Sandy Bay by Richard Robinson (2008)

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Description Sandy Bay in Tutukaka, Northland, is one of the most beautiful and inviting beaches along the Tutukaka coast, which is a treasure trove of secluded white sand beaches. Sandies is also a great spot for surfing, and on a big day the break can be ridden halfway across the whole bay. On calmer days it's a mecca for families and kids of all ages, this more sheltered southern end providing safe swimming and great boogy-boarding waves for the littluns.

Richard Robinson, Ruakaka
Member Since October 2008
Artist Statement Hi there, I'm is a professional artist living and working in Ruakaka. My award-winning landscape paintings grace private and corporate collections worldwide and are renowned for the light which is captured in them.

Having trained and worked as a graphic designer for several years,
I took the leap as a full time artist in 2001 when I got married and travelled to Europe and held my first solo exhibition in London. After painting my way around Europe, my wife Helen and I returned to New Zealand and settled in Ruakaka.

My subsequent exhibition of Northland coastal scenes was a sellout success and I have built on that reputation of excellence over the past 6 years. In 2002 I won the Telecom Art Scholarship for Northland and later published a series of prints, a calendar, a set of placemats, postcards, have taken on a tutoring role and appeared numerous times in published media and television. I'm represented by seven galleries from Parua Bay down to Queenstown. In 2006 I was amongst 60 artists in the prestigious "New Zealand's Favorite Artists" book and in 2007 featured in the "12 Contemporary New Zealand Artists" Calendar.

I am doubly blessed to have a job which gives me so much satisfaction and at the same time gives others pleasure. That's why I enjoy painting commissions so much too, because these places hold so many precious memories for people.

Visit me in my Studio/Gallery in Ruakaka or see over 350 of my paintings online at www.newzealandartist.com and if you register for my email newsletter you go into the 3 monthly draw to win a painting.

You will also find my painting lessons available at: www.newzealandartist.com/lessons.htm