Don Binney, Nga Manu/Nga Motu — Birds/Islands
by Damian Skinner, 128pp limpbound, Auckland University Press, Auckland 2003, RRP$49.99. Don Binney quickly established himself in the 1960s as a painter, particularly of birds in the landscape ... not realistic portraits but
paintings which caught the very essence of the bird and the land. In his recent paintings he’s returned to similar themes. Don Binney has long been a conservationist , and is presently patron of the Friends of Hauturu/Little Barrier. Damian Skinner has gathered together 75 paintings from Don Binney’s life work into a very attractive book focussed on ‘birds/islands. There is a brief critical survey of the artist’s work, and an extended interview with him, to introduce the plates. Looking at Don Binney’s paintings calls to mind the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins in his endeavours to capture what he called ‘the inscape’ of the natural world. Don Binney produces a similar but visual poetry.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 309, 1 August 2003, Page 44
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