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Aotearoa 1 - New Zealand

My country is Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud - more recently known as New Zealand. These paintings of Whai Repo (the North Island), a big part of Aotearoa - a beautiful place on earth in which to Be. See Gallery: Aotearoa II (South Island) also. Whai Repo is the 'Stingray', not someone asking you to go out and repossess a vehicle. If you look at Kiwiland from high up in the atmosphere you will see the Stingray - Northland is the Tail, the area around Wellington Harbour the Head, and Taranaki and East Cape the Fins. The Maori knew its shape long before satellites, otherwise they wouldn't have called it the Stingray.

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$inanga > Mother Suzanne Aubert at Island Bay Mother Aubert, as this portrait shows was a no-nonsense kind of woman. Here is a sample of her phi-losophy: "If we have more things to do than we can find time for, let us consider the time at our disposal, and let us employ it without losing a minute, beginning by the most important things, and not troubling about those which we cannot perform." - Suzanne Aubert Directory, 259:25 And some facts from: http://compassion.org.nz. "Our Foundress Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family. Lyon's missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860s Auckland. She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled in the 1870s. In the 1880s and 1890s, up the Whanganui at Hiruharama/Jerusalem, she broke in a hill farm, published a Maori text, manufactured medicines, set up the only New Zealand home-grown Catholic congregation, and gathered babies and children through the family-fracturing years of economic depression. The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital. There she would be a constant sign of warm caring and tolerance until she died in 1926 [Jessie Munro] That's enough of the history thing - it could go on forever. This is one of five paintings I did on recycled blinds, and of the five this one is those most weighty with oil paint. Oozes of red oil were swirled with whites, greens and blues; then acrylics; then collages of paintings from other canvases; a cardboard cross - more crosses than a Filipino street religious celebration. Michelangelo's David creeps into the bottom left-hand corner and earns moko and Kiwi feather cloak. Shadows of people creep in amongst the rocks until a throng has formed. They are hungry and compassion soon satiates them. All in all, fun to paint. oil, acrylic and canvas and paper collage on recycled blind 2008 FOR SALE 540mm x 1040mm inanga$