WINDOWS 6

One of my favourite windows isn't unfortunately in our house. I wish it was.

This 'window' is the stained glass mural by Harold Coop which is in the cafe of the Auckland Medical School in Grafton.

It is beautiful.

The Old Girl loves this as she is a great fan of Harold Coop. She has many of his paintings - watercolours, oils and acrylics - and particularly likes the ones featuring pohutakawa trees in Northland settings.

One of her Northland series acrylics.

These are really nice pieces of original art and are generally about 1m x 75cm so, with the vibrant colours, really stand out. She likes them so much that when she went to Canada and UK for 2 and a half years she took three of her favourites with her.

I like them as well and have been, over the last decade, on the hunt for different ones for her. I've bought from art auctions, galleries and Trade Me and we have made some great bargains.

My favourite isn't a Northland scene and doesn't feature a pohutakawa. It is scene from the Kepler Track on the West Coast and features pungas in a beech forest.

It's magic with the golden light filtering down. I never get tired of looking at it.