Monni
Original Works from Aotearoa

We are all here to walk each other home.

Drawn with botanical plant inks by Monni Jansen — descended from Ruawaipu, Ngāti Porou, and Te Whānau a Apanui.

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Mt Taranaki — an ink line drawing of the mountain rendered as continuous contour lines rising from layered ridges, on white paper.
Mt Taranaki Botanical plant ink on paper
Featured work All the work
Mt Ngauruhoe, Tongariro Crossing — a dense ink line drawing of layered mountain ridges drawn in continuous contour strokes, signed and dated 2023 by Monni Jansen.

Mt Ngauruhoe,
Tongariro Crossing

Print
Botanical plant ink on paper
Edition
Open edition
Year
2023

Monni Jansen makes work about the land it is made on. Botanical inks, drawn from what grows here — the ridge lines, the crossings, the maunga that hold the valley up.

Every work begins as a walk. Not a metaphor for one — an actual walk, before anything is drawn.

The ink is boiled from local plant matter, so the colour of a painting is decided by the season it was made in. Which is why the colours of the place are the colours of the work.

Selected works All works
A photograph of a framed abstract print hanging on a white wall: nested rounded bands of cream, pink and ochre inside a light oak frame with a wide white mount. Toi Whenua 1
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Toi Whenua 1

Botanical plant ink on paper

A photograph of a framed abstract print hanging on a white wall: interlocking rounded shapes in mocha, ash and soft pink inside a light oak frame with a wide white mount. Toi Whenua 3
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Toi Whenua 3

Botanical plant ink on paper

Mt Ruapehu — a fine ink line drawing of the mountain's ridges in dense parallel contour strokes on white paper. Mt Ruapehu
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Mt Ruapehu

Native plant ink on paper

Monni Jansen at the bench of her studio, surrounded by ceramic vessels and jars of botanical ink.
Monni Jansen — artist, Matakana Village
The artist

Monni Jansen

I am human, as are you. I am energy, as are you, and so is everything that exists within our infinite universe.

Whakapapa
Ruawaipu, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui
Practice
Botanical plant inks, drawn and boiled in Aotearoa
Based in
Matakana Village
Series
Toi Whenua, Ngā Maunga Tupuna

About the artist

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Originals and prints.
Enquiries welcome.

Work is made in small batches and each original is unique. Sizes, framing and availability are confirmed directly.

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