News – Page 2 – Wendy Walls Artist

May Your Planets Align for Mercury Bay Art Weekends

Posted by Sally Grey on February 24, 2018

Wendy featured in NZ Herald article May Your Planets Align For Mercury Bay Art Weekends Read full article "The artists include Wendy Walls, whose studio is in the converted garage of a historic character cottage. A sign reads "Life is art, paint your dreams", which is — more or less — what the former schoolteacher and interior designer does. She specialises in mixed media art, painting all manner of things to capture abstract and realistic — but usually brightly-coloured — concepts. Walls helps others to do the same, running courses and classes. "There are so many people who would have...

Read more →

Musical Art Class at Queen's Birthday Weekend

Posted by Wendy Walls on June 01, 2017

This Queen's Birthday weekend I'm running a Give it a Go Mixed Media Art Workshop as a prelude to the Mercury Music Festival in Whitianga. The art workshop runs from 9.30am to 2.30pm on Friday 2nd June, the day before the music festival. At the weekend Whitianga will transform into a 'Village of Music' with world-class concerts, hands-on workshops and festival atmosphere. Arrive a day early to beat the traffic and grab a paintbrush.

Read more →

June & July Class Schedule

Posted by Sally Grey on May 24, 2017

Wendy’s mixed media workshops cater to beginner painters and also seasoned watercolourists and oil painters seeking fresh inspiration. Click here for upcoming workshop dates.

Read more →

Save the Date Mercury Bay Art Escape 2018

Posted by Sally Grey on April 13, 2017

Mercury Bay Art Escape is held every year over the first two weekends in March.

Next year's dates are March 3rd and 4th and March 10th and 11th, with the exhibition opening night on March 2nd, 2018

Read more →

Artfindnz.co.nz Showcasing Original New Zealand Art

Posted by Wendy Walls on April 01, 2017

I'm delighted to be part of Artfindnz.co.nz which launched today. The new site showcases contemporary New Zealand artists covering a range of mediums from paint, print, clay, collage and ceramics, and embracing all subject matter from abstract to landscape, portraiture, figurative and still life.

Read more →