By now most people have probably already seen the painting I did of Jack Ansett for 2025's season of Taskmaster NZ. I was asked with about a weeks notice if I could do a big painting of NZ comedian Jack Ansett for a challenge on the show. The challenge was for the contestants to show their feline side, but it can't be a cat. After watching his cat, Jack asked if he could pose for one of my art classes at Studio One Toi Tu and make it look like he was licking his own genitalia

Made a super cut of some of the other art events I did last year. From some Urban Sketchers sessions, Plein air painting on our camping trip to Tongariro, Art battle at Eden Park in 2025 and Meet the Artists. Hopefully some bigger and better things to come for 2026. Got two exhibitions coming up this year, a group one and a solo one so stay tuned for that. As well as some more portrait and meet the artist events.

In December I had a great time being part of the Basque Park Summer series. Basque Park is a quiet little park almost inside a crater shape at Uptown/Eden Terrace. As part of our studio collective, I was doing 10 - 15 min portrait sketches. I had a great time and looked like everyone really enjoyed getting drawn. Was a pleasant surprise how busy I ended up being. Drawing almost non stop for 3 hours. Hopefully I’ll be back there in February.

Just realised I never made a post for this awesome event we had at Uptown last year. The weather was very windy and I was drawing non stop. But was a very successful event and was a great experience. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBCYzVTOs7R/?igsh=MXAwNGp4bXYyenR3Yg==

Back in July the Drink n Draw social life drawing group had an exhibition at Studio One Toi Tu. It was a very good turn out, a lot of...

Since the last time I posted one of these sessions, we've actually had several that I haven't updated this blog with. The next session we...

Had a go at some Auckland Art Battle events for this season in 2025. The first was at Ellen Melville Centre. I went into it not really...

Catching up with some more of the events we have had on. So here’s a throw back to last year when we had our second session and our first...

Catching up with some old posts again, here’s some sessions we had at Lake House with models Kelly, Sergio, Alyssium and Alecia. Contact...

This year I got to do the next exhibition with my good friend Freddy Fairclough who shares a studio space with me in Mt Eden. The...

Everyone month Urban Sketchers Auckland get together at a location in Auckland to sketch the occasion. Almost every month there seems to...

Who would have thought we would be getting such beautiful days during winter in Auckland. Especially after the last couple years. Here...

Another catch up post. Last December was the grand final of the Auckland Art Battle. It was a great atmosphere, totally packed out venue,...

Finally got to join in on one of these sessions. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had heard it was hard to draw the animals while they're...

The first of our Alla Prima sessions was at Lake House Arts Centre last year. We had our second in May, but am planning on doing more in...

There has been quite a few awesome art events happening this year. I haven't kept this blog up to date on them, but you'll see me...

Been a while since I updated this site, there's been quite a few events happening, one of them was the urban sketchers in December which...

On the 11th of November we had our second sketch club session at Lake House Art Centre. It was a really nice location although we had to...

Last Thursday I finally threw my hat in the ring and competed at the Art Battle. I'm happy with what I did for 20 minute paintings even...

Great to see Auckland City come to life last Saturday. Had a wild time, the next morning I felt like I just dreamt it haha