What a fantastic Labour Weekend !
Opening up my new wee gallery “Wainui Road Gallery” was a super experience and a taste of things to come.
Thanks to everyone who came to visit, new collectors, friends, and art lovers.
One of the weekend highlights was getting to demonstrate how intaglio printmaking works. Its quite a long process, however always worth the time and effort.
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Its all connected ( one)
A smaller oil painting looking at the interconnected lives humans have and the people we meet along the way.
40 cm x 60 cm
Framed in luscious black timber
Its getting closer to showtime!
Raglan arts weekend
Saturday Oct 24th until Monday 26th, 10 am until 5pm.
Sunday I have a live printmaking demonstration!
My art will be displayed at the Wainui Road Gallery in Raglan.
See you soon
Save the date!
Raglan arts weekend
Saturday Oct 24th until Monday 26th
More info to come so please don’t go far 🙂
A big thanks to a brand new art collector and Moko Artspace in the Coromandel! Infusing my passion for art and surfing seems like a perfect combination for this 10 layer screen print. Surfing is a great analogy for life . It is all about balance. Navigating through the tunnel or tube, is similar to navigating the trials and tribulation of life.
This is an earlier painting depicting a body part “The heart” as a shield. Its hard to say where the soul of a person lies…is it in their head..or their heart…or all of their body? There are lots of little roads shaped like veins in this painting. The tubes at the top of the heart shield are not connected to anything…they don’t need to be in this work. The heart has a blue line around it , almost the same way that the earth has its ozone that helps protects it.
Oil paint on board 100 cm x 120 cm
“It all happens over time” is a tribute to all of life’s events that unfold in front of us. Trying to embrace the moment and be as present as possible! This acrylic painting on unstretched canvas, had no preconceived sketch or design. So in someways it grew , and unfolded in real time, over time.
Over the past few days I have been fortunate enough to stay at Muriwai Beach in West Auckland. The bright blue skies contrast sharply with the black iron sands. I added a painting I created from a few years ago and an extra photograph of the beach itself. The large rock is called Oaia Island and is a breeding ground for the Australasian Gannet or takapu.
OBV Gallery in Matakana is a wonderful place to view some excellent artwork from a variety of New Zealand based artists. The owner Bev is an artist herself and certainly knows a lot about the industry. The Gallery is connected to the main vineyard where tastings and food platters can be enjoyed while viewing the art or beautiful surroundings. My large yellow ochre painting has just been delivered so make sure to stop by and ask to have a look!
I recently dropped a freshly framed oil painting of mine to the amazing Art By The Sea Gallery in Takapuna, Auckland City. If you haven’t been yet, make sure you stop by to say hello to Mike and his whanau when you are in the area. They have been in the art business for a very long time!
“Mary over the ocean” was inspired by the beauty and brevity of our lives. Not a religious painting, more of an homage to goodness and choosing the righteous path.
