After growing up on a farm and building a career in advertising, Mel Paton’s love for the outdoors and a desire to help her son’s eczema led her back to her roots.
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Our tutors are the heart of Toi Ohomai and whānaungatanga is part of everything we do here. As students of Toi Ohomai, you’ll feel a sense of family, of welcome.
Our friendly learning spaces and smaller class sizes will give you confidence as you gain new skills that will lead you into the future, and our tutors will be there for you every step of the way.
Your success is what we’re all about!
Mel Paton
School of Trades
Riley Claxton
School of Design, Innovation and Service IndustriesRiley mainly teaches the graphic design courses at Toi Ohomai and specialises in teaching techniques and design skills for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. He finds this very… Read full profile
Kaveeta Dutt
School of Te Kura Māori, Pathways, Business and ITKaveeta Dutt is the Programme Manager for the Postgraduate programmes at Toi Ohomai. Study areas include Management (Business, Health, or Hospitality), Applied Professional… Read full profile
Robert Flores
School of Te Kura Māori, Pathways, Business and ITRobert teaches computing and IT courses at Toi Ohomai, skilled in Wide Area Network (WAN), Local Area Network (LAN), Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), Voice over IP (… Read full profile
Murray Foote
School of Te Kura Māori, Pathways, Business and ITMurray teaches computing and IT at Toi Ohomai, particularly topics related to business structures and operations, human and computational systems interfacing, artificial… Read full profile
Andrew Chapman
School of Te Kura Māori, Pathways, Business and ITAndrew teaches programming, web design and development, and project management. He also supervises student projects at level 6 and 7.
He has a Master of… Read full profile
Ben Wilcock
School of Design, Innovation and Service Industries"I’m lucky to be able to teach in an area I’m very passionate about – music," says Toi Ohomai creative tutor, Ben Wilcock.
Ben holds a bachelor’s in Music and his… Read full profile
Kyle Sattler
School of Design, Innovation and Service IndustriesKyle teaches visual arts, design and creative technologies at Toi Ohomai. He's a multimedia artist and musician with a Master of Visual Art from Wintec.
His recent… Read full profile
Dale Sattler
School of Te Kura Māori, Pathways, Business and ITDale is a creative arts tutor for the Bachelor of Creative Industries, with a particular focus on graphic design, from print based to screen-based outcomes.
Nicol Sanders-O’Shea
School of Design, Innovation and Service IndustriesNicol is the Academic Leader of Arts in the Business, Design and Service Industries faculty at Toi Ohomai.
She's been a practising artist and master printmaker… Read full profile