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11-22 November 2019

We are very fortunate to have Don Wilkie exhibiting with the Hastings Community Arts Centre again.  Be sure to come and see his fine work up close!

Don Wilkie - Artist Profile:

Born in the early 1950’s my interest in art started at a very young age where I would do drawing and painting of aircraft to put up on my bedroom wall in Wellington New Zealand.

My career took me to Auckland where I was a laboratory technician processing colour film and prints for advertising agencies. From there I went into the printing industry having my own Graphic Design company. I shifted to Napier in 1995 in the industry and also took up positions on the board of trustees with the local museum and the Art Deco Trust.

I took up painting full time in January 2012. After I put my first painting up on my Painting Facebook site I was asked to do my first commission. This was for the local Air Training Corp to raise money, it was of the 485 (NZ) squadron and it raised over $3000 for them. Since then I have had numerous exhibitions and commissions which I have done while still holding down a full time job. I have a love of history which has helped me research my paintings, which lends me towards realism in my painting and an eye for detail.

I am self-taught and pick subjects that will stretch me to achieve new goals which I find very satisfying and challenging. My work is sold locally in New Zealand and overseas in America and England and Norway.