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A NATURE LOVER TO HER CORE, ARTIST LEANNE CULY GETS RIGHT TO THE HEART OF WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW.

eanne Culy reckons she popped out of the womb interpreting the world in a creative way. Art was her favourite subject at school, kickstarting a career that traversed graphic design, interior design, styling for still shoots and TV, then making low-impact commercials while raising two daughters on an organic farm in the Wairarapa with her photographer/ cinematographer husband Brian. Painting followed, then a move into designing her own fabrics and furniture, which resulted in opening a store in Ahuriri/Napier called Homebase Collections. In 2019, she became a full-time artist, and since taking up ceramic modelling in 2020 and doing

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