Still Busy

Most of the last few pieces I have shown here are now sold, I have been putting a lot more time into everything I do.

This gourd was given to me so I just had to see what I could do and yet again a lot of time was spent getting it just as I wanted it, the whole thing was a big experiment from the very beginning there was a lot of drawing which I am usually impatient about but realise more and more how important it is that I start off correctly, this gourd is very thin and weighed 38 grams when I finished it, the colour is guilders wax.

I will be putting it in an exhibition very soon.

This is kowhaiwhai and was started before I started the gourd so it was put on hold for a while, both of these were able to be done while I was sitting and recovering from the effects of chemotherapy.

Kowhaiwhai is the name given to carvings used on the rafter of Maori meeting houses however the pattern is now used extensively in all sorts of manner, in the 1940s Gordon Walters went exploring the caves of South Canterbury NZ and the ancient drawings done by the people of the time over the rest of his life he developed a repetitious pattern known as the koru it is this pattern that I have put my own twist on painting it red on a black background or is it foreground, the vessel is made of totara it stands 250mm high, it is hollow,