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Watercolours
Stream at the bridge entrance to Long Bay motor camp. W/c Painted 1959, 380x282mm.
W/c Painted 1959, 350x255mm.
Watercolour Painted 1959. W/c 385x290mm.
Watercolour. Painted 1959, 380x290mm.
Watercolour. Painted Jan., 1959. W/c 275x190mm.
W/c Painted March 1959. 388x277mm.
Watercolour. Painted Aug., 1959. W/c 380x280mm.
One of our favourite beaches when teaching for three years in Samoa. W/c. Painted 1968. 485x375mm.
Another of our favourite beaches. W/c. Painted 1968. 380x270mm.
Three boys by the rocks. W/c Painted 1965, 380x290mm.
W/c. Painted 1965. 390x290mm.
Painted 1965. 385x280mm.
View from Arcadia Cres., toward Hobsonville Air Base. Painted 1965, Pen and wash, 605x360mm.
Photolitho print. Painted 1995. 530x350mm,
W/c Painted 1997, 720x540mm.
W/c. Painted 1998. 380x260mm.
W/c. Painted 1997. 540x720mm.
Snorkled through the amazing Macrocystis forest at Ulva Island. W/c Painted 2005. 520x340mm.
W/c Painted 1995. 350x250mm.
Protest series. Concern over hunting Humpback and other whales.
W/c.
Crab marches of Christmas Island, rock crabs and Aboriginal crab drawings influenced the repeat pattern. W/c. Painted 1994. 350x250mm.
W/c. Painted1993. 340x250mm.
Small fish make for colourful surprises, snorkling around Rings Beach rocks. W/c. Painted 19092. 320x250mm.
W/c. Painted 1996.
W/c. Painted 2001. 300x200mm.
Rocks and guts at Grays Beach with schools of Yellowtail. W/c. Painted 1998. 710x530mm.
W/c. Painted 1998. 520x360mm.
Another look at Carpophylum. W/c. Painted 2005. 385x560mm.
W/c Painted 2001. 655x450mm.
Futile protest against time running out. Teachers mark each day’s roll with a cross. W/c. Painted 1998. 350x260mm.
W/c. Painted 2001.
Exhibited at Parnell Cathedral “Faith” exhibition. Gained Highly Commended. W/c. Painted 2001. 680x460mm.
W/c Painted 1998. 260x360mm
W/c. Painted 1993. 380x260mm. Steps of logs leading to the beach at Rings. Built by the Mayclair family.
As large poplars they became a nuisence and were cut down. The pottery is in the distance. W/c, Painted 1994. 390x270mm.
W/c. Painted 1994. 270x180mm
Sepia. W/c. Painted 1992. 310x215mm.
W/c. Painted1992. 360x260mm. Shed built by Tim Mayclair on his farm at Rings Beach. Probably built in the 1950s.
Kiwifruit Blocks were established on Waiari Farm early 80s. W/c. Painted 1994. 480x350mm.
W/c Painted 1993. 350x250mm.
W/c. Painted 1993. 530 x350mm.
Group by the old house. W/c. Painted 1995. 350x260mm.
Many have now died or blown out. They were planted to shelter the house site first occupied by the Ring family. W/c. Painted 2000. 330x240mm.
W/c. Painted 1998. 340x250mm
Sun shining through raindrops on Kanuka. W/c. Painted 2010. 200x280mm.
To commemorate the last kiln firing at Rings Beach. The Pottery was converted into a dwelling. They were good years. W/c. Painted 1994. 355x260mm.
Cutting out kiwifruit at Rings Beach after the collapse of the export market. W/c. Painted 1998.
W/c. Painted 1993. 350x260mm.
W/c. Painted 2002, 140x200mm.
One of our favourite beaches for snorkeling and swimming.The lagoon is behind the foredunes. W/c. Painted 1992. 370x270mm.
W/c. Painted 1997. 240x160mm. Coming back from a camp at Waitaia looking west from the top of the track. The valleys were filled with mist. A larger version was also painted.
