Estuary Arts Centre overlooks the beautiful Te Ara Tahuna Walkway, located in Orewa on the Hibiscus Coast Highway, only 25 minutes from Auckland city centre. A creative Hub for all creatives, whatever age, level or ability. With 5 gallery spaces which change out exhibitions monthly there is always something new and fresh to see. Three art studios offer a perfect setting to learn and experience art and an onsite café to get your fix of caffeine. Plenty of free parking

Frank casts household size bronze sculptures often based on natural found materials, that create a 3D "photo" of an imagined moment.

Ann's journey towards acrylics has been circuitous starting with a childhood love of graphite drawing and followed by forays into watercolours. The result is clean forms and vibrant colours inspired by the natural world.

Nick’s traditional earthenware departs from his earlier wood fired stoneware. After many years necessarily pursuing other interests, including 15 years working at Elam School of Fine Arts, he’s enjoying making earthenware that’s both decorative and intended for everyday use.

Large-scale iconic landscapes are brought to life with contrasting and harmonious colours, dramatic compositions, which create a 'picture window' like view on your wall. Limited edition prints by Talia Russell are all hand-pulled to create minor variations to each print which makes each unique and original.

Karena de Pont is a visual artist whose body of work is an assemblage of different expressions. Well known for her painted bamboo Earth Sticks as a sculptural focal point for gardens and her wall hung sculptural Island series or for her Burnt Offerings landscape and abstract acrylic paintings on charred cedar panels. Whatever the medium used, colour, texture, and the interplay of light are always a consideration in her work.

Philippa works in her newly created studio, using a wide range of media employing her skills in painting, digital printing, textile arts, ceramics, and sculpture to create artworks inspired by her love of NZ nature and landscape, and of colour, texture and pattern. A frequent finalist in World of WearableArt (WOW) with 8 garments in shows and a category winner.

Janette completed a Masters Degree "Flowers in a Contemporary Painting Practice" in 2013 at Unitec. In 2014 with husband, Jake, (who works as studio technician, resin applicator, admin, P.A.), Janette moved from the city to a lifestyle and bush block north of Auckland near Warkworth. The home and studio sits surrounded by large native trees with an abundance of native bird life ever changing with the seasons.

Mark's design based art studio showcases a diverse range of unique works from his home studio/workshop in the Warkworth countryside.

Joy Bell loves repurposing all manner of materials and incorporating them into her art. She's currently sculpting clay, making molds and casting coloured concrete. With her textiles she uses fleece/ skins/ skulls and found objects to create fantastical creatures. Nothing is off limits when it comes to Joy's art practice.

Alexis Waterhouse of Kaipara Wild Studios works with Ceramics, Glass and Wood; creating sculptural pieces as well as functional vessels. She also offers ceramics workshops in both hand-building and wheel throwing.

Ian's story in parabolic allegories speak through his art disciplines of oil painting, illustration, photography, leather art, sculpture, poetry and art on fashion.

Sonia paints evocative New Zealand seascapes and landscapes in oil, exploring identity, isolation, and belonging. Her expressive, tree-filled works blend realism with emotional depth, rooted in Mahurangi’s wild beauty.

Julia's mother was a talented artist and her sister is too so it followed that, when she had time, she would take it up as well . Having been involved with farming and animals, especially horses all her life it follows that these are her favourite subjects to paint and draw

David produces bespoke wood fired stoneware vessels form his studio near Sandspit Warkworth. Having built his wood fired kiln in 2022 he produces functional ware using natural ash glazes and organic forms.

Experience a unique open-air gallery in a sublime native landscape, discovering more than 60 large-scale sculptures along the 2km trail. Enjoy relaxed all-day dining in the spectacular Glass House while enjoying celebrated estate-grown wines. The foyer gallery features a wide range of small sculptures.

Mike Reeves, a former advertising photographer, has lived in Mahurangi for 11 years and now works from his studio in Algies Bay. His ceramic bowls reflect both simplicity and intricate detail, showcasing the patience and dedication poured into his work. Mike is an active member of the Kowhai Art and Craft Group.

In approaching her art, Glenda Hopkins is always mindful of the intricacies within nature, its lines and patterns are artful in themselves. This year sees approaches using different materials, tools and being freer in form, more intuitive rather than defined by exacting something seen.

