The Multi Tasking Artist..

Making a press for a print maker in Indianapolis and

 Framing some of my better drawings for a local Art Exhibition and..

Recreating some iconic vintage Kiwi grocery store advertising on three panels to decorate a friend's ex-shop which is converted to tourist accommodation . - I used to ponder the meaning of life and what am I? and what is this place I exist in? and Why for God's Sake?? but these days I am just too busy. The World must get on as best it can without my curiosity and  endless questions. No doubt all will be revealed in the fullness of time by which time perhaps I will not be so busy...

Three new paintings readied for exhibition

Art and Music Exhibition: Friday morning

Inside the Memorial hall, Waihi, Friday morning 29 5 09

Exhibition preparation; Framing pictures

Thursday morning, last day for framing and painting, tomorrow will be all day setting up the exhibition in the Waihi Memorial hall and we open to the public Saturday morning.
Looks chaotic don't it? No worries mate, all will be sorted today, am just putting up this blog post while I wait for the sun to warm up the studio on this fresh Winter morning.
Yesterday I framed the art borrowed from Waihi College for exhibition and today I frame the art borrowed from Waihi Central primary school. I do love children's art.
Might even get time to frame some of my own art too!
Exciting time...

Art and Music Exhibition: preparation

But honey it's cold outside.. so some paintings I am working on for the exhibition are moved out of the studio and into the lounge by the fire.
Line drawings coloured in.
Sophisticated art? No. Fun to play with? Yes.

It's all about fun this exhibition...

Art and Music Exhibition: the banner...

I am working full-time on this exhibition now. The banner is painted and starting tomorrow I will be creating new paintings and framing drawings for myself and others and organizing this, that and the other.
3 weeks to the exhibition date...

Art and Music Exhibition: a celebration..

Yes indeedy! We are gonna have fun!

Savonarola's Chair, the film buffs version...

This is a photo of me looking for a Savonarola chair at an art exhibition in the old Masonic lodge building on the riverbank at Warkworth in late 2003.
I was unable to find one at this time but I did find a gorgeously dramatic portrayal of one on Eisensteins 1944 movie Ivan the Terrible (Part One) which my son Sam gave to me, in the scene where Ivan is laying seige to Kazan.
Do check it out. You will not be disappointed.
All you many many many many Savonarola chair fans who have found your way onto my humble art blog by googling Savonarola's chair should know that this chair is an Ancient Roman design of folding camp stool used by the Roman legions and unfortunately named after a religious idiot, a rabble rousing fanatic who caused a fuss in Florence in the 1490's and was responsible for corrupting the vision of one of my main drawing heroes, Sandro Botticello, by filling him with guilt and shame, completely destroying this brilliant artist's mojo and this maniacal obsessive fuckwit of the first order was eventually burnt alive by the Catholic authorities and I find it somewhat disturbing that amatuer antique investors and furniture fashionistas should be forever and always landing on my blog looking for information on a Roman General's camp stool unjustly named after a Goddamned iconoclast....
And it's kinda fun where life takes us and definitely fun to have an abusive self righteous tirade just like my man Savonarola, only I don't insist on you following my belief system.
Whatever you believe will, I believe, be revealed to you as truth.
Belief systems are surely like everything we are conscious of: infinite in variety and a matter of choice in what we focus on.