Matakana Country Park Market
My pottery days have drawn to a close now due to my body no longer young enough to cope with the stresses and strains involved in producing my work.
I will, however, being doing some from time to time at various other venues.
My next market is being held at the Metlife Village at Greenwich Gardens on Friday 6th December 2024
from 11am to 3pm.
Watch this space for more events.
Caricatures
I've recently been having another look at doing caricature drawings at the local Matakana Country Park market.
I have done these before at the Matakana Dairy Factory market a few years back and enjoyed doing them.
Watch this space for when it becomes a reality.
A few changes happening at Seaside Living
Unfortunately after fraudulent attempts to use my site by an AI Bot to test credit card numbers, I decided to remove the payment gateways & shop products completely from my website.
A few months on and I have now stopped producing pottery but my work is still available at 'Green With Envy' in Matakana & Cambridge and also 'Mixt' located in Kingsland & Devonport stores in Auckland.
Unfortunately the power company Vector that provides the power to Omaha have not increased the supply during the growth of this area so I'm finding the lack of power to fire my kiln to be too low now. The stress of having to micro manage each firing that takes 12 hours is getting too much for this old body now.
Instead I'm enjoying painting once again but had glazed over in my head how hard it was to get that 'tiny glimpse of an idea' you have into an 'actual painting'. Challenging but very rewarding when you finally get to see what that 'glimpse' was all about!
Here's one of the first of my paintings to be finished. This one is called Hauturu and sometimes known as Little Barrier. Hauturu means "The Resting Place Of The Wind" and is quite the focal point in the greater Omaha/ Leigh areas.
I always find when painting Hauturu and Aotea, that they come out looking strong and a force to be reckoned with- which they probably are. I have heard that the terrain is pretty unforgiving and very hard going. Mind you, when has climbing a volcano been easy.
Both of these paintings measure 1100mm x 1100mm.
Here's the other painting called Hauturu & Aotea that I have been working on. I usually do more than one painting at a time as I often find that during the painting process, I get to points where I'm not sure where to go next. By going onto another, I find that the next one usually helps me to solve the other and vice versa. So I generally go back and forward between each or as many I am working on at a time.
