Regardless of the currant turmoil in the worlds financial sector , things have not slowed down for my work programme. Tradionally it has always been busy from August onwards to the New Year with orders. However this year by both chose and design the programme is different. I made the call a few months back not to produce calendars for 2009 , not that any premonition told me there won't be a 2009 despite the state of the world at the moment , but one of cutting back the pressure the past few years had placed on the business with packaging and posting hundreds of items.
Earlier this week I posted a thread on the forum page appertaining to some details I would post on this blog about the artwork.
On November 1st we hold an open day for transport friends, colleagues and clients. Most years I have participated in the regions art trail but by chose am not joining it this year and instead have opened the doors independently to those genuinely interested in the line of work I produce.
Most of the spec work produced in the past 12 months will be on show for sale and its anticipated some will go going by the interest I have had. LRU members and guests may have just the next week or so to advise if they would like to buy any of the originals still available from the selection. Should you wish to contact me direct then please do so on wallace.t@paradise.net.nz
One of our invited guests is well known historian writer, and publisher Graham Stewart who has published many books on transport in New Zealand and assisted towards reference material in some of the paintings I have produced of trams and buses in New Zealand .Grahams father painted almost the same themes as myself and sold his work for modest amounts. Today they are highly sort and highly priced and Graham believes the same will happen in time with the work I have produced to date.
Our local candidate for Parliament will also hopefully be calling to say hello in as he has commissioned a painting of his classic car after the election is over a week later.
Recent commissions include two oil paintings of the preserved steam engine' Sir Keith Park 'from his family . Sir Keith Park was a New Zealander who played a vital role in the Royal Air Force strategy during the Battle of Britain campaign. The locomotive is in Southern England awaiting some tender loving care back to steam. Publisher/writer Geoff Churchman commissioned an oil painting of a vintage multiple unit on New Zealand Railways in 1938, with just a few photos to go on nobody has a coloured photo so the painting will be quite striking and is to appear in Geoff's next book due out before Christmas.
Shaw Savill Line have their New Zealand reunion this month and attached is a recent oil painting commissioned by two passengers on the Southern Cross who travelled on that vessel from Southampton to Wellington in 1966. The painting shows the vessel having just passed through the Bridge of Americas in Panama.
Port Line have their New Zealand reunion in late November and am currently producing a series of work for them also. Meantime last week saw me in Wellington at a meeting with the Transport 2000 + group and presenting a painting of what Wellington could look like in the future with lightrail, this being the first of a series to be commissioned. I also am putting together a series of pre lim drawings for another mural in the station confines which has yet to be fully decided.
The futuristic oil painting will feature on the next issue of Topics magazine so am unable to publish it yet as to hold back the element of surprise .
Meantime more LRU scenes continue to be started and worked on between other projects. Commissioned work has to come first as it pays my wages but I do enjoy the LRU scenes as a relaxing break without the obvious pressure or deadlines. This week also marks thresholds with cartoons seeing thec300th one for our local paper published, all up over 3000 have appeared in books magazines and newspapers since 1984. My first published cartoon appeared in Vickers News showing our Duke of Edinburgh group lost in the Lakes , published in 1972.
So with a busy time ahead , I wish each and everyone of you a happy and safe week
Hello Wallace, i had a good look at the ship and i recognize the bridge in the distance when i use to travel with the webcams on the cruise ships on the Panama canal if you know what i mean, i did watch a webcam on a cruise ship on the Suez canal,i think your oil paintings are brillant but i don't use my debit card online otherwise i would buy one of your paintings if we meet up in Barrow with John sometime and he fetches any with him to buy. Regards Doris
This is the home of the WALLACE TRICKETT /LRU Print Collection
The Collection relives The old LANCASHIRE bus fleets
,Railway Locos ,Commercial Company Vans(Inc HOLLANDS PIES )
and Wagons of Days gone bye.
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