My Story

I am an artist, a painter, an oil painter to be specific. I love to explore colour and line and push the boundaries with how they sit together, the way line can work to create a three dimensional two dimensional image. I often use my deep love of the natural world to be the vehicle for my work.

I have used painting to hold me in space for most of my adult life, living with depression has been a journey of it’s own, and painting holds me while my mind runs rampant.

My practice is growing as I am growing with new experiences that take me out of my studio and face to face with other artists and the wider community as a whole.

I have participated in some group shows over the last few years,  won a couple of awards and welcomed people in last year with my second Open Studio event.

I am bringing with me some incredibly useful tools, I am creative, resilient and focused. I am dedicated to my practice and to sharing it with others, I have had the exciting opportunity to be part of the Auckland Art Show in May last year and a small group show at The Upstairs Gallery in June and will see what is to come as this year unfolds.

Bree has studied at the Quay School of Fine Arts, Whanganui; Massey University Fine Arts, Wellington; and Whitirea New Zealand.