Art Prints and the Coffee Club

The first of dad's large art prints are out for $98.50 each. We have had a fantastic response but can hardly hear ourselves think. They are building The Coffee Club upstairs, replacing Starbucks. It will be great when it is finished.

Additions to our Gallery

There have been some recent stands added to our gallery, which take up the whole of the middle of our gallery. Dad made them by hand. It is the first time that people can see a proper representation of dad's work. People are browsing through and looking at the prints, block-mounted prints small and large, silk screen prints, drawings, small paintings. Dad's going to have new posters of his work in here by the weekend.

I Remember

We are getting dad's Fox Glacier series prints made and also prints from his previous paintings.

One of the prints will be "I Remember". It's a beautiful painting of freishas with dad's wallpaper background. He painted it when his mother was dying with alzheimers. She died at 57 years. The collector who bought the painting a few years ago for $10,000 recently had it valued at Dunbar Sloan auctions in Wellington. It was valued at $36,000.

Dad and Greenpeace

Bunny McDiarmid, the CEO of Greenpeace, came into the gallery and asked if dad would donate a painting for the Greenpeace art auction, through Webbs auction house, for an art auction at the end of October, to raise money for the ship The Rainbow Warrior 3. Dad is giving them two framed limited edition of 10 giclee prints, which directly relates to Greenpeace. The Whale Rider painting (Returning Heroes) and Spiritual Journey, which is the rebirth of a waka. At Greenpeace they are very grateful and excited to have dad on board. They said it will attract other top artists.

Gallery Buzz

There has been a buzz in the gallery since the exhibition. We are busy sending limited edition prints overseas, and we are following through on other things. Meanwhile dad is going flat out on his new painting. I'll tell you about it next time.

I love it when dad's artist friends come into the gallery. The other day two artists came in at the same time - Mark Cross, who spends most of his time in Niue, has just sold a beautiful big Pacific
Island painting to a firm at the bottom of Parnell Rise for $60,000.

Gordon Howard was also in. Gordon was resident at the Lion Park in Whangarei. He paints the big cats and other African wildlife.

3rd Birthday Exhibition

Yippee it was fantastic. A great time was had by all. Everybody was blown away by the new paintings and giclee prints. An hour before the opening dad was still varnishing the prints in the gallery. The response was tremendous and everyone really enjoyed talking to each other. The limited edition prints, which look just like the paintings, are winging their way around the world. People are saying that it's amazing that you can get a Pankhurst of that quality for $2000. My brother Andre and his girlfriend Nikki were looking after everyone with the drink and the food.

Exhibition Opening Coming Up

Dad is up from 5AM to midnight in the gallery, cutting, stretching and varnishing his limited edition gislee prints, and organising other things for the opening on Sunday, and we have had a tremendous response from all over the world from our mailout.