HEI TIKI AROHA COLLECTION

The Hei Tiki Aroha collection draws upon the themes of unconditional love, the highest vibrational form that invites all living things to come together in communion. Healing is a key element in this collection whether through invocation or prayer, through service and serving, or creating space to carve out intentional connection to our wairua and higher self.

This painting focuses on the power of chakras and the need for alignment and space. There is a fluidity and movement in this painting that connects to the constant vibration of energy and the importance of keeping centres open.

This piece is available for viewing in the Hyatt Hotel

Hei Tiki Love Love Love

In this painting, I explore my deep and ongoing loverelationship with nature and how this creates a sense of peace both within me but also in how I move through life. It also functions as a way-maker for peace and continues to grow a love for people and connection.

In this painting, I explore a magical connection between the present and the past and how sometimes the different characters in our very being love to come and remind us that we all are connected to each other through our many parts and personalities. Not only in our present realities but connected in our past and future realities that are all existing at the same time.

Hei Tiki This Is Love

In this painting, I play with the traditional whakatauki, ‘although it is small, it is precious’ and draw attention to the most precious exchange of them all: LOVE. Here you will find all facets of this multi-dimensional experience, love written and love drawn and love painted, and it shines through with harmony, joy and peace.

E iti noa ana,na te aroha

A small ordinary thing, begotten by love

Karakia A Gift Of Love

In this painting I invoke a karakia written by Dr. Rangimarie Pere. Interestingly, I had come upon this karakia in her book Te Wheke before I met her - and over time we grew to be great friends. This karakia has deeply influenced my thinking of the ways of wairua maori and te ao Māori by facilitating a pathway to explore abstract landscapes through prayer.

Hei Tiki Urban Atua

In this painting, I explore how location can be an illusion: no matter where we stand, upon the grassland floors or the grit of inner city concrete, we can always create a sacred space for ourselves and in doing so we can always be in conversation with our ancestors.

This painting draws upon the Māori concept of the violet flame, kahukura and the healing energy that accompanies this high vibration. The glowing mixture of pinks and purple and the vibrant eyes draw focus the need for vitality and our experience as inter-connected beings with all of the universe.