A Painting from Enclosure Bay, Waiheke Island, New Zealand

A Painting from Enclosure Bay

 

I made this painting during our stay at Enclosure Bay on Waiheke Island.  The central figure is a pheasant who came to visit us on several occasions,  also a preying mantis and a small butterfly which I couldn't identify.  The large leaf is a taupata and the small ones were fallen from a pohutukawa tree which grew right by the beach. 

 

 

Some flowers from the puawhanga or New Zealand clematis which was beginning to bloom in

the bush surrounding our accomodation and a piece of a low growing native shrub which is commonly used for plantings whose name I am not sure of.

 

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A New Exhibition at Tivoli, Oneroa, Waiheke Island, New Zealand

Touches of Silence

The Art of Stitchery

  My new exhibition at Tivoli opens this week, if you are visiting Waiheke Island come and pay us a visit.  I have gathered together a collection of work concerned with the art of stitchery, here are a few  photographs.



Christening Gown
A watercolour of a Nineteenth Century Christening Gown from New Zealand

 Beaded Cardigan

A New Zealand made cardigan from the mid Twentieth Century

Wedding Canopy
Paintings from an Indian Wedding Canopy

I will post some more photos of the exhibition in situ.

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