Do you need a CREATIVITY MENTOR to kick your arse, guide, inspire, motivate, teach, encourage, help and develop you to achieve YOUR CREATIVE GOALS AND DREAMS? I am NOW taking on new CREATIVITY TAUIRA and AUAHATANGA coaching clients, long distance online and via phone (aka right in your pocket).
This is for people who want a creative wake up call, help staying on track to achieve your creative aspirations, an experienced mentor and fire lit under you on the regular. This is for creativity across the board and is not specific to any one medium. No, I will not be teaching taa moko in this offering.
But I will teach you how to THINK, ACT, BEHAVE, DECIDE, COMPLETE, PROGRESS, BUILD and LAUNCH your own ideas in the best ways to suit YOUR unique recipe and makeup.
Tell your kin who may benefit from this opportunity to work with me one on one, personalized to YOUR situation and creative dreams. This is open to anyone who HAS A STRONG DESIRE TO WORK CREATIVELY, ACTIVELY and INTENTIONALLY WITH ME.
This is for you if you want and need TO PROGRESS AND EVOLVE YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE and ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY.
This is for you if you are out of other options and YOU NEED TO MAKE IT AS A CREATIVE or if you are SOMEONE THAT DOES NOT FIT IN WELL OR SUCCEED ANYWHERE ELSE and instead of continuing to suffer trying to squash yourself into other peoples boxes…YOU DECIDE TO BET ON YOURSELF and TAKE A CHANCE ON YOU and what actually lights you up.
This is for you if no one else will invest in you so YOU MUST INVEST IN YOURSELF NOW. TODAY. Before this wayward society takes you out!
This is suitable for anyone that is at an earlier stage of their AUAHATANGA than me, or if you have seen me doing things that you also want to do (apart from tattooing).
We can start on YOUR NEW CREATIVE PATHWAY AND FIRST NEXT STEPS today! You can cancel at any time, no worries. You will need access to your own phone and wifi to participate in my AUAHATANGA programs and personalized coaching.
You will also need to actually DO the tasks and exercises that I give to you and CUSTOM CREATE FOR YOU.
Unconventional multi-passionate and neuro-spicy oddballs are going to love my style of unorthodox coaching. Creative people who have LOST THEIR SPARK and want TO COME BACK TO THE PATH will also benefit from this.
People with GOOD IDEAS that need a little help and boost to EXECUTE and KEEP EXECUTING will also get value from my unique style of mentoring.
You can participate weekly for as short or long as you like…until you no longer need or want what I have to give you. Everything is easier with a bit of support and my 20+ years of creative practice spanning multiple disciplines and countries is RARE, PRICELESS, UNIQUE and IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANYWHERE ELSE.
I will only be offering this for as long as I feel like it, or for as long as it is needed to serve the vast sections of my communities that would otherwise have FUCK ALL SUPPORTS IN BRINGING THEIR OWN UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL VISIONS INTO REALITY.
So if you know in your bones, and you can just FEEL IT…that you need to try this with me for at least a month to unstuck yourself and MOVE INTO DEEP CREATIVE FLOW AND PRODUCTIVE ARTISTIC EVOLUTION…SIGN UP TODAY and GET TO FUCKING CRACKING MY DARLING!
THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN!
You are going to love it…AND THE NEW WORK THAT COMES OUT OF YOU.
Let’s get you on your way this week!
$22AUD a week, get in the waananga and let’s do this together.
You can cancel at any time and try it for as long or short as you like.
Contemporary Māori Art
'New Beginnings' and 'Ahi Kaa' added to the 'FOUNDATIONS' open edition collection
Two pieces added to the ‘FOUNDATIONS’ open edition canvas art collection today.
Collectable open edition stretched canvas art print titled ‘NEW BEGINNINGS’ comes ready for you to hang.
Thick width, gorgeous quality, beautiful colour depth.
Professionally packaged, presented and posted worldwide.
60cm by 40cm in size.
$444AUD each including international delivery.
Please allow up to 3 weeks delivery time.
Collectable open edition stretched canvas art print titled ‘AHI KAA’ comes ready for you to hang.
Thick width, gorgeous quality, beautiful colour depth.
Professionally packaged, presented and posted worldwide.
30cm by 20cm in size.
$222AUD each including international delivery.
Please allow up to 3 weeks delivery time.
Poem excerpts from my upcoming new projects
Wrap me, cloak of every hue.
Red, black, white, green, blue.
Hold me when I cannot stand.
E te atua, take my hand.
Pango for the night I keep.
Rā for when I wake from sleep.
Kākāriki for the love that grows.
Kikorangi for what I know.
