Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author

10 January 2011

New Zealand Odyssey: 46 Parnell Road, Auckland


  
Somebody's folly, this pseudo-Georgian building stands, unique, on Auckland's fashionable Parnell Road. I was unable to find out anything about its history but was attracted to it for its almost Dickensian sense of history. At the time I painted it, about 1987, it seemed almost anonymous with no external indication of its function. In 2011 it is, I believe, a restaurant. 

What a delight it was to paint those bricks in all their subtle ochres. A building of two halves, the left a mirror image of the right.

© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz

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