Near the Artist's Studio, Kakahi, King Country
Oil on board
58 x 74 cm
EXHIBITED
Jonathan Grant Galleries, Peter McIntyre Exhibition, 2009
ILLUSTRATED
(Watercolour version) Plate 8. McIntyre, Peter. (1972). Kakahi New Zealand. A.H & A.W Reed Ltd, Wellington.
(2009) Peter McIntyre [Exhibition Catalogue]. Auckland, New Zealand: Jonathan Grant Galleries.
“I knew that after all my wanderings around the world I had found the place I wanted. I bought a piece of land and with my neighbour, John Walford, as carpenter and myself as builder’s labourer, we built a cottage, a sort of A-house with one leg lifted.”
“(The) cottage is on an obscure dirt track off this road and sometimes visitors miss the turn-off. From the lawn of my cottage the early morning mists roll and tumble across the river.”
“I built a studio in the garden and from its window I look across to a long pool in the river under the bush where the eddies catch the sun and sparkle like moving crystals. Sometimes the sparkle comes from a rising trout.”
“Kakahi, and particularly the country around it with its river, makes a perfect miniature New Zealand; a sort of preservation of so much that was best in this country, a reminder of a New Zealand that is rapidly disappearing.”
Peter McIntyre. (1972). Kakahi New Zealand. A.H & A.W Reed Ltd, Wellington.
