Creation
Here I take the next step of building my love of the works of Colin McCahon. The text is blended with the landscape, with the sharp cubist lines and deep greens of the hills. There is a darkness to this…
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Night Falls
While attending the National Leadership Development Course in 2001, which consisted of a 3 day solo on the shore of Lake Rotowiti, I had written a poem one of the nights there. Following this I turned the poem into this…
Why Do You Hate Me?
The final piece of my early McCahon studies on canvasboard. After this piece I began a different journey with these works and moved onto studying the landscape a bit more. “Saul, why do you hate me? Saul, why do you…
Elois
A continuation of this series of work based off Colin McCahon’s work of the same theme. “Elois lama sabachthani. Father I give you my life. And then He breathed His last.”
Ehyh
The second in the Elois series modelled off Colin McCahon. Ehyh yahweh ha Meshiach. I am God the Messiah. Yeshua shumi. Jesus is my name.
Elois Lama Sabachthani
This work is one of my favourite from my early works. In the style of Colin McCahon, I took direct inspiration from some of his works, but also from taking text from the Hebrew bible. This was also my first…