Rachelle Sutherland creates detailed mammals with dots.
An exhibition of two artists studying two different strands of nature in simple tones of black and white opens at the Quirky Fox Gallery in Hawera.
Gallery owner Vicki Fox said each artist had carefully portrayed the strength and fragility of life, whether it is a drawing of an intricate
teasel or the stippled portrayal of the mighty cape buffalo.
South Taranaki local and emerging artist Rachelle Sutherland uses thousands upon thousands of dots carefully built up over a minimum of 100 hours per piece to create highly-detailed mammals.
Fox said Rachelle is a self-taught artist who has worked in several techniques and mediums before focusing on the time-intensive technique of stippling.
"Parallels with Nature" will be Rachelle's debut exhibition, she said.
