Dean Taylor (Kuru Pounamu)

New Zealand jade studio creating handcrafted pounamu pendants and contemporary Māori carvings with ethically sourced West Coast greenstone.

''Kuru Pounamu creates and promotes genuine Maori art. We specialise in pounamu jewellery and also work with other sacred stone of Aoteraroa. including Ōnewa (Greywacke), Pakohe (Argillite) and Tahanga (Basalt).

We are inspired by traditional Maori design and art forms and every piece we create is unique.

Kuru Pounamu is part of a collective of Maori artists and as such we also promote and supply a variety of Maori art carved in wood, bone, stone and whalebone.''