The first painting from my Xmas 2004 trip to New Zealand. On the south coast of the south island of New Zealand sits Dunedin surrounded by ocean and stunning countryside. This particular day was wild with the wind howling in from the south, dark tortured clouds tore across the sky and the ocean pounded relentlessly against the beaches and rocky headlands of the Otago Peninsula. This sea-scape was commenced under difficult conditions in Dunedin and completed later back in the relative calm of my Perth studio. I tried to keep the same quick and free sketchlike quality of my original paint layers in the finished result. This is the first New Zealand painting from the series of works that I brought back with me. Oil on Canvas Panel 16"x 12