Fine Art and Design

We believe that fine art and design have strong connections to personal growth and have enhanced our site with art from a selection of international artists and online art resources.

Curated by Shari Pierce, an internationally recognized artist, Whakate promotes the work of artists of all mediums. Please visit the links below to learn more about our featured artists.

While we support the freedom of expression demonstrated by these artists, we do not endorse or take responsibility for any explicit content or political motivation featured in their art.

Artists and Art Resources

Terrence Payne
Terrence Payne has lived in greater Minneapolis for the past fifteen years, building a body of unique and thought-provoking work while exhibiting at galleries and universities throughout the U.S. His work is the result of a desire to glean the earnest beauty which results from the clumsy actions of humanity in everyday life. He takes the good days and the bad which accumulate to the sum of our character and presents them to his viewers in a way that makes it easier to understand their own lives through the experiences of others.

Christine Nguyen
Christine Nguyen’s work draws on the imagery of science, but is not limited to the technologies of the present. “The forms and environs in my work sometimes migrate into new pieces, establishing new systems. These systems imagine modes of transportation, communication, and regeneration. There are no waste materials in these worlds: vision is a renewable resource.” Christine currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Sarah Ross
Sarah Ross’s work examines the visual culture of health, safety and cleanliness that manifests in everyday architecture and landscapes. She teaches at Illinois State University and at an Illinois state prison. Ross has received grants from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Illinois Art Council and exhibits her work internationally.

Willi Hoppe
“For me, painting is not so much the preoccupation with formal aesthetic criteria, but rather the visualization and development of the hidden possibilities. When I paint, I change into another person, varying or adding colors, ecstatically increasing and then destroying, until I reach a point that surprises. I am on the way, maybe for very long and perhaps in vain. But you’ll forgive the platitude `the journey is the reward´.”

LUMAS
Created by art collectors and brought to life by 120 renowned artists and promising talents from major academies, LUMAS is passionate about offering you original and inspiring art as affordable editions.