a fabric artist and has exhibited with the Academy of Fine Arts.

Handmade in New Zealand.

Handmade in New Zealand.

Handmade in New Zealand.

Handmade in New Zealand.

Media: Drawing on paper

Approx size: 41 w x 29 h cm

Artist: Beverley Forrest

Forrest is British and has been living in New Zealand for 10 years. She has been drawing since she was very young but only got back into it in 2014 for a hobby. She mainly draws celebrities and from t.v. shows. Bev also takes commissions! She has been vegan for just over one year and did a few drawings that are close to her heart.

She hopes to draw many more in the future.

Email spicy.bev@hotmail.com

Facebook: Drawings by Bev

Media: Drawing on paper

Approx size: 22w x 16h m

Artist: Beverley Forrest

Forrest is British and has been living in New Zealand for 10 years. She has been drawing since she was very young but only got back into it in 2014 for a hobby. She mainly draws celebrities and from t.v. shows. Bev also takes commissions! She has been vegan for just over one year and did a few drawings that are close to her heart. She hopes to draw many more in the future.

Email: spicy.bev@hotmail.com

Facebook: Drawings by Bev

Media: Mixed Media

Approx Size: 30.5w x 30.5h, 3.5d cm

Artist: D.C. Boyle

Media: Plywood, Acrylic, Glaze (can be outdoors)  

Approx Size: 88x 67cm

Artist Name: Hedy (Heidi Ankers)

Hedy works in paint, ceramics and drawing and will again be entering the Parkin Drawing Award after being a finalist with successful sales in 2014 and 2015. Ceramics is currently Hedy's main interest with a focus on this year's Ceramics awards. For many years, Hedy previously volunteered for the Opportunity for Animals shops and lives between Newtown and London. 

Contact: haidimaid@gmail.com

Media: Mixed Media

Approx Size: 20x62x1.5 cm incl. tassle

Artist: Unknown

Media: Painted Wood

Approx Size: 6.5x6.5cm

Artist: Michele Irving 

Michele is a local artist who works mainly with fabric, combining this with embroidery, paint and beads. The themes of her work are predominantly about animals, often combining myths and fairytales with a play on words. 

www.micheleirving.co.nz

Media: Woodcut on Paper

Approx Size: 15x16cm

Artist Name: M B Stoneman

M B Stoneman is an artist living in Patea, South Taranaki, New Zealand. Her art practice currently explores etching and relief printmaking processes, often linking our natural world to the human condition. She constructs landscape and figurative works that reference her interest in science, symbols, history, culture, nature and language.

Media: Oil Painting

Approx Size: 61x51cm

Artist Name: Jean Carpenter 

Media: Oil Painting

Approx Size: 60.5wx45.5h cm

Artist: Ernest Papps

Born in England Ernest Papps came to New Zealand in 1955 settling in Wellington where he worked as a commercial artist. During this time Ernest would spend his weekends exploring the bush or roaming the streets of Wellington “dashing off watercolours”. Ernest also found work as a free-lance illustrator. His illustrative work will be well known to generations of New Zealand children who grew up reading the hugely successful Price Milburn School Readers. Ernest illustrated more than 100 titles.Since moving to Otaki in 1972 Ernest has been a full time artist.

A keen nature lover and tramper Ernest’s oil paintings draw on the classical and traditional techniques of the old masters and are inspired by the light and colour of the New Zealand landscape. From the hills and beaches of the Kapiti Coast to the Whanganui River valley and the West Coast of the South Island, Ernest has spent the past fifty-five years capturing New Zealand’s awesome and diverse scenery on canvas.Fascinated by the history and isolation of New Zealand pioneering life, stage coaches, gold miners and settlers have also been the subject of many of Ernest’s paintings. “What” he asks “could be more romantic than an old prospector following his dream”. Ernest’s work unashamedly celebrates New Zealand landscape, history and culture.

Media: Framed acrylic on canvas

Approx Size: 42.5x32x3 cm

Artist: Unknown

Media: Oil on Paper

Approx Size: 47x40x4cm

Artist Name: Sarah Latchem

Wellington based artist.