W/c. Painted 1993. 360x250mm. A children’s favourite game.
W/c. Painted 1995. 350x250mm. On a track at Hahei.
W/c. Painted 1995. 350x250mm. Wet in wet technique used to achieve the soft filtered light.
Tess and Ben after eloping to Matarangi. W/c. Painted 1996. 430x340mm
Protest Series. The dogs, Tess, Buster and Toby with a treed possom doing their bit to rid what has become a pest since being introduced into New Zealand. W/c. Painted 1990. 360x260mm.
W/c. Painted1990. 280x400mm. 2-00 am finding and barking at a treed possom.
Pure fantasy.W/c. Painted 1993. 350x250mm.
Abstraction of the Whangapoua estuary visited often. W/c. Painted 1993. 350x250mm.
W/c. Painted 1992. 390x270mm. Flying into Christchurch airport.
After flying over the Canterbury Plains. W/c. Painted 1996. 530x340mm.
W/c. Painted 1991. 530x340mm.
W/c. Painted 2010. 420x277mm. Snow capped ridges and truncated spurs feature in these paintings.
W/c. Painted 2010. 420x277mm.
W/c. 255x 350mm.
Liquidamber seed pods are in the painting but it’s mostly do it yourself tools. Stop work it’s raining. W/c. Painted 2010. 250x210mm
W/c. Painted 2001. 450x310mm.
W/c. Painted 2001. 450x310mm.
W/c. Painted 2001.450x310mm.
W/c. Painted 1993. 350x250mm.
W/c. Painted 1990. 380x280mm.
Painted while Jacquie attended a conference at St Andrews Scotland. I purchased some paper and 5 watercolour paints to do a series of small paintings. W/c. Painted 2003. 100x80mm.
W/c. Painted 2003. 190x140mm.
Following the blue roads on our trip to Venice with Wendy and Guy. Painted 1998. 180x240mm.
W/c. Painted 2002. 440x300mm.
W/c Painted 2001.
W/c. Painted 2001. 249x340mm.
Amalfi Coast. W/c. Painted 2001. 350x250mm.
Duomo at Amalfi. W/c. Painted 2001. 340xx240mm.
W/c Painted 2001. I cut the original in half turning it into two paintings 240x170mm.
Swiss lake. W/c. Painted2002. 120x100mm.
Vavao, W. Samoa.Returned for the twins 40th birthday. W/c Painted 2003. 300x215mm.
Eastern end of Vavao. W/c. Painted 2003. 210x150mm.
We fiew over the Grand Canyon on our Western Discovery coach trip, USA. Lots of truncated spurs. W/c. Painted 2010. 300x420mm.
Drowned river from Glen Canyon Dam. W/c. Painted 2010. 245x380mm.
W/c. Painted 2013. 525x340mm.
W/c. Painted 2013. 525x340mm.
Visited Great Barrier Island courtesy of Jenny and Doug. W/c. Painted 2013. 525x340mm.
W/c. Gt. Barrier Is. series. Painted 2013. 525x340mm.
Flag series. Rugby fever with Crusaders at the top. W/c. Painted 2005,380x260mm.
Flag Series. Olympic games and FIFA World Cup Athens. W/c. Painted 2004. 360x260mm.
Flag series. W/c Painted 2004. 375x260mm.
Protest Series. Liked the flags and leg moko. W/c Painted 2004. 295x205mm.
Protest series. W/c Painted 2004. 145x205mm.
Many trips back and forth to Hamilton when Jacquie went back to University. Hawthorne hedges line the road. W/c. Painted 2004. 290x210mm.
Protest series. Against discrimination. W/c. Painted 1996. 380x270mm.
W/c.
W/c. Painted 2007.
Getting my head around John Olsen. Jacquie was having to do Mind Maps at University. W/c. Painted 2007. 525x340mm.
Mind map series. W/c. Painted 2007. 530x340mm.mm.
W/c. Painted 1989. 175x135mm.
Protest series. Acknowledging the human suffering and exploitation there has been to extract diamonds.
