Titahi Bay from Colonial Knob

Titahi Bay, Plimmerton and Kapiti Island from the hill behind Porirua. This one was a battle, I think it’s done. … More

Milford Sound #1

This one seemed to have a mind of its own regardless of what I intended at the start. However, big … More

Farmlet near Queenstown

The 1st, and most Expressionist(?), of the 3 oils completed in Java. This one was wide brush, lots of paint … More

Shotover River, near Queenstown

Near Yogjakarta in Southern Java, painting with Indonesia’s leading contemporary landscape painter John van der Sterren. John is encouraging me … More

Mitre Peak #1

View from my bedroom window. Nah, it’s the Milford Sound, Fiordland. Oils 100×100 Gifted to my daughter on her engagement … More

Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington (2 images)

One in oils, one white on black acrylics

Queenstown at Dusk

This is the view, sort of, from our accommodation in Dublin Street, Queenstown during a few recent ski seasons. I … More

Aoraki and Lake Pukaki

Classic central South Island, a lake and mountains and not many houses, people or roads. Mt Cook/Aoraki (Cloud-piercer, great name) … More

Oriental Bay (after Derain)

I like Andre Derain’s simple colours and contrasts – this is an adaption of one of his several paintings of … More

Awarua o Porirua taniwha at Mana Island

Awarua Awarua is a taniwha (see below) of Porirua harbour. The young Awarua wanted to be able to migrate with … More