A Beautiful Time

Mother's Legacy (XVIII): Mia
March 2007/Reworked April 2007
Mixed media on canvas
610x910x35mm

This work recently sold to a mother to hang in her daughter's bedroom. I wrote to her & said...

I am so pleased that you will have the painting. I imagined it would hang in a child’s room as a type of blessing…so it has worked out perfectly. If you look closely you will see a piece of dressmaking tissue. It is a piece for the back of a garment. This references the way I liked to sleep as a baby & later as a child – on my front. The covering of the quilt with all sorts of colours, moons & stars is symbolic of the way in which a mother covers her child for sleep, tucking the child in with a story from colourful imaginary lands, & songs. Just a beautiful time that passes so quickly...

Deep are the Thoughts of a Child - Wyndham Glenconner

Soft is the Heart of a Child (III)
June 2007
Mixed media on canvas
305x305x35mm
$250
SOLD

Soft is the Heart of a Child (III) detail

Soft is the Heart of a Child (III) detail

Bitter are the tears of a child:
Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child:
Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child:
Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child:
Do nothing to harden it.

Lady Pamela Wyndham Glenconner

Tree of Life

Tree of Life (I)
June 2007
Acrylic on canvas
760x380x35mm
$450
SOLD

Tree of Life (I) detail

Tree of Life (I) detail

Very Loved Indeed

The Quilting (I): My Quilt
Nov 2004
Oil on canvas
305x305x35mm
POA

If someone makes you a quilt you are very loved indeed.
Unknown

Death of a Blogger

I was saddened to read of the death of blogger Dodderyoldfart, writer of the blog Rest Area 300m, aka Simon Lindsay. I enjoyed his humourous writing style. Through him I now have an appreciation of those who take care of our roads as he wrote about his observations as part of a small road maintenance crew looking after about 200km of SH3 on the West Coast of the North Island, NZ. I now see myself as a potential killer as I approach road work teams. Through him my eyes have been opened to the abstract qualities of road signs & markings. Thank you, Mr.D.

We often pass those men in the bright high-vis jackets, and give them not a thought.
I'm a working man too. A man in dirty overalls and steel-toed boots. I'd like to think that my working garb does not define me. Doddery's certainly didn't define him. He was well read, a thinker, a philosopher of the back-hoe.
soubriquet

Day by Day

Soul Hymns (X): Day by Day
May 2007
Mixed media on canvas
Diptych
380x1520x35mm
$900

Panel 1

Panel 2

Day by Day detail

Day by Day detail

This piece has been made to hang at the head of a large bed, above the headboard.