Near the top of Karangahape Road and Pitt Street in Auckland City is this religious mural (as I think it looks) on the side of the one of the old buildings, it seems to be situated right next to the Methodist Church. I'm not sure who it is meant to depict but thanks to Tom the artist is Owen Dippie from Kawerau.
Linking up with Monday Murals.
This one originally created by Charles Goldie in 1902 shows her traditional facial moko and smoking a pipe. He painted 17 more portraits of this Ngapuhi Chieftainess and from 1902 until 1941 Goldie continued to immortalise the images of Maori Elders. His work is featured in several New Zealand art museums.
How has your weekend been so far? As usual I've spent my Saturday and Sunday at work and I'm loving being able to spend alot of that time outside in the garden centre that employs me. Earlier this week I spent one day cleaning our fishing rods, they were quite dirty and the rods were sticking and not running smoothly.
I also made the boys a kiwi Pavlova which didn't last long and we have been planning our holiday next year to Napier by thinking about places we would like to visit along the way.
Arohanui to you.
Linking up with Mural Monday
Spring is throwing out some strange weather right now. We don't get snow where we live but it is visible on some of the mountains arou...
