Poetry Writings Artwork and stories from Neil Furby

Three Shades

Twenty-five years ago poets Apirana Taylor, Lewis Scott and Lindsay Rabbitt branded themselves as Three Shades for a series of gigs: A Maori, an African American and a European New Zealander.  Their styles are distinctly different, and they have revitalised the show, which includes elements of theatre and music, for the 21^st century.

See Three Shades at Poetry Café Porirua Easter Monday  9^th April 7 :30 pm

Autumn Garden (Illustration to The Wanderings of the Little Blue Butterfly in Fairyland)

The poet, painter and applied artist Anna Lesznai developed an art and style which owe much in inspiration to the art of the small Slovak-populated town of Körtvélyes. This is especially evident in the rich floral ornamentation of her embroidery designs. Her stories, too, and the colourful fairy tale world of the accompanying illustrations such as The Wandering of Little Blue Butterfly in Fairyland, published in 1918, were much admired. These also resemble Hungarian folk tales in which fairies are very much like ordinary people, and Fairyland is always just around the corner.