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Taniwha Springs Our story is our own to tell. The way of the awa, the flow of rhythm set down a path of a crystal clear river surrounded by watercress across banks of village life . Pekehaua and Hinerua, brother and sister Taniwha of the old Springs mythical tales before, we arrived and made it home base negotiating with patupaiarehe who were there before us.

2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Peter Jacob Hakopa

Taheke Road the story of the pine trees where many afterbirths are buried forming a sacred thread from that papakainga to the living.

2022 Size 6Ocm^ Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

Tarimano the Navigator The sacred stone of Rangiwewehi and the last of the oldest gifts from our journey into history buried beneath the wharenui [big house]. 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 Tai Tokerau

Tawakaheimoa ..."House of Tawakaheimoa" Hidden beneath are his secrets of awakening the whakairo during the time of formal occasions. Standing above the steple, guardian of all things looking down on his whenua beneath. Hidden in his knowledge, the gateway to the other side of the living carved world of maoridom and the Pa.

2018 Size 1.2cm ^ Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

Midwife the story of Tawera who hunted the uruwera for some 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 the female form of the earth mother as reflected in the stars.

1997 Size 70cm x 90cm Acrylics on Canvas

Te Ao Marama the true wonder of Io's inspirational spirit, God of all light and life within our universal evolution. The Split of the earth mother and the moon mother gives light to many ancestral stories of our beginning from feminine force and times.

2014 Size 50cm^ Acrylics on Canvas

Te Ao Ngahoro [horo] the Wharekai and the wonders and secrets of the female line shared over food and laughter and of tamariki sounds the coming together of long forgotten memories of life from a mysteriously old tribal family of friends. The building named for the chief's first wife.

2022 Size 60cm x 90cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

Te Arawa Migration

The passing on of old knowledge woven through a well of new threads of gold for the awa of Awahou.

2016 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Katarina nee Hakopa

Te Arawa Navigation of the Mamaku Mountains to the burial place of old knowledge in the whenua. Connecting by way of whakapapa into the future. The spirit feels its way into the future and voyages navigation according to that feeling as watched from the stars.

2016 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Katarina nee Hakopa

Te Awa Hou

The blessing of an arranged marriage for peace between tribes threaded by blood and land, the river comes to life in celebration of those tribal marriages.The story of the river wives in the bible but for Awahou puhi have always been sacred for one reason or another. They are sometimes described as a black swan hidden in the folds of nature only coming out to marry or guard their mokopuna with the greatest of loves as their force of nature.

2017 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

Te Awa mea Te Motu

Mokoia Island, the burial place of Ohomairangi's anchor and bailer guarded by the spirit of Pekehaua the taniwha.

2019 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas TBA

Te Inoi Ariki

Remembering Nanny Puti was through Te Kupu and Paipera Tapu. Raised the old ways she refused to have her photo taken and relied on the faith her blood would give her descendants to achieve their greatest inspiration from her combined korowai and kakahu gifts given at her aunt's wedding before her.

2022 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

Te Kanohi O Tama Te Kapua

The all-seeing eye of Tama Te Kapua and the bloodlines of his old eye. On another level they are the washing machines of our auntie sarah whose job it was growing up to do the family washing, a habit she continued throughout her life.

2022 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas Sarah Hera nee Hakopa

First there was Te Kore, the time of eternal nothing. Then came Te Po the oldest of eternal nights of the unknown womb before universal life forms. Her boundless dark matter infinite without gravity, time, and without space. To the sacred eye, the haven of creative wonder hidden inside violent streams of black storms raging darkness. A memory of what is hidden in the sacreed caves of Ngongotaha

1999 Size 50cm^ Acrylics on Canvas Peter Jacob Hakopa

Te Kupu (Of the North| shows Hiri O Ripeka laid down when she stood for the first time on the threshold of Tawakaheimoa during her first karanga as mana whenua. She sealed the whakapapa with her own mana moving into a future inspired by her own dreaming with the papakainga land.

2022 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

Te Kupu the word shows the chief and his marakihau rising from within Poutama. On another level they represent the weave of our koroua and kuia across Rotorua nui a kahumatamoemoe ko te moana to unite as one family woven in blood.

2016 Size 1.2m^ Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

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

The art of playing the guitar was a sight to see 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.

2023 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa Donation

The Big Chapel

Maori ancestral business requires Maori perspective through the Maori bible, Paipera Tapu. It mines the way of politics and christian fellowship through ancestors like sails in the wind, blissfully uncaring of european perspective when services are performed on Maori land.

2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Toma and Beba Jerome

The Chapel, Te Whakatika o Te Awahou

Built by the families of Awahou. 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.

2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Cherrytree Island of Mokoia

Tangatawhenua [people of the land] 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 papakainga [family plot].

2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Cloak of Jacob's Well tells of the battle of wit to win the prize of the awa. The warrior holds the head of his enemy in his hands looking to the next challenger.

