• Home and Away
    • My Home Garden
    • At Forrest Estate Winery
    • Seaside Gems Gallery PICTON
    • Detour Gallery Blenheim
    • BRYCE Gallery
  • Commissions
    • Hands for Sylvie
    • Hands for Christine
    • Hands Memorial
    • Mini Series
    • The Triple-Braided Cord
    • Biker and Bird
    • Organic Graffiti
    • Steel Birds Mobile
    • Wedding Anniversary Pair
    • Koru
    • New Horizons
  • Recent Works
    • In Safe Hands
    • Michelle
    • Hands
    • Stone and Steel Series
    • Illumination
    • Hands II
    • Wall Sculptures
  • Expo's
    • Nelson Expo 2014
    • Nelson Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2016
  • Dutchies
    • Penguins
    • Seals
  • Kotuku Series I
  • Collaborative Work
  • Body Works
    • Puck
    • Lara
  • Contact
  • Home and Away
    • My Home Garden
    • At Forrest Estate Winery
    • Seaside Gems Gallery PICTON
    • Detour Gallery Blenheim
    • BRYCE Gallery
  • Commissions
    • Hands for Sylvie
    • Hands for Christine
    • Hands Memorial
    • Mini Series
    • The Triple-Braided Cord
    • Biker and Bird
    • Organic Graffiti
    • Steel Birds Mobile
    • Wedding Anniversary Pair
    • Koru
    • New Horizons
  • Recent Works
    • In Safe Hands
    • Michelle
    • Hands
    • Stone and Steel Series
    • Illumination
    • Hands II
    • Wall Sculptures
  • Expo's
    • Nelson Expo 2014
    • Nelson Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2016
  • Dutchies
    • Penguins
    • Seals
  • Kotuku Series I
  • Collaborative Work
  • Body Works
    • Puck
    • Lara
  • Contact

Dutchies:                       March 2007            Oamaru stone 500mm        

Picture

My parents emigrated to New Zealand in 1952,settling in Ashburton, along with myself (aged 4) and sister Marianne (aged 1). Right from the start they chose to fully integrate into the NZ way of life. After a very full life, eight children, 23 changes of house, eleven grandchildren and a growing number of great-grandchildren, Mum and Dad finally settled in Aroha Rest Home in the Hutt Valley where they were able to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary. Mum died not long afterwards. “ Dutchies” now sits in the garden outside Dad’s window.

The work captures the lifetime of commitment of my parents to each-other, through the good and the bad, and celebrates both their origin and their life together.

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  • Home and Away
    • My Home Garden
    • At Forrest Estate Winery
    • Seaside Gems Gallery PICTON
    • Detour Gallery Blenheim
    • BRYCE Gallery
  • Commissions
    • Hands for Sylvie
    • Hands for Christine
    • Hands Memorial
    • Mini Series
    • The Triple-Braided Cord
    • Biker and Bird
    • Organic Graffiti
    • Steel Birds Mobile
    • Wedding Anniversary Pair
    • Koru
    • New Horizons
  • Recent Works
    • In Safe Hands
    • Michelle
    • Hands
    • Stone and Steel Series
    • Illumination
    • Hands II
    • Wall Sculptures
  • Expo's
    • Nelson Expo 2014
    • Nelson Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2016
  • Dutchies
    • Penguins
    • Seals
  • Kotuku Series I
  • Collaborative Work
  • Body Works
    • Puck
    • Lara
  • Contact
  • Home and Away
    • My Home Garden
    • At Forrest Estate Winery
    • Seaside Gems Gallery PICTON
    • Detour Gallery Blenheim
    • BRYCE Gallery
  • Commissions
    • Hands for Sylvie
    • Hands for Christine
    • Hands Memorial
    • Mini Series
    • The Triple-Braided Cord
    • Biker and Bird
    • Organic Graffiti
    • Steel Birds Mobile
    • Wedding Anniversary Pair
    • Koru
    • New Horizons
  • Recent Works
    • In Safe Hands
    • Michelle
    • Hands
    • Stone and Steel Series
    • Illumination
    • Hands II
    • Wall Sculptures
  • Expo's
    • Nelson Expo 2014
    • Nelson Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2015
    • Christchurch Expo 2016
  • Dutchies
    • Penguins
    • Seals
  • Kotuku Series I
  • Collaborative Work
  • Body Works
    • Puck
    • Lara
  • Contact