Note that from now on I will post each new progress image of the painting in a new entry.

I will work on the clouds next.

In mid April, Jon Parker, Dean Benvenuti, Cam from the USA and I met Scott Bothwell from Gisborne and kayaked the Hopuruahine Stream and the Ruakituri River, both next to lake Waikaremoana. First we paddled the first 500m of the Hopuruahine Cascades, which was pretty intense and took over two hours including scouting, exiting the river via a cliff and taking photos. We got out just before an 8 m drop which may have been paddleable, but we didn't have time to assess it or the big...

I have been commissioned to paint a large panorama of Lake Waikaremoana from Panekiri Bluff. I will post progress photos of this painting on this blog for those who are interested in viewing the process as a tutorial. The client has a bach at Onepoto, a little village in the bush by the lake. I drove the 500km from Wellington two months ago to tramp up the Panekiri Bluff to take panorama photos of the amazing views. I also arranged to meet friends there and we kayaked the beautiful...

Photographer Nicola Edmonds took these great photos for North and South Magazine of my aerial painting technique. Of course, this is how I paint all my canvases. Why change a successful formula?

Here are three new prints, just completed. Now I have five new ones for the 'Fractions' show opening Thursday 5.30 at Exhibitions Gallery. I am enjoying experimenting with small round landscape prints with unusual border patterns. Hope to see you at the show! From left, they are: Makara Coast, Red Rocks Round, Rangitikei at Mangaweka.