Silventree Gallery sign prototypes
I’ve pushed through to finalise pretty much, though Always sleep on it…
Wizard seeks help…
Our Gallery shopfront is now vacant since daughter Xanthe took her seamstress business north to Auckland, land of opportunity. I began to yearn for a new beginning, a shop front where all my wares are displayed and open to the public, and hopefully pilgrims from further afield, drawn by the website and our Youtube channel… …
The Art to follow
This is my new <business> card… if I begin to list the arts and crafts and things within, there would be no end …Such is the renaissance man’s burden!
Apologies for the machine gobbledygook – human lucidity to follow this interlude of machine madness!
I thought it was 2021… so I could trust a new Word press theme to slot into place without a fuss. But no, the Hestia theme had ideas of being helpful beyond its machine intelligence, and helpfully plastered a whole bunch of sample filler text in posts it actually then posted to you…aghhh! So no, …
To Finish a Saga is a Good Thing…
I’ve started posting an illustration a day on a new Facebook page @applesofaeden… as my broken heelbone heals I continue to practice focus – blinkering even – to finish a highly illustrated shorter version of Volume One of The Apples of Aeden, the Girl and the Guardian. I’ve migrated to Facebook mostly because there is …
On Fairytales, Romantic Fantasy and the Bourgeois
When in my twenties I belatedly came into real contact with the Punk movement and related underground anti bourgeois drug-taking communities and thought worlds, I immediately knew I wanted very little to do with this possible way of being, this psychic underbelly as I saw it… I aspired to the upper realms, in philosophy a …
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Sculptures blast a hole in the spacetime continuum
I’ve had a tiger by the tail, trying to get to the point of actually doing this Peter Pan sculpture. I agonised over the question whether it will be worth the space and time it takes up. Sculptures can’t be filed away in 2-D like a canvas. They are 3-D, in your face, have weight …
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Art and babies: epicentres of disruption
Hi friends who may still be following here! I’ve been away in http://www.dreamspace.nz the gallery and workshops in Gisborne…and http://www.dreamhaven.nz… and the Facebook colonisations of these… I’ve been doing some sculpture ..a commission for the Captain Cook memorial…giant ferrocement gourds..hue in Maori. Now inspired by a dream and my brother’s offer of a donation, I’m …
Big rocks go in FIRST…The Long-delayed Round Table of the Five Elements
Yes, you guessed it – I DIDN’T put this Big Rock in first… 18 years it’s been on my longtailed back burner agenda… and it should have been one of the first things I built, at Cafe Eutopia.. why? Because it is the symbol of synergy.. social, intellectual and spiritual. It’s actually love articulated – …
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The Sword of the Fifth Element and the Long Tail
There’s a ‘long tail’ – or long tale – to the things we create, if we live (and believe) long enough and don’t forget too much but let it all simmer on a long-term ‘back burner’ – or perhaps call it an athanor, or alchemist’s oven, which would slowly heat ingredients to fuse them together. …
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