Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival

Bloom in the Bay

A World Without – Ruud Kleinpaste (The Bug Man)

Imagine a world without flowers, trees, birds, gardens, home-grown vegetables and babbling brooks… Imagine a world without bugs! Be inspired with interesting facts from The Bug Man.

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Christie Cramer is best known for her love of vibr

Christie Cramer is best known for her love of vibrant colour. Her work is organic and multilayered due to the use of washes and glazes, with colours mixing directly on the canvas. Christie has a love of botanical subjects, so her work fits right in with the garden and art festival’s vibe.
"I love the positive vibe of the BOP Garden and Art Festival. Being in someone's beautiful garden, sharing my art and chatting about my process with visitors is always such a great pleasure!"
This will Christie's fourth time exhibiting at the festival and we are very excited to have her back in 2024!
Featured Artwork - "Nikau Groove"
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www.christiecramer.co.nz

🌸Garden and Art Trail partner @palmersbethlehem
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The owners of Piccola Lante, Fraser & Gill, are lo

The owners of Piccola Lante, Fraser & Gill, are looking forward to receiving new visitors and returning ones to their garden in 2024. Gill is excited to share her new art pieces and also some beautiful images on canvas of some of the most beautiful villages in France, as well as some of the stunning Chateaux down the Loire Valley.

Piccola Lante is a Italian renaissance designed garden, with a relaxing Tuscan vibe. This garden is on 2 levels featuring clipped hedging, potager, loggia, picking garden & potted geraniums on pillars with water features and a rill linking the levels. Bordering onto a reserve, the garden has the added benefit of mature trees and rolling hillside.
Be sure to save the dates of 14th-17th Nov 2024 so you can enjoy the visual feast of both garden and art at this stunning property.

🌸Garden and Art Trail partner @palmersbethlehem
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Last week we gathered together to celebrate it bei

Last week we gathered together to celebrate it being "one year out" from the 2024 Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival! Our amazing gardeners, artists, board, sponsors, funders and committees mingled and enjoyed the delicious catering by @elizabethtauranga . It was a fun night, as captured through the lens of photographers @mediamastersnz .
Thank you to all who came and joined in the festivities.

And a huge thank you to principal festival partners @bayleysbayofplenty
Garden and Art Trail partner - @palmersbethlehem
Bloom in the Bay partner - Craigs Investment Partners
TECT, Tauranga City Council and all our funders and sponsors!
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Tauranga metal artist and photographer Ninette Kru

Tauranga metal artist and photographer Ninette Kruger specialises in one-of-a-kind handcrafted botanical and ocean-inspired metal art for discerning nature-lovers. Her work is stylish and elegant and highlights the diversity found in the natural world. Her highly textured pewter and copper wall art is often informed by her monochrome nature photography.

"I’m excited to be part of Tauranga’s vibrant art scene and sharing our work with nature-living art lovers from all around New Zealand" - Ninette Kruger.

Ninette will be returning to our festival in November 2024! See more of her beautiful artworks at www.ninettekrugermetalart.com
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It's official folks! The confirmed dates for the B

It's official folks! The confirmed dates for the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival are 14 -17th November 2024! We look forward to sharing the excitement of our incredible artists and gardeners in the build up to this amazing event. Put those dates in your calendars now and join the fun 🧡
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Jo Tricker's glass art is stunning, and our festiv

Jo Tricker's glass art is stunning, and our festival attendees will have the pleasure of seeing her work again in Nov 2024!

Jo is excited to announce: “In previous Bay of Plenty Garden and Art festival's I have exhibited in other people’s gardens which has been fabulous! However, in 2024 I will be exhibiting in my own 63 sq m studio for the first time and I am very excited to be able to show people ‘behind-the-scenes’ - the glass kilns and gas torch processes."

