I’ve been working on a new site as I get time over the past few months. This current site was kinda setup in a hurry. The new one once done should be much better so stayed tuned for that.

Well its been a busy 6 months, trips to the snow and my first trip to the South Island ever! I taught myself how to build websites using the Joomla! CMS and there’s more things I want to come to grips with yet. I have plans for this site too, next year should realise them. For now, its summer and Christmas is two weeks away!

I setup a graphic design & website development blog for my company today, it compliments our main Flash website. The idea is Dale & I will use the new blog to detail projects we do. The design is based off this site.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been taking photos of Whale Bay, Indicators, Manu Bay and Raglan coastal scenes. Then using Photoshop to stitch them together to create these panoramic photographs. Contact me if you would like a photographic print of any of these landscapes or commission me to capture a particular scene.

These Panoramic prints are for sale as follows:

Print Size 145mm x 700mm, Unframed, $245 NZD each
Print Size 145mm x 1110mm, Unframed, $295 NZD each

The photos are printed on Kodak Premium Satin Photo Paper, with a weight of 180GSM. For postage prints are rolled into a hard cylinder tube. Depending on where you live postage costs will vary and aren’t included in the above prices.

Two new website projects have come online in the last month or so. The first is Ag Attachments, who wholesale and distribute agricultural attachments throughout New Zealand. They asked for a new logo and website. 

Tally Clerk also asked for a new website plus a content management system, check out the new Tally Clerk website. This website uses Joomla CMS and it also has a user login system for their customers to login, enabling them to upload and download files using a Flash based file browser.

Tally Clerk design and make load volume scanners.

A few photos below, after a day spent with a few friends at one of our favourite beaches last weekend. Days like this keep me stoked to be a bodyboarder, hours of fun in perfect waves.

Title: Eleven
Medium: Acrylic & pastel on MDF
Size: 1000×500mm
Date: 27/02/2008
Price: $1300

Eleven follows Decade. This painting was completed during February for the Raglan Festival of Art. Eleven is my first painting for sale in over ten years and can be viewed at my Raglan Art Studio.

Surfing in Raglan is a fairly popular sport, but today Manu Bay was for ’spectators only’ as this big wave swell was pouring into the points. Big enough I thought to warrant getting my camera out and taking a few photos. There is actually a jetski out in this shot, the waves were so big towing in was about your only hope of getting a ride. You can also spot the Raglan Surf School bus parked up by the boat ramp.

I am submitting a new painting in the Raglan Festival of Art, which runs from the 1st - 3rd of March 2008. I will post it up here once its completed, it will be for sale at the festival and I hope to have some work on display at my new studio that same weekend.  You can preview all artists work submitted on Friday 29th February, 7:30pm at the Raglan Town Hall on Bow Street - most of the artists will be there and you can buy art at this point. Saturday 1st March - both venues open from 9am to 5pm. Sunday 2nd March - both venues open from 10am to 4pm. Monday 3rd March - Town Hall open for viewing from 10am to 2pm when the exhibition closes. The other venue is the Old School Hall on Stewart Street.

This month I am opening up a studio space with local Raglan painter Amanda Green. The studio space is right on the corner of Wainui Road & Bankart Street in Raglan, New Zealand (behind the new design store). I will be working from there most days running my graphic design and website business but I’ll also be producing paintings and digitial photographic prints, these will all be on display. I’ll post photos and more details once we’re up and running, at the moment there’s still walls to paint and fences to demolish!

Combined Artist Studios flyer: