Erika works from her home studio in Maungaturoto, a small country town in the Kaipara District, New Zealand. She is self-taught, holds a Bachelor of Music as well as a Post-graduate Diploma in Art and Creativity. Her work explores the primitive and whimsical with an often quirky narrative. It touches on the representational with a biographical element seated in childhood experiences and children’s fables and fantasies. Dreams, as well as daydreams often inform the development of the work. Idiosyncrasies and a surreal edge may accompany a dreamlike realism, with a quirky reference to modern culture and language
Her work is held in private collections in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and Sweden
