Welcome to Texan Art Schools

Here at Texan we aim to represent talented New Zealand artists and designers in a contemporary, non-traditional way.

We believe not only is New Zealand an amazingly beautiful & diverse country but so are it’s people. Therefore we focus on contemporary, quirky, well-designed gifts and products, rather than the traditional woolly sheepskin.

Each store although slightly different, caries a vast selection of veritable goodies, everything from Art, mirrors, ceramics, jewellery, home-wares and more.

This philosophy stems from our unique history. Texan was founded more than 15yrs ago as a unique forum for artists and designers graduating from Techs and Art Schools to show-case their work. Hence the name- a bit of a play on words. Get it Tex n Art schools (say it 3 times quickly) J. In fact many believe Texan was the catalyst for creating the “Design store” concept that now exists all over New Zealand. Two adventurous and tenacious mums set up the business, having realised the need for somewhere that new artists could go, that hadn’t quite reached the “gallery” stage but wanted to make a living from selling art.

Although these two went their separate ways, 5 years ago Carrie Baines realised its potential and had the same original passion to promote NZ and its talented artists. Not satisfied with only a small piece of Auckland realising this specialty store, she has set up additional stores and this website to spread the word further. Now the business is available to be licensed throughout NZ and even around the world for other talented people with a passion for true home-grown talent.

Current stores are all in Auckland, but we’d really love to include the rest of NZ too!