Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Ruanui, Tauranga Moana Tribes

I’ve been a full-time uku artist for the last 15 years. My work is well known for the texture and patterns I put on the clay, and the glazes that I make myself.  The colours are rich and reminiscent of jewel colours like ruby, emerald, sapphire and turquoise.  

This series of work is inspired by our Taranaki Maunga and the rich landscape of the Taranaki coast. An abstract approach, I want to show energy, movement and lively waterfalls of colour over the fissured and cracked layers of the Whenua. 

Toitū te whenua, whatungarongaro te tangata

The land will remain when people have gone