London’s Kiwi Café, Sacred, is to exhibit a range of my pop-art limited edition digital prints. The exhibition preview opens Tuesday 10 November, starting at 8pm. This evening is being held to raise money for the Sri Jinananda Children’s Home, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The exhibition proper opens Wednesday 11th November, and the show will run until 24 December.
I have made three large loose canvases of river systems drawn in ink on painterly acrylic backgrounds. The Waikato, Rangitikei and Whangaehu Rivers feature on these, and will be the first of a New Zealand series all drawn to the same scale. The Waikato work measures 1700x1300mm, while the other two are 600x800mm each. These rivers and their tributaries are particularly meaningful to me through my kayaking exploits. These works are part of the Landscape...
Elena Goldberg of Showspace Gallery, Flagstaff, Arizona, has invited me to exhibit monoprints of the Colorado and Rio Grande river systems in a show opening in August which also features two other well-known Arizona artists, Rachel...
I have several works in the upcoming show, Landscape 7, at Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington. One work is a limited edition print (edition of 25) of an aerial view of the braided Rakaia River which I have been working on over the last year. It was inspired by my fascination with rivers, maps and aerial photographs, and also by the fact that I lived in Southbridge, next to the Rakaia River from 1978 until 1982 and my father and I often kayaked down it.