Manamea Art Studio and Gallery

It's her spine story. Manamea spine tattoo. #tellyourownstory Samoan tattoos made in Samoa 🇼🇸 Artwork by Lalovai Peseta. Inbox for bookings. *Deposit required #tattoo #tatau #manameatattoo #manameaspine #manameaartstudio #samoantattoo #madeinsamoa

📢📢📢$50 DISCOUNT on birthday carvings ordered from 11 October to 30th October!!! 🙌🏼Order now for next year or this year! Inbox @manameaartstudio to place an online order. 🌏*International shipping available #manameaartstudio #specialoffer

Manamea Art Studio & Gallery (Vaigaga, Samoa) •Art gallery •Painting studio •Carving workshop •Tattoo studio Talent: • Vice Tofilau • Tito Pritchard • Pele Loi • William Mauola • Lalovai Peseta • Nikki Mariner Gallery & Workshop Hours. 10am - 5pm Mon-Fri Tattoo hours flexible. Painting Studio 24/7

She works in a regional capacity around the Pacific. Her spine story represents most of the Pacific cultures. Beautiful and very unique. It's her story. #tellyourownstory #dontcopy Artwork by Lalovai Peseta Bookings via inbox. *Deposit required. #tattoo #manameatattoo #spinetattoo #manameaspine #manameaartstudio #lalovaipeseta #madeinsamoa #Oceania #pasifika

Happy birthday Shirley 🩵 Best wishes from the Manamea artists! *carving orders via inbox. International shipping available. Made in Samoa 🇼🇸 #happybirthday #21stkey #21stbirthday #manameaartstudio #carving #birthdaygirl

*Available MANGO FANDANGO (2023) Artist: Nikki Mariner Acrylic on unstretched canvas 120x183cm 🥭🍃🥭🍃🥭🍃🥭🍃🥭🍃🥭 Here is my new fruity 6ft painting (following Lady Fingers). It's similar in size and colour palette, but it has a different feel. It's mangoes vs. bananas. INSPIRATION Mangoes are always special. Fancy. Soft. Sweet. Round. Celebratory and luxurious. So this is what I infused in the figures, tones, and shapes. It feels warm and sweet and happy. I learned so much about mangoes doing this painting. Eg. 🥭The paisley pattern on bandanas originates from mangoes. 🥭The leaves from a mango tree are believed to repel negative energy and attract prosperity and fertility in India where the mango is believed to originate. ARTWORK The starting point was the heads of the women, which followed an exact formation of mangoes hanging on a tree. Everything went from this point. I used the colours of mangoes: orange, yellow, red, green, coral, purple. Tropical, sweet and glowy. I used the curvy shapes of oval mangoes, long pointy leaves, and delicate long red stems laden with pale yellow tiny mango flowers. Metallic colours of gold and copper added luxe and celebration. This is the story of Mango Fandango. (I used fandango in the sense of fun, party and dance). For sales, contact @manameaartstudio *SAT$5000 (NZ$3015, AU$2825, US$1800). Shipping included. #mango #mangofandango #art #painting #modernart #samoanart #manameagallery #nikkimariner #manameaartstudio #sisters #sistersart #sisterart #madeinsamoa #modernartist #fruit #mangoleaves #mangoflower

So good to have our dear friends, the Cassidy family, back in our studio again for the first time since lockdown. Calf piece (inspired by a sail) by Lalovai Peseta. Alofa atu Cassidys 🤎 #tattoo #samoantattoo #manameaartstudio #madeinsamoa #tatau #polynesiantattoo #lalovaipeseta

Happy birthday Fuiava 🦁 1 metre carving, 21st birthday. Orders via inbox. Made in Samoa 🇼🇸 #manameaartstudio #21stkey #21stbirthday #carving #madeinsamoa

Our next exhibition: ABSTRACT in SAMOA Opening 26th October 2023 Manamea Art Gallery Artists: Vice Tofilau Tito Pritchard William Mauola Pele Loi Lalovai Peseta Nikki Mariner #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #samoanart #manameagallery #manameaartstudio #artinsamoa #modernart #contemporaryart #polynesianart

He came to Samoa for a family reunion and left with a new thighband tattoo. Thank you @pickledlam for entrusting your family to us 🙏🏼 Artwork by Lalovai Peseta Bookings via inbox #tattoo #tatau #samoantattoo #thighband #manameatattoo #manameaartstudio #lalovaipeseta

Carved for Robert 🙌🏼 Custom event carvings ordered via inbox. *International shipping available #madeinsamoa #happybirthday #21stbirthday #21stkey #carving

SOLD CRY ME A MOANA (2023) Artist: Nikki Mariner Acrylic on unstretched canvas 183x240cm From the artist: INSPIRATION My sisters and I live different lives than we used to. I watch their online stories traveling Europe and dancing at music festivals. We discuss pending court cases and struggles of self-employment. The days of desperately seeking babysitters, carpooling for school events, and borrowing from each other to pay the rent are gone. We are less compliant and more calm. We are more heartbroken and less cooperative. We are smarter and deeper. That's what this painting is about. Letting go. Floating. TITLE I've always loved Ella Fitzgerald singing Cry Me A River. The lyrics say it all. Cry me a river, I cried a river over you. But the version that goes with this painting is Cry Me A River by Julie London, Live at the Americana Hotel, New York 1964. It's breathtakingly beautiful. So this painting is titled Cry Me A Moana and captures a similar sentiment as the song. (Moana is a word that means ocean in several Pacific Island languages). ARTWORK 8 ft wide, 6 ft high canvas. Five brown-skinned full-bodied women floating in water. They are reaching and twisting. Their respectable white dresses become translucent, and the flower leis of honour are drifting away, and the women don't care. They float above fish skeletons and remnants of the past. I've got too much to say about this one, so that's enough for now. I hope it resonates with some people. I want to make art that people feel, not only look at. Contact: @manameaartstudio #crymeamoana #crymeariver #art #painting #manameagallery #nikkimariner #samoanart #sisters #womensstories #manameaartstudio #julielondon #samoanart #madeinsamoa