More about Jo's art
"I am fascinated by glass - by its ability to transform itself from a solid to a liquid and back to a solid again! For me it is the endless fascination of where science and art meet." Jo Tricker uses fusing, casting and flameworking techniques…and her medical laboratory background directly influences these glass processes. Artistically, she is inspired by world cultures and a love of colour and pattern, as well as English literature, family history, and performance art.
Jo Tricker Glass
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We're excited to let you know the Tirohonga garden

We're excited to let you know the Tirohonga garden is returning in 2024! This beautiful garden featured in NZ House & Garden magazine and you can see why 💗
Sue said of next years festival - "We are looking forward to sharing our garden and ideas with other Gardener's."

Prepare to be charmed by the large country garden that can be found at this address, with its beautiful harbour views and sweeping lawns down to the waterfront. Large, established trees frame the property while mixed beds featuring hydrangeas, rhododendrons, roses and dogwoods form the house gardens. Beyond the house, foliage gardens overlook the duck pond.
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What flowers evoke thoughts of spring for you? Is

What flowers evoke thoughts of spring for you? Is it daffodils, roses, poppies or cherry blossoms? What about dahlias, tulips, or snowdrops...thankfully the list to choose from is long for gorgeous blooms. Our festival gardeners are always planning, developing and planting with the next event in mind! We can't wait to show you their wonderful creativity in Nov 2024.
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Who has loads of Broad Beans? Here is an awesome r

Who has loads of Broad Beans? Here is an awesome recipe from @isaac_weston_artist (who was a chef in a previous life) to use them up, whilst enjoying a delicious and nutritious meal. This recipe is gluten free but you can replace GF flour with normal flour.

Isaac's Green Fritter Mix

2 cups broad beans (out of their pods)
2 handfuls of uncooked spinach
1 egg
1/2 cup gluten free flour
1Tbsp curry powder
1tsp salt
1 clove garlic
1/2 block of crumbled feta cheese
(You can add any other veggies ie: peas, broccoli)

To make:
In a food processor, blend the egg, spinach, 1/2 of broad beans, curry powder, garlic, salt and flour together until it forms a batter. Fold in remaining broad beans, and the crumbled feta.

Pan fry batter mix in oil 2-3 minutes on each side. use a couple of tablespoons of mix per fritter.
Serve with tomato kasundi and hummus. Enjoy! :)

🌸Festival Artist Feature - Jacki Barklie Back S

🌸Festival Artist Feature - Jacki Barklie
Back Studio is a unique art nexus where resident artist Jacki Barklie makes art, runs workshops, and collaborates with inspiring creative practitioners.

We asked Jacki, what are you excited about for next years Festival?
"Both myself and the studio have evolved over the past year. Back Studio is my happy place. I am lucky to have the space to immerse in the making of art on the daily. This big space allows me to turn to almost every creative endeavour I have in my head. From large scale corporate art, to the tune of 11 meters long, to tiny affordable art for someone who wants to collect original art on a budget. You will find art of all genres in this inspiring studio I can’t wait to share with you folk what I have been up to. Join me for the studio visit in the Garden & Art Festival 2024."

About Jacki Barklie:
It is the human psyche and the way people connect with each other and their spaces that has sustained Jacki Barklie’s love for making art for more than 30 years. She often draws from her exposure to culture and colourful upbringing in Africa.
Jacki is a multi-disciplinary artist, she works across a range of mediums including acrylics, printmaking , photography, textile art and more recently three dimensional work. It’s her curiosity in the making of art where she likes to experiment with materials and methods, pushing the process further in an attempt to create a tension in her art, often indoctrinated and spontaneous endeavouring to celebrate the unusual rather than the normal.
See more at @backstudio_
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The NZ Garden & Art Festival Charitable Trust is a positive and forward-thinking group passionate about gardens, art and promoting the beautiful Bay of Plenty in a philanthropic way.

email: info@gardenandartfestival.co.nz

phone: 07 570 2525

address: PO Box 14100, Tauranga 3143

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