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My Piano Plays Tribute to the Rainbow Warrior        
© Radha Sahar
1460mm x 1140mm Acrylic on twisted canvas.
Back painting: Acrylic on board.
Rainbow spectrum, painted across the thickness of each canvas fin, is viewed from hard left or hard right

Close up view from the right.
My Piano Plays Tribute to the Rainbow Warrior        
is in the permanent New Zealand Parliamentary Collection,
and currently hangs in the Speaker's Suite, Parliament Buildiings.
Left: Hon. Margaret Wilson, speaker of the House, with the artist


        
Yesterday Tomorrow ~ the Time is Now                     © Radha Sahar
1140mm square. Acrylic on woven canvas, feathers, flax matting, beads, fur fabric and inserted papers.
People are invited to write their thoughts and feelings about the Treaty of Waitangi,
and their responses to others' contributions, then to put them into the pockets cut in the cloth frame of the painting.
Sahar's composition Yesterday Tomorrow, the Official Song of Porirua City, accompanies this piece and the triptych below.
Yesterday Tomorrow ~ the Time is Now was purchased in March 2006 for the Parliamentary Collection.
Staff documented the public input as an historical record, and further such input will be possible on selected open days.
Those on Radha Sahar's information data base will receive advance notification of such times, and of her upcoming exhibitions.

Aotearoa ~ the People, the Land & the Sea          $7000             © Radha Sahar
Triptych measures 3 X 1.3 meters. Each triangle is 1.5 meters equilateral
Acrylic on twisted canvas. Centre triangle:acrylic on woven canvas. Back paintings; flax matting, and board.
Sahar's composition Yesterday Tomorrow, the Official Song of Porirua City, accompanies this, and the following work.



Far in the Mists         Sold             © Radha Sahar
1200mm x 400mm       Acrylic and silver leaf ontwisted jute. Back painting; acrylic on board.
This work has accompanying music: Far in the Mists, from Radha Sahar's album The Maiden.



         

    Harakeke Takirua          $2700              © Radha Sahar
    1140mm x 1140mm       Acrylic on woven canvas.
    Sahar's composition Harakeke E accompanies this piece.

 

Sacred Flame    $3500    © Radha Sahar
1460mm x 1140mm
Acrylic and gold leaf on twisted canvas.
Back painting: Acrylic on board.

Nikau II © Radha Sahar
915mm x 610mm
Acrylic and gold leaf on twisted canvas.
Back painting: Acrylic on board.


Matrix                $3500                                 © Radha Sahar
1200mm x 1200mm Acrylic on woven canvas.

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