For those of you that have asked - I am not doing a 2023 calendar. However Potton & Burton have published a wonderful art calendar for 2023, “The Landscape in Contemporary New Zealand Art”. This calendar features three of my artworks alongside a fantastic collection of beautiful New Zealand art. The three paintings showcased in this calendar are Home Hills Run Homestead, Lull of the Tide, Ōrākei and the much loved Back of Beyond.
You can find this calendar online or at various bookstores around the country.
Camp Stream Hut, a historic musterers hut on the Te Araroa trail near Tekapo with Roundhill in the background. A magical place to visit, especially in the late afternoon although once the sun falls it becomes bitterly cold. On this particular trip the walk out was sodden with snow melt and my feet lost feeling in the last main river. Brr…
Inspired by an almost dreamlike trip along ridge lines, past Lake Morgan and to the top of Mt O’Shanessy the painting is slowly taking shape. I really wanted to capture those warm, golden, summer West Coast rays that you...
While the mountains are freezing and the nights are long it's one of the best times of the year to settle in and put some quality time into painting… I have been making excellent progress on the artworks behind me in the above photo, already adding in lots of detail layers and rich washes of colour. Yet there's...
