Michael Smither

Small 'Rocks Revisited' painting by Michael Smither, exhibited at Unlimited Realities office, Walter Street, Wellington.

Michael Smither

Large 'Rocks Revisited' Michael Smither painting, on exhibition, in Walter Street, Wellington in the Unlimited Realities office.

Michael Smither

'Poets Bridge', little painting by Michael Smither held in the Brebner collection.
This great painting has been published in Michael's book, 'Michael Smither Painter'.

Michael Smither

The large 'Poets Bridge' print by Michael Smither goes up in the UR office, 181 Upper Cuba Street. We have a little painting from the 'Poets Bridge' series in our collection.
(there is a copy of the painting we own in Michaels Book)

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'Ready.'

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'OOPS'

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'Curiosity'

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'Otama beach with sun.'

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'Otama.'

Michael Smither - Relief prints

'A fisherman'

This set of 6 felt tip drawings by Michael Smither have been relief printed by John Brebner using negative transparencies and creating a relief solarplate. The oil based 'green' ink has been rolled onto the plate then the images printed by hand onto Incisioni paper using the Hunters (circa 1905).
I visited Michael in his studio with the images and he signed and numbered them for me.
All 6 prints are available individually from the Homeprint Gallery for $160 each unframed.

UR office 181 Upper Cuba Street, Wellington.

David leads a skype conference with a new prospective employee in the conference room at 181 Upper Cuba Street, Wellington. The 'nine dolphin' and 'Taranaki 3' screenprints by Michael Smither are exhibited on the wall.

UR office 181 Upper Cuba Street, Wellington.

Looking from the office toward the kitchen. Three Michael Smither screenprints and a painting by David Brebner are visible.

Seagull painting, Squall and Mt Taranaki screenprint.

One large painting of a seagull by David Brebner and 2 screenprints by Michael Smither exhibited in the small meeting room of UR.
www.davidbrebner.com/art.html

Michael Smither artist in the landscape.

Michael Smither about to walk down the last few steps onto his favourite beach for his morning constitutional.
Michael Smither rock pool screen print being measured up for glass for framing. This print has been screen printed using computer generated separations and printed with extreme accuracy in Don Tee's Screen printing workshop in Onehunga. 'Artrite'
The commercial poster on the floor was purchased by me from the Govette Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.

Albion Flatbed Table Press.

The Albion Flat bed press, manufactured in 1872, by Hopkinson and Cope, Finsbury, London is used regularly by visiting artists in the Homeprint Studio. The platen size is 10" x 15" so is quite handy for works up to A3 paper size.

Michael signs solarplate relief prints

Michael whistles as he works through the small editions of solarplate relief prints that I printed for him at Homeprint. This set of 6 felt tip pen drawings are printed on 190gsm incisioni paper, signed, numbered, with around 30 copies of each. www.theimprint.co.nz/michael_bio.htm

Michael Smither

Michael Smither is laying out his coloured tiles to demonstrate to me his colour theory relating to music. This is Michael's invention and he has been working on this theory for 40 or so years. My couple of days with Michael and Gian were very fruitful. I saw and took photographs of Michaels latest paintings in production. On the day of my departure I sneaked down to the Otama beach and caught 2 nice fat Kahawai as a gift for Michael and Gian. www.theimprint.co.nz