Hana Boynton ART

Hana Boynton ART � painter � digital artist � writer � creator �
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01/06/2026

When you see your painting on Te Ao Māori News 🙏🫶😊

30/05/2026

If you’re a self-taught artist, let’s be friends! 🫶

Being self-taught requires a bit of courage in my opinion. Sometimes you don’t really know what you’re doing, but something moves you to create.

I’ve been creating for about 5 years now. Learning as I go. I’ve never been happier pursuing something that is authentically me.

Anyone else relate to this? Having to do something because that’s just who you are! 🫶😊

30/05/2026

Portrait of my kuia.

I spent hours with my Nan and didn’t waste any time really, really looking. So, I’d never forget each and every crease, eye flicker, wayward grey eye brow, pesky chin hair and soft whispery hair.

I looked into her eyes for hours, and on a good day she’d let me get close.

The process really was the gift in producing this portrait of my kuia.
Lovingly done in oils.

Painting now lives in London, UK. 🫶

14/05/2026

Just making things.

Chocolatey things.🍫

Pretty things. 🌻

11/05/2026

I like to make something everyday.

Making things is so good for you. Making things reminds our soul that we have the capacity to create and express who we are in unique and special ways.

Cooking, drawing, painting, baking, card-making are some of the ways I express myself creatively. There are so many ways to be creative though.

How are others expressing their creativity today?

11/05/2026

Who relates?

When you go into an art shop for one thing and then you see the bargain bin, new line of art supplies, new series of oil paints, exquisite papers, sparkly things, discounted paint brushes🤣

Oh it’s a problem 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄🤣

02/05/2026

I always loved art in all its forms. Waiata, haka, visual, performance, writing. I love it all.

The vibration or wairua is a direct portal to part of me that intellectual pursuits cannot. In some respects, art can put my curious brain on standby and that’s a pleasant break from the business of the brain.

Art can transport us back to our people and our stories and keep the memory of those we love alive.

This is an old digital portrait of my koroua, Netana Hohaia Boynton.



02/05/2026

I believe there’s potential to accelerate growth by exposing your work (despite any fear to do so). Why isolate yourself with your art and only stretch to your own known capacity?

Eyes on mean judgements and that’s not always a bad thing!

So, not ever having shared any writing not intended for public consumption, here goes 🤞🏽🤣

Just ponderings / not proofed, just raw.

Shelley, I got brave 🫶

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It’s Rākaunui.

Could this be the reason I want nothing but you tonight? To shed this awkward shell of being and let my soul dance naked in your etheral glow?

Oh how you beckon me so.
With words of colour and minute speckled strokes.

You’re the lover I’ve never had. You tickle my insides and invite me to dance.

And I get to choose the dance?

And one of my making?

So I choose to write. That will be how I will dance. I’ll sculpture my words to an ancient beat and with a contemporary rhythm. I’ll contort my thoughts and extend the limbs of my experience.

And when you go, I’ll return to toiling my errands and pick up my pen on the next Rākaunui moon.

01/05/2026

What are you working on my fellow artists?

Not finished, work in progress. ✌️



01/05/2026

I call myself an artist. I believe we are all artists. I also believe that we all want to be understood and to express what’s inside, even if that expression will never be seen by the world. I have plenty of unseen work; writing, paintings, drawings, mosaics, experimental cooking 😆

I want to capture my people’s faces and our stories. So, I need to develop more skills and to commit more.

Here’s a little update of my WHY I paint, write and draw. Here’s me making meaning as an artist and a human in this world that we live in.

This is my expression to the world today. ✌️🫶

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