Helen Beech

Ohhhhhh

Thanks. I’ve learnt to grab an image if it presents itself.

Palm tree silhouette against a dark blue sky

Dark blue sky clouds

Grateful

Powhiri
Waiata Māori
Belly laughs
Good rain
Knitting
Painting
Moody light
Bed

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Thanks!

Detail from Rattle and Hum. Painted hue ( gourd) finalist in National Contemporary Art Awards. Shades of green in shapes of KAWAKAWA leaves and other collected foliage.

Grateful

Work in two excellent galleries
3 day weekend
Gardening
Afternoon walk
Sudden drumming rain
Making things
Good fish pie
Meal set aside for MiL

Coincidently — Helen Beech Coincidentally, two exhibitions featuring my work conclude on the same day: Land Sea Sky at No1 Parnell Gallery in Rawene, and The National Contemporary Art Awards at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museu...

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Created by myself using a mixture of acrylic paint, masking and spray paint. Featuring KAWAKAWA leaves and other foliage collected in my garden.

Kawakawa acrylic on canvas. 760mm x 760mm

Grateful
Rain
Sun
Planted out the last batch of zinnia seedlings
Reading
Sunday bath
Clean sheets night

Reminds me I need to harvest ours. Do you just stew it?
I love it with strawberries or raspberries but neither are ready yet.

Yep same. With pride.

👋🏼

There aren’t growing as much as I would like- need to weed and feed them. Again!

Kumara tupu ready to plant out.

Croissant scoffed
Lamb sorted
Tupu planted
Plants watered
Chicken house semi cleaned out
Passion fruit plant sorted and fed( chook poo)

Lamb bleated all night, but when we went to check all the lambs were with their Mums. Think he must have gotten into the dam area and not been able to find his way out again.

Today
Sample gf croissant
Figure out which lamb is lost
Plant kumara Tupu
Prep to put up swimming pool
Get woodblocks ready for printing on Sunday
Water all the hanging baskets and house plants
Cobwebs
Dream about winning lotto

Some of our kids are into their 30s. I still can’t get my head round it.

Acrylic on canvas. The Road to Paihia.

Grateful

Athletics
Cold drinks
Pizza

Good point.

Grateful

Rechargeable batteries for power tools to power lighting
Frozen meals (homemade)
Generator
Petrol in the lawn mower
Digital library books

Yep we got ours out too. Not much petrol though - had to raid the lawn mower.

Yip- we got the generator out to charge the devices, run the pump and watch the cricket. Had to get the petrol out of the lawn mower.

Oops missed my comma.

Hooray for being wrong power should be back on in a an hour or so.

Reading between the lines we figure this power cut may take a while to fix.
But hoping to be wrong.

Green Kereru Collagraph

Oh happy day

Sunshine
Singing
Running
10 year KAWAKAWA anniversary
Super dinner
Bubbly
Wandering round the lawn plotting and planning

Awesome!

Hooray today
8 and 9 year olds
Long jump, sprints and high jump
After school duty in the sunshine
Chocolate (dark)
Turning small collagraph prints into cards.

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Help me sell the last of my stock before the next harvest starts!
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Also good chat with my gallery guy about not selling any of the work in my feature show. Grateful for all the things he is doing. Hard market at the moment.