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Ohoka base for gallery<br />

Internationally acclaimed artist Min Kim<br />

has movedher Bryce Gallery from its<br />

former busy location in Riccarton to a<br />

tranquil place at her new home in Ohoka.<br />

Min decidedtomake the move withher<br />

husband, landscape artist Jaimie<br />

Stewart, last year after losing her ‘‘inner<br />

peace’’and becoming ill.<br />

‘‘My immune systemwas broken from<br />

too much hard work and Irealised I<br />

needed abetter space,’’ she said.<br />

The couple began searching for anew<br />

property lastChristmas and found a<br />

magicalplace at Ohoka,wherepeople<br />

have been ‘‘welcoming and friendly.’’<br />

At first, she worried thatifthey moved<br />

from the central city theymightlose<br />

visitornumbers. Thathasn’t happened.<br />

People havesaid theylove visiting the<br />

new gallery, set in the peaceful park­like<br />

surrounds, and have been positiveabout<br />

the initiative.<br />

‘‘New clients, old clients, they love it<br />

here and want to comeback. Iwant to<br />

create thatkind of spacewhereyou feel<br />

like you are visiting afriend.<br />

‘‘Art should be an emotional<br />

experience.’’<br />

At the new gallery,where ‘‘90 percent<br />

of the houseisgallery and 10% is home’’,<br />

visitors can relax, enjoy the peaceful<br />

settingand the beautiful way the art has<br />

been displayed in the house and garden.<br />

‘‘This is not just acommercial<br />

enterprise.Iwant people to appreciate<br />

their own time, their specialtime here.’’<br />

The art of morethan 45 of New<br />

Zealand’s emerging, established and<br />

leadingartists, including Min and Jaimie,<br />

is on displayfor saleinthe new gallery,<br />

which opened on <strong>February</strong> 1.<br />

Min is also an art tutor and holdsart<br />

workshops every two months. She has<br />

alreadyheld severalworkshopsather<br />

new art sanctuary and is looking forward<br />

to sharing her new home withmore<br />

people in the future.<br />

She also plans to hold aticketed<br />

outdoorclassical music concert<br />

and art collaboration in the garden for<br />

this autumn.<br />

Country move ... Bryce Gallery owner Min<br />

Kim enjoys acuddle with her Maine Coon<br />

cat Jag, apopular mascot at the gallery’s<br />

new Ohoka home.<br />

PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP<br />

Min was borninSouth Korea, where<br />

her father was aprofessionalartist. She<br />

graduated from Jung Ang Fine Art<br />

University before continuingher studies<br />

in Florence, Italy,where she focusedon<br />

19th Centuryclassical impressionism.<br />

Min also did contract workfor the<br />

Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in Texas<br />

between <strong>20</strong>07and <strong>20</strong>11 as partofher<br />

secondprize in the <strong>20</strong>07Salon<br />

International Art Award.<br />

The Bryce Gallery is openweekdays<br />

from 10am to 5pm and weekends from<br />

11am to 4pm at 84 VicenzaDrive, Ohoka.<br />

Phone (03)312 0901, email:<br />

art2die4@brycegallery.co.nz or visit<br />

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