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It’s all in the marketing. Mainly.

Posted: August 14, 2026 in Uncategorized
Tags: acrylic on canvas, anime, art, cafe art, cartoon, geisha, good coffee, japan, manga, new zealand art, new zealand artist, pop art, ukiyo e, ukiyo-e

Still in 2025, around the time the Tauranga Runway officially opened, Market & Main cafe (situated right by my section of the runway, in the Historic Village, Tauranga, which is in New Zealand. North Island of New Zealand, as it happens) had a pop up Kiramekisan show. Not only were they super gracious in hosting my work, but their food & coffee are top notch. I may have had nachos there more than once…

“BKOOM!”. Now sold.

“Taihen’na jidaidesu” Ichi and Ni and “Doshin wa no guwa ookii” Ichi. Now sold.

The marketing worked! I have a hankering for nachos now…

It’s almost been a year, and it was a show, with a lot of art, but for me not this year…

Posted: April 7, 2026 in Uncategorized
Tags: acrylic on canvas, anime, art, cartoon, comic book, geisha, japan, kimono, manga, new zealand art, pop art, ukiyo-e

It’s almost NZ Art Show time, but I won’t be there this year. So I thought I might post the work I had in it last year, as I threatened to do in the previous post, almost a year ago. I’d had Covid at the beginning of the year which produced some ongoing issues and slowed things down a bit. So had a bit less in the show than I’d hoped, but they are all in new homes now, so that’s super!

Firstly, 4 61×91.5 canvases…

“BKOOM!”

“KRAKADOOM!”

“ZWUMP!”

“TRABAM!”

…then 4 50×50 canvases.

“Aki”

“Fuyu”

“Haru”

“Natsu”

You might notice that I was starting to play around with spray paint and stencils in the smaller canvases. More on that soon.

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It’s quite the show! With plenty of art.

Posted: May 15, 2025 in Uncategorized
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, geisha, homer simpson, japan, kimono, lucky cat, maneki neko, manga, mr sparkle, nz art show, pop art, power girl, the simpsons, ukiyo-e

Almost done with my work for this year’s NZ Art Show , so will post about that in a couple of days. In the mean time, these are from last year!

Himawari 75x75cm

Wasabi 75x75cm

Budo 50x50cm

Ichigo 50x50cm

Umi 50x50cm

I’ve also been working on my photography!

If you’re in the area over Kings Birthday Weekend you should get on down to TSB Arena and Shed 6. It’s pretty darn excellent.

Stupid billionaires…

Posted: April 27, 2025 in Uncategorized
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, geisha, homer simpson, japan, lucky cat, maneki neko, manga, mr sparkle, nz art, nz art show, nz artist, pop art, power girl, the simpsons, ukiyo-e

In general. But specifically in this case – Zuckerburg, for how Facebook and Instagram have become steadily more crap to use as a tool to promote your art. So for now I’ll be using this blog more and hopefully can stick it to the robots…

Which means I’ll be zooming all over the place time wise. That probably sounds a lot more exciting than it actually is, but at least I’m not bloated and orange (yep – gone political…). On that note, I’m looking forward to visiting the States when there are better people in charge. Hopefully that can happen.

So anyway, back to the art. 2024 was my first attempt at the New Zealand Art show in Wellington over Kings Birthday Weekend. Wasn’t able to make it down there myself, but sent some paintings down and they all now reside in new homes. Domoarigatogozaiimasu to the fine folk who purchased a Kiramekisan last year – I’ll have 8 more in this years show. Below are last years.

“Himawari”

“Wasabi”

“Budo”

“Ichgo”

“Umi”

Please excuse my photgraphy – I hereby vow to improve.

For lucky best wash! For lucky best wash! For lucky best wash!

Posted: May 9, 2023 in geisha, Paintings, painty bits, ukiyo-e
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, detergent, geisha, hashi, homer simpson, japan, japanese fan, katakana, kimono, lucky cat, maneki neko, manga, mr sparkle, new zealand art, new zealand artist, pop art, the simpsons, tv show, ukiyo-e

Because there are 3… Backgrounds are based on the Mr Sparkle detergent box. One would have been fine, but I reckon a triptych works even better. I’ve done a few with the maneki neko frame this year – I’ll do some more on larger canvases and see how it goes after that. These are available for sale (as a triptych), so could be yours!

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May as well Totoro.

Posted: May 9, 2023 in Paintings, painty bits
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, japan, japan nz, manga, new zealand art, new zealand artist, pop art, studio ghibli, totoro

This canvas had been sitting for several years with Totoro drawn on it, so once I’d finished up with the 12 inchers decided to finally get it finished. Really want to do some more Ghibli. So I just might.

How much 12 inch is too much 12 inch?

Posted: May 9, 2023 in geisha, Paintings, painty bits, ukiyo-e
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, geisha, homer simpson, japan, lucky cat, maneki neko, manga, marvel comics, mr sparkle, pop art, powergirl, the simpsons, ukiyo-e

Not sure, but I reckon this is just the right amount. Saw out last year and saw in this by painting quite a few 12 by 12 in canvases. I think they call this a “photo dump”. Could be wrong – it’s happened before.

Doo that hath been Scoobied.

Posted: May 8, 2023 in geisha, Paintings, painty bits, ukiyo-e
Tags: acrylic on canvas, animation, anime, art, cartoon, commissionedpainting, geisha, hannabarbera, homer simpson, jackson guitars, japan, manga, ninja, nintendo, pop art, racerx, scooby doo, supermario, the simpsons, thesimpsons, ukiyo-e, ultraman

“Gitahiro Iichi”. Commissions are great. Otto’s guitar is based on the Jackson owned by the new owner of the piece. Might have to do Ultraman Homer again soon too…

Here it is in it’s new home.

SWOK! BLAM! NEW! POST!

Posted: January 22, 2023 in geisha, Paintings, painty bits, ukiyo-e, Uncategorized
Tags: acrylic on canvas, acrylic painting, animation, anime, art, art for sale, cartoon, comic book, geisha, japan, kimono, manga, new zealand artist, pop art, ukiyo-e

“SWOK!’ and “BLAM!” 75x75cm acrylic on canvas.

I’d had the idea of a Ukiyo-E geisha figure over the top of a comic book exclamation type image for a while and did a trial run on some old cheap canvases with the geisha figure as a sihouette. They looked ok (we have one on our wall, so I see it every day and enjoy it being there), but doing the geisha properly stepped it up a bit. I’ll be doing some similar pieces again at some stage this year.

“BLAM!” is sold, pending the completion of the deal, but “SWOK!” is available. Do please get in touch if you’d like it on your wall.

Practise runs below.

Two, similar to the three that didn’t take ten.

Posted: January 19, 2023 in geisha, Paintings, painty bits, ukiyo-e
Tags: acrylic on canvas, acrylic painting, art, geisha, japan, luckycat, manekineko, new zealand art, original art, pop art, ukiyo-e

“Doshin wa no guwa ookii” Ichi and Ni.

61x92cm. I really like these, as to me they look more like modern day “Ukiyo-E” than my other work. Probably because they are pretty much just the Ukiyo-E geisha characters with a graphical background!

Ichi.

Ni.

These are available for purchase. You could have the pair for $1200 New Zealand dollars – shipped within NZ for an additional $40, but can also be shipped to most other places for $150nzd.

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