Guardian of the Vine
$185 NZD
The curious guardian watches over the jungle, reminding every traveler that courage and kindness open every hidden path.
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Everything Ru has made
The studio shelf
Many pieces are one of a kind, so the ones that have already gone stay on the shelf here. It is the honest record of what has been made — and the quickest way to see what she does.
Prices in NZD. Nothing is bought on this page; every piece begins with a message.
Collection
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19 pieces
The Planted Corner
$195 NZD
Two pieces that were carved on the same afternoon, so their waves run in the same direction.
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Toucan on the Long Branch
$185 NZD
Every vine connects a forgotten story, leading those who wander to places only nature remembers.
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Lemur in the Ferns
$195 NZD · sold
The sweetest treasures are never made of gold; they grow slowly, nourished by sunshine, rain and patience.
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Monkey, Mid-swing
$185 NZD · sold
Caught halfway between two branches, which is where most of the good things happen.
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Frond Wash
$165 NZD
Fronds cut into wet clay and washed in sage, a green that asks nothing of the room it sits in.
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Second Cut
$165 NZD · sold
The same fronds carved again a week later, a little deeper, a little more confident.
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Long Evening
$175 NZD
A soft hillside, a handful of sheep, and the long slow light of an evening at the far end of the year.
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Six Sheep
$175 NZD · sold
Six of them, all facing the same way, which took longer than you would think.
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Clover Keeper
$240 NZD · sold
Painted for a dachshund called Pip, who reached for clover exactly like this.
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Your Dog, Painted
$240 NZD
Painted from your own photograph, so the one who followed you from room to room keeps watching over something growing.
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Stripes and Berets
$255 NZD
For the people who want their dog painted doing something it has never once done.
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Fern Frond
$38 NZD
A fern painted on a small concrete pot, filled with soy wax that smells faintly of fig leaf.
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Sage, Unscented
$32 NZD
For anyone who would rather a candle just be a candle.
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Pumpkin Glow
$40 NZD
One small pumpkin and a vine, for the dark end of October.
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Leaf Frame
$45 NZD
A frame of trailing leaves down both sides; the middle left for whatever you carry.
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Little Lemur
$48 NZD
A ring-tailed lemur sitting in the corner, tail curled up the side.
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Palms and a Toucan
$48 NZD · sold
A row of banana palms along the bottom, and one toucan who found a gap.
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Holly Sprig
$42 NZD
A sprig of holly in one corner, for the shopping and the wrapping paper.
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If the one you wanted has gone
She can make you something in the same spirit — never the same piece twice
Send her the one that caught your eye and she’ll tell you what she could make near it: same collection, same palette, a different animal or a different arrangement.
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