Jen at the Weirdowings.

Weirdo Wings.
Karahui Tasting Room, Martinborough.

2m x 3m (approx). Acrylic and gold leaf. 

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Mural.

Dudley-Anne Hill is the Martinborough business powerhouse behind the Neighbourhood Cafe and Karahui Bar & Eatery. She's also a regular collector of my work, so when she asked me to paint a mural on what is now Karahui's Tasting Room building, I jumped at the chance. Dudley-Anne trusts people to do cool stuff - it's really exciting to be given such free rein! 

I asked my friend Ellen Rodda, my Wairarapa poet-gardener-flower-grower, if she'd choose a couple of minimalist poems from her book "Shortly We Will Be In Good Health" to go on the wings. She was keen to have her words on a wall and picked two meaningful single-sentence poems. I love her minimalist style very much.

Dudley-Anne's only brief was that wanted some black and white wings that people could pose in front of when they visit Martinborough.

Me: Can I make them weird? 
Duds: Hell yes.

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Process pics.

Here's a slideshow of the mural process (some photos by me, and the great ones by Lucy Cooper Photography).

​The design is packed full of native plants, weird people, honeycomb, native birds and fish, and masks of all kinds.