Danielle Munro

When Danielle Munro was 5 years old she received first prize in an art competition which encouraged a life long love.

Danielle grew up in Alaska where she received a degree in Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Here she found an amazing mix of talented professors who all tended to emphasize technical skills and composition over content, leaving their students to develop a voice and a style when they were ready to.

When Danielle graduated from university in 2012 she had an advanced set of technical skills in drawing and painting but still no direction for her art. After graduation Danielle set out on the Camino de Santiago, a 480 mile walk across northern Spain, and on the third day Danielle met Louis Munro of Dunedin, New Zealand, they walked together for the next thirty days and three years after they met, they got married and moved to New Zealand. Here they have made their permanent home, and now have a dog, a cat, and two children.

Since her arrival on these shores she finds a great deal of inspiration in the unique flora and fauna, and the ever present sea. Danielle has explored a great many different artistic mediums, but now works almost exclusively in oil painting and stained glass.

Danielle strives to endow her art with meaning, highlighting a reverent attraction to the natural world, often using old world iconography and mythology to create narrative paintings, usually with a strong connection to New Zealand.