Luane Brauner Fine Art

About

I am an artist living in beautiful Golden Bay, NZ, landscapes and portrait paintings,book illustrations.
All images copyright Luane Brauner.

Story

Luane Brauner is self- tough artist paints or draws since her childhood. In 1985 I she started to develop this passion as a serious hobby mainly to find some balance between her full time - job, parenting 3 children, a big household and a huge garden. She has been living very remote in the forest and could only charge her inner battery while staying home, during the night when her children were asleep and her husband- a forester wend out hunting.


1995 she had a good part- time job-offer as a person in charge for forest and hunting in her hometown and begun to teach watercolor paintings in schools and held work shops in the community house.
Her colleges came for a visit in the beautiful old forest house and were amazed by her paintings. Soon they organized an exhibition.
The feedback was great and the stone became rolling. She organized more exhibitions and people bought or ordered paintings. Some have been sold to a the Gallery Adinty and wend to Sweden and Norway.
Fife years later in 2000 she became a full time self-employed artist and in 2002 she opened up her own art school.

After her Husband suddenly past away in 2005, her whole life stopped in many ways and changed!
Slowly recovering from the shock and grieve she came to New Zealand, Golden Bay in 2006, trying to keep the mind busy and to start a new life.

Brauner:
Firstly I had to learn a new language and adapt my self to a different culture (although Golden bay is a real mixture of cultures) and I had to find a way to live how I was used to live, remote in the nature.
The Visa problem was given me a hard time because I felt home in New Zealand and when I had to go I was quite homesick. It is hard to be creative in such space. I studied Art and Creativity in Wellington- Lower Hutt and with my Diploma “Bachelor of Art” I fulfilled an important requirement to immigrate to New Zealand and I have got my residency since 2014.
At the moment my main subject is landscape in Golden bay and I am still writing on my first book.
Every now and the I am holding work shops.
I obviously have a humorous way to teach or bring on messages and so I hope will be my book, filled with humor and illustrations all about the odd way of “coming home”.

I did not planted to be an artist, it happened because I was following my life-call.
I did not planed to move down under, it happened because my old live fall apart.
I planned to come home, some when, somewhere, with somebody, not imagine its only inside me.

Now I don’t plan, that’s the Lord’s job.
I only live.
It’s easier that way ;-)