Penny Otto

Following on from the last blog I sense the need to keep going especially when “Flight Paths” (pictured below) one of my outdoor paintings, fell off the wall of the woodshed! This got my attention.

“Flight Paths” acrylic on board, 62cm x 60cm

The fallen work has been cleaned, photographed but not yet rehung. On the other shed wall is “Candlesticks” (pictured below).

“Candlesticks” acrylic on board, 62cm x 65cm – pictured below

The woodshed nestling under the fig tree was originally built as a chook house for our much-loved bantams which were very much part of the family’s early years – “The Bantams”. But has since evolved to store wood.

“Bantams” framed, pastel on Canson paper, 80cm x 65cm

The fig tree itself features in many of my paintings, the most significant of these being “Ficus of Parable and Fable” (pictured below). In 2019, just as Covid struck, it was part of an exhibition in Ponsonby called ‘Symbolica”  and a number of artists in the Moa Collective – my artist cohort – may recall this.

“Ficus of Parable and Fable” acrylic on canvas, 55cm x 125cm