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The New Canton Cafe

The old Canton Cafe served me well! After a hard night out during the late seventies I was restored with a meal at my favourite Chinese restaurant. Thirty years on the New Canton Cafe (now located across the street) provides my eldest daughter with her favourite takeaways. Working after school in my fathers sign shop…

Bubbly Bottle

The bubbly logo was a product of my father’s studio. One of the many challenging logo assignments that started life in our sign shop. Much of my still life work revolves around the designs and materials commonplace in commercial work. Packaging foil used as an intermediary between the orange, bottle and box is but one…

Sunset over the Basin

Quality reflection time is a moody evening in the heart of the McKenzie Basin, free to roam unimpeded by fence or road through expansive skies and big mountain vistas. The interpretation of local Maori for Tekapo is “hole in the sky”. Tekapo is a place where the world stops turning. Tekapo is my refuge from…