I haven’t created a coastal artwork for quite some time but this particular scene from Cooks Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula has been quite nice to work on. Featured in this painting are some of big old pōhutukawa trees that grow in the area. After having a interesting time working on the pōhutukawa in the Breaker Bay painting I have carried this style on to this artwork and have been enjoying painting the entwining branches, detailed leaves and filtered light. There is still quite a bit more work to go into this one, if you’d you’d like to see the progress please view the painting here: https://www.bellamygallery.co.nz/collections/works-in-progress
St Arnaud Range is very easily accessed from below, in fact so much so that I took my kid’s along the range recently to explore one of the places I find most beautiful. Here is the route that we took along the range and down Powder Valley. Also some...
Not much sleep was had sausaged between two kids that flung their arms into my head all night long and with a full moon lighting up the tent, but I emerged well rested and to a most spectacular and still morning. A few of us wandered around exploring the plateau while others stayed cocooned inside while the first fingers of sun...
After many seemingly endless weeks painting in the studio and in the middle of the school holidays before the first winter snow, the perfect weather window approached. Boots, packs and gear were scattered throughout the house half packed and ready to go, however I was still only half committed. The looming dread of listening to the kids 7 & 8 fight, whinge and moan while I carried over a third of my body weight up 1100 vertical meters...