What Is The Rainbow Prophecy?
Across the world, many nations speak of a time when:
The Earth is sick.
People of all colours come together.
Old teachings return.
The land and people are healed.
We are the Rainbow Tribes.
My brothers and sisters, now is our time.
We follow the rainbow rhythm, lines, songs and signs.
Drink here. Fill up. Then give.
Hands that create.
Hands that protect.
Hands that love.
Hands that give.
Hands that make.
These are my hands.
Huihui mai, e te iwi.
Gather, oh people.
Huihui mai, e te whānau.
Gather, oh family.
We are one.
In love.
In history.
In present.
In future.
As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.
Clear my mind.
Soothe my spirit.
Purify my body.
Protect my heart.
Guide my mouth.
Enlighten my eyes.
Delight my ears.
Fill my hand.
Let my work be true.
6 weeks in Melbourne
Today marks six weeks in Melbourne, after being home in Aotearoa for four years. I have been blessed with wonderful friends to stay with, and I am grateful to all the fabulous people on my Melbourne trip. It has been an intense healing, shedding and RECALIBRATION time, and I am happy with the fun new directions that my work is now heading in.
Just today I have added Sri Lanka and South India into my travels plans for around the August - September period and I feel very pleased about this. The first and last time that I visited India with my older sister, was about twenty years ago now, and I always did want to go back, particularly to the South. I have also always wanted to visit Sri Lanka, and am particularly looking forward to the TEMPLES, artisans and HOT WEATHER.
I am still refining the new eBooks that I have been developing (there are several), and each day they are getting better and I am ironing out my process, editing, macrons, formatting, designing the style elements, and configuring the reader display between laptop viewing and phone viewing.
‘HOW TO HAVE A STAY HOME ART RETREAT’ and ‘THE CLOAK OF UENUKU’ are available now on my blog, and they now have pastel rainbow colored pages, which I’m happy about too…several of my upcoming eBooks will now feature these signature pastel rainbow colored pages, which look so soft, pretty and gorgeous.
I have some Tā Moko (Māori Tattoo) bookings available in Melbourne (Ballarat) for July 2026.
I am working on a new collection of small one off original paper works called ‘RECALIBRATION’ which will be available to purchase soon. I am currently loving a bone, blush, sage, cream, white, lilac, and blues colour palette.
I will also have some LIMITED EDITION hand signed A4 high quality 300gsm art prints of ‘TE ATA PŪAO’ available to buy soon. I am working on a little progress, improvements, and upgrades every day, and gaining clarity on my moves forward and what I want to do next. Grateful to God!
Ngaa mihi nui,
Te Uira
'THE CLOAK OF UENUKU: THE POWER OF COLOUR ACROSS WORLDS' new EBOOK now available
THE CLOAK OF UENUKU: The Power of Colour Across Worlds, By Te Uira
E te atua, ko Uenuku
This book is dedicated to you, Uenuku.
Atua of the rainbow. Keeper of colour. Walker between worlds.
You who show us that after rain comes light.
You who hold all colours without choosing.
You who bridge Ranginui and Papatūānuku.
E Uenuku, guide my hands. Guide this mahi.
Why I Wrote This Book
For the love and joy of colour. I’ve been asked this for years: “Why colour? Why do you paint in rainbows?” The answer is simple: Because colour has been one of the gifts that has saved me.
I wrote THE CLOAK OF UENUKU for 3 people:
The artist – who wants to use colour with respect + meaning.
The healer – who knows colour is medicine, but wants tools.
The curious – who saw a rainbow after rain and felt something shift.
This is not an academic text. It’s a practice book. Part kōrero, part science, part ritual.
Use it however you need. Colour in the pages. Try the 5-day practice. Read one page after rain.
E Uenuku, may this book be useful, and may it draw your people into my world.
— Te Uira, Melbourne, 2026
THE CLOAK OF UENUKU
Part 1: The Light
What Is Chromotherapy?
Ancient Pigments of the World
The Science: Light is Colour
Uenuku: Atua of the Rainbow
More Pūrakau of Uenuku
Part 2: The Colours
Māori Pigments: Ngā tae
Māori Colour Language
Techniques: Tā Moko + Painting
Colour Meaning in Healing
Neuroscience: What Happens in Your Brain
Global Spiritual Colour
Part 3: The Practice
Modern Chromotherapy: 7 Ways Today
Making Pigment Today
Colour in Your Studio
Colour for Your Mood: 5-Day Practice
Colour First Aid Kit
Respect in Use
Working with Colour
My Practice as Te Uira
Colour Rituals
Part 4: The Journey
Colour + Emotion Journal
Colour + The Body
Colour + Nature in Aotearoa
Uenuku in the Whenua: Places
62 pages, illustrated A4 collectable printable ebook available now. Digital pdf download.
