Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

Enriched by artists
Lindsay Evans Print E-mail

ImageI had come to love the Curly Cottage long before I met Lindsay.

 

 

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Wally Hicks Print E-mail

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Requiem for Ukelele
Wally is an actor, playwright and installation artist.

 

 

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David Kennedy Print E-mail

ImageThe Gourmet Restaurant, 87 Shortland Street, was the first licensed restaurant in New Zealand. More importantly it introduced me to David Kennedy, who did all the graphics for the Gourmet, and also decorated the Gourmet with wonderful metal sculptures. David was witty, quirky, and perceptive of every human idiosyncrasy. He had that rare ability of being able to change your way of seeing the world by taking you into his wonderful world.

 

 

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Petra Meyboden Print E-mail

ImagePetra is a Coromandel potter, living and working a short distance up the Kennedy Bay Road.

 

 

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Claire Deighton Print E-mail
ImageClaire never ceases to astonish and amaze. Her talents are so diverse.
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Terese Storey Print E-mail
ImageTerese rang to ask if she could photograph Piglet for her final assignment at Elam. Piglet wondered if she could eat the camera and then lost interest.
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Don Binney Print E-mail
ImageDon Binney was with me on the scow Jane Gifford when the ougoing tide left us stranded on the mudflats of the Manukau Harbour.
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Tom Elliott Print E-mail
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with the kauri carving he gifted to Arakainga

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Margaret Milne and Andrew Print E-mail
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Photo by Brian Brake

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