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30 Jan – 16th Feb  Find out more...here

Art Exhibition - Golden Summer.
17th February - 19th February 5 - 10 am at the Cloakroom Gallery on the corner of Ballarat and Stanley Street , featuring local Queenstown artists Rachael Errington and Karyn Hitchman.

Art Supplies Sale running with exhibition. Paint, canvases, brushes and modellilng compound.

Rachael Errington is a New Zealand, Queenstown based artist and illustrator. She also studied graphic design, printmaking, photography and textiles. Rachael also loves creative writing, and has been actively involved with varied projects. You can read more about that at www.rachaelerrington.com
LATEST WORK - Please visit this page to see her latest work.

Artist Bio:

"I have always been an artist, from the first moment at the age of three when I drew a brightly coloured crayon picture of “Big Nanny” on the freshly painted white hallway. I’ve always loved to draw and write, and as I went through school I became involved with all the art clubs I could find, from pottery to technical drawing. It was really my A’level art course (age sixteen to eighteen), that started my painting career, introducing me to oils and acrylics. I loved being able to squash colour across a surface.
I went on to study a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration with Business Studies, which opened the door to printmaking and photography. For my final year I primarily studied printmaking and took a research trip to Asia, to study how art was influenced by a different culture. This lead to a series of prints depicting the religious turmoil in Tibet; for which I then won ‘The Sylvia Dowsett Memorial Award’.

At present, I mainly work with oils and acrylics, enjoying the diversity that I experience with both mediums. I sometimes combine them on one painting, to create texture."
rachaelerrington.com offers more info on other projects.

Teaching

Rachael has spent time teaching art at a primary school to eight year old children, she also taught art in a residential home for the elderly. In 2008, Rachael was funded to fly to Australia and teach art to a group of autistic adults for the day (Acorn Artists), she then attended the launch of  their website (donated by Niche Design), and helped to sell paintings by the group at the launch. Rachael's illustrations are published in a Children's picture book in New Zealand, and her watercolour sketches are published in a poetry book in England.
She is inspired by travel and nature, and has successfully exhibited in England, Australia, America, France and currently New Zealand.
Rachael now combines being an active artist, painter and illustrator with her other role as an Arts Marketer and is constantly inspired by living in the beauty of Queenstown, New Zealand.

Publication

Rachael was fortunate enough to be one of the chosen artists to feature in Denis Robinson’s New Zealand Gallery book, published in 2010. You can purchase a copy of the book here…

“A wide-ranging portfolio of work in various mediums by contemporary New Zealand Artists.”


Galleries

Rachael's art is currently based in Queenstown New Zealand, where she has permanent residency with her partner and two cats. She works part time as an Art Consultant in Artbay Gallery, owned and managed by Pauline Bianchi. Rachael sells her work through Artbay Gallery, based in the Mountaineer building, Rees Street, in central Queenstown. She also bases herself in Artbay Gallery three times a week to paint as artist in residence. She is delighted to talk with people so please pop in if you are passing by.
www.artbay.co.nz
pauline@artbay.co.nz
03 4429090

Rachael also as art at The Artists Room in Dunedin, http://www.theartistsroom.co.nz