The chairs will be a place for family to sit and talk to her grandmother.
Nina has chosen a peacock for her theme to represent her treasured grandmother.
"She was just a colourful person," she says.
Nina has travelled the world, producing and exhibiting her artworks in Fiji, Japan, Europe and Australia but has never brought her artwork home before, she says.
She hopes people will enjoy the works she will produce.
"I hope people will be able to gain a different perspective about art and be able to see or comment or help celebrate my grandmother's life," she says.
Nina now lives in Redcliffe, Queensland with her husband and two children but would love to return home one day.
"I've always had a plan to come home," she says.
"I'd like to have a home in Fiji, Australia and New Zealand because my husband comes from Fiji, we met in Australia and I'm a New Zealander."
Her art is normally based around her Maori heritage which are visually vibrant yet sensitively subtle.
She is one of eight resident artists working on the open studios project at RAVE (Rotorua Arts Village Experience). They are on site between 10 and 3pm Tuesday through to Saturday every week until the end of January.
It is free to join in with many artists holding open studios for visitors to work alongside them.
Other artists working on the project are South Korea's Noni Choi working on painted media, along with local artists Bridget Thornton who is recalling memories of childhood through her work. Local artist Julie Voss will be creating costumes and crafts while Huihana Rewa will be working bone into art pieces.
Another Rotorua-based artist, Pamela Lines, will be experimenting with water colour techniques while Adrienne Whitewood will be developing a fashion collection as Rebecca Farren examines mining issues through her artwork.
The project is funded by Creative Rotorua.