$44AUD per copy.
Featuring pastel rainbow colored pages, clean design, compiled with half text and half images. Space for you to write your own ideas, notes and drawings.
PUBLISHED BY:
‘DIVINE UNION’ BY TE UIRA.
A few new poems
A few new poem excerpts from my upcoming suite of new ebooks, that are currently in the editing and design phases. Some of my selected original poems also feature in the $11AUD ‘POETRY PACK’ monthly subscription of TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB available now.
Mō ngā iwi katoa o ngā tae katoa
For all tribes of all colours
For the keepers who remembered
For the children who will lead us
Into Te Ao Hou
For the Earth who is waiting
May we be worthy of the rainbow
Night
Cover me
I have no words
I have no tears
Only weight
Sit on my chest if you must
But do not leave
Nobody told me grief is quiet
I thought it would wail
Instead it sits
Like a stone in my throat
Like a house with all the lights off
Black is not empty
Black is full of you
Mō ngā wāhine o te pō me te ao
For the women of night and day
For the keepers. The seers.
The ones who remember.
For the Māreikura of old, and the priestesses rising now.
You do not need permission to be sacred.
A priestess is a bridge
Between the seen and unseen
Between people and atua
Between chaos and order
Between wound and wisdom
She is not a performer
She is a presence
'Te Ata Pūao' exhibition on now at Toi Matarau Gallery, Maoriland
Big thanks to Toi Matarau Gallery in Otaki Wellington for exhibiting my painting ‘Te Ata Pūao’ in their current exhibition of the same name. My artist profile was also featured recently in their newsletter as follows:
Taryn is an international Artist and A.R.T descendant of Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Kāi Tahu.
Largely a travelling artist, Taryn creates across multidisciplinary art forms with a background in fashion and graphic design. Her chosen disciplines are Tāmoko, Poetry and Mixed Media.
Taryn’s paintings are meditational, philosophical and biblical where she draws on connection to faith and te ao Māori to navigate her path of self-healing. She often leans into soft pastel pallets of colour to uplift her work.
Te Ata Pūao is inspired from the Ōtaki view of Kapiti, the ocean coast line of this area where magical panoramic views of the sun can be soaked in every morning and evening. Te Ata Pūao is a composition of brush strokes, whispers of reclamation from the first human woman; Hineahuone who became Hinetauira. She then became Hinetītama transitioning from Te Ao Mārama, the world of light back into the otherworld beyond the veil.
Now taking Tā Moko Māori Tattoo bookings in Cairns, Perth, Bali and Tahiti
Now taking Tā Moko Māori Tattoo bookings in Cairns, Perth, Bali and Tahiti.
Check out my new song 'Aunty had enough'
Check out my new song ‘AUNTY HAD ENOUGH’ out now on youtube by TE UIRA.
THE OPEN EDITION 'FOUNDATIONS' CANVAS ART COLLECTION IS NOW HERE
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The first pieces of the OPEN EDITION ‘FOUNDATIONS’ CANVAS ART COLLECTION are HERE NOW.
JULY 2026: very first month release for the TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB
The first month, JULY 2026 for the TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB features these 4X original A6 art postcards by Te Uira Moko International:
’A golden bloodline’
’Ahi Kaa’
’New Begininngs’
’Born to thrive’
Join the TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB now for $22AUD per month, cancel or pause your subscription at any time, free postage worldwide included, email taryn.teuira@gmail.com for any enquiries.
The Toi Treasury Maori Art Mail Club is NOW AVAILABLE
I have wanted to put an offer like this together for so long, and now it is finally here! I am pleased to make available to you: THE TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB!
This is a monthly subscription service where you can choose which subscription option best suits you, and receive gorgeous high quality printed art postcards, poem postcards, letters and stickers in your physical mailbox from m every month.
All envelopes hand packed by me personally. I can post these art packs WORLDWIDE.
This is a wonderful way for you to be receiving fresh new Toi Māori and unique art in your mailbox every month, whilst simultaneously sponsoring me to continue traveling the world living my best life sharing Toi Māori and Māori perspectives in new spaces and with new audiences.
You deserve to treat yourself to something special, and your support would also mean the world to me.
All art packs will be sent out monthly by standard post. I hope you love this cool offer just as much as I do!
You can email me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com at any time if you have any questions about the TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB, and you are free to cancel your subscription at any time. Start your mini art journey today.
