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 to represent their own mother's tohunga cloak on the marae. Mum gifted all this land back to her cousins who had the smallest shares putting tradition before a pakeha perspective to land ownership. She knew we would never return so she took away our choice to sell to the pakeha before we even knew our inheritance existed.
Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Pania's Dream The connection through the female womb from the family tree to the island of our oral history. The sacred stone of our ancestors is buried beneath the wharenui and remains present during all occasions on the Pa.
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.
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.
Size 5Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Pine Tree Line along our papakainga border holds many afterbirths from womb and seed of the Hakopa lineage imbedded beneath. Mum was a guardian to this land for her lifetime on the earth. My older sister is the current guardian.
Size 7Ocm x 65cm Acrylics on Canvas ​
Pekehaua & Tarimano One spirit the other stone each carrying mana 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. Both guardians guide and protect us through the pakeha world.
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.
Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Poppa​ Celebrating the memory of his whakapapa with a portrait of living a bilingual life during the first world war and second world war.
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.
Size 5Ocm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Puhiwhenua She rises from the whakapapa of papakainga land as a guardian of wahine toa.
Size 1.2Ocm x 112cm Acrylics on Canvas
Puhi of a Well Listening to the heartbeat of the whenua through Maori eyes. Watching Maori practising artists climbing the stairs of woven patterns of karakia chants.
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 familys of Rotorua.
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.
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 and rod.
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.​
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 from Maori spiritualism.
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 with knowledge and understanding of our customs and protocols.
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.
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.
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.
Size 9O cm x 60 cm Acrylics on Canvas​
Still Life Bone and vessel in Yellow oils only. The vessel of a womb.
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.
Size 6O cm x 75 cm
Swan Lake The Rose line represents the female lineage off a male line of the Hakopa whanau.
Size 9O cm x 75 cm Acrylics on Canvas
