Featured Artists at Our Gallery
Below are just a few of the wonderfully talented artists we represent at the gallery. Click the image to see the larger photo.
Alan Wilkinson
An Oahu artist, Alan is an exceptional, award-winning Koa wood craftsman with high attention to detail and specializes in furniture, trunks, and jewelry boxes. Alan is known for using top quality wood for his designs and construction.
Ingrid Brink
Well known watercolor artist, Ingrid has been receiving accolades for over 40 years and popularity for her rich colors. We have a collection of her ocean scenes and we have originals and giclees. Her works are collected by institutions and individuals, and she’s a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.
Julie Mai
Living most of the year in Hawaii, Julie has impressed us with her energetic style, colors, and oil paintings. Self-taught, she has studied several prominent artists, paints diverse subject matter, and works in the studio and plein air.
Lucinda Moran
Crating jewelry for over 30 years, Lucinda uses silver, gold, precious stones, and other objects to design timeless and universally loved eclectic wearable jewelry.
Michael Felig
Michael has been an island artist for decades specializing in wood and Koa furniture such as dressers, beds, rockers, tables, dining sets, trunks. He also makes our small ikebana stands, bowls and cutting boards. Particularly, he’s known for his beautiful Koa rocking chairs.
Michael Smith
Known for his fabulous uniquely styled, hand-etched and burned Norfolk pine bowl designs, Michael is a long-time big island resident from Hilo and now lives in Volcano.
Naoki
Naoki is a leading "Local Artist" in Hawaii known for his Original Hawaiian style fish print art also known as "Gyotaku". After the fish are caught, they are printed on to the shoji paper and then washed to be consumed.
Christopher Upp
Born on Lihue, Chris carries on his father-inspired interest in high fired glazed creations. He flame works pure crystal into naturally colored life-like creatures of the sea.
Ronald Puakukui Kanakanui Sr.
Hawaiian born and raised, Ron's interest in wood carving was initially ignited by his maternal grandfather, the renowned Kumu Hula, Sam Pua H'aheo. As a "Maoli", he respects the unique guidance provided by ancestral recollections and cultural insights and he tries to manifest these in his one-of-a-kind, original carvings
Syd Vierra
A native Hawaiian, Syd is an exacting carver. He harvests the wood, turns it, and then shapes, spaults, dries, sands, oil soaks, coats and buffs each bowl, taking between 2 to 3 weeks to complete the process
Shirley Pu Wills
Her work incorporates her expertise in Asian style painting influenced by the Sung Dynasty Court Paintings, and her concerns for the endangered ecosystems endemic to Hawaii.
Ezra Muir
Living in Hawaii and having raised his family here, Ezra tries to translate onto canvas his experience of "...the beauty and essence of Hawaii as well as the joy it brings."
Beverly Warns
Uses Infrared Photography to highlight. "The spectacular contrasts...in the natural beauty of Hawaii in a way that the naked eye cannot."
Mayumi Oda
Mayumi lives on her farm here on the Big Island and is truly a world famous artist "...hailed as 'the Matisse of Japan' famed for her vivid paintings. See her newest piece here
Craig Nichols
"...has been inspired by the ocean all his life...", both as a world class surfer, and commercial fisherman living on the Big Island. He creates unique and beautiful sea sculptures from the exquisite hardwoods found here in Hawaii.
Christy Henspetter
Watercolors, mono printing and oil paintings are the mediums that help her "...connect to nature..." and convey the beauty of "...the beaches of Hawaii".
Stone O'Daugherty
Creates jewelry using his unique "cold fusion" technique that draws on his background in gemology, mineralogy, geology and silver smithing.
Skip Thomsen
Skip's lamps are unique in that they combine both his skills in working with stained glass and his abilities as a fine woodworker.
William Wingert
Focused on series of paintings entitled "Hawaiian Harmonies". He uniquely does most of his painting on-site based on in-the-moment inspirations.
Christina Skaggs
Christina Skaggs, a contemporary painter, uses ancient symbols and alchemical knowledge, to infuse magic into painting.
Kele Kanahele
Kele Kanahele crafts the most beautiful Ni'ihau Shell Leis from the forbidden island of Ni'ihau
Mary Spears
Mary Spears, a long time Waimea resident, is well known for her Hawaiian - themed oil paintings, but is equally adept at working with watercolors and her newest creative modality, torn paper painted collages.
Roen Hufford
Roen Hufford, born on Molokai and raised on the Big Island, owns her own organic farm in Waimea. Roen makes all her dyes from native plants and creates her kapa in the traditional cloth-making manner passed on from previous generations. Special to her is her stand of "wauke" paper bark, which she tends with her 88 year old mother, the famous kapa and lei maker, Marie McDonald.
"For that unique local artist to famous Hawaiian artists...you can find it all here. The caring and knowledgeable staff are near if you have any questions or wants, however you are invited to have a quiet, no pressure stroll around the store. I highly recomend making this gallery a regular stop when you go thru Waimea." — Ramon Honea, Oakland, CA
"A fabulous variety of beautiful arts and crafts. Maria and her staff are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. You'll find something for everyone." — Ron Berlin, Pittsburgh, PA
"A small quaint shop that packs a lot of punch. This shop houses some of the best artists here on the Big Island and has everyone's artistic flavor in mind...love it!" — Jesse Kalawe, Kau, Hawaii