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 a mokopuna telling stories from the old peoples. ​
2024 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Heaven and Earth a veil of the mirrored lake viewed from inside the wharenui walls. We weave life through breath to their ears listening from eternity.​
2023 Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Hehe Hakopa ruled his mauri with a Maori bible and wove stories for the family encased in the karakia inside. He taught all his children to use the karakia and waiata like a mere searching through a person to find and speak to their inner spirit.
2024 Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Hei Tiki the feminine in Maoridom. In myth her skill beyond the knowledge of trees. To us she is both talisman and kuia named for ancestors and proverbs of those on the other side. I saw my mum bless my hei tiki Te Wai Whero in the awa waters. As she lay the heavy pounamu on top of the water I was surprised to see it float as she began her karakia. The hei tiki literally began swinging from side to side swimming away up the awa as mum spoke her old words. My mum grabbed it back and growled my hei tiki saying 'no you don't' so matter of factly.
2001 Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
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. Her symbolic carvings set inside nga wharenui across papatuanuku churning to the wairua and chants of her people.
2022 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas
Hinemoa Self portrait of a 'half caste' during pregnancy with my first born girl. Coming from both male and female lines of Te Arawa mea Ngapuhi ahau. Growing up we were made to feel ashamed of the Maori and european blood​s of our mixed heritages in both communities.
2000 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Hinemoa and the Pennydivers Tells the story of the pennydivers of Whakarewarewa who dove for pennies as tourists threw coins off their bridge. They were made famous through the swimming feats of Hinemoa who swam across the motu for her love of Tutanekai on Mokoia Island.
2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas​
Horn of the Pacific the Maori battalian was famous during the war for playing musical instruments from cutlery to hamonica and guitar during a lull in battle. Their ability from warriors to performers keeping up moral with songs and dance was acknowledged through the writings from both german and english writers.​
2023 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Housing Suitors The life of a single mother hiding from her commitment to whanau and faith for friends. The old world can push through to the present practising Maori mahi. ​
1998 Size 75cm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Inside the Well of Jacob Poutama and the karakia up the steps to our Maori universe of heaven through dreams and song. Old Jacob Hakopa took his christian name from the bible story of Jacobs Ladder. His dedication to a new faith interpreting the english bible into Maori ways of seeing influenced him renaming his first son Jacob Jacob. He renamed his first grandson who we descend from Jacob Hakopa sealing all those descendants to the crossroads in the bible story of Jacob. The old tohunga tried to curse Jacob's male line for turning away from the old ways but Jacob was not afraid of change he embrassed it.​
2018 Size 1.2m x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Inside the Wharenui The wharenui threshold opens like an eye at the time of the tangihana and during this time the world of our dead awaken to welcome a new soul to their side. When customs are broken the wharenui will draw in a type of spiritual cleaner to return the dead to their separate place in the universe.​
2022 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Island beneath The Island The mythical story of the Rangiwewehi lands and their peoples spirit world beneath the Island of Mokoia. The wairua of such old spirits were only awoken for the most sacred of events, a blood wrong to the tribe.​
2025 Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Jacob's Creek The source of old Jacob's mauri was Te Wai Whero the first stream of Awahou that awakens during flood times. Many of the children today have not been told of the stories of the little stream that runs parallel to the awa beneath the papakainga.
2023 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
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. Each time the paepae speaks the steps to the ladder home opens.
2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
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. Hunuhunu gave her te whakapapa, Ngahara te paiperatapu and her father Te Waere gave her guardianship of papakainga land.​
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 ​
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
Lila The hebrews speak of 'the way', and Maori call this the path of our sacred thread through the immortality of our children. ​
2020 Size 1.2mm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
