SARAH BING I build large ceramic sculptures and throw and handbuild functional pieces. I also make tiles for kitchens and bathrooms by commission, and hold private classes in my home studio. I started 10 years ago and was immediately obsessed as soon as I touched clay. It feels like the perfect medium because you can…
MINISTRY OF WOOD Roger Woolston was brought up remotely on a farm in Taumarunui the heart of the north island, he left school to train as an apprentice cabinetmaker then onto his OE working as the resident cabinetmaker in Yallingup Galleries, Australia. Returning to NZ to work in the super yacht industry before running his…
THE RAGLAN COMMUNITY CLAY SHED Meet the makers, the creators, the fun-loving crew of the Raglan Community Clay Shed. The Clay Shed is located at the back of the Old School Arts Centre in our purpose-built Whare Uku and has over 100 active members. No matter if you are into collecting art or just clay-curious,…
A SEASIDE ATTRACTION A SEASIDE ATTRACTION WILL UNFORTUNATELY NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN RAW OCTOBER 2022. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED AND HOPE YOU CAN CONTACT THE ARTIST DIRECTLY. Stuart Shephard is a Raglan based artist who has worked internationally for many years. For this project he is teaming with the artist Margaret Feeney, in…
HAYLEY HAMILTON I attended Central St Martins School Of Art in London, England. I emigrated to NZ in 1997. I work from an open studio workshop in Raglan. I mostly paint and make ceramic sculptures. I have dabbled in commercial illustration and my latest endeavor is a combination of drawing, painting, collage and digital art.…
JANE GALLOWAY Jane Galloway is an Elam graduate whose creativity encompasses a range of styles and media-abstract painting, portraits, landscapes and prints inspired by the history of art and design. Jane has been a full time artist since 2000 and began her career as a landscape painter. In the last few years she has put…
JEAN CARBON – C’BON TEXTILES Textile artisan, fashion designer, installation artist, traveler and teacher. Jeans’ passion is fabric, its history and origins, the many ways it can be patterned, coloured and decorated to create garments or works of art. She uses the ancient resist dying techniques of Shibori and clamped blocks to pattern glorious silk…
JULIAN GODFERY Julian has his own unique view of the world which can be seen in his drawings involving intense pattern-making with fine-tipped pens. People often find his naïve drawings of simple subjects very moving. His original drawings are very small. They are reproduced and available as larger sized prints which are extremely lightfast. He…
KARIN BETTLEY Karin Bettley is a ceramic artist living in coastal Raglan. A love of nature, people and a sense of landscape, mood and movement is evident in her work which is both hand built and thrown on the wheel. Karin makes both sculptural pieces and homewares. “So often I am at the heart of…
MARIANNE ASCHENBRENNER/WOVEN.NZ Since February 2019 I have lived in Whaingaroa (Raglan). Originally coming from Germany in the late 80’s, I fell in love with the wild and magical beauty of Aotearoa New Zealand. I started weaving while I lived up North and was taught by my master teacher Elke Radewald. I attended a Weaving Waananga…