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I recently taught an advanced printmaking workshop at Central Art Space. The idea of the workshop was to give participants tools that...

After a bit of a break from social media I have decided to write, again. Motivated, in part, by lovely feedback I received for an...

Part 2: Doing Good. Can art or photography make the world better? In my biased opinion the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’. Firstly, though,...

Part 1: The Creative While around a fifth of the population are highly sensitive this proportion is much higher among creative types. ...

Where do you get your inspiration from? For me, it is any number of weird and wonderful places - something that has come up in...

Lino printing is a process. It starts with an idea, then a drawing, then refinements, then inverting the drawing, then tracing the...

When I started writing these blog pieces about my journey in photography and art I didn’t think that I would share personal information. ...

I have been invited to teach a few linoprinting classes now. it is something that I both enjoy and dread (just a little). The reason...

The Irish comedian, Dylan Moran, once did a brilliant skit about writing a letter rejecting a rejection letter. For anyone on the...

If authenticity is the goal here are three helpful things to consider.

My introduction to printmaking came one evening in a church hall in North Dunedin and it’s fair to say I have been hooked ever since. ...

Many, many years ago when I was lecturing in Nursing I read a paper, the concepts of which have stuck with me. The author wrote about...

#subantarctic #voyage #seavoyage This Christmas I escaped the heat and furore of Central Otago for the cold and wild winds of the...

Like a number of people across New Zealand (and the world) I was captivated by the return flight of the godwits. These long-haul flyers...

I recently went on a landscape mission - heading into the high country of the South Island of NZ to capture 'grand vistas'. There was...

I’m a restless sort of person, liking to get out and do stuff. In the past that was getting beyond NZs borders and seeing the world;...

I enjoy the work of a number of incredible photographers and, it may be controversial, but I have a thought about the 'norm' of sticking...

Photographs are interesting things - at their best they remind us of things we have loved, they journal events and capture important...

I am not naturally a rule follower (which is why I would be unlikely to darken the doorstep of a photography club) and while I can see...

Accidentally stumbling across an insta hotspot is one thing; deliberately seeking out 'instagrammable places' is another - while it is...

The normal use of clickbait is to divert our attention away from whatever we are looking at on the internet to something (generally) that...

I'm about to embark on a week-long photography retreat, fair to say, I'm a bit excited. Hanging out with fellow photographers, talking,...

No, I am not writing about the photographer's mood but rather the ability of photographs to convey mode by the use of a lot of light...

I follow an American photographer, #JoelGrimes, who has a very distinctive style (and also presents incredibly personable videos)....