Gallery Christmas Party in Four Days

We are all very busy preparing for the Christmas Party. Don't forget that the Art Find calendar is out all around New Zealand, and dad has Marakihau for the month of May. He has art cards all around New Zealand now also. Not only does dad have some beautiful new paintings and drawings, but he has some exquisite coloured sketches being shown at the opening for the first time.

Christmas Blog

We are having our Christmas Party on 12 December. Dad is working hard as always, finishing off some paintings for it. I always enjoy the opportunity of talking to lots of people. On another subject, we are getting travellers in from all over the world at the moment. Yesterday we had our first people in from Namibia.

Dawn Arrival and Parnell Market Day

Dad has just finished "Dawn Arrival". He used to sit on his mother's lap when he was little, when she was sitting on one of the boulders. They had a family farm at Oamaru. We had a terrific market day on Saturday here at Parnell. There were 20,000 people through. We sold some prints and a painting.

Dad's Paintings For Auckland Art Week

Dad is finishing off some paintings for his "Real New Zealand Exhibition" for the first ever Auckland Art Week 2010. The art week is organised by the NZ Contemporary Arts Trust. There is going to be a really interesting programme from 4-15 November. There will be all sorts of different exhibitions, programmes and surprises all over Auckland.

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.