Exciting news! This Saturday (Nov 7th) at 10am my wife, Genna, and I are opening our own pop up gallery called Gallery X. It is situated on the corner of Commercial Road and Karaka Street in Helensville. Genna is an experienced artist who creates pop art paintings, pet and family pencil sketches and has work … Read more…
Lately I have been delving into the weird and wonderful world of abstract photography. I have found taking abstract photographs relaxes me. I enjoy playing with the light and seeing how it reacts with different objects or through different objects. Sometimes the shapes almost tell a story and other times faces or other objects can … Read more…
Driving to the movie last night with my wife, we were stopped at the lights and I happened to look out my window and did a double take. Standing in the park was what appeared to be a giant toy. It was a sculpture of a boy walking (which I have just found out is … Read more…
As a kid I listened to Queen quite a lot so when I found out they were having a concert here in Auckland, I jumped at the chance. I must admit that prior to the concert I knew very little about Adam Lambert and hadn’t heard him sing either, so I wasn’t sure what I … Read more…
Last night was the first birthday for the Writers’ Café’ Auckland. They are a very supportive and knowledgeable group. I had the opportunity to read a couple of my poems out. I read a very silly one called Alpha Bet (which can be found in the Sillyverse) and a serious piece called Screaming Through the … Read more…
My wife and I were asked Just the other night To read our poetry for people who write We said yes straight away “what a good idea” Although to be honest We had a small fear The poems were silly Would adults laugh too? Going there and trying Was all we could do So we … Read more…