Blind Contour of Someone I Might Know, with View of Garden - 2024
Who is she? She looks familiar. She wears a half grin as she looks to the left of the viewer. The curved line on her chin is perhaps the moko of her mountain and the view to the garden tells us she is of the land.
This little watercolour captures many small images of a landscape. Each square is a painting within itself but woven with other images to make a coherent whole. A pop of colour brings the eye into the picture.
In a world full of contrast and conflict as humanity grapples with racial, religious and political differences, this painting reflecting nature in full colour, shows us that although there are stunning contrasts between sky, sea and land they can coexist in beautiful harmony.
In this painting the artist has added a transparent wash over the colourful scribble pattern of the underpainting to make a visual difference of colour and contrast to create the focal points of the yachts, birds and the waves.
Row upon row of vivid colours form the beginnings of this painting. The city and balloon shapes are cut from peel and stick contact paper, and then positioned over the painting. A transparent wash covers the background, but still allows the colours to show through. The excitement then begins, as you don’t quite know what […]
The artist has used pointillism and 32 points of the star compass to bring together indigenous art inspiration and star navigation with compass locations. The Maori compass divides the full horizon (360 degrees) into 32 equal areas called whare (houses) depending on where the sun, moon and stars rise and set. The four main houses […]
