You live and work on Auckland’s North Shore. What drew you there? My husband Grant and I fled to Auckland from Christchurch in 2012, knowing only one person here. Our former red-zoned home was too broken to fix and we needed a change. We immediately fell in love with the North Shore lifestyle – friends who visited commented that it was like being on holiday on a Pacific Island, with its golden sand beaches and balmy gulf water.
I am a portrait artist, and I seek to challenge the historically
