This collection of paintings and drawings is the culmination of our first year living on the Otago Peninsula.
The little paintings are a collection of glimpses from walks and drives around home and were painted in our tiny sunroom while we built a studio.
The large paintings are the first series of works I made in my new spacious space! They were inspired by a visit to Allans Beach one Saturday afternoon in June.
What had seemed like a bland grey day was transformed by the voluminous clouds we discovered billowing above us.
I took some reference photos and embarked on a series of pastel drawings which I then tried to translate into large loose paintings.
Friend and poet Kirstie McKinnon observed me as having “the sky and sea in conversation, uneasy in a sense, as if they must follow each other. There is a sense of working together and a sense of resistance.”
