Art Tutor Kimbra Taylor, ARTWORKS



Art Tutor Kimbra Taylor

Artworks is a New Zealand based organisation founded by award winning artist Kimbra Taylor.

Kimbra offers a range of art courses and workshops including online courses, face to face classes and private-workshops showing beginner adults how to draw and paint with watercolour. She runs Happiness Through Drawing Workshops and is a certificated Happiness Trainer, having completed Marci Shimoff’s Happiness Trainer course. Kimbra is a commissioned portrait artist and exhibits and sells her work, locally and nationally. You can view her work in her online gallery.

Kimbra is dedicated to helping individuals achieve mindfulness through learning how to draw. Her techniques and strategies enable people who have never drawn or painted to become competent in both fields. Competency in drawing and painting involves not only fundamental technique but also mind management skills and strategies. These techniques and strategies are transferable to our personal and business lives, empowering us to optimise outcomes by using more of our brain’s capacity.
 

CREDENTIALS

Kimbra graduated from the Wellington School of design with a Diploma of Visual Communications and gained a teacher’s certificate from Christchurch Training College. She worked as an illustrator and visualiser in publishing and advertising for several years. She went on to work as a freelance illustrator specializing in magazine, fashion and book illustration and was employed as a tutor at the Wellington School of Design in illustration, graphic techniques and life drawing.

She worked as a children’s book illustrator for Thomas Nelson publishing and has many published books. Kimbra has tutored at Whitireia Polytechnic, Weltec, the Wellington School of Architecture and Massey University where she taught life drawing, general drawing, illustration and perspective.

She attended the 2018 NZ Mindfulness Leadership Conference and in 2019 attended Bruno Cayhoun’s mindfulness retreat. She has worked with Stephen Archer, one of NZ’s foremost meditation teachers.

In 2024 she gained The Happiness Trainer Course certificate run by Marci Shimoff.
 

AWARDS

Finalist in the 2014 Parkin Award.
Finalist in the 2010 Adam Award National Portrait Exhibition. Her portrait, “Girl with a Blue Hot Water Bottle” was one of forty selected to tour the country.
Merit award at the 2010 Kapiti / Horowhenua Annual Review Exhibition – Select/ED.
2009 winner of the Gordon Harris best painting award at the NZ Splash National Watercolour Exhibition.
Studio Artist in the Kapiti Arts Trails.
 

She is currently working on a series of New Zealand native bird paintings.


  • Under Kimbra’s expert guidance and tuition all class members have confidently and steadily improved and we are now all producing good quality artwork in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

    - Jean Taylor

  • I have been attending Kimbra’s art classes for four years now and have found that apart from learning to sketch and paint, I have found myself looking at all aspects of life differently. Thanks to Kimbra, a whole new world has opened and I look forward to our classes every week.

    - Josephine Muollo

  • Kimbra’s teaching method has provided a relaxing and most rewarding experience. The end result has been artwork which I could never have imagined I created and which I couldn’t resist having framed.

    - Bill Joyce

  • Attending Kimbra’s painting and drawing class feels like a journey into the exciting realm of mindful living. The effects spill over into all areas of life from business decisions to general enjoyment.

    - Joy Anderton

  • Kimbra is passionate about art and teaching which is reflected in her classes. I think there is a little self-doubt in all of us but with Kimbra I found not only can I draw but I have a better self-belief that I can do this. Her classes are the highlight of my week.
    - Leigh Dougherty

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