Sofia Minson is a New Zealand artist who has a flair for celebrating the spirit of people, culture and nature through painting. 

Born in Auckland in 1984, Sofia spent much of her childhood in Samoa, Sri Lanka and China and developed a strong appreciation for richly diverse cultures. On returning to New Zealand her artistic enthusiasm flourished and painting enabled her to connect with her homeland as well as her own Ngati Porou heritage.

Her bold yet finely detailed oil works explore contemporary Maori, surreal, spiritual, landscape and portrait themes.

For over five years Sofia has painted professionally, exhibiting in Europe, Turkey, the USA and extensively throughout New Zealand. She has won two national art awards, graduated with an Art and Design degree and raised over $20,000 for national charities due to her artwork donations and recent head shave for the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation. The artist now enjoys painting full-time in her Glen Innes studio in Auckland.

www.sofiaminson.com