Ali Gustafson – Featured Artist Issue 38
February 3, 2026
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What a journey it is, with so much to learn. I’ve always loved painting and drawing; in high school, it was my main focus.
What a journey it is, with so much to learn. I’ve always loved painting and drawing; in high school, it was my main focus.
I made the decision to move to New Zealand sometime in the late 80s, which would have put me in the 9 to 11-year-old range.
Proud to be Local — brought to you by CFM — is our inspirational feature, highlighting home-grown Coromandel Peninsula folks doing wonderful things out in the world.
Art continues to educate us centuries and millennia later – from prehistoric cave drawings to the use of glass beads for jewellery and terracotta clay figurines, and for everyday functions such as storing grain or water.
Jiwa in the Indonesian language means ‘soul, spirit or vital force’. It is also the name given to a 28-foot trimaran yacht by its builder Wayne and his wife Jill who were practitioners of an ancient Indonesian meditation at the time.
What a journey it is, with so much to learn. I’ve always loved painting and drawing; in high school, it was my main focus.
I made the decision to move to New Zealand sometime in the late 80s, which would have put me in the 9 to 11-year-old range.
Proud to be Local — brought to you by CFM — is our inspirational feature, highlighting home-grown Coromandel Peninsula folks doing wonderful things out in the world.
Art continues to educate us centuries and millennia later – from prehistoric cave drawings to the use of glass beads for jewellery and terracotta clay figurines, and for everyday functions such as storing grain or water.
Jiwa in the Indonesian language means ‘soul, spirit or vital force’. It is also the name given to a 28-foot trimaran yacht by its builder Wayne and his wife Jill who were practitioners of an ancient Indonesian meditation at the time.
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