The part you don't eat

The part you don't eat
by Alby Carter
woodblock print
oil-based inks on watercolour paper
image 190 X 275 mm, paper 265 X 355 mm, unframed
NZ $100 + freight /shipping costs

Biographical notes: I was born in Wellington 1949, and spent my childhood in Wellington and Christchurch. As an adult I took up painting seriously during my time in Mahia Peninsula working as a commercial fisherman. I painted mainly seascapes, in a surrealist style of my own. I worked as a joiner and later as a carpenter with the Conservation department of the National Art Gallery in Wellington. I married and we had a child during this perios. I moved to South Taranaki and started painting full-time in 1986. I now life in Okato, North Taranaki, close to the sea and the mountain. I paint what I feel and see. My influences are surrealism and abstract-expressionism. I use oil mostly, and mixed media and collage. My prints are reduction wood cut. My subject matter ranges from seascape and landscape to inner journey expressions.

Alby Carter Numerous solo and group exhibitions over the years, in Wellington, Hawera, Wanganui, Christchurch, Nelson, Greytown, Auckland, New Plymouth, London and New York. Alby lives and works in Okato, Taranaki. email Alby

More of Alby Carter's artwork can be seen in the Showcase section of the Virtual Tart site.