Sunday, August 26, 2012

Don Donovan's World

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 25 August 2012

Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 5. St. Michael and All Angels, Hakaru


I drew this Northland church early on in my nation-wide search for subjects but left it out of the final publication, Country Churches of New Zealand because it was so similar to others - a porch and a nave and little else. I think there must have been a standard plan put out by the Anglican architectural office in the nineteenth century.

But I particularly remember doing this drawing because I was sitting on a tombstone that felt to my bottom like cold charity, with my feet half submerged in soggy grass after days of rain.

© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz

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