2023 Events
Hurunui Garden Festival is an opportunity to explore private gardens of North Canterbury. As part of the festival, Flaxmere Garden is the venue of a number of events set to educate, entertain and inspire you. For more information check out www.hurunuigardenfestival.com
Dates: 26th - 29th October 2023
Flaxmere Garden events at this year’s Hurunui Garden Festival
Art in the Barn: Artworks available for purchase. Exhibiting artists: Sharon Earl, Lisa Grennell, Corina Hazlett, Jane McIntosh, Svetlana Orinko, Julia Atkinson Dunn and more. Find out more below.
Photographic exhibition: Flaxmere Garden through the seasons and timeline.
Plant sale: Huge range of Penny’s favourite plants for sale.
Angel cakes, natural artisan soap, balms, bath & body treats: Handcrafted with love, in small batches using foraged wildflowers, weeds and herbs. Angel Cakes are created locally in Hurunui to support self care & nurturing yourself and loved ones. Bespoke gift boxes made to order.
Guided talks: With Penny Zino. Meet outside barn daily at 10.30am – Oct 26: Garden Walk. Oct 27: Trees and Shrubs with seasonal interest. Oct 28: How to plan and create a naturalistic garden. Oct 29: Native plantings suitable for Canterbury.
2023 Art in the Barn artists
Lisa Grennell
After leaving school at a young age, I followed my passion and completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and Design, graduating from art school in 2010.
Trying to make ends meet and raising three children during this time, I defied all the odds to realize my dream. I have a strong sense of family and the richness that children bring to our lives, and this is evident in the works that I create.
Children are my inspiration; my guiding light and I endeavor to invoke the nostalgia of childhood within my art. My work largely consists of reverse hand-painting and silk screen printing on Perspex using acrylic paint, glitter, and gold leaf.
Sometimes the subject is floated within the frame creating a shadow. As daylight casts its glow on the works, so too does the shadow, thus bringing the subject to life.
Julia Atkinson-Dunn
Julia Atkinson-Dunn is a garden writer and artist based in Christchurch. She will be presenting a selection of mixed-media floral still lifes inspired by her seasonal garden-grown blooms and oil landscape paintings inspired by her travels of the Canterbury region.
Jane McIntosh
Jane McIntosh works from her studio at ‘The Top Cottage’ Culverden. The stunning, expansive North Canterbury landscape with its diverse seasonal changes combined with the animals that surround her are the source of inspiration for Jane’s artwork.
Jane exhibits in Queenstown Gallery of Fine Art, Queenstown; The Art Box, Christchurch; Tait Gallery, Hanmer Springs; Millwood Gallery, Wellington. Portraits & commissioned works are undertaken.
Email: macfamily@amuri.net
Visit: www.janemcintosh.art
Call: 027 669 5051
Svetlana Orinko
Ukrainian born & educated Svetlana immigrated to New Zealand in 1992. Since that time she has enjoyed amazing success and a growing reputation as one of the country’s top watercolour artists and tutor. She has won numerous Art Awards and has a strong international following.
Her impressive paintings are due to her ability to transform any chosen subject into visual poetic language. Covering an infinite variety of subjects, her sensitive, lyrical and atmospheric paintings have captured people and galleries from around the world.
Sharon Earl
Returning to her first love, drawing, Sharon Earl, known mostly for her steel sculptural works, will show for the first time at this year’s Art in a Barn. On offer will be some finely detailed pencil drawings celebrating the livestock, dogs and horses of a rural world she knows so well. And, perhaps, if there’s time, maybe some sculpture too?
Corina Hazlett
Corina Hazlett is an Artist and an Art Educator. She is the owner of the Corina Hazlett Artist Studio in Sefton, North Canterbury where she holds daily art classes for children and adults.
With over 25 years’ experience working in the visual arts field, her own art is a diverse range of colorful mixed media artworks which hang in both public and private collections.
This recent body of work for Art in the Barn is called “For Everything there is a Season”. It is a collection of acrylics painted from photographs and memories of places in New Zealand, and as you will note there is a change of season in the color palette.
Marguerite Linzel
I live in the beautiful Hurunui District. There are so many wonderful things to paint such as rivers, farmland, animals, snow covered mountains, old machinery, beaches and so on.
I enjoy painting on saws, hand saws and round saws, as something different as well as canvas, rocks etc.
I really enjoy doing commissions for people who share their favourite pictures with me and often supply an old family saw or piece of machinery, to paint them on. Please feel free to contact me if you would like a painting made especially for you.