Toi Ora is a visual art experience designed to support our hauora (health and wellbeing) through visual art practices and processes.

Toi Ora reflects upon our indigenous knowledge and natural environment for creative content, connection and artistic inspiration. Whangaroatanga, unique to our cultural identity provides another layer of artistic exploration and enquiry.

Join me for a fun painting session where I’ll share my love of painting in a relaxing, non-competitive, creative environment.

Whether you’re a beginner or experienced painter, I will walk you through the painting process step by step with all materials and equipment supplied with the purpose of expanding your bountiful imagination. By the end of the session, you will leave with a completed painting to share with whanau and friends.

Toi Ora Kaupapa: Tapu and noa

This painting process explores negative and positive space to create balance, distance and movement on a flat 1-dimensional surface.

We explore dualities of tapu and noa, black and white, male and female energy as complimentary rather than opposing.

When we understand positive and negative space, we can manipulate the 1-dimnesional surface, in paint, pencil and ink effortlessly.

Venue: Te Pokapu – Community Hauora Hub

Date: Tuesday 11th Sept

Time: 10.00 am to 1.00 pm

Max: 8

Artist: Yazma Smith