With a range of artistic expressions vying for her attention, Sue finds it challenging to commit to a single medium, switching between pottery, glass and painting. She enjoys blending past techniques with fresh ideas, producing works that are inventive and fulfilling. Her fascination with light, texture, and colour has recently led her to glass art, where she aims to harness the magic of sunlight filtering through glass, creating an interplay between light, shadow and of course colour.

Warkworth artist, Pauline Gough, is a self taught contemporary acrylic and mixed media painter. Her aim is to paint intuitively and she works quickly in order to maintain a fresh result. She loves to paint in an impasto style, with energetic brushwork and deliberate texture.

Tony White has had a lifetime passion for painting, sculpture and all visual arts. Works include creations in ceramic, wood and metal sculpture, and a long-standing abstract painting practice. A restlessness is ever present, resulting in a wide ranging and diverse output. Works often develop in parallel, balancing conflict and harmony across two and three dimensions.

Brendan Adams, merges his painting background with ceramics, using vibrant colours and graphic detail in his pottery. Since 1988, he has explored the endless possibilities of form and texture in clay, creating both functional and sculptural works that have been exhibited nationwide

Jill Howard is a clay artist creating hand-built, small-batch ceramics from her beachside studio. Inspired by coastal textures, she works mainly with stoneware, often unglazed to reveal raw surface beauty. Each piece is intentionally organic—imperfectly perfect—and celebrates the joy of handmade craft.

Nicola Bedford, Vitality Art Studio, is an emerging NZ Creative with a vibrant colour palette and whimsical style. Nicola works with acrylic and resin to handcraft eye-catching artworks, often functional in nature. Nicola also shares her passion for art, and her own creative processes/techniques in a series of workshops in her studio in Matakana.

Alysn Midgelow-Marsden is a maker of inspiring and visually compelling forms comprising three-dimensional lines, structures and patterns in complex, lyrical fluidities using media such as textiles, wires, metals and plastics.

Caroline Bell is a ceramic and encaustic artist based in the beautiful Whangaripo Valley just outside Matakana. Her larger pots are mostly hand built with textual slips and glazes applied. Her sculptures are a mixture of whimsical animals that depict human characteristics. With the encaustic painting she uses a loose style depicting abstract flowers and landscapes.

Christina began creating art as a way to express her love for the sea and the feeling of flow it brings. Painting became a language for movement, passion, and presence — a way to channel her inner world into colour, rhythm and the endless tides of inspiration.

My practice combines the observation of ecologies with record keeping and interpretation. Especially where ecologies intersect with and influence, or are influenced, by my body. My paintings are abstract captures recording the emotion of this intersection, whereas my photographs record the ecology as it appears in the moment of capture.

In her art, Andrea explores the fragility of nature and how we interact with it. Her application of layered paints, gilding techniques, and dynamic brushstrokes transform indistinct memories into evocative projections. Andrea is fascinated by our local underwater world - influenced by her research time at the Leigh Marine Laboratory. Her works invite an immersive, sensory response from the viewer. She also loves to portray our bird life in the bush and gardens, in her own colourful interpretation of the ancient style of Chinoiserie.

Derek Ventling works across plywood, acrylics, screen-print, cyano-print, and collage, often from sketches taken in nature.

Sally Greer is an established designer and publisher, now re-emerging as a visual artist. After years of shaping stories on the page, she has returned to the studio to explore the language of paint, ink, and mark-making.

Her artwork explores the traces we leave on one another — stains, marks, and gestures that carry memory, humour, and connection. Working with acrylic and ink, Sally moves between structure and chance: washes that bleed into unexpected forms, lines that record both control and accident, surfaces that shift with time.

Hillary Austin is an Australian Ex Pat painter living in New Zealand. In addition to pursuing her own art practice which involves chasing volume in 2D images she is the founder of the Barefoot Artist Program for Aotearoa and offers community art classes and support for local Mahurangi artists.

The OWL Community Arts Hub is a community based social enterprise between the Auckland Regional Council and local artists where 10% of total sales go to a community fund. There are currently 22 artists with works on display and for sale, ranging from swamp kauri sculptures, paintings, ceramics, resin art, crystals, contemporary Maori art works, jewellery and more. Well worth a visit and you can even relax in the lounge area for a friendly chat.