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The Albemarle Building (1906)

The Albemarle is a favourite Wellington building (more images in gallery), partly because of its dome and elaborate facade – … More

Albemarle Building, Alistair McDonald; art; Wellington; Porirua; painting, Cuba Quarter, Cuba Street quarter, Edwardian buildings, Edwardian Wellington, Ghuznee Street, illustration, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, old building image, Old Wellington, Porirua, Porirua artist, Wellington

203 Cuba Street, Wellington

The People’s Palace is a bit formal and tall by Cuba Street standards, when you look up it feels a … More

203 Cuba Street, Alistair McDonald, art, Cuba Quarter, Cuba Street Bistro, Cuba Street quarter, Edwardian buildings, Edwardian Wellington, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Painting, Peoples Palace, Salvation Army

Boatsheds at Bottle Creek #1

These boatsheds across Porirua Harbour are a frequent subject for local artists and photographers. This is titled #1 but is … More

Alistair McDonald, art, Boatsheds, Bottle Creek, expressionism, expressionist, landscape, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Paremata, Porirua, Porirua harbour, Wellington

November is the Cruelest Month

On 14 November 2016 we had a large (7.8) earthquake, felt mostly in Kaikoura and the north of the South … More

Albemarle Building, Alistair McDonald, Cuba Street quarter, earthquake, expressionism, expressionist, landscape, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Painting, Ruamoko earthquake, T.S.Eliot, Wellington

Cuba Quarter Buildings – sketches

Nice break at a remote beach has produced some sketches of early 20thC Edwardian (mostly) buildings in the Cuba Quarter … More

Alistair McDonald; art; Wellington; Porirua; painting, Cuba Quarter, Cuba Street quarter, Edwardian buildings, New Zealand, NZ, pen and ink, sepia ink, sketches, Wellington

Matahorua, Hawkes Bay

Many NZ rural scenes seem to include a hill with a lone tree on top – perhaps they are left … More

Alistair McDonald, art, expressionism, expressionist, Hawkes Bay, landscape, matahorua, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Painting

Valley near Coronet Peak #1

Valley off Malaghan’s Road between Coronet Peak and Queenstown. Dick Frizzell’s “Small Valley” (1999) is a longer image of the … More

Alistair McDonald, Coronet Peak, expressionism, expressionist, landscape, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Porirua, Queenstown, Wellington

Mitre Peak #2

One of New Zealand’s iconic scenes, from Milford Sound, Fiordland. I aimed at keeping this one uncomplicated and stylistic. I’ll … More

Alistair McDonald, art, Central Otago, expressionism, expressionist, Fiordland, landscape, Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, New Zealand, NZ, oil painting, Painting, Porirua, Queenstown, Wellington

Old Boots 1990-2017

I found this sketch in a pile in the garage at Christmas – from my black and white pre-1994 days … More

Alistair McDonald, black and white illustration, boots image, New Zealand, NZ, Painting, Porirua, sepia ink, Wellington

Arnold

Either a painted sculpture or a sculptured painting – from the early 2000s, when I was doing both and interested … More

acrylic, Alistair McDonald, art, cartoon, mixed media, New Zealand, NZ, Painting, Porirua, Sculpture, Wellington

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