2008-11-27

Art Stuff - Abandoned Church Otuhianga Rd Matakohe Northland NZ from my visual diary


I did this last year during a wet miserable winters day when my lifelong friend of thirty years Lisa aka Timespanner and I went for a trip to Dargaville to visit the museum. Not much is known about this little lonely church now abandoned to the elements. Eventually it will fall down from disrepair. Somehow though for all these decades the little church has held out against the sun wind and rain. Sheep graze around its foundations and hardboard has replaced the long since broken glass panes. I'll be back there again to draw it once more over the summer. It holds its own mysteries and stories which is why I love it so much.

8 comments:

  1. Madbush - it will now survive on your sketch pad even if it disappears. In the future people will look at your drawing and wonder where the church was. We have a corner near us called Parsons Barn corner - that barn disappeared about fifty years ago but the name lives on.

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  2. Hi Weaver. I love old barns especially those over in England. Thanks for your wise words. You're right it will survive on the pad perhaps a few times where drawings go. I'm going to find out more about it just so I have a history.
    Liz

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  3. That's so awesome, I love our country's old churches scattered around new zealand, they're a true part of our vintage kiwiana.

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  4. I'm trying to find out more. It's supposedly a Ratana Church but no-one is really certain. I love old run down buildings.

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  5. Timespanner's response:

    http://timespanner.blogspot.com/2008/11/old-church-in-northland.html

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  6. I'm sitting on your blog in another tab Ice. Thank you!!! Now i"ll have to edit this post and link over to your photos. Awesome and St Ninians Images are fantastic as well.

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  7. Your wildlife paintings are very nice and I have enjoyed visiting your Farm.

    Beautiful children and a beautiful spirit about you.

    Blessings,

    Leslie

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  8. Hi Leslie,

    Wonderful that you enjoyed coming over to visit. I've just visited your blog. Wonderful to visit yours.
    Thank you for your great words.

    Blessings too
    Liz

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