
Maiken Calkoen has a background in architecture and uses local buildings and the landscape as inspiration for her vibrant oil paintings.
Since her recent Fulbright Scholarship in Pennsylvania, she has had a prolific period with paintings exhibited at the NZ Art Show, Agora Gallery in New York City, Tennyson Gallery in Napier and her own successful exhibition “Building Memory” at Arts Inc. Heretaunga earlier this year. Maiken is a Design and Visual Communication teacher at Karamū High School.
See more of her paintings at maikencalkoen.com