This is one of my most favourite artworks I have created that is not a seascape.
But it still has an association with the sea.
From the start to finish, the process was rewarding and fun.
Walking on Ohope beach a little piece of tin was poking up from the sand.
Like a treasure hunt, it was dug from the sand.
And it was beautiful.
Bent and battered with painterly patterns from its travels in the ocean.
I instantly had this vision of what I would do with it.
And thus it became:
"Contemplating Flight #3"
- oil on tin and ply.
(Private Collection)
The Maori people of New Zealand admired the kingfisher for being like a watchful sentry.
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