List of Works T
Taniwha Springs Our story is our own to tell. Pekehaua and Hinerua brother and sister Taniwha of the old Springs mythical tales of Awahou. The flow of rhythm for the tribe sets down a path of crystal clear river banked by watercress used on the Pa. Today that watercress is part of the spring myths as its gone.
2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Taheke Road the story of the pine trees where many afterbirths are buried forming a sacred thread from that papakainga to living up north on nanny's land.
2022 Size 6Ocm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Tarimano the Navigator The sacred stone of Rangiwewehi buried beneath the wharenui. The secrets of its old mana sealed from another time when the stars entertained the tribe as they navigated nature together.
2018 Size 6Ocm x 90cm Acrylics on Canvas
Tawakaheimoa A house of hidden wairua that awakens the chief during formal and informal occasions where the church is converted to Maori ways and customs.
2018 Size 1.2cm ^ Acrylics on Canvas
Midwife the story of Tawera who hunted the uruwera for prey and fish to fill her belly. She lived a full short life enjoying living in the bush only returning for hui and tangi alike. She would bring game or fish and sit and eat her fill then disappear back to the bush. The Hei Tiki representing her reflection in the stars.
1997 Size 70cm x 90cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Ao Marama the true wonder of experiencing the wairua of feminine force in time.
2014 Size 50cm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Te Ao Ngahoro the wharekai named for the chief's first wife. The place where women were in charge and a room can be filled with feminine force.
2022 Size 60cm x 90cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Arawa Migration The passing on of old knowledge woven through a well of new threads of influence.
2016 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Arawa Navigation In the Mamaku mountains there lays a buriel place on old whenua.
2016 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Awa The blessing of an arranged marriage for peace between tribes threaded by blood and land. The story of the river wives in the english bible. They are sometimes described as a black swan hidden in the folds of nature.
2017 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Motu Mokoia Island the burial place of old Te Arawa chiefs and the weaving of mokopuna into the future.
2019 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Inoi Ariki Nanny Puti refused to have her photo taken due to her superstitions about the camera. She practised old karakia weaving chants into her daily chores as she worked.
2022 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Kanohi O Tama Te Kapua The all-seeing eye of Tama Te Kapua and the bloodlines of his old eye through the generations ahead. His skills as an orator and navigator are remembered through song and dance.
2022 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Kore the time of eternal nothing before matter separated in the universe. To the sacred eye the haven of creative wonder hidden inside violent streams of black storms raging darkness.
1999 Size 50cm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Te Kupu of the North shows the dreaming of papakainga land.
2022 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas
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Te Kupu o Tupuna shows the chief and his marakihau rising from within Poutama to take their place through rememberance. On another level it is the weave of our koroua and kuia as they transfer knowledge to their descendants.
2016 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas
Te mahi maunga Games of skiing on cardboard down the mountain waiting for the school bus. Being at one with the mountain listening to the laugh of nga tamariki as the land weaves their threads in memory.
2023 Size 6Ocm^ Series 7/12 A dozen Nappies Acrylics on Canvas
Ten Guitars playing in the old club house down by the river. The meaning of the Guitar to Maoridom through the generations is like a chief within itself to communicate maori words of knowledge with beautiful sounds.
2023 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Big Chapel Maori ancestral business requires similar spiritualities and customs the church practised.
2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Chapel Built by the families of Awahou on the Pa. The chapel represents the faith of our families to share as mokopuna in the way of our beliefs. The old way of oral knowledge and wisdom are entwined by custom.
2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
The Cherrytree Island of Mokoia Tangatawhenua thread their blood into the land with every afterbirth. A family of the Big Cherrytree describes identifying the place where generations of placenta given in care to the shielding spirit of the family plot.
2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Cloak of Jacob's Well The warrior holds the head of his enemy in his hands looking to the next challenger to his mona.
2016 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Couch A nickname for Te Paepae. The place of men where the masculine force is at home with his mana. Specifically woven whakapapa steeped in custom and ritual when a man speaks to the living carvings and weavings in the wharenui.
2017 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Door in the Wall describes the feeling of wairua and mana when we sleep in the wharenui on formal occasions.
2017 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Drum of a Village Around the motu the families gather and share in the community gardens they tended.
