Entries - Wall Art

Made using reclaimed cedar. Carved with hand tools and mounted on cedar boards, finished using natural and colored waxes. Each measures 485 L x 275 w x 45 D. 

Made from reclaimed rimu door step was removed from 1920 villa. Hand carved and mounted on storm feld redwood board. Waxed polished finish. Measure each 985L x 200w x 45d 

Highly figured Rimu turned /carved disk representing "is what we see actually real or man made?"

Embellishments of green/gold shape shift resin representing bronze structural reinforcing of ancient times.  BLO oiled and sealed off with beeswax.  600mm diam x 90mm 

Driftwood matai.  Chisel carved, spine and underside sanded to 400grit. Fern leaves chisel shaped and leaflets V chiseled. Finished with one coat Danish oil and two coats Briwax.  Attached to wall using  tapered dovetail.  Length 595mm, Width 73mm, Depth 25mm.

Leaf Fall is a wall hanging carved from black walnut. It measures 180(W) x 250mm(L). The wood has been sealed and finished with semi gloss polyurethane.

These masks represent the fabled lovers Mataora and Niwareka who as custodians of sacred Māori art forms bring to the world tā moko (Māori facial tattoos) and taniko (a special weaving pattern made with the fibres of harakeke flax plants). 

Coming out, leaving a mallee footprint on the wall.  Whale using recycled house kauri on a mallee off-cut launching pad.  Standard turning, pyrography worked with textured surface and lines. Painted and dyed.  0.6kg and 195mm wide.

Wheku are Māori masks that are traditionally hung in corners of marae as guardians to watch over those who enter. This piece represents Rongo-mā-Tāne who is the god of the kūmara, peace and cultivated foods. Made of totara and paua.

Death of a fine brigantine.  Wrecked on the notorious Kaipara Bar, joining a hundred other ships, during the 1800s kauri, timber rush.  Swamp kauri used was located 20km from the wreck site. Hung whole or as triptych.  Satin varnish finish.

The flying ruru is carved from a single piece of totara. The eyes are made out of kauri gum. The piece is finished with Danish oil. Dimensions are W 650mm x  L 450mm. 

 Created from veneers of olive, ash, maple, wenge, walnut, ebony and rimu. The blue hue is resin impregnated ash and rosewood.  All rebated into a parabolic MDF disk sheathed  in silver beech. Finished in Danish oil.  Diameter 440mm. Height 50mm.

This copper etched Myan calender  is surrounded by glow in the dark sand to look like stars.  The base is MDF covered with black resin.  This is 300mm in diameter.

Shou Sugi Ban paulowina clock.  With a red beech burr inset  decorated with copper powder.  Finished with Osmo oil and ready to decorate any wall.  260mm diameter and 30mm thick.

The tui is carved from totara, painted then sealed with spray lacquer, the white feathers are real.  The tui is mounted onto a hei matai carved from swamp kauri and sealed with spray lacquer.  Measures approx 400mm x 500mm x 25mm

Stylised portrait of  a wahine and Tane carved from NZ kauri.  400mm x  400mm x 25mm approximately.  Finished with white paint and sealed with spray lacquer 

A wall hanging commemorating the Year of the Green Wood Dragon. Pyrography, carving, dye and acrylic paint on Rimu. Finished with acrylic lacquer. Dimensions 380 x 190mm. Comes with an optional driftwood frame.