personal preamble
Sister, Angela, attends to me. 1948
1984 Wood Bros Mill Office. Addington Christchurch.
It dawned on me. I was brought up to be quite serious. I didn't know how to be a prankster!
The Kimberly diamond mine, the deepest hole ever dug by man
Phyllis. (1909 - 1965)
Our street. Christchurch. 2022
Christchurch. Outside our home, a young visitor Ben who stayed with us for several months. He buys a bike and rides to the West Coast and back c 2017 Various. New Regent Street. Christchurch 2021.

rome 2001

montreal airport 2019

hawkes Bay 1954

Home. Sisters Angela and Stephanie Tiffen. Photograph by Seth Tiffen. 1953
In 1998 Tom touched one of Dad's tools. *

CARTWRIGHTS POINT. ONTARIO.canada.

christchurch Ōtākaro – Avon River

Left. A home piece of bookshelf. Right. A glimpse of artist Emma Fitts. when she spoke about her art at Christchurch Art Gallery. Te puna o Waiwhetu. 2020/2021 in Touching Sight. Curated by Melanie Oliver. https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/touching-sight-conor-clarke-emma-fitts-oliver-perkins
Montreal. 2019 " getting ready for David's University reunion " of the class of '62.
Christchurch construction Sculpture by Vaka 'A Hina. 2019. Photograph. 2025
David bottling. Home. 2025.
Mother, who I did not yet know, with my two siblings Anthony and Angela. 1946
My Training College Art Teachers. Here.Bottom Right. Merv Holland. Thanks for your 100% support, Mervyn. Below. Peter Stitchbury. Potter. .
This set of teachers in training did one extra year in Tovey method. **The feature was bicultural Art tools. Maori and pakeha. ** Tovey. Educational theorist. Encouraged the expression of creative imagination
Kairakau Beach Central Hawkes Bay (Nana bought a Bach (cottage )here in 1920.) Banded Dotteral. New Zealand shore. Christchurch. 2024. Gate Ruin.



I gained my first A + mark from my pottery teacher, Peter Stitchbury, when I went to my first teaching job at Malfroy Primary School in Rotorua. There I designed the Primary School's Art curriculum for all of the school classes. 1968 (5) Photograph of Peter by Marti Friedlander.
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My mother, Phyllis tiffen ( nee Burton ) was born in Sydney. A bird of wonder to her was the Lyre Bird. (6)

* Tom Robinson became my research assistant for the documentary I co-produced in 2013. US AND THE GAME INDUSTRY
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Originally published in French as Francios Truffaut: Correspondence by Librairie.A. Hatier, Paris. Copyright. 1988 by FOMA-5 Continents, Renens Francois Truffaut CORRESPONDