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Justine Crease is an artist with a unique style that literally comes from nature itself.
A self-taught artist, Crease specialises in using real pheasant feathers she buys commercially to create unique works of art.
She loved the idea of nature-on-nature and wanted to try something different, as she said, “out-of-the-box”.
‘I’ve been an artist most of my life. I was always the child at the back of the classroom, who used to draw doodles instead of listening to the teacher, plus I was always good at art, and did well in art classes.”
Four years ago, she began putting her work on a website called Choice, which is a site that lets artists display their work online, doing watercolour paintings, and sold a few pieces of other work on TradeMe during the Covid lockdowns before switching to her feathers-on-feathers artwork.
Feedback so far has been positive. Crease became a finalist at the Rotorua Museum Art Awards and was awarded the Coombes Johnston BMW Tauranga People’s Choice Award 2026.
While she has no plans beyond making more feather art, she’s contemplating entering more competitions in the future.
She’s based in Rotorua, but because her partner is in Franklin, she regularly travels between the two areas.
