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Colouring competition winners
By Janet Bache
- Artist Vincent Duncan judging the winning entries.
Artist Vincent Duncan spent several hours in Housing New Zealand's Wellington office recently, judging the winning entries in our colouring competition.
As a practising artist, Vincent particularly noticed the creativity of many of the entries. "I love colour," he said. "Look at the energy that comes through and the way people have taken the original drawing and made it their own."
There were more than 650 entries from across New Zealand, from people ranging in age from toddlers to grandparents.
Judging them all was a daunting task, but Vincent found different qualities to admire in the entries from each age group. An entry in the youngest category was one of his favourites.
"There were so many terrific entries, I'm only sorry we couldn't give prizes to all of them," he said.
Vincent has been a full-time artist since 1996 and recently became Elected Artist Member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. He has a studio at Toi Poneke Art Gallery in Wellington, and his works can be found in collections throughout the world. To see some of his paintings, visit Vincent's website: www.vincentduncan.co.nz.
Winners of the competition each received a $50 voucher for The Warehouse or New World - congratulations!
Winners
0-5 years
Pounamu Fernandez,Christchurch
Susan Hussainy, Hamilton
Melissa Main, Auckland
Awatea Oloapu, Lower Hutt
Skyelah Watt, Napier
6-10 years
Violet Jackson, Manukau City
Xavier Kere-Rako, New Plymouth
Phoenix McAllister-Mouw,Ashburton
Ryan McManus, Nelson
Abigail Watts, Christchurch
11-15 years
Rachelle Bree, Auckland
Sharnay Hemi, Hamilton
Dani-Kate McManus, Nelson
Keely McManus, Nelson
Peter Palmer, Whakatane
16+ years
Angelique Aupito, North Shore City
Donna Bird, North Shore City
Terrence Butler, Hastings
Lee-Ann Cappiello, Nelson
Brent Mihaka, Hastings
All in the family
- Ryan, Lee-Ann, Keely and Dani-Kate with their winning entries. photo credit: Nelson Mail
A family of talented gardeners from Nelson have proved they also have strong artistic skills by each winning a category prize in our recent colouring competition.
Competition judge Vincent Duncan had no idea that these four entries had come from the same family.
Lee-Ann Cappiello and her children Ryan (10), Keely (11) and Dani-Kate (13) spotted the competition in our December issue, and the children decided to give it a go. While they had never entered a Housing NZ competition before, they are all keen gardeners and were attracted to the competition because it had a garden theme.
The children all sat around the kitchen table for days, working on coming up with original entries. It was only once they had completed their entries that Ms Cappiello also decided to enter.
Ms Cappiello was delighted with the results and that their hard work was rewarded with "something special".
