Opening

It was a great opening! Thanks to all who came! Show is on till the 2nd June at the Framing Workshop. Do check it out if you can - and let me know what you think.

Catell Ronca

The Ship, The Yeti and All That Came After

I have my first little solo exhibition opening next friday night. Hosted by The Framing Workshop, 120 Silverdale Road, Hamilton. Opening nibbles and drinks on friday 6th May, 5.30 - 7pm. Do come on by if you are in the area.

More about the show here

The Isles

These are a series of images I made around the idea of sand saucers - which I used to make when I was a child. I've had these wee characters wandering around in my sketchbook for a while so it was good to find them a home at last.

Currently working on my first solo illustration show - its a bit scary but thankfully the gallery is only a small one so it feels not so scary.. :)

It opens in May so I better get my skates on - off to the framers tomorrow!! eek!

Andrew Holder

The Isle of Tranquility

One of my illustration pieces in the 'Back of the Cupboard' exhibition. Im quite fond of this little guy.. need to think of a good name for him.. any suggestions?

I love these beautiful embroidered book jackets by Jillian Tamaki - stunning!

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Wayne Pate

Klas Fahlen

Back of the Cupboard

My friend Lynda Wilson and i have an exhibition which opens this Saturday (12th March) in the Combined Artist Studios in Raglan. If you fancy a morning at the beach do stop by the opening runs from 11am to 1pm.

To the Side

This is my Great Grandmother riding side saddle. Wish we still used horses to get around although this style of riding never looked that comfortable to me.

Here and there...

Christopher Bettig

Paper Forest

A Collage a Day

A Splendid Evening

The 'Garden Party Exhibition' at the beautiful Greenslade Gallery opened last thursday night. Read more here

website illustrations

A bit of process about some website illustrations I made last year for King St Advertising. More about that here!

Latest finds on the web...

Pasta Carpets

Beautiful designs and lots more by Christopher Betting (love Hello by Candystore)

Valentine

Happy Valentines day everyone!

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year went off with a spectacular bang in Hong Kong! 2011 is the year of the rabbit and they even appeared in the fireworks display!

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just playing around...

Book Art

From Hong Kong to China..

The beginning of 2011 has been very busy! I am in Hong Kong once more working on another Holly Brown project. Recently been to China also for a very fleeting work visit. I blogged more about this on my website.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year Everyone!! This is a recent photo I took of the amazing blue water/sky one sunny day while on holiday on the east coast of New Zealand.

Lots of exciting things ahead this year.. time to get started!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone! Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog this year. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Holiday break!

Thought Id leave you with this greeting inspired by all of the wooden Nutcracker toys I have seen in the shops lately.

See you in the New Year!

Catch Up

So much to catch up on in the lead up to Christmas!! Hardly know where to start!

After our tour of the south finished at the beginning of December we were home for a week before flying away back to Hong Kong to visit our friends from Holly Brown and plan more exciting projects with them. It was lovely to see Hong Kong at christmas time - I didn't take enough photos to do it justice unfortunately. The temperature was very pleasant too as it is now considered winter time in Hong Kong - most days a average of 17-23 degrees, 40-60% humidity. After a very quick week there we are now back in NZ and busily trying to catch up before Christmas arrives and sweltering in the mugginess of summer. :)

In the meantime I have been working on various projects - one of which I am creating birthday illustrations for. I also have a few exhibitions planned for 2011 so that will keep me busy over the holiday period.

Also happy to announce that one of my Holly Brown illustrations was selected as Runner Up in the latest judging for issue 21 of Creative Quarterly magazine. (you can see it in their online gallery here - scroll down to my name to view). I was stoked as the judging is of a very high standard and there are so many awesome illustrations submitted.

The Gallop to Gore

More adventures in Gore, a small township south west of Dunedin. I posted a little more history on my website blog here

One of my much loved illustrators 'Edward Gorey'

mountains

Journey through Lewis Pass in the south island of new zealand. I seemed to have forgotten all of my winter wooly clothing so only stopped occasionally through the pass - so cold! I love mountains, they are beautiful in any light!

Lovely illustrated stories made with sillhouette.

Touring

Nelson, good times in this sunny city. Weird shaped council building though.. kind of like a torpedo with a timer attached to the side of it?

more finds...

Great illustrations by Blanca Gomez