In the Peach Tree
A Doorway for the Soul
The Liberation Of Green
The Dream That Flows Through All Things
Stargate
Taniwha Guarding Mount Taranaki
The Other Side of the Mountain
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Mount Taranaki (sunflowers)
Two Ducks on Pond I
Two Ducks on Pond II
Two Ducks on Pond III
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Drake on Pond
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Reflected Gardener
Revelations Mount Taranaki
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Between Lives
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The Long Long Blue Wall
Now Say Goodbye
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Lost Soul
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Huhu Bugs
Ploughed Field
Cabbage Tree
Seeds of Time Past
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Crysalis
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Creeping Shadow
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Open Door I
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View from homestead
Open Door II
The Wind Outside
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Waiting for the Rain
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Evening Calm
Landscape with Bottles
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Ancestral Ghosts
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Stream Ngahape
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Path up the Hill
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The Three Survivors
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Last Day
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Evans Bay from Hataitai
Evans Bay from Hataitai (detail)
Wellington (Haitaitai)
Oriental Bay
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
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Untitled
Size: 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
Size: 66cm x 66cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
The pictorial elements in this painting (and also in The Liberation of Green) depend upon a very formal and elegant abstract composition overlaid by the figurative image. This formal element represents the context of the work the ever present ground of all things). The imposed images are the dream of the soul as it unfolds.
Size: 66cm x 66cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
This is the spring light that pumps thru all of nature at this time of year.
Size: 66cm x 66cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
In this painting that which is called THE ALL (the word God has become so degraded of meaning and subjective that its use can be divisive and exclusive) manifests in the form of Other or Dream. Dream by contrast suggests a dream that is dreaming us. It is invisible (till you look ) and ubiquitous. Dream is the universe and the universe and all in it is dream. The term 'Dream may be readily understood by everyone while offending no one.
Size: 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Oil on canas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
Size: 1 metre x 1 metre
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2009
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
Living as we do in constant view of the volcano just a few kilometres away, I am reminded every day of the powerful influence Taranaki has on the entire area. She is the ever-present presence, and her influence is etched into the psyche of all who live here whether they realize it or not. This powerful energy related to place deserves a taniwha to accompany it and this guardian spirit dwells in the veil of clouds the mountain is so attached to. I wanted to paint a series of Mt Taranaki that might convey my awe, love and respect for this wonderful piece of geography. Not just a few more picture postcards.
Size: 1 metre x 1metre
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2009
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
Size: 1 metre x 1metre
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2009
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki
Size: 60 cm x 20 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2007
Painted: Carterton Wairarapa
First exhibited: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
The subject matter and treatment of the "pond" series is reminiscent of Haiku poetry - almost minimal subject matter with all the power of the statement residing in it's lyrical content. If art is the body, then lyricism is the heart.
Size: 41 cm x 34 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2007
Painted: Carterton Wairarapa
First exhibited: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
Size: 40 cm x 20 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2007
Painted: Carterton Wairarapa
First exhibited: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
Size: 41 cm x 34 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2007
Painted: Carterton Wairarapa
First exhibited: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
Size: 49 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2007
Painted: Carterton Wairarapa
First exhibited: Aratoi Wairarapa Musuem of Art & History 2008
Prior to returning to the Taranaki, Helene and I lived in a converted pottery on the edge of a reserve and overhanging a large duck pond. Thanks to the non-stop kinetic show from the surface reflections on the water, accompanied by whatever water birds were visiting at the time, I had an endless amount of subject matter right outside the kitchen door. In this painting only the drake and a thin strip of the opposite bank is treated in a solid manner, all else is reflection and rippling surface.
Size: 40 cm x 40 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005
Painted: Patea, South Taranaki
Art has always attempted to endow the familiar with the properties of the metaphysical. In this little painting the ever-present mountain becomes a symbol of end-time revelations.
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2005
Painted: Patea, South Taranaki
First exhibited: Mazzola Gallery 2003 then Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
A somewhat Buddhist look at the 'between lives' phase when past and future incarnations merge.
Size: 1 metre x 500 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2004
Painted: Patea, South Taranaki
First exhibited: Mazzola Gallery 2003 then Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
(Following on from text for Now Say Goodbye) "Similarly in The Long Long Blue Wall, once this same wall is identified with the life journey itself, all become clear."
