List of Works H to L
He Tipuranga At home learning with mum. Shows the visual teacher with the knowledge watching the weave of creativity of thought in the mirror of our mokopuna. ​
Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Heaven and Earth the oldest of our parallel universe, a veil of a mirrored lake viewed from inside the wharenui. Connecting through the earth to our world beneath the urupa by our bodies, words and deeds we weave life through breath to their ears listening in times of peace, acting in times of warfare.​
Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Hehe Hakopa Hehe ruled his mauri with his bible and wove stories as old Jacob did within the words his karakia.
Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Hei Tiki the feminine in Maoridom. Big eyes, dangerous to the living when the dead seek through thoughts when worn at a tangihana. In myth her skill beyond the knowledge of trees.
Size 5Ocm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Hine Nui Te Po the mother goddess of Death's door. Breaker of the immortal body, protector of the soul, and entrance to te maunga and the way forward to the afterlife behind her. A portrait of my eldest sister in her command of her audience.
Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas
Hinemoa Self portrait during pregnancy with my first born girl. ​
Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Hinemoa and the Pennydivers
Tells the story of the pennydivers of Whakarewarewa who dove for pennies tourists threw off the bridge.
Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas​
Horn of the Pacific the ANZACs, a spirit of unity between common men battling as brothers in a foreign land. Bonds made in blood upholding the treaty of waitangi, 'Your children will become our children'. The 21st celebration.​
Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Housing Suitors The life of a single mother hiding from her commitment to family faith and friends. ​
Size 75cm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Inside the Well of Jacob follows the story of Jacob Hakopa entering the bible journey of Te Kupu as he navigators the old testament through his ability to dream with his lands and use its mauri to weave life from within hidden words of his own, "I only teach innocence" comes from the term divine intervention.​
Size 1.2m x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
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 guard access to the urupa from above ground threads not of our land or ways. We say if you are not Rangiwewehi you will never find us, this is the final guardian to the urupa from our papakainga. If spirit not true to Awahou and family, then it is sent home by Tawakaheimoa, the moment the coffin passes over the threshold so as not to disturb Hine nui te Po who may reply, even instantly, to the insult of tresspassers to our land.​
Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Island beneath The Island The mythical story of the Rangiwewehi lands and their peoples of marakihau/mermaid descent beneath the Island of Mokoia sunk underneath Lake Rotorua​
Size 75cm x 6Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Jacob's Creek The source of our mauri on whenua, Te Wai Whero... the first stream of Awahou that only awakens during flood times. The memories of Fitzgerald glades and their woven patterned willow trees a gateway to the Bay of Plenty.
Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Jacob's Ladder The whakapapa from Jacob Hakopa enters the bible through the dream of Jacob. Uncle Motutapu journeyed up to a funeral in the north and reconnected with his sister Ripeka saying he will see her in the afterlife. They spent the night reminiscing about their whole family who had passed on before them both laughing and crying about jokes and nicknames familiar only to them. The joy they both shared and the dreams that came later for mum were amazing.
Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Kaiwhakaako the ultimate teacher, Hunuhunu Hakopa "I only teach innocence" his motto for all Mokoia Island teachers.​
Size 1.2m ^ Acrylics on Canvas
Koroua's Guitar... The Flute of a Guitar The knowledge of love honour and suffering in stories contained in music where rangatiratanga exalted their skills besting without war, instead choosing nga kapa haka.The life of the party, auntie Alice would dress up using flour and blackberries as makeup before hitting the town to celebrate life as rangatira. ​
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 of the lake to our mokopuna descended from the island beneath the island. A story similar to the celtic tales of the feminine nature of the lake's guardian.
Size 1.2m x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
Lila Aunty Lila to her family, bub to her kuia, and beloved to her koroua past and present. Through her youth she was taught by nanny Rati and papa Bob after being whangai with her sister by her own father to his older brother while he travelled away for work. Nanny taught her the ways of the living wharenui, care of the Awahou photos, making of mauri, planting of seed, rongowai; her pop oversaw her lessons of Te Kupu, via Te Paipera Tapu, the maori bible. The hebrews speak of 'the way', Maori call this the path of our sacred thread. In times of peace, it resides in wahine, in war where other invaders sought mokopuna it moves to the masculine force of the whakapapa to awaken Te Whakairoa. ​
Size 1.2mm x 9Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
