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FIGURATIVE / PORTRAITS

(Chronological)

GAME DAY

(oil on canvas, 60cm x 60cm, 2025)

Available at the Ruapehe Art Awards 2025

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An oil painting by NZ based contemporary artist Karlalise Horstmans featuring a team of high school aged boys in a team huddle during a volleball match. Blue and yellow are dominant colors.

BOXING ALLEY

(oil on canvas, 60cm x 60cm, 2025)

Available at the Tasman National Art Awards 2025

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans known for her floral and figurative works, featuring an alley with boys wearing boxing gloves, men talking at a car, a lady waiting for someone, and deep puddles with buildings reflected.

BEFORE THE HUNT

(oil on canvas, 60cm x 60cm, 2025)

Available through LETHBRIDGE GALLERY (Aus) and the Small Scale Art Awards 2025 - Salon des Refusals 

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ILLUMINATED

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2025)

Showing at the Estuary Arts Centre Members Merit Awards 2025

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an oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called ILLUMINATE by

SCREEN TIME

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2025)

Private Collection

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called SCREEN TIME featuring a young boy watching a screen on the sofa next to an open window, barechested and tanned

THE QUIET ASSAULT

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2025)

Private Collection

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Oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called THE QUIETfeaturing the artist reclining on a sofa in apparent pain with a small dog by her sideASSAULT

A BREAK IN THE RAIN

(oil on canvas, 92cm x 130cm, 2025)

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An oil painting by New Zealand artist Karlalise Horstmans called A BREAK IN THE RAIN feauring a girl climbing the brutalist stairs outside the Auckland Art Gallery during a break in a passing rain storm. Her hair and skirt swish as she walks.

IULIA

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 92cm, 2025)

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called IULIA featuring artist Iulia Simtion seated on a picnic rug, touching her foot, set against a light orange background

THE STOOP

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 92cm, 2025)

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called THE STOOP featuring an older man sitting on his front door step shielding s face from the bright sun, dressed in old clothes, with an intense glare and hunched shoulders. An empty pot sits nearby. Organic marks form a parttern in the lower right corner of the work

STANDING GROUND

(oil on canvas, 140cm x 160cm, 2025)

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An oil painting by New Zealand artist Karlalise Horstmans called STANDING GROUND featuring a Tongan / European woman wearing traditional Tongan costume and a black tafetta gown, smiling warmly. The subject is Monique Esplin. Tradtional Tongan symbols form a column behind her in the background.

AT THE CRICKET

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2025)

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called AT THE CRICKET featuring two older people seated in camping chairs on grass beside a fence which has subtle codes or glyphs embedded in it

CLAIMING GROUND

(oil on canvas, 92cm x 122cm, 2024)

Private Collection - Tokenized Investment

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called CLAIMING GROUND featuring a Tonga European woman dressed traditional Tongan costume ana black tafetta gown seated in a corporate foyer staring directly at the viewer. The subject is Monique Esplin

GUARDIAN

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2024)

Private Collection

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called GUARDIAN featuring the artist with a black cockatoo on her sholderand a cascade of codes in the blue background

IN BETWEEN JOBS

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2024)

SOLD

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called IN BETWEEN JOBS featuring a man seaed at a dining table with a mix of drinks and an idyllic scene beyond the windows. His head rests in his hand, and he appears weary

CONTEMPLATION

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2024)(

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called CONTEMPLATION featuring a man siting in a white sofa, his legs extended onto a rug, his arms spread, staring into the near distance, deep in thought.

AFTER THE FELL (Chris & Pete)

(oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2024)

SOLD

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An oil painting by Karlalise Horstmans called AFTER THE FELL (Chris and Pete) featuring two men standing outdoors with farm fencing and trees behind them

ALL MY SECRETS BURIED HERE

(acrylic on canvas, 300cm x 160cm, 2023) 

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An oversized acrylic painting by New Zealand artist Karlalise Horstmans called ALL MY SECRETS BURIED HERE featuring a woman levitating above a body of water with islands and headlands beneat her, and a golden thread running through her hands with a tail feather from the black cockatoo on each end, and daisies, and cherries

WE SPEAK IN TONGUES

(acrylic on canvas, 54cm x 64cm, 2023)

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An acrylic painting by Karlalise Horstmans called WE SPEAK IN TONGUES featuring a portrait of the artist wearing a dusty pink brown dress and crystal necklace, holding her hands in the pose of a mantra, with a black background

BEFORE

(acrylic on canvas, 390cm x 140cm, 2023)

Private Collection

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An acrylic painting by arlalise Horstmans of Dion Horstmans called BEFORE which feature the subject set amongst a field of black codes andshapes reminiscent of his artwork

Works before 2022

Karlalise has been a lifelong creative. She has painted consistently since middle/intermediate school, and has exhibited in New Zealand since 2017 (for instance, in member exhibitions at the Kumeu Arts Centre and Depot Artspace). However, she began exhibiting her paintings professionally (full time) in 2022. There are limited records of her work available prior to that time.

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