I painted this for an exhibition that will show at the launches of Greg Johnson's latest CD. Through Exhibitions Gallery, twelve artists were selected to 'paint' a song each. The song I painted is

When The Rain Comes

The paintings are included in a booklet in the CD.

I completed this painting a couple of weeks ago and sent it off to the client, Irmgard Metzger, in Germany. She had recently visited New Zealand and was particularly taken with the incredible landscapes and desired a pictorial reminder! I painted this on loose linen so that it could be framed behind glass.

I have finally added the last touch of paint, and the client has just picked up the painting - he loves it! National Achives has scanned the painting on its giant flatbed scanner. It had to be done in two passes due to the 2m length of the painting. The image below is taken from this scan. You can see it is significantly better quality than the previous photos, all taken with my small digital camera. Please contact me if you are interested in a limited...

Just 4 blocks of sky to go! After this, I will probably want to tweak a few colours here and there before declaring it finished.

It's been slow progress lately - I have been working on our house instead! Anyway, I have completed everything bar the sky, which shouldn't take long.