Size: 1 metre x 1 metre
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2004
Painted: Patea, South Taranaki
First exhibited: Mazzola Gallery 2003 then Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
"The concerns of Now Say Goodbye are clearly ecological, touching on mankind's genocide of the only other truly big-brained mammal besides ourselves - our intellectual cousins the Cetacea. There are also allusions to our double nature (the centaur is both human and animal) and also to our problems of gender identification."
Date: 2004
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Patea, South Taranaki
First exhibited: Mazzola Gallery 2003 then Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
Date: circa 1999
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
40 cm x 40 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2000
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa
First exhibited: Never
From a series (with Adam and Eve and Chrysalis) that looks at the human condition with particular emphasis on gender identification.
Size: 34cm x 41cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2000
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa
First Exhibited: Never
From a series (with Adam & Eve and Seeds of Time Past) that looks at the human condition with particular emphasis on gender identification.
Size: 39 cm x 33 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
The Open Door paintings are primarily a metaphor for the world of appearances as seen from within the boundary that separates 'self' from 'other', including the desire of the inner person to 'leak thru' ( connect ) to the outside world. Painting, being a pre-verbal art form, is able to give form to otherwise quite abstract thought.
Date: circa 1999
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
Size: 66 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
Size: 111 cm x 66 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa completed Mokioa
First exhibited: Mazzola Gallery 2003 then Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History 2008
A recurrent theme over the years has been concerned with the contrast between some little forgotten pocket of native trees under immanent threat from hordes of advancing exotics (see also Stream Ngahape and Ploughed Field).
Size: 42 cm x 42 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
Size: 125 cm x 63 cm
Medium: Paint on paper
Date: 1998
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
Size: 49 cm x 70 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1997
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History) 1997 as a two painting set.
"Ghost from the (Wairarapa) archives - ectoplasmic images in silver nitrate. These simultaneously give me the creeps and greatly excite me. These are the ghosts whose dreams for the future (towards which they gaze intently) constitute our present crises. Their dreams that transposed 60 miles of virgin bush into hard cash. Sheep paddock and tarmacadam. Agricultural chemicals and multi-national pollution. Undreamed of wealth for a few and grinding poverty and boredom for most. These old photographs embrace it all. The cruel male arrogance and the submissive softness of the mother of ten etc. I do not mean to imply personal animosity towards these poor souls. They are yet another mirror into which the painter may gaze, another image onto which we may superimpose our present knowledge of ourselves."
Size: 61 cm x 46 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1999-2009
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa in 1999 and completed Mokoia South Taranaki 2009
Size: 70 cm x 49 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1997
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History) 1997
"In the evening dazzle with the sun just above the horizon, nature glitters like a stained glass window with the light behind it. Under these occulting conditions the surface of the world appears as shadow, out of which form reaches forth to be touched by light and colour."
Size: 70 cm x 49 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1997
Painted: Ngahape, Wairarapa
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History) 1997
A stand of eucalyptus blaze with early sunlight before a backdrop of shadowy conifers. In the foreground, the strange and beautiful colours of bog grass. Beyond these waves of rank growth three war veterans, lone survivors of the native flora, stand in senile defiance. The sheep bring scale and an unexpected touch of classical pasturalism to the scene."
Date: Mid 1990s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Ngahape Wairarapa
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History) 1997
Size: 104 cm x 79 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1996
Painted: Wellington
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi) 1997
"Stuck in a concrete cave of a flat, waiting for our house to become vacant, I executed many drawings of the one view I had. The geography of Wellington is magnificent. Unique. The quality of light on a windy day (plenty of those) acid, etching the details of the landscape in a process of visual attrition."
Date: 1996
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Wellington
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi) 1997
Size: 40 cm x 46 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1996
Painted: Wellington
First exhibited: Wairarapa Art Centre (now Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History) 1997
"Set in a medalion, two figures jog across the picture plane. By isolating the motif from the edges of the painting, the observer looks through the surface of the canvas to the city beyond. This spacial illusion is contradicted when clouds, cars, buildings, creep in front of the medalion shape. This is a pictorial devise which says 'Painting is illusion - the eye is fooled into telling the brain there is a space, where in fact there is only the surface of the canvas. By bringing the eye back to the surface of the surrounding medalion shape, the brain is told that it has been fooled. The picture plane is strictly two dimensional.' All painters love degrees of visual ambivalence."
Date: Circa 1991
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1991
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1991
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1991
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1990
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1990
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Unknown
Medium: Watercolour
Painted: Unknown
First Exhibited: Never
Date: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on canvas
Painted: Northland
First Exhibited: Never
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In the Peach Tree
Size: 40cm x 40cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2010
Painted: Mokoia, South Taranaki