We've got shitloads of art up on various walls. One wall is a big empty space pretty well 3.5m x 3.5m, so we made that into the main "art" wall. Some prints, some originals, a few water colours done from artistic friends, a couple of Aussie abo finger painting type things, landscape originals from a local Tutukaka artist, some almost cartoony oils from a Wellington artist when we lived there. Various other stuff dotted around the house - one wall has a series of lizards, descending in size chasing each other with the last one a small cricket made of copper wire. Big lizard was from a Wellington student expo sale, one from a sculptor near the old World of Wearable Art at Nelson, an etched chrome cutout (no idea where that came from), a cut glass one from Nelson again, a paua shell/chrome onefrom the Coromandel art studios.
Got 2 water colours of Paris landscapes done by those pavement artists from back in the 80s, some Italian wood marquetry, a matching set of carved piwakawaka (wagtails) in various poses of flight. Got one of those brown dots on brown background prints of Da Vinci self portrait on one of the toilet walls - it's weird cos it takes on the colour of whatever's around it. Despite it being brown, it looks blue because of the pale blue walls![:?]( "Confused")
. Got a shitload of wood carvings - always get something or other whenever we go to a new Pacific Island, so we've got Tangaroas from Rarotonga, Aitutaki etc, carved deity things from Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga. Haven't got anything Samoan yet - next on the list. Got a few carved olive wood things from Greece, a real ornate carved chair that wouldn't look out of place at a banqueting table - from a carver in Raglan when the missus lived there with some local artist oils of surfy dude stuff. I must dust off my set of coins some time and put them back up on the walls. Collected full set of coinage from anywhere I visited going back decades, so I have most of the pre-Euro coins from around Europe, and all over the place - I recently completed my Rarotonga set - always had most of them but couldn't get hold of one of their triangular 1dollar coins, but got one last time I went on holiday there.
I'll see if I can post some of them up
TBH I never really thought I was particularly into artwork, but when I look around - our house is full of a lot of genuine art. I forget how much we have. Don't have fancy furniture etc but do have fancy shit on the walls![:shrug:]( "Shrug")
Got 2 water colours of Paris landscapes done by those pavement artists from back in the 80s, some Italian wood marquetry, a matching set of carved piwakawaka (wagtails) in various poses of flight. Got one of those brown dots on brown background prints of Da Vinci self portrait on one of the toilet walls - it's weird cos it takes on the colour of whatever's around it. Despite it being brown, it looks blue because of the pale blue walls
. Got a shitload of wood carvings - always get something or other whenever we go to a new Pacific Island, so we've got Tangaroas from Rarotonga, Aitutaki etc, carved deity things from Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga. Haven't got anything Samoan yet - next on the list. Got a few carved olive wood things from Greece, a real ornate carved chair that wouldn't look out of place at a banqueting table - from a carver in Raglan when the missus lived there with some local artist oils of surfy dude stuff. I must dust off my set of coins some time and put them back up on the walls. Collected full set of coinage from anywhere I visited going back decades, so I have most of the pre-Euro coins from around Europe, and all over the place - I recently completed my Rarotonga set - always had most of them but couldn't get hold of one of their triangular 1dollar coins, but got one last time I went on holiday there.I'll see if I can post some of them up
TBH I never really thought I was particularly into artwork, but when I look around - our house is full of a lot of genuine art. I forget how much we have. Don't have fancy furniture etc but do have fancy shit on the walls
Statistics: Posted by kritikon — Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:40 am