Events

	Mercury Bay Art Escape – Open studio
	Date: 5-7 March and 12-13 March 2022
	An opportunity to visit artists in their studios – a diverse group who live and work in the Mercury Bay area. Be sure to visit the “Taste of the Tour” exhibition at Hotwaves Cafe, Hotwater Beach, to see one work from each of the member artists in one place. Art Loft Studio will be open from 10am – 4pm at 9A Lee Street, Whitianga on both weekends.
	Link: www.mercurybayartescape.co.nz

	PANZ (Pastel Artists NZ) Purely Pastel Exhibition 2022 More than a hundred of the best pastel works in the country all together in one show. This year the exhibition will be at the Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua 1 April – 15 May 2022.
	Link: www.pastelartists.co.nz

	Adam Portrait Awards Tour
	Date: 26 May – 14 August 2022 NZ Portrait Gallery, Wellington
	A selection of finalists from this bi-annual event will tour the country beginning at the NZ Portrait Gallery in Wellington, then on to the Percy Thomson Gallery at Stratford, the Pah Homestead in Auckland, and the Milllenium Gallery in Blenheim. See the link below to see dates for when the exhibition will be showing near you. My painting titled “Kahu and the Carver” can be seen with other finalists in the Adam Portrait Awards tour.
	Link: www.nzportraitgallery.org.nz/portraits-online/adam-portraiture-award