2016 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

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, the movement of the paepae when a man speaks moves the rafter patterns above their heads to the way of the wairua opening the heavens in parallel pattern to the karanga of women.

2017 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Wylie Jacob Hakopa

The Door in the Wall

Knowing how to navigate land strategically in returning to our wairua within the wharenui

2017 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Drum in teaching a Village

Around the motu. The kaitiaki beats the drum awakening the tree of the village to the sound of the four winds.

2011 Size 9Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Farm Up North

Neutral grounding on Dad's farm. We traveel up the winding roads of the mangamuka gorge to find our way home to a hidden farm bringing life onto his country. the kids find games hidden in the old vehicles lined up read for parts or to be remolded into his creations.

2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Feminine Flute Dozen nappies series

The weave of the mokoia island trees

2023 Size 6O^cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Flute

2013 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Gold Swan's Chapel

The Awahou Marae

2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas

The Good Sheppard and St Marks on Daisy Hill

Building a new bridge of faith to 'The Big Chapel' of home

2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Harp in the Tree

A memory of mum and uncle motutapu playing together with all their whangai when they were small. The tree represents the male line and the Harp the female line of their own whakapapa.

2020 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Motutapu nee Hakopa

The Lakehouse

2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Sarah Hera nee Hakopa

The Mamaku Mountain Keepers

2022 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Matador

Our afterbirths from generations of a single family are wrapped in kete and returned under the family tree to weave back and solidify connection to sacred land being a tribally woven identity in tie itself. Talking travel with Mokoia Island Rotorua

2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Ripeka Vallender nee Hakopa

The Matadors Cane

Speaks of the wisdom of the living tokotoko, the holder of knowledge hidden behind the codes and notches from handle to stem. The koroua would speak when guided by their hands through rakau to enhance the path of mana and volume of their words to the living on the otherside of the carvings. The sons could connect with blood energy to rakau and the whakairoa will speak through them if blessed.

2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Matriarch

The Matriarchs are the nannies' universal connection of women through the memory of the womb " a soul memory shared by the womb alone'. For Pania in the painting it represents the feminine qualities of faith before beliefs in the art of healing from home.

2020 Size 9Ocm x 60cm Acrylics on Canvas Darby Dick

The Mountain & the Keeper

And the sleeping await the reaping back of a mountain home from time itself.

2021 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

The Mountain and the Puhi

2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Sarah Hera nee Hakopa

The Old Church & Tree

2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas Awahou Marae

The Old Pa

2017 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Pacific Cherrytree

2017 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Beba and Toma Jerome

The Paddle

The paddle is the first tool under the stars to navigate. Along with the bailer and the mountain bowl they can journey anywhere and still connect with home whether that be another tribe or another land across the sea.A patu is given to the navigators and wanderers of the Awahou family. Just like Tama Te Kapua and his navigation of Aotearoa so too the line continues as his mokopuna spread their threads across the land and seas always remembering where they come from and who they are, this is the paddle, its brothers the bailers, and sisters the medicine bowls, all gifts to our generation from the past of the wharenui.

2018 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Pepper Tree of a Puhi

2018 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Tai Tokerau

Shoe on a book blooms to 'Found a Jandal'

The Shoe & the Book To walk the walk and talk the talk, the koroua mastered their own weaving knowledge of whakapapa. So precisely, they could interpret the patterned kowhaiwhai above the paepae and mimic their lineage flowing off unto many branches weaving their cloaks with a wave of their talking stick. Their poised storytelling moves in weaves along the patterned walkways of Te Kupu, Paipera Tapu mea Te Ao Marama all awaiting an opening above the heads of men when they stand and speak paepae. The knowledge imbedded in the completed mahi reflects Te Paipera Tapu, and the next Mana Whenua, the eldest living daughter of Ripeka, named for her Nanny Puti Rose. The premahi reflects her journey to find herself before returning to Paipera Tapu and its wealth of gifts.

2016 Size 6Ocm x 5Ocm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Sun Dial

The son of sons from around te motu. The many weaves of our whakapapa from one thread alone strengthened over time to withstand another invasion from the universal rangatiratanga. He is attached to all others important and above nga wahine toa o te motu, his sister, Te Mana whenua shields the papakainga. The new guards a set of paintings with the next line of Jacob's mokopuna woven within the stories of their own parents.

2021 Size 5Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Te Arawa

The Teapot

Tells the story of pouring a cup of tea in the service of the Pa. A sacred duty not all perform in their lives. To Māori when a child makes their kuia and koroua a cup of tea this is medicine with lifeforce something the china man knows all about. For the families of the Pa to allow their mokopuna to serve at their tables is a gift to all visitors to be served by willingness and faith in one big family.

2023 Size 6Ocm x 75cm Acrylics on Canvas Motutapu nee Hakopa