June Katz - Contemporary Artist

June Katz has a gallery and studio where she sells her paintings and also teaches workshops.

June Katz's paintings expose the hidden threads which support city life; the universal systems, patterns, webs and networks underpinning the modern world.

Vibrant acrylics are layered architecturally across large canvasses suggestive of both the tangible elements of urban existence (buildings, population and noise) and the intangible (chaos, identity and perception).



June was trained in Israel, and lived in Melbourne in 1996 and then settled in New Zealand in 2000. June has lived and worked all over the world and has exhibited locally at an umber of prominent galleries.

You can view June's work at www.june-katz.co.nz, Artslant and Saatchi Gallery.



Her workshops are:
Abstract Painting
Here students will learn how to -

  • Produce abstract paintings on canvass, thick paper or any other surface using pencil drawing, black and white weater base colour to a full colour palette.
  • Develop the ability to create using their most inner thoughts and feelings, and practise translating these subconsicous emotions to a work of art.
  • Express their imagination freely and passionately.
  • Build a controlled balanced composition while listening to a variety of music to influence painting techniques.
Still Life Drawing
Here students will learn how to -

  • Practise basic still life composition drawing.
  • Copy a still life model using the right measurements, create a border and build the correct composition in the space confinements.
  • Develop one drawing using colours in a more expressive and personal way.