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R a i n b o w Series

This all started as a bit of a dare. Ms P felt good to put my skills to the test after I gave her a Valentine’s Day painting entitled Painting Jville Red! Ms P, the Paris Hilton of Jville, and I had been going out together for a little while and were just sussing each other out. She wanted a Rainbow Series for our courtship so she got one. What follows is the result of her insistence of getting whatever she wanted.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet – I remembered clearly, the R-O-Y-G-B-I-V of my mnemonic-ridden childhood.

sincerely hers, inanga
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Rainbow Series Collage courtesy of Picasa, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 photography by mfnw and paintings by inanga
Red Painting Jville red! 2007 Red oil paint, gouache, glitter, tin-foil, and cigarette ash on stretched canvas Jville is Johnsonville. It is where I met Ms P. That is another story helped a little by 4th Dimension. Johnsonville is in Wellington, NZ, and it is a thriving community in the northwest. It is backed by Maungakaukau, or Holy Mount Two Cows. It was known as Mt Misery by the dray drivers of yore. It now has a telecommunications tower atop and that can be seen in the top left-hand side of the painting. Boy this mono-colour was a hard ask! I was painting it before I decided to give it to Ms P but it seemed logical that I give it to her as she and her family have lived in the end of day shadow of this giant for well over two thirds of her life to date. Ms P suits red and her lipstick is testimony to that fact. The oil was built up in layers and swirled in geometric patches to give the ridges of Kaukau some character. The clouds appeared in red and a bit of glitter topped it all off.
Rainbow Collage - inanga's paintings
Orange Mana Sunset Orange road spray paint, oil, gouache and fumes on cardboard box, framed by the artist 2007 700mm x 50mm framed I found a suitable cardboard box and then Jade – he’s another story – turned up with an aerosol can of orange road paint that he had scored from down behind the Sallies. And then I found a tube of English red oil. All the gang was here and I needed a subject. I remembered Ms P telling me an anecdote about a visit she had paid to the northern end of Mana Island at sunset. I recalled the George French Angus sketch of Waitohi’s grave. I think I had seen it in the Alexander Turnbull library collection. Waitohi was the Song singer of the Ngati Toa and the great Te Rauparaha’s sister. I recalled her fine leadership during the migration of the Ngati Toa from Kawhia to Motu Kapiti and the buoyant nature of her lilting songs. I fashioned her grave out of thick red oil and then I swirled the sun, also in oil. I picked up the aerosol can and sprayed Waitohi’s mausoleum at the northern end of Mana Island at sunset in orange. Cleaning up my council flat - coated in orange dust after this - was an absolute nightmare. inanga
Yellow B & H, Sunflowers acrylic, goache, watercolour and collage on carboard (on hardboard painted) and framed by the artist 2007 1000mm x 750mm Yellow oil, acrylic, gouache and paper collage on cardboard, background on Bainbridge board, framed by the artist B &H are Ms P’s two girls and her little sunflowers. This picture, in shades of yellow, suited sunflowers. I went to the library and photocopied some sunflowers. Two of these eventually became the base as did an ancient astrolabe (Islamic, I think). I had some idea that sunflowers and their movement have a lot to do with the time of the day. The painting on cardboard happened within 30 minutes and the framing took much longer, as it extended the sunflower theme right to the off-yellow frame. It looks like the flowers are in a pot but this was never intended.
Green Tui, 2007 Green acrylic, paua shell for kowhai, and gouache (red eye and white wattle), on stretched canvas 300mm x 350mm unframed SOLD Tuis are not green but this collaged tui had to be. The tui is native to New Zealand and it is a noted songbird. It was, after the early Pakeha occupation of NZ, described as the parson bird as its white wattles resembled the neckwear of clerics of the time (most noticeably the Reverend Samuel Marsden) - hence the small concession of a white wattle. Kowhai flowers are bright yellow but this would never have done for a green study so paua (abalone) shell was scattered to give the impression of flowers.
Blue Woman in Blue, 2007 Blue gouache and acrylic, a cutting of a picture of Phuket Beach in Thailand for the silk dress, brown gouache for her hair, and a poem on cardboard This painting began as a study of ms P’s shape and the curves of her behind excited me. I had no blue Thai silk so I used a cut out of a picture of some water at Phuket Beach, visible with a magnifying glass. As Ms P is not even close to being in the blue rinse set I decided to colour her hair, which forever hangs nonchalantly in this image. Eventually her looking to the mountains became my own excuse for a little philosophical introspection, hence the poem that says it all: Defiant of the grapeshot of psychology etc Ms P asked me not to list the poem! Indigo Indigo Sea, 2007 Indigo house paint on cardboard This was a tough one – a whole painting in indigo. Not since the days of Shadrack, Misach and Abendigo has such an undersea problem had so many enigmatic connotations. It started with the pillars to the right and then references to Percy Byssthe Shelley’s Ozimandyus kicked in. Slowly the sea weed between the pillars started to take on colour and I wasn’t allowed to obliterate it all with a thick brush of indigo house paint from Resene Jville. Violet Reclining Buddha, 2007 Violet acrylic on cardboard The task here was to insert a small picture of the Buddha (the current bodhisattva Gautama) on to a large background of violet. Not easy, as Buddha pix are always hard asks! Anyway I started producing a landscape on a sickly English sketch of a garden. The only piece of this left in the present picture can be seen as the clouds in the top left hand corner – sections of a wicker basket. I painted a dramatic multi-coloured landscape and swirled it accordingly and then the Buddha’s face slowly metamorphosized out of the center of the landscape. A tube of violet acrylic completed the process and all was rendered such except for the Buddha’s face. I then lacquered the painting to bring out the relief but deliberately excluded the face. Voila! Buddha in violet.
Indigo Sea Indigo house paint and collage on cardboard 2007 350mm x 300mm framed SOLD This was a tough one – a whole painting in indigo. Not since the days of Shadrack, Misach and Abendigo has such an undersea problem had so many enigmatic connotations. It started with the pillars to the right and then references to Percy Byssthe Shelley’s 'Ozimandyus' kicked in. Slowly the sea weed between the pillars started to take on colour and I wasn’t allowed to obliterate it all with a thick brush of indigo house paint from Resene Jville.
Violet Buddha
Rainbow Series Collage

courtesy of Picasa, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

photography by mfnw and paintings by inanga
Rainbow Series Collage courtesy of Picasa, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 photography by mfnw and paintings by inanga
Rainbow Series Collage

courtesy of Picasa, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

photography by mfnw and paintings by inanga
Original size: 5120x3840 |
Current: 800x600 |
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