lochmara lodge residency

In January I had the good fortune to be artist in residence at Lochmara Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary in the Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds. I painted a series called we are the environment featuring birds and abstracted rivers and worked on and exhibited in the Huia Gallery for the first time some of the digital montage work in progress entitled my year of quakes. It was great getting such a positive public response and interest in what I was doing. My juxtaposition of normal life and tragedy seemed to evoke a chord with the viewers many of whom where from Christchurch.