Morag Stokes Art Studio

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Morag Stokes Art Studio I am a Scottish/Kiwi painter and art educator, running a range of workshops from my art studio in Waikanae, New Zealand. www.stokes.net.nz

I am a Scottish/Kiwi painter and Artist Educator with GOLDEN Artist Colors. As an Independent Contractor I have completed extensive product orientation with Golden Artist Colors. I lead workshops featuring their product lines, in exchange for which they provide me with art materials and supporting literature.

FREE to visitors during the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail - tiny drip painted acrylic skins. My Accumulated Drip Painting proce...
22/10/2026

FREE to visitors during the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail - tiny drip painted acrylic skins. My Accumulated Drip Painting process always leaves me with acrylic skins that I can't use. If I'm collaging with them, I always make more than I need to give me lots of choice. Sometimes some are made to use up the last of the paint in my dripping bottles. They behave a bit like Gladwrap and are happy to stick to most smooth surfaces. If you're visiting my studio over the next two weekends, you're welcome to take one or two as a wee souvenir of the art trail. Stick them on your phone or your fridge. Or maybe just on the end of your nose!! 😆

It's full steam ahead now to get the studio set up for the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail now that my last Artist Sessions group...
20/10/2026

It's full steam ahead now to get the studio set up for the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail now that my last Artist Sessions group for this current block finished today. It starts this long weekend folks, so do come visit if you can. Here's one of my unframed pieces that I like and is for sale. Shards of Light and Pieces of Soul #3.

This is one of my favourite drawings. It's called Transcendence and will be available for sale at my studio during the K...
16/10/2026

This is one of my favourite drawings. It's called Transcendence and will be available for sale at my studio during the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail . Ink and graphite on Yupo.

Every time I run this course I'm blown away by the imagination and creativity in my groups. They start by collaging Adel...
15/10/2026

Every time I run this course I'm blown away by the imagination and creativity in my groups. They start by collaging Adele's head, shoulders and hands, then they work up their composition, theme and decoration from there. A lot of work here was done as homework between classes, so some people have gone for wonderful decorative overload.

Tonight was the final class in my Woman in Gold 4 week course. Great group of people with wonderful, imaginative takes o...
15/10/2026

Tonight was the final class in my Woman in Gold 4 week course. Great group of people with wonderful, imaginative takes on a re-working of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (the Woman in Gold). My photographing of their paintings under studio lights didn't do them justice, but I'll post some tomorrow to let you see what they got up to.

During Tuesday's Artist Sessions, Deb continued her exploration of plant forms inspired by the photography of German art...
15/10/2026

During Tuesday's Artist Sessions, Deb continued her exploration of plant forms inspired by the photography of German artist Karl Blossfieldt. She has decided to work with renderings of the same form, but try different ways of using watercolour, ink and pastel on different paper grounds - a great way of exploring the possibilities of materials.

Jo Kreyl Art was bringing this piece to completion yesterday at the Artist Sessions. It's a real stunner and she has a b...
13/10/2026

Jo Kreyl Art was bringing this piece to completion yesterday at the Artist Sessions. It's a real stunner and she has a beautiful moulded frame for it which she has painted in the same fluorescent pink you see here. Her final touches will be to extend the blue flowers onto the frame and maybe add a gold bug or two. This in destined for the ARTBOURNE exhibition at Wellesley Collage from 5-8 November. It's been inspiring watching how this work has developed during the Artist Sessions. She put a lot of effort into finding just the right pink!!

During today's Artist Sessions, Gavin put the finishing touches to this painting. This is his practice piece before he s...
13/10/2026

During today's Artist Sessions, Gavin put the finishing touches to this painting. This is his practice piece before he starts a larger one. He had 3 attempts at rendering the sand highlights before feeling OK about them The photo reference is is own.

Not long now until the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail and I still have 3 workshops to run before I can tackle the studio transfo...
11/10/2026

Not long now until the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail and I still have 3 workshops to run before I can tackle the studio transformation to display zone! Here are a three small paintings priced at the lower end in my catalogue. Might make nice Christmas gifts.

Last night was week 3 of my Woman in Gold evening classes. The main job this week was for everyone to get some of the pa...
08/10/2026

Last night was week 3 of my Woman in Gold evening classes. The main job this week was for everyone to get some of the patterns developed for their pattern banks into the main painting. This group has requested more colour than previous groups and I'm not one to deny a colour craving! Klimt used quite a limited colour palette for his portrait of Adele, apart from the metallics, but he couldn't resist getting a splash of red in there.

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