Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author

07 January 2011

New Zealand Odyssey: Ex Grey Lynn Borough Council offices, Ponsonby







One of the gifts of illustration is that you may put in or leave out whatever you fancy. In this case I was so charmed by the shape of the building that I isolated it completely from its background, foreground and everything else. It finished up looking like a fairytale building.

A restaurant when I painted it in 1987, it was originally a borough council office in 1889 with, at the rear, a fire station (that's what the empty belfry is all about). Lots of bricks, different colours; various shapes: triangles, rectangles, parallelograms and arcs - I so enjoyed the work.

Built to last and it has lasted well.

© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz

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