List of Works P to S
Panakatere nanny's sacred family lands north in Tai Tokerau. Mum was signed over all her siblings land interests up north when she moved there in the 60s. When we had all left home she took away our choice to sell our inheritance to the pakeha and gifted the lands back to the smallest land holders.
2016 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Pania's Dream The connection from womb to the family tree of our oral history. The sacred stone of our ancestors is buried beneath the wharenui and awakens during all occasions on the Pa.
2025 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Papa Hunuhunu When mum was eight her father's eldest brother who was Te Arawa chief at the time put a great pounamu around her neck and claimed her and her gifts to dream with the land for his lineage alone.
2024 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Papakainga The guardianship of family land is paramount to those raised on it. Each generation has a role to play in maintaining the sacredness of papakainga land.
2021 Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Pine Tree Line along our papakainga border imbedded beneath are our afterbirths going back in time. Mum guarded the old cherrytree and the old pepper tree. My older sister is the current guardian of our Pepper tree.
2022 Size 7Ocm x 65cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Pekehaua & Tarimano One a spirit being the other a stone as each carry mana by name for our tribe. Tarimano a living stone buried beneath the big house is remembered above through song and dance. Pekehaua the blood of a taniwha sacrificed and absorbed into the bloodlines of our Pa by tohunga. Both guardians guide and protect us away from the pakeha world.
2021 Size 120cm x 112cm Acrylics on Canvas
Pene Rakau Teaching from a kohungareo perspective is to bypass the english system and immerse the tamariki in nature speaking te reo Maori only. To Maori the pencil came to help them thrive.
2025 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Poppa​ Celebrating the memory of his whakapapa with a portrait of living a bilingual life during the depression, first and second world wars.
2023 Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Poppa Series 1 Poppa would talk about the spirit of his mountain protecting us from harm no matter how far away we were from the land. Mountains talk.
1997 Size 5Ocm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Puhiwhenua She rises from the whakapapa of papakainga land as a guardian of wahine toa to the tribe. Her spirit felt not seen by young puhi.
2024 Size 1.2Ocm x 112cm Acrylics on Canvas
Puhi of a Well Listening to the heartbeat of the whenua through Maori eyes. Watching on as other practising artists climb the stairs of woven patterns to creation.
2022 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Pukaki An old carved taonga of a chief from Te Arawa. The twins in his carved hands representing many differing stories to the local families of Rotorua.
1998 Size 2 x 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Rangiwewehi The awakening of an old soul of the wharenui to guide the way of the korero for the people.
2023 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Papatuanuku The feminine force of nature. It tells a story of old Nanny Ripeka. She waited at the bus stop for mum and her cousins to come home after school every day so they could work in the community garden. Her efforts ensured the tribe lived through the cold winters during the depression. My mum said we wouldn't be here if nanny had not been hard and raised the kids with a stick.
2025 Size 1.2cm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Rongoa the healing powers of bush medicine to Maori. Making poultices and drinks from the kawakawa plant was just one way of providing for medicinal needs. Other sources on the ground in the bush even dandilions were nutritious foods.​
2025 Size 75cm x 50cm Acrylics on Canvas
Saint Catherine Church The different houses of faith I visited while growing up and the curiousity of christ being so different yet similiar to Maori spiritualism.
2024 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Seven Hei Tiki The pattern of bloodlines inherit of Hakopa blood. Papa Hehe had seven children by blood and many more from whangai. He raised all his children equally within knowledge and understanding of our customs and protocols to leave a legacy for his mokopuna.
2023 Size 7Ocm x 65cm Acrylics on Canvas
Silver Swan A representation of seeking the mauri from the land and her creatures to heal the heart.
2024 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Sisters a new generation portraying the Maori tea ceremony on the Pa. What has been passed over and what has been kept as the tribe moves forward.
2023 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Spirit of a Medicine Bowl Portrays the connection between spirituality and medicine for maoridom to heal beyond the body to the soul.
2024 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Stepping Stones The way through the maze of chants and prayers to the other side of life itself Hawaiikinui.
1998 Size 9O cm x 60 cm Acrylics on Canvas​
Still Life Bone and vessel in Yellow oils only. The vessel of a womb.
1991 Size 6O cm x 75 cm Oils on Cavas
Stories from the Tree Before the introduction of TV most of the storytelling was told under the family tree while kids played and nannies reminisced about the hard times of the old ways.
2022 Size 6O cm x 75 cm
Swan Lake The Rose line represents the female lineage off a male line of the Hakopa whanau.
2024 Size 9O cm x 75 cm Acrylics on Canvas
