Acknowledgement and thanks
to Nik Bullard for her creative input, fun, and hard work in shaping the book. And to Lynn Peck
whose masterstrokes in the design and production process completed it *#* Car hire — Bill &
Daphne Lee in Dunedin made it possible to explore and paint in Otago. And Valerie Smith &
Roger Hay & The critics who wrote robustly and perceptively: in Wellington I think of Ian
Wedde, Tony Eden, Neil Rowe, Susan Foster, Janet Paul, Pauline Swain, Robert Taylor, Mary-
Jane Duffy, Anna-Marie O’Brien, Katy Corner *#* My dealers: Simon Sonius, Marshall Seifert,
Hans & Marianne Veadoner. And David Austin of Walrus, David Tries, Jeff Henderson and Joe
Lindsay of The Space *#* My doctors, who see getting me well as a challenge: Diane Hodges,
Ossie Mansoor, Mary Barnao, nurse, Geoff Pitt, my osteopath; Raymond Choi my dentist *#*
My mum’s extended family in Owaka: Alan & Bernice Graves, Jan & Les Lister, Steve & Addie,
Melanie, Gemma Reid. And friends. *#* The musicians who became my friends: Hattie-Mae
Brown, Gerard Honders, Leon DeLorenzo, Marg Layton, Andrew East, and Matthew Mitchell,
Ruby Page and Rob Hurlimans, Kim Tait & Bernard Wells *#* The owners who have generously
given permission to reproduce their works: Gil & Hélene Carroll, Nik Bullard, Clyde Clemett,
Jim & Julia Traue, Warren Chambers & Katherine Curran, Wellington Central Library, Gordon
& Helen Ritson, Gerald Dewar, lan & Hilary Hanfling-Eade, Annabelle Young, Kim Tait, Rachel
Broad, Brendon Whiteman, John & Kay Roberts, James Wallace, Kim Saffron, Tanya Taylor,
John & Margaret Guthrie, Marie & Lawrence Anderson, the James Wallace Charitable Arts
Trust, Ballroom Café. And others we were unable to trace. A big apology to my other loving and
enthusiastic patrons that more of your paintings haven’t been used. My stamina levels were too
low, or it was impossible to come up with acceptable photos, or they didn’t fit the flow... when
I get better I want to do a second book and will include you *#* Jim & Gillian Stewart, and before
them John & Shirley Murray, who courageously welcomed us in Galaxies group to the St Andrews
family of God *#* For support and strategy thanks to: Allan Jones, Mike Gourley, Helen Reynolds,
Paula Savage, Ginny Haynes & Kristelle Plimmer and my lawyer and his wife Peter and Prue
Barker *#* My publishers: Roger Steele & Christine Roberts for their resilient vision and
encouragement. *#* And anyone I've omitted... I'll be thanking you personally!
Fergus McPherson Collinson