Penguin

This is Pompini, who was named by/for Raffaele, a rich, lazy and funny Italian we met on a kibbutz in…

Johnny Ratten

This is Johnny Ratten, the punk rat. He’s 1.5m tall. His stance is based on a Billy Idol photo and…

This is Badger. He’s 1.2m tall and is a professor (even if not, he is certainly professing). Hes made of…

I started this in 2003. Its acrylic about 36’x36″. It was based on a view of the Southern Alps in…

My first stone sculpture. I enjoy working with Oamaru (lime) stone. Any (hand or power) tool in the shed will…

Te Rangihaeata was the nephew of the great Ngati Toa warrior Te Rauparaha. Te Rangihaeata’s pa/village was at the head…

This earthquake rolling through Kapiti Island was inspired by Sam Hunt’s poem (which he recites in “Cape Turnagain” by the…

This (railway) switchbox and its twin sat at Paekakariki, just north of Porirua, in increasing ruin for years. One was…

Played golf at Coolum in the shadow of a great volcanic plug, a flow of hardened lava which stays uneroded…

Life must have become much easier when the Penguin family got their first washing machine. From my monochromatic blue penguin…