Black Swan Blog

What a lovely way to start the week, waking to find that one of my Wild Things images has been featured on BobbyRobin’s blog! It’s always nice to know that the hours spent on the internet promotion do actually work! Thanks to Emma from Freedom Creative for spotting it. And for all those Wild Things fans out there, check out Terrible Yellow Eyes which has many an amazing interpretation of the childrens book illustrations…

Wild Thing by Paul O’Flanagan

If only it were like this in real life, instead of endless hours in front of the computer screen! Although, I guess apple Z would be kind of tricky… (click on the image for some behind the scenes pics on flickr, for a sense of scale).

A few pics from my exhibition Unnatural Selection, which closes this Sunday 19th, out in Sumner at the L’Estrange Gallery. A selection of works will remain in the Gallery’s permanent L’Estrange collection, alongside works from Tony Cribb, Bryan L’Estrange himself, and a whole heap of other talented local artists.

A few works from Unnatural Selection, on display now out at L’Estrange Gallery in Sumner until October 19th. So for all those who haven’t been out yet, there’s still time!

Iced Tea, Lindis Pass, Otago

Meat John, Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo

Left – Piecology, Tunnel Hill Track, Catlins
Right – Local Customs, Old Customs Building, Kaikoura Peninsula

“..inventive and creative and quirky and beautiful all smished into a seamless photo” – Tony Cribb (one of my favourite local artists)

Men are traditionally hard to buy for, and as another Fathers Day rolled around I racked my brain on what to get Dad.. the good old bottle o’ rum is never an unwelcomed gift, but I can’t help but try to out do myself each year with something original that will appeal to his sense of humour. I had the fortune to be shown yet another neat little Photoshop trick but days before, and as I was finally enjoying some weekend procrasinatory computing, a smaller metaphorical version of the big bang theory occured in my head, and I transformed a sunset at Haast into Dad’s very own little planet.

The countdown is on.. Unnatural Selection opens Tuesday 16th September at the L’Estrange Gallery, Sumner, Christchurch and runs through until Sunday 12th October. Guess I’d better get those last couple of works done!..