Instagram: @sarah.latchem.art

Media: Watercolour on paper

Approx Size: 60x42cm

Artist Name: Jake Fairweather

Jakefairweather.com

Media:

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Artist Name: Nat Litras

Find me on Facebook @Nat Litras Illustration and Design

 I’ve loved animals for as long as I remember, knowing at a very young age that I could not bring myself to eat them, despite growing up in a regular meat and veg family. I dream of someday living self-sustained in the country-side with my own sanctuary. I’m a passionate animal advocate who helps to make a difference every day working as the Visual Communications Manager at SAFE. In my spare time, I dabble in art and illustration.

When I went to Black Sheep last year, I absolutely fell in love. Each animal had such character and their happiness and love for their safe environment was clearly visible. While I made friends with most of them, I found myself frequently sneaking around the corner to visit a very old cat, named Nanna Cat. At first, I was unsure whether this little cat was after attention at all – her face seemed angry and she looked at peace basking in the sun – but as soon as I reached out to pat her, she ‘head butted’ my hand and flopped over for more.

“Nanna Cat came to us in 2011 as a very old cat under threat of being shot. She spent her remaining days with us helping to foster and socialise wild kittens and being the boss of the house! With just two teeth and a huge attitude she stole every ones hearts! We never knew her exact age so stopped when we thought she was 21years old, so she will be forever 21!

Sadly lovely Nanna cat died last winter (2016) after a decline in liver and kidney health. Rest in Peace Nanna.”

-Kate, Black Sheep

Media: Oil on Paper

Approx Size: 21.5x34cm

Artist Name: Meta Assink

Media: Acrylic on 4-piece canvas

Approx Size: 30x30cm

Media: Marianna Terezow

Marianna Terezow says she been doodling for as long as she can remember and is mostly self-taught.

Marianna started out with sketching – pencil, graphite and charcoal mainly. Over the years, shes moved on to painting, first acrylics and more recently oils.

Marianna’s main inspirations come from nature, music, dark fantasy and the every day complexity of life.

You can follow her work on DeviantArt at http://midnight-creations.deviantart.com/

or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TerezowArt/

Media: Framed arcylic painting

Approx Size: 25 x 33.5

Artist: Nyx

Facebook: Art by Nyx

Nyx likes working with a variety of media and techniques, including acrylic, watercolour and aerosol paints, inks, markers, pencil, collage, wood, modelling and jewellery materials.

Creating art makes Nyx happy, and she’s been trying to develop it for several years. At times she creates pieces to exhibit.

Nyx says she has no official training in art, she just makes it because she like to. She still has a lot to learn, but that's what we all do, all the time.

Woman and Croc - Surely sister of Purely having one of her jungle adventures from the Elephant Queen series

Media: Bolted painting

Approx Size: 96w x 62h, 6d cm

Artist: D.C. Boyle

Media: Oil Painting

Approx Size: 76w x 55.5h cm

Artist: D.C. Boyle

Media: Digital photograph, framed

Approx Size: 57x47x1.5 cm

Artist: Jac Douglas

Jac was first inspired to pursue photography at age 15, in attendance at Ellesmere College in Leeston. Moving to Hagley Community College a year later, she continued her artistic education through to graduation in Graphic Design from Ara Institute of Technology this year. Jac’s particular photographic interests are surrealism and nature photography, utilising multiple digital editing techniques such as double exposure. Her main inspiration is her cat Joe, featured in this piece and the subject of multiple others in her portfolio. She is particularly excited to offer her work for this fundraising auction for the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary, especially for her two favourite cows Hazel and Iris, who give the warmest hugs! Jac is embarking very soon on an adventure to South Carolina where she will be resident photographer and media specialist at YMCA Camp Greenville this American summer.

Media: Print

Approx Size: A4

Artist: Charlotte Drene

This design was created to bring awareness that chickens also lose their breasts in awful ways, but there are no ribbons worn for them.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlottedreneart

Media: Print

Approx Size: A4

Artist: Charlotte Drene

This print was inspired by Charlotte's cat who is a feminist feline - she too is sick of catcalling, so is taking a stand against it!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlottedreneart

Media: Print on board

Approx Size: 15x10x2 cm

Artist: Alex Graham

Alex Graham, aged 15, has been involved with the Ellesmere Camera Club in Leeston for the last 3 years and enjoys being involved with the competitions and trips when time allows.

