Childhood lessons in the art of image-making began through the lens. Following in the footsteps of her father, a keen amateur photographer, she had her own camera and there was a photographic darkroom at the family home for processing and printing black and white prints.

Coming to paint the landscape has been part of a natural progression in Cheriene’s art practice. The physical process of painting is a link connecting her to the landscape in an emotional and tactile way.

In 2013, Cheriene graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Dunedin School of Art, majoring in painting. She gained a Certificate in Professional Photography from Photo Access, Ōtautahi, Christchurch in 2003.

Cheriene has works held in the Dunedin Public Hospital, the Waimakariri Art Collection Trust and a number of private collections. She works from her home studio on Huntsbury Hill, Christchurch, overlooking the wider Port Hills terrain and the long coastline of Pegasus Bay.

You can view and purchase some of her work at Chambers Art Gallery, Christchurch.

Joint Exhibitions

  • ‘Body of Work’ Chamber Gallery, Rangiora (November 2005 - January 2006)

  • ‘P is for Paint, Pastel and Pottery’ Down by the Liffey Gallery (March 2019)

  • Group exhibition, Under the Red Veranda 2019

  • Hohepa Art & Sculpture Exhibition 2022

  • Artists Against Slavery Exhibition 2023

  • Finalist in the Cleveland National Art Awards 2023

  • Finalist Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards 2024

  • Hohepa Art & Sculpture Exhibition 2024

  • Stride by Stride, Eastside Gallery 2024

  • Ethereal Canterbury, Eastside Gallery 2024

  • Finalist Tasman National Art Awards 2024

Solo Exhibitions

  • ‘Still, Silent and Moving’ Chamber Gallery, Rangiora (29 October - 30 Nov 2017)

  • ‘ReTrace’ Chamber Gallery, Rangiora (31 July - 1 September 2022)

Paintings held in Public Collections

  • ‘Peter Pan and a One Hundred and Fifty Year Old Garden’ , Dunedin Public Hospital

  • ‘One Hundred and Fifty Years of Growing Up’, Dunedin Public Hospital

  • ‘Reflection- Inscape#2’ , Waimakariri Art Collection Trust

  • ‘Maukatere, Mount Grey (from Onepunga Road)’, Waimakariri Art Collection Trust