Photoprint for Sale: Lime Kiln (1865), Sandymount, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand

This is an original photoprint from my personal collection

Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").

Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.
Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz
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Prints For Sale: Pukehiki Community Church, Otago Peninsula

This elegant little church stands high on Otago Peninsula, not far from Larnach's Castle.

This print is identical to my original drawing that appeared in my book 'Country Churches of New Zealand'.

Size of image is 17 cm x 25 cm .

Price is $NZ 45.00 inc. p&p in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz

© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz 
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz
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New Zealand Odyssey: Two Outhouses At Larnach's Castle, Otago Peninsula

'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.

Larnach's Castle in itelf is a pretty eccentric building (more of that in another post) but its gardens contain some rather charming functional buildings. The brick and glass hothouse (above) is particularly elegant, its beauty, as is so often the case with practical buildings, dictated by  function.

The stone outhouse (below) leaves no doubt that it's lockable, solid and unpretentious. No doubt that would be where expensive garden machinery was stored. The drawings date to 1987, I'm sure that over a decade into the new millenium nothing's changed.

© DON DONOVAN

donovan@ihug.co.nz

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Driftwood House Otago Peninsula

Some people build houses out of grass thatch, bottles, recycled plastics, mud brick and even skulls; there's no accounting for eccentricity. I imagine that the owner/s of this house on the inward shores of the Otago Harbour have spent years and years and years combing the shoreline for driftwood that they've laboriously carried home to pleach into these weird frames for garage and house.

'Shiver Me Timbers'. They who live in the house don't have to look at it. If they lived outside it they might realize it's other people's timbers that shiver!

© DON DONOVAN

donovan@ihug.co.nz