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

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

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

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

This is a farm road alongside Malaghan Road between Queenstown and Arrowtown, just below Coronet Peak at the top right. … More

In June, we visited an old friend from early 80’s Brixton days at his house at Waikawa Bay in the … More

The view from the Crown Range Road as it climbs the moraine at the end of the magnificent glacial valley … More

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

Oil on board 18″x20″. My second oil, made up as I went along, turned out more cubist than expected. My … More