Philippa Bentley is a contemporary artist who lives on an estuary about an hour north of Auckland, near Warkworth. Her work centres on ecology and our relationship with the natural world, and it is mostly paint and printmaking. Her cloud paintings capture the sky as constant yet always changing, and her wider work uses sea charts, maps and natural history collections, along with AR technology. The website says no AI is used in the artworks or the writing.
The website is a portfolio rather than a shop, and some works are available by contacting the artist directly. Her exhibition record includes shows at Flagstaff Gallery, Artform Gallery, Turua Gallery and Waiheke Art Gallery, a finalist place in the Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award, and a merit award in the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award. A 2021 book, Spirit: Conversations with Creative Women, features her work.