I’m excited to let you all know that you have a chance to get your hands on one my back country art prints while subscribing to one of the most informative and interesting outdoor magazines in New Zealand. For the month of July if you join Wilderness magazine you’ll be in the draw to win one of four backcountry art prints...
Recently we decided to explore the St James area from the Hammer Springs end. It had been on the list for a while, the weather was not looking the best, but there was a small window between windy fronts also it was the last chance of the season for 4WD access. The opportunity to 4WD in made it so much easier to bring the kids along and explore further back into the area. We started exploring the Edwards river end, with a fresh dusting of snow on the tops that melted quickly, and while it was blowing hard on the tops...
The Little Spotted Kiwi/Kiwi pukupuku painting is coming along nicely, with lots more intricate detail being added and layers upon layers of green making the fauna feel quite lush...
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...
A little peek into the studio to see the last few weeks of detail work that has been going into the Lake Alexandrina painting…Progressing steadily, but the water reflection work is going to...
As the season cools and the leaves start to tinge to hues of golds and burnt orange I have been working on the Lake Alexandrina painting. This artwork has the same vibrant autumn colours pressing against...
Three sizes available to fit your space perfectly - Summer Afternoon at Cooks Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Pictured are the black and white 30w x 40d frames with not matt and in the 1000 x 625 size. Cooks Beach (Pukaki) is a sheltered white sandy beach with Pōhutukawa trees and “bunny tail” sand tussocks waving gently in the breeze...
Here is a new painting in progress (early stages) that is inspired by the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary and features the Little Spotted Kiwi/Kiwi pukupuku. I have spent much time in this nearly 700 hectare "ecological island” located just up the road from my studio, even before it became a sanctuary. The Waimārama sanctuary is...
Following on from the chilly evening in the snow last weekend, the sun came out for a few beautiful, hot days of climbing up and down scree slopes.
We had a spectacular base camp by a magical and very deep tarn with only 5 lost seagulls for company that intermittently squawked throughout the nights, and...
I am excited to finally announce that Lady Emily in the Cass is now available as a limited edition art print!
If you are wondering where Lady Emily Hut is, the hut is situated on a gentle ridge overlooking the Cass Valley in the Glenmore Station near Lake Tekapo. With the impressive Liebig Range (peaks towering to over 2800) hidden behind the Gamack Range surrounding the hut it is a pretty impressive...