W/c. Colours of Kingfishers. Painted 1990. 353x280mm.
W.c Why is a piece of my pottery in this painting?
W/c Painted1990. 350x250. Depicting Tuatara with war planes overhead.
Protest Series. Tuatara and Iguanas have survived for 300 million years. How long will humans (and rest of the biome) survive with their powers of destruction?
Crop failure in Ethiopia. W/c. Painted 1992. 290x200mm.
Seen on TV, Bishops were told to confess their sins. The expressions on their faces were priceless. W/c. Painted 2000. 500x340mm.
Protest Series. After seeing native regenerating scrub being removed by huge rolling scrub crushers and replaced with Pinus radiata. A bit hypocritical as I planted several hundred at Rings Beach, most of which have now been harvested. W/c. Painted 1993. 530x370mm.
Protest series. Protest against Usury. Protesting the way banks, casinos and money lenders make their money. W/c. Painted 2002, 320x210mm.
W/c. Painted 2011. 545x340mm.
W/c.
Painted at Colin Mcahon’s class at the Auckland Art Gallery. The pines were in Albert Park. Oil. Painted 1958. 900x550mm.
Acrylic. Painted 1999. 290x270mm.
Acrylic. Painted 1999. 600x430mm.
After a visit to Adelaide were we stayed at Seawall Apartments with its fishing memorabilia. Acrylic. Painted 2008.
Acrylic. Painted 2008.
Acrylic. Painted 2008. 700x550mm.
Ginko in autumn yellow. Acrylic. Painted 2008. 580x530mm.
Cropped into three paintings. Acrylic. Painted 2008. Original 730x540mm.
Acrylic. Semi abstracted view from our house to the eastern boundary fence.
View from the pottery. Acrylic. Painted 2011. 810x600mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2011. 810x620mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2011. 800x620mm.
Enclosure series. Acrylic. Painted 2011. 800x620mm.
Enclosures series. Acrylic. Painted 2009. 335x265mm.
Bloke’s Shed 12. Counting deaths by meths was influenced by a Margaret Aull Painting exhibited at Arts Post, Hamilton. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 835x610mm.
Bloke’s shed 13. Abstracted variation on Poison 1. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 835x610mm.
Bloke’s Shed series 4. Acrylic. Painted 2000. 800x600mm.
Bloke’s Shed series 2. Acrylic. Painted 2000. 645x630mm.
Bloke’s shed series 3. Acrylic. Painted 2008. 590x480mm.
Acrylic. Bloke’s shed series.
Acrylic. Painted 2013.
Fire a constant threat in Eucalypt forest as seen on one of our trips. Acrylic. Painted 2012.
Hints of perspective result from lines and panels. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 700x460mm.
Acrylic and Gesso.. Painted 2012. 660x480mm. Seen on visit to Northern Territory.
Protest series. Concern over whale hunting in the southern ocean. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 234x290mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2015. 600x500mm. After waking from a dream of peace doves with war medals I heard an interview on the radio about Article 36. This painting seemed appropriate.
Revisited from W/c. Acrylic. Painted 2009. 720x620mm.
Migration patterns. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 460x455mm.
Migration patterns associated with Continental Drift are implied in this painting. Oil. Painted 2012. 1230x820mm.
Acrylic and PVA glue. Painted 2012. 365x256mm.
Enjoy the architecture of contguous spaces. Mazes, gardens, rooms, fields,evidence of human habitation and culture. Oil. Painted 2012.
Acrylic & Oil. Painted 2012. 1230x815mm.
Plantations of Norfolk Pines are being established on the Island. Acrylic.Painted 2012. 800x610mm
Indigo shaded out for more distant trees. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 800x610mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2012. 800x610mm. Used a stencil and roller instead of using a wide brush as in Norfolk 1.
Acrylic. Painted 2012. 835x610mm. Used stencil and hogfitch brush.
Acrylic. Painted 2009. 600x500mm.
Volcanic plugs including Mt Manaia delieating fault lines at Parua Bay. Raymond Richards carved me a bone and paua Manaia. which I copied for the underground mythical creatures. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 800x610mm.
