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List of Works H to L
 

He Tipuranga At home learning with mum. Shows a visual teacher with the knowledge watching the weave of creativity in the mokopuna telling stories from the old peoples. ​

2024 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas 

He Tipuranga

Heaven and Earth  a veil of the mirrored lake viewed from inside the wharenui walls. We weave life through breath to their ears listening for eternity.​

2023 Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas

Heaven and Earth

Hehe Hakopa ruled his mauri with his Maori bible and wove stories for the family encased in karakia.

2024 Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas â€‹

Hehe Patu Ringa

Hei Tiki the feminine in Maoridom. In myth her skill beyond the knowledge of trees.

2001 Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas 

Hei Tiki

Hine Nui Te Po the mother goddess at death's door. Breaker of the immortal body of Maui, protector of souls, and entrance to the afterlife behind her. 

2022 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas 

Hine Nui Te Po

Hinemoa  Self portrait of a 'half caste' during pregnancy with my first born girl.  â€‹

2000 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas 

Hinemoa

Hinemoa and the Pennydivers Tells the story of the pennydivers of Whakarewarewa who dove for pennies as tourists threw coins off their bridge.

2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas​

Hinemoa & The Penny Divers

Horn of the Pacific the Maori battalian was famous during the war for playing musical instruments. ​

2023 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas 

Horn of the Pacific

Housing Suitors The life of a single mother hiding from her commitment to family faith and friends. ​

1998 Size 75cm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas

Housing

Inside the Well of Jacob follows the story of my tupuna old Jacob Hakopa reading the bible journey up the ladder to Poutama. ​

2018 Size 1.2m x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas

Inside the Well of Jacob

Inside the Wharenui The wharenui threshold opens like an eye at the time of hui or tangi and during this time the world of our own dead awaken to welcome a new soul to their side.​

2022 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas

Mokopuna

Island beneath The Island The mythical story of the Rangiwewehi lands and their peoples spirit world beneath the Island of Mokoia a sunken volcanoe.​

2025 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas

Island beneath The Island

Jacob's Creek The source of old Jacob's mauri was Te Wai Whero the first stream of Awahou that awakens during flood times.  

2023 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas â€‹

Jacobs Creek

Jacob's Ladder The whakapapa from Jacob Hakopa enters the bible through the dream of Jacob. Mum spoke of the way up to Poutama through our dreams existing within Paipera Tapu.

2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas â€‹

Jacobs Ladder

Kaiwhakaako the ultimate teacher for mum was her father's oldest brother Hunuhunu Hakopa. "I only teach innocence" was his lesson for all Mokoia Island teachers.​

2024 Size 1.2m ^ Acrylics on Canvas

Koroua's Guitar... The flute of a guitar when passed down to mokopuna by great speakers. The instrument signaled the knowledge of love honour and suffering in stories contained within music.​

2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​

Kaiwhakaako
Koroua's Guitar

Lady of the Lake guardian by name and nature unmoving of faith to the temptations of belief she guards the gateway to Mokoia Island's cemetary of chiefs.

2024 Size 1.2m x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas 

Lady of the Lake

Lila  The hebrews speak of 'the way', and Maori call this the path of our sacred thread the immortality of our children.  â€‹

2020 Size 1.2mm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas

Lila
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