Media: Print

Approx Size: A4

Artist: Charlotte Drene

An ode to the rodeos and the anti-rodeo protests from earlier this year.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlottedreneart

Media: Print on board

Approx Size: 30x20x2 cm

Artist: Triena Graham

Triena Graham has been interested in photography since she was a teenager and took some photos of monarch butterflies coming out of their chrysalis's and has enjoyed taking snap shots ever since, but she has only really pursued this interest in the last five or six years, joining the local camera club and entering their monthly competitions. The genres she likes the most are macro and nature though her true passion is creating stories.

Media: Print

Approx Size: 30x24.5cm

Artist Name: Malcolm McDonald

Media: Print

Approx Size: A4

Artist: Charlotte Drene

Charlotte created this piece to show the choice a consumer must make when deciding to drink milk; either the calf, or the milk - you can't have both.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlottedreneart

Media: Print

Approx Size: 15.5x21.5cm

Artist Name: Luke Sullivan

Luke Sullivan is one of the regular artists at Pablos Art Studio in Wellington. Pablos Art Studios Incorporated is a not for profit community organisation that provides people who have experience of mental ill health with free materials, tuition and support to make art. Working in the studio provides people with a social and creative experience that helps them regain their confidence to re-engage with their family, friends and the wider community.

Media: Print

Approx Size: A4

Artist: Charlotte Drene

"Animal testing is a backwards science that not only hinders human based medical progression, but does unspeakable and unnecessary evils to animals. Until every cage is empty!"

Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlottedreneart

Media: Ink on Paper

Approx Size: 12x16.5 cm

Artist: Elliot Hugh Man

stop stressing ‘bout what happens next

it hasn’t happened yet

take a second to be present,

be effervescent

accept what you’re bereft of

it’s fine, don’t question it

pick up where you left off

from right there where you left it

when I did,

I found that love was all that I was left with

I caressed instead of holding

and dissolved into atoms

so when you’re fed up and you’ve had enough

check the edges of your spectrum

and bend your perspective

like a parabola.

© Elliot Ashton-Stretch 2016

Media: Mixed Media

Approx Size: 26.5x31.5x2cm

Artist: Jennifer Murphy

Jennifer is currently enjoying working at Charles Fleming in the Serviced Apartments. Art is a passion that Jennifer loves to share through tutoring. She has taught Painting to Adults via Community Education and privately for 15 years and at the same time Secondary for 9 years."I don't have a specific genre and this is because I love to capture the essence of just about anything I see and have experienced. Perhaps this is largely due to being influenced by my students - who were all unique in subject matter and style. I enjoy tutoring so students gain the skills necessary to further explore their own Art Practice independently. I exhibited mostly at The Suter Art Gallery and World of Wearable Art Museum in Nelson, until I moved to the North Island approximately 2 years ago. I am currently in the process of doing up my railway cottage in Otaki so I can look forward to tutoring again from home". 

Website: jennifermurphy.nz

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Approx Size: 101.5x101.5cm

Artist: Johanna Grant-Mackie

Johanna Grant-Mackie loves to draw cats - all kinds of cats! Big cats, small cats and medium sized cats as well. She also loves drawing animals of all kinds. Johanna also likes drawing microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, she thinks their shapes are “so beautiful and fantastic!”

Facebook: Johanna Grant-Mackie

Instagram: @Johannagrantmackie

Media: Paint on Acrylic

Approx Size: 76x75.5x3.5cm

Artist: Antonio Gonzalez

Antonio was born in Mexico City. Since a very early age he has been in touch with the city 'street' way of life and that of the indigenous cultures of his country. These experiences are reflective in his paintings, portraying Mexican symbols in a playful and at times sarcastic way, evoking Mexican humour. His art is not only displayed on canvas and wood, but also on the human body; Antonio is a skilled tattooist, using ink on skin to create striking designs that reflect the inspiration of his culture. 

He has held exhibitions in Zurich, Spain, throughout Mexico, and an inspiring collective exhibition in the Mexico City subway. Antonio has held several exhibitions in NZ, where he now lives.