In memory of Bruce Smith, who with Ian MacDonald cut a track in the Matarangi/ Rings Beach reserve and then put trap lines around the wetland area and surrounding hillsides. They instigated a native tree planting programme to replace cut down wilding pines. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 800x610mm.
Pest control and wetlands restoration were uppermost in Bruce and Ian’s plan for the reserve encircling Waiari Farm. Acrylic. Painted 2012. 800x610mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2013.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 460x350mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm.
Thought about the scene in my minds eye from near the old Kopu bridge. Abstracted from an earlier painting. Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm.
Approach to Thames series. Poplars on the Thames hillsides. Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2013. 320x260mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm. Wars and rumours of Wars 1
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm. Wars and rumours of wars 2
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 600x500mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2013. 840x610mm.
Acrylic. Kaikoura North Coast before the earthquake.
Acrylic.
Acrylic. Painted 2009. 800x600mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014.
Wanaka to Milford Sound by light plane. Acrylic. Painted 2014. 840x610mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 840x610mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. 460x355mm.
Blue instead of white outlines. Acrylic. Painted 2014. 500x600mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014.
Acrylic. Painted 2014.
Roy Glacier was a bit like this. Acrylic. Painted2014. 840x610mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2014. This series of paintings were made after a flight in a small plane from Wanaka to Milford Sound.
After our visit to UK. Acrylic. Painted 2015. 200x155mm.
Imaginary tree paintimg. AcrylicPainted 2014. 600x500mm.
Given away so copy made 2018. Acrylic. Painted2014. 350x250mm.
Acrylic. Diptic. Painted recalling trips to Hamilton through fog.
Acrylic. Painted 2016. 285x 230mm.
Eastern fenceline on Waiari farm. Acrylic. Painted 2017. 400x300mm.
Before the bulldozers moved in and flattened them. Acrylic.
A/c. Painted 2016. 350x460mm.
Celebrate Red. Acrylic. Painted 2017.
Celebrate Turquoise. Acrylic. Painted 2017. 146x120mm.
Celebrate Pastels. Acrylic. Painted 2017. 225x205mm.
Celebrate Turquoise with red. Acrylic. Painted 2017. 276x229mm.
Celebrate Indigo with pastels. Acrylic. Painted 2017. 230x216mm.
Surprised by the shadows of visitors to the ruins of Beaconsfield, Tasmania, they seemed like ghosts of miners who died in the disaster of 2006. Acrylic. Painted 2018. 740x420mm.
To commemorate the mining disaster, woollen scarves were knitted world wide. They have been rolled up and displayed as groups of circles in the museum cabinets. Acrylic. Painted 2018. 475x385mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 464x330mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 465x330mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 545x458mm.
Stylised Kanuka, Acrylic. Painted 2018. 598x401mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 365x255mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 598x396mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 205x 145mm.
We were just in time to see the brilliant autumn leaves of these shrubs on Tea Tree Road.. Acrylic. Painted 2018. 390x293mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 250x200mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2018. 300x230mm.
Grape leaves. Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Growing by our shed. Rings Beach. Acrylic. Painted 2018. 250x330mm.
Scarlet Oak. Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Scarlet Oak Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Love the Autumn leaves. Acrylic. Painted 2018.
Acrylic. Painted 2017.
Acrylic Painted 2017.
Acrylic. Painted 2017.
Acrylic. Painted 2017.
Acrylic. Painted 2017.
Acrylic. Painted2017.
Acrylic.
Acrylic. Painted 2017. 300x230mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2017. 300x230mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2017. 350x280mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2017. 300x230mm.
Acrylic.
Under development 2018.
Acrylic.
Stream Bed
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic Painted 2019. Leaf fall under pohutukawa.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019. 230x205mm Normally evergreen, our Cyprus have been killed by Kaka stripping the bark.
Acrylic. Painted 2019. 180x230mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2019. 250x300mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2019. 280x350mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2019. 305x407mm.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylic. Painted 2019.
Acrylics