Michael Barker
is an established artist living on the slopes of Te Aroha Mountain in the Hauraki District.
Inspired by his surroundings, Michaels work is underpinned by the unshakeable philosophy natura
est magister that nature is the teacher.
Michael specialises in using oil, pencil, pen and watercolour. This has allowed an expression in
a variety of textures, colour and size enabling him to produce photo-realistic effects. It also
allows detail and colour to be combined with more subtle results, used with both his animal
studies and portraits.
AWARDS
Michael has exhibited widely through out New Zealand and is a past winner of the George Harrison
Art Award in Tauranga and twice winner of the Waimarino Premier Art Award. In 2014 he was
awarded the Supreme winner's prize at the Franklin Arts Festival in Pukekohe. In October 2014,
he received the TSB Community Trust painting award with an oil 'Towards the Shire' at the
Taranaki National Art Awards. In 2016 was awarded the Gordon Harris Prize for innovation in
watercolour at Watercolour New Zealand's annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Wellington. In 2016 he won the Doris McMiken Prize for Watercolour for 'Hope Rising' and in
October 2017 he was awarded the Supreme winner's prize for the same work. Currently, he is
exhibiting at the Great War Exhibition in Wellington as a part of ongoing national WWI
commemorations and continues to teach and exhibit widely.
Read more about Michael
Featured:
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Hope Rising
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The Blood Rose
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The Green Rose
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In Praise of Common Valour
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Sheeba
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Study of a New Zealand Falcon
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