Mercury Bay Art Escape Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay Artists Open Studios
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Mercury Bay Art Escape Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay Artists Open Studios

Here's a helpful guide of the artists and their mediums to help plan your art escape tour in Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay this year.


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Mercury Bay Art Escape in Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay

If you are in or near Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay for the Mercury Bay Art Escape Open Studio weekends this March, then you may want to visit these artists. View and talk to them about their work.

The Mercury Bay Art Escape open studios weekends also covers artists in Whitianga, Tairua, Whenuakite, Coroglen, Hot Water Beach, Cooks Beach, Flaxmill Bay and Hahei. For information on these artists and more Art Escape events please see the links below.

Download a map of the Kuaotunu, Rings Beach & Opito Bay Open Studios below.

Who's who and what do they do?

Gaylene Lonergan

– Silk painting

Ian Preece

– Photography

Ian Webster

– Pottery

Lutz Gaebler

– Mixed media, pottery and sculpture

Michael Smither

– Painitng

Michaela Palacios

– Lampworked glasswork

Peter Matai Johnston

– Reptiles and mixed Messages

Roimata Taimana

– Drawing

Warwick Lidgard

– Painting

 

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