Dale’s art reflects her vibrant and fun personality. Her quirky pieces have a unique character which echo her own life experiences and relationships with the environment and family. 

Dale might be a relatively new artist herself, but she hails from a skilled and creative artistic family. Her grandmother went to Arts School in Christchurch in the early 1920s and passionately explored various medium with attention to fine detail in crafts and meaningful carvings in wood and stone and aluminum castings. Her mother won art exhibition awards and, while her water colour paintings and etchings were highly prized, it was her stone carvings and clay sculptures that captured the stories and life of Aotearoa. 

Dale’s imagination captures identity through the medium of clay. Each piece explores its own boundary and tell its own story, sometimes imperfectly perfect. You will see coils, connectedness and constructs that portray moments in time, that share intimate stories and that explore the environment. Her pieces have a sense of belonging that people relate to. 

Dale’s working life has been diverse and varied, from founding a movement to support abused women, a personal trainer, being a legal executive in downtown Wellington and having her own massage therapy business. This is where she realised her love and passion of the human form, allowing her hands to carefully release the knots and gnarly bits or simply allow tension to release. This too is reflected in her work. 

Dale works from her own studio / workshop at her home in Greytown where time often stands still. She uses various tools often personally crafted or resurrected from her mother’s toolbox. She has a natural ability to use creative license to develop very personal pieces.