TQ Arts

TQ Arts was formed in September 2021 when Louise Herdman invited a small group of Whanganui artists to join her in the Art Centre’s front shop/gallery. They take turns at welcoming visitors to the centre and sharing their art with you. Follow them on Facebook .

Unique Art locally made. Whanganui Art. Whanganui Artists.

Louise Herdman

Mosaic artist – fascinated with patterning, texture & colour. Louise specialises in teaching and making mosaics by commission for you. She celebrates 20yrs of making mosaics in 2022. See Louise Herdman Mosaics on this website for more information.

Elaine Clark

Elaine says “I have been a potter for almost 5 years.

I have always had my own patch of flower garden ever since my mother allocated me an area when I was four years old. It was also from my mother that I developed a love of our bush with its flora and fauna.

Ten years ago, as my children began leaving the nest, I enrolled in a Diploma of Garden Design at Auckland’s UNITEC. Here I found, that not only did I have to draw my ideas, they had to be in perspective too. From there I began drawing and now enjoy working with pencil and graphite.

The moment of enlightenment came when I retired to Whanganui and decided that I was going to try potting. Pinch pots, coil pots and mugs suitable only for holding toothbrushes followed. After these, my love of my garden started to inspire what I create, my flowers have now flourished and are to be found at TQ Arts and the Whanganui Potter’s studio. “

Tina Schurhammer

Tina is a photography and textile artist from Germany, living in NZ since 2007.

Her passion to capture the light with a camera started early in life. With her first own money she bought a SLR camera as a teenager. Much later she swapped to digital cameras, and in 2014 she studied Digital Photography.

Her love for working with textiles began when she took evening courses in silk painting and batik while pursuing a career as Pharmacy Technician.

In 2010, a few years after moving to Whanganui with her family of five, she attended Ucol’s summer school at the Quay School of the Arts to learn a felt making technique called nuno-felting which involves the use of fabric, mainly silk or cotton, in the work.

Since 2016, she is working full time as an artist in her home studio with a focus on felt making using natural or dyed NZ wool fibre as well as other animal and plant fibres, alongside her pursuit of silk painting, batik and digital photography.

In the last two years her art concentrated on immersing herself into her immediate environment to find inspiration, mainly in her garden and during long walks at the beach. She started to use the plants and flowers from her garden to dye silk fabric and felted wool with a technique that is called eco-printing. This process adds very organic colours and patterns to the artworks. Plants and flowers also became the main motifs in her photographs along with beach and ocean scenes which are also reflected in her felt works.

Tim Stubbs

Tim has come to mosaics late in life. His work endeavours to be colourful and have utility. His intrigue with things Celtic is represented in mosaic pictures of standing stone carvings from the ancient Pictish territories of Scotland and Celtic designs. Colourful garden planters, tabletop water features and tea candle holders complete his offerings to date.

Sue Kumeroa

Sue is a mixed media textile artist.

Painting began for Sue when she was a teenager. For several years she worked in oils, producing mostly landscapes and portraits. She took a break from creating art to raise a family and follow a career as an Early Childhood teacher.

Much later when Sue returned to her art, her love of fabric and colour lead her into new territory, exploring a completely different style of art, painting on fabric and free-motion machine stitching.

The art Sue is producing now is acrylic painted on fabric (usually calico or linen) which is then hand and/or machine stitched. Then further enhanced with additional cutting, layering, arranging, reinventing and reassembling into the final creation.