Garden Drawings from New Zealand



Some Drawings from the Garden

I made these drawings while I was a student at art school in my final year in 1971.

I have begun the process of collating all my work, it is a huge task, and so as

I come across things there will be more posts no doubt!

I had great difficulty in finding these flowers to draw, living in flats with very

limited gardens I was sometimes given to collecting specimens from over the

fences of the neighbours or from the grounds of the University in Christchurch.

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Talking Trees and Black Swans from New Zealand

Talking Trees and Black Swans

I made this painting from an ancient embroidery - it is the second in this series of

Talking Trees.  Images of the Talking Tree are difficult to find, I have only a few

from carpet fragments.  The myth of the Talking Tree originated in India and it is

said that Alexander the Great stopped under such a tree in Persia on his way

to India.  The tree warned him against continuing into India but he ignored it.

Here are two black swans which were resting by the lake at Ratanui

they are young birds from last seasons hatch and they took no

notice of me as I photographed them.

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