Baby Tui

So this is the lovely little reason there has been no new work up on my site as late.... she has taken rather a lot of my time and energy to grow! but totally totally worth it, and we are now getting to the stage where there will be a bit more time again to create some new work - touch wood!

Tui now has her own blog site, managed by me : www.tuiwoods.blogspot.com where all her photos can be viewed.

Massey University Fine Arts work

Give and Take - Photographic cutouts, mounting pins, deep set white glassless frames.

Contextual studio "Sex, Politics and Religion" 3.0.... This is the outcome of the first semester of contextual studio,  looking at compromise and change related to pregnancy and the role of responsibility and lifestyle choice.  What I personally had to give up, but what I also gained. Working through a kind of loss, and coming to terms with my new role to be.

Nurture - Sculpting wax, candle wick.   Sculpture class 2.1 second assignment 'The Body'.

Making of final work:

The following are two works from a contextual studio brief entitled 'Remake 3.1' - We were put into collaborative groupings of two to three people and the goal was to remake each of our last semesters work as one new combined work - our collaborative work is entitled 'The Pink Response', and these works are two of my personal responses within this brief.

Domestic flowers - Rubber gloves, Sanitary napkins, Dish brush, Kitchen sponge, Acrylic paint, Fake pearls and Birth control pills.

The Bendon Teacup - Bendon lace Bra wrapped china cup and saucer.

New Work

Anemone, Sea Blue - Gouache on 100% cotton 600gsm fabriano watercolour paper. 28.8cm x 38.2cm. - Private collection- Wellington. (Its Ana's birthday pressy)

Slipstream - Gouache on 100% cotton, 600gsm Fabriano watercolour paper - Private collection - Wellington.

Close up of Slipstream image. I think this piece is one of the first i've done this year, a little different, in that it is the first piece without any black in it. Is also on very heavy, but low texture paper, the first time i've used this stuff, and i must admit - I'm in love!

Poison Dart Frog, Pink - Gouache, Shellac and stencilled enamel on canvas. - Private Collection, Wellington.

Poison Dart Frog, Blue - Gouache, Shellac and stencilled enamel on canvas. - Private Collection, Wellington.

Floyd dreams of becoming Hamish the Blimp Cat - Ink, Acrylic, Gouache and Shellac on canvas - Artists Collection.

'Blimp Cats" - Gouache and Indian ink on 600 gsm watercolour paper - Private collection, Wellington

Jungle pics

Jungle set as viewed all together.

Jungle 1 of set of 3 - A2 Gouache and indian ink in watercolour - private collection Christchurch.
Jungle 2 of set of 3 -A2 Gouache and indian ink in watercolour - private collection Christchurch.
Jungle 3 of set of 3 -A2 Gouache and indian ink on watercolour - private collection Christchurch.

Taniwhas and other monsters

Kraken - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour - private collection - Wellington.

This work is also set to appear as cover art for the summer 2008 issue of The Literary Review, an international quarterly that has been published in the U.S. since 1957.
Cant wait to see it!

Taniwha iv - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour paper, mounted on board - Private collection - Wellington.

Pie - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour - private collection - Wellington.
Orandula, god of balances - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour - Private collection - Wellington.
Nanook - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour - private collection - Christchurch.
Davids green eyed monster - Gouache & Indian ink on watercolour - private collection... its Davids... maybe as a sorry for me for being one of these... maybe!

Anime work

Fools rooster crown - Gouache and Indian ink on 600gsm watercolour paper, mounted on board. Private collection - Wellington.

Duncan - A2 poster size - Gouache on watercolour - this is the invite for my little bro's 21st last year. He wanted me to turn him into an anime character... He's a chef by trade so what better than a ninja chef?! private collection Wellington.

Collective - A2 poster size - Gouache on watercolour paper -This is a piece I did for my brothers birthday... Its made up of the characters from his favorite series - Witch hunter Robyn, and a couple I forget the name of at the mo. So no, I didn't personally design the characters, and I wont take credit for that. But I did hand draw these and compile them before painting into a collective A2 poster in Gouache - private collection Wellington.

Amon - 1 of 2 set - Gouache on watercolour, mounted on board - Amon is a character from Witch hunter Robyn, ya can see him again in the poster above. He's part of a set of two w the one below that I painted for a friend who loves these sorts of series as a gift. - private collection Wellington.

Robyn - 2 of 2 set - Gouache on watercolour, mounted on board -As w the above image of Amon. private collection Wellington.

Set as viewed together.

Orchid collection

Orchid panel white 1 of 2 - Gouache on watercolour paper - Private collection Wellington.

Orchid panel pink 2 of 2 - Gouache on watercolour paper - private collection Wellington.

Panels as viewed together as full set.

White moth orchid - Gouache on watercolour paper - private collection - Christchurch.


Red throated slipper orchid - Gouache on watercolour paper - private collection Auckland.
Brown slipper orchid - Gouache on watercolour paper - private collection Auckland.

Misc. Earlier works

"Bird in motion" - Each piece 16x24cm. Gouache on board - 2005. private collection, wellington
Caged hearts - Gouache & Indian ink on 600gsm watercolour paper, mounted on board. -Private collection - Blenheim.

freedom bird - A2

"Invasion" - A1 spray paint, flashe' and gesso on handmade flax paper - feb 2007, private collection, wellington

"Fungi" - A2 spry paint on 240gsm cartridge; a test piece really when i was fucking around, that somehow turned into a piece i really like. - Jan 2007, private collection, wellington

"Postcards to say i love you" - They are just that, postcards, i sent them to melbourne when david was living there. Gouache on watercolour - end of 2006. Private collection

No Excuses Left : Exhibition opening

These are just a few pics from my exhibition opening of NO EXCUSES LEFT - A joint exhibition i put on with an artist friend of mine Naomi Clemments. This was our first show, held at Thistle Hall Gallery in Wellington. An Accumulation of paintings we had worked on up to this point.