I AM an ARTIST.

I’ve always been an artist although I haven’t always known it.

It wasn’t until I left school, when I was free from the boundaries and limitations of the education system that I discovered the artist in me.

I have a passion for life and love and caring for the earth. Many of my creations honour our natural environment and have been created with earth in mind.

Everything I create has a reason – sometimes that reason is just to be honouring the creativity within me. Other times it is to bring joy and light to the lives of others.

I am a full time artist so what I sell here gives me the opportunity to grow my creativity some more and to live my everyday life.

I am a painter of stones, a photographer of nature and beautiful things, finder of the unusual and creator of handmade objects never made before. I am currently creating a book from a project I created in 2011 where I painted a stone everyday, photographed the stone, wrote a story for the day them uploaded online. A conversation began from this project and now the book will bring all of this magic together.

I am a photographer curious about the world who sees light in a different way. I find patterns and beings in nature that others may not see. Nature is my ultimate inspiration. At present I am creating a series of mandalas inspired by my stones and nature - they are beautiful and I can't stop making them and you have the opportunity here to purchase one.

I also created personalised mandalas and stones - please contact me if you are interested.

And if you have any questions, send me an email, I would love to hear from you.

Arohanui, Jo x