Kia ora, from Melbourne Australia
Kia ora whanau, after four years back home in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I am now touring again, sharing my Tā Moko and Toi Māori with the world. I am currently in Melbourne, and looking at heading to Cairns and Perth (Australia) after this.
Please see my bookings page to enquire about tā moko with me at any of these locations. I also hope to make it back to Bali and Tahiti later this year, fingers crossed (two of my favorite regions in the whole world).
I am excited to currently be working on a new monthly art subscription club that YOU can join, called the TOI TREASURY MĀORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB. This is a fun and accessible way for you to receive 4x mini collectable A6 unique art postcards in your mailbox every month, whilst simultaneously also sponsoring me to continue traveling the world sharing my Toi Māori and Māori perspectives with the world.
A win for you and a win for me.
Details of the new upcoming TOI TREASURY MĀORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB will be available soon. Thank you for your continued support, you make my world go round.
Mauriora!
Mahi whakairo at Te Wānanga o Raukawa
I am really enjoying being a full time student at Te Wānanga o Raukawa again, this time learning whakairo (carving).
The last time I was here was back in 2011 when I did most of the Heke Mātauranga Māori.
So far I have completed two whakairo projects as pictured. Working in 3D is an exciting new challenge for me. I love being in a waananga environment again, and the library is one of my favourite workspaces.
I am really enjoying continuing on with my Te Reo Māori studies again too, particularly the mōteatea and karakia components.
Regarding taa moko, I am looking to be setup for tattooing again within the next month or so, here in Ōtaki.
Recent kōwhaiwhai waananga at Takapūwāhia Marae
It was lovely to be with and alongside whānau at our marae recently for our kōwhaiwhai waananga, playing with watercolours and enjoying mahi toi, kotahitanga and whanaungatanga.
I am looking forward to the rest of these waananga toi throughout this year.
LOVE LAND LINEAGE solo exhibition opening soon at Toi Māori Gallery
The most significant solo show of my career to date opens on Thursday 15th May at 5.30pm at the Toi Māori Gallery Wellington CBD. If you have been a supporter of my mahi over the past twenty years, nau mai haere mai.
The kaupapa of this exhibition is on the theme of healing.
Toi as a pathway from te pō ki te ao mārama.
Colour (which is light) as rongoā.
Symbolism and symbolic storytelling as rongoā.
Pūrākau attached to old designs as medicine.
Atua associated with our ancient symbolism and artforms, as unique medicine carriers.
LOVE (AROHA)
Healing through love for ourselves and each other. Love for our artforms, love for our traditions, love for our reo, love for our tūpuna, love for our tikanga. Love for our Mātauranga Māori, love for our Whare Waananga, love for our taiao, love for our rongoā Māori, love for the communities we belong to, love for our atua, love for our whānau, tamariki and mokopuna.
LAND (WHENUA)
Healing through connection to our lands and through practicing kaitiakitanga of our whenua. Healing from living and being tangata whenua and ahi kaa on our tūrangawaewae. Spending physical time barefoot on our significant places and pockets of land. Healing ourselves and our whānau through occupying and being present at and on our ancestral lands of spiritual importance. Healing through maintaining our lands. Healing through practicing our rangatiratanga from our special whenua and our unique places of belonging.
LINEAGE (WHAKAPAPA)
Healing through our whakapapa. Healing bloodlines. The continuum of lineage from ancestor to offspring and all that entails. Healing through the communities we belong to through our lineages. Healing through the ancestral gifts passed down to us through our whakapapa. Healing through our children and for our children. Healing through remembrance of our divine lineage going directly back to our atua.
I will have some taa moko special dates available inside of this exhibition for some of my Wellington CBD based clients. More details and exact dates to come soon, or email me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com to reserve one of these limited town spots at Toi Māori Gallery.
Two new 'little prayer' paintings now available 'HE AROHA MUTUNGA' and 'MY REASON FOR LIVING'
I have recently completed two new paintings, now available by emailing me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com. Both of these pieces are signed and dated on the back and measure 25cm by 25cm each.
I am still working on my new ‘LOVE LAND LINEAGE’ exhibition pieces for my solo show opening at Toi Maori Gallery on 15 May 2025 in Wellington CBD.
'My mana is not on the menu' new painting now showing in 'Eke Tangaroa' exhibition at Toi Matarau Gallery
'LOVE, LAND, L,INEAGE' an upcoming solo exhibition at Toi Māori Gallery, Wellington
I am currently working on my upcoming solo exhibition of new paintings.
’Love, land, lineage’ will be my most significant solo exhibition to date and is scheduled to open on 1 May 2025 at the Toi Maori Gallery in Wellington CBD.