2011 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Farm Up North We travel up the winding roads of the mangamuka gorge to find our way home to a hidden farm bringing life to country. The kids find games hidden in the old vehicle wrecks playing hide and seek in a great big farmhouse.
2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Feminine Flute from a Dozen nappies series
The weave of the mokoia island bushlife produces peace and tranquility for its visitors.
2023 Size 6O^cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Flute in the Rotorua museum there is the flute Tutanekai made from an english priest's calf.
2013 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Gold Swan The Awahou marae is like a golden swan cared for by the whole tribe.
2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Good Sheppard Church connecting to home through Paipera Tapu.
2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Harp in the Tree A memory of brother and sister. The tree represents the male line and the harp the female line of our whakapapa.
2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Lakehouse reflections of protocols and customs of wharenui from around Lake Rotorua
2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Mamaku Mountains Keepers the sacredness of our maunga. Totems represent three generations at one time.
2022 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Matador Our afterbirths from generations go back to Mokoia Island and are remembered within chants and stories of old.
2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Matadors Cane Speaks of the wisdom of the living tokotoko and their holding of knowledge.
2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Matriarch it represents the feminine qualities of faith before beliefs in the art of healing with natural resources.
2020 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Mountain & the Keeper An old story about the tohunga who guarded our maunga long ago and his spirit still stirring in the night.
2021 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Mountain and the Puhi is about a story of the Patupairere nicknamed the fairy people by tourists as their size was small and they had varying pale features and blonde or red hair. Many intermarried with tribes below their mountain Ngongotaha.
2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Old Church and the Tree our tupuna built and gathered at the old church across the awa whose trees along the banks hid the spiritual beauty within.
2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
The Old Pa was moved from across the river to its new position along the bank. The sacred stone Tarimano was buried beneath the blessed land by old kararia envoking the Maori gods.
2017 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Pacific Cherrytree when my eldest sister was proposed to by her Tokelau husband he and his family brought gifts and laid these on the front lawn of our home. There were exotic fruits and berries, woven mats and floral fabrics of rainbow colouring.
2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Paddle is the first tool under the stars to cut the water sharply when the waka chief navigates. The paddles are marked with sacred stories of our earthly beginnings and the guardians who voyage with us.
2018 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Pepper Tree where all our family afterbirths are buried is a sacred place we still use today. The tree has mana and healing properties for the family that are accessed through chant and song.
2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Shoe & the Book My great grandfather was superstitious about the english bible after it was translated into Maori. He saw ritual and custom of Maori flowing through the old story of Jacob's dream about the ladder to heaven opening up. This to Maori was the pathway to Poutama the stairway to heaven.
2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas
The Sun Dial The island weaves out whakapapa from one tribal thread around the motu to another. Away from the city our customs and practises are a way of life for many still.
2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Teapot Tells the story of pouring a cup of tea in the service of the Pa. A sacred duty all perform in their lives. To Māori when a child makes their kuia and koroua a cup of tea this is medicine with lifeforce.
2023 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
The Weave of Medicine Healing the land through gift of faith and old chants is a practice of our tohunga who were outlawed by the pakeha.
2022 Size 6Ocm^ Acrylics on Canvas
The Whirlpool Highlights the spiritual meaning of the whirlpool and the great tohunga Ngatoiroirangi. His ability to awaken the earth with a whirlpool in anger is retold by many Maori artists.
2019 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Three Sisters mum raised us as bicultural children where we attended the pakeha church for confirmation in their faith whilst practicing Maori ways of life on the Pa.
1997 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Tohunga Wairua speaks about the tohunga lineage of my northern nannies.
2022 Size 60cm^ Acrylics on Canvas
Rua Waka transferring ta moko to canvas. Tells of the two whakapapa of my grandparents and their grandparents.
2001 Size 96cm x 28cm Acrylics on Canvas
Tutanekai a lover and chief of Mokoia island. His stories are retold today and the most famous is the love story of him and his wife Hinemoa who swam the lake to meet him.
2018 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Two Chiefs Talking represents the big hui where the families from Te Arawa and Ngapuhi agreed to intermarry and bring a new leaf to both whakapapa.
2019 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Te Mauri the aura surrounding the lifeforce of our Pa and the surrounding lands.
2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
Two Swans Make a Hei Tiki definition of the twoheaded Hei Tiki being a one rainbow swan.
2021 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas
