Claire Delaney – Art As Story

  As memories distort into stories, time becomes less linear and everything overlaps – Claire Delaney   The story starts here is tattooed on Claire’s forearm, a reminder that the story starts and stops with her. “My past is my story,” says Claire Delaney, (formerly Hey, née Wilson). “It has shaped who I am now […]

Walking the Talk – Wayne Walker

Profile long-time environmentalist and Soil & Health member, Wayne Walker Wayne Walker is these days an Auckland City councillor, but in the past he was a busy cog in the wheels of the Soil & Health Association’s magazine, Soil & Health (today, Organic NZ). Wayne joined Soil & Health in 1990 when editor Chris Wheeler […]

Little Wing – Modern Heirloom Book

                  Modern Family Heirloom Designed for Coming Generations Illustrated with magically convoluted line drawings, Little Wing is a fairy-tale for all ages about following dreams.  A stuck wing means flight is impossible if the idea of unsticking it seems incredible. Claire Delaney is a full-time artist. She […]

Charlie the Commentator – 4

Charlie is extraordinarily curious.  He simply must investigate everything.  If his beak hasn’t knocked it and his tongue hasn’t tested it, the job isn’t done.  Amongst the vegetable peelings Charlie experiments with everything and occasionally when assistance plays him for a fool and offers him garlic, he persists until he can eat it without head-flinging. […]

Charlie the Commentator – 3

Charlie comes a cropper every now and then…well, almost daily.  He backs up on the kitchen bench, taking absolutely no markers for where the sink is, and thus often finds himself in the bottom of it, struggling to stay upright on a large pile of cutlery. Or, mis-stepping from the hand of assistance to the […]