November Wild Garden Painting from New Zealand

A November Painting from My Garden

 

 

This is the latest painting from my garden.  I love to see the bees and birds fliting

 about so it is hardly a manicured or managed planting.  Made in three

panels this work shows some of the plants now flowering.

 

 

 

 

As a contrast here is a photo of part of my actual garden.  When I was training at art school

one lecturer gave us some advice about painting from the natural world  'always take a small  

thing from the large, do not attempt to make the whole thing small'

I try to remember this.

 

 

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New Wild Garden Painting from New Zealand

Wild Garden II

 

Here is a new wild garden painting which I have just finished.  Our Spring

had been windy and has blown blossom off the trees with a wet and squally blast.

The birds don't seem to mind though and there are baby tui and black birds sitting in

the flowering cherry tree.  They enjoy the high perch where they can safely watch

the neighbourhood cats and practise their song.

 

 

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Wild Garden Painting in New Zealand Wins Award

Wild Garden Painting at the Mahara Gallery

 

My wild garden painting won the highly commended award in the local Arts Review exhibition.

This is one of a series I am working on, now is the perfect time as the garden is bursting into early Spring flowering.  Although somewhat buffeted by the stong winds we have had it still looks very cheerful and promising.

The wild cherry has been full of tui chortling away and celebrating their nesting season.

This exhibition is now on at the Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, visit it and lend your support to a very hard working and dedicated team.

 

 

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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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A New Exhibition for September at Tivoli

A Preview from my New Exhibition at Tivoli

Opening at Tivoli on the 12th of September is my new exhibition Touches of Silence.

This exhibition is made up from a series of my work which is concerned with needlecraft and textiles.

This is often considered to be the work of women and is regarded as a feminine persuit and interest, but this was not always the case.  Workshops which embroidered many of the clothes worn at court during the reign of Elizabeth the First in the 16th Century were run and serviced by men who used real gold and precious stones to embellish their work.

Silk and Velvet Garden

A painting made from an ancient embroidery from either Iran or India 16th - 17th Century.

Talking Tree

The origins of talking trees are found in the tales of tree worchip from remote antiquity in India.

Yoke

A small photograph of the yoke of a New Zealand made evening gown, date unknown.

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The Bumble Bee from a New Zealand Garden

The Bumble Bee

 

Even in mid Winter we have bumble bees in the garden.  Today I saw some small ones busy on a flowering jade tree.  I did this drawing in a spare moment thinking about their industrious nature and how I love to see them around.  They particularly favour the lavender and sunflowers but it is unusual to spot them at this time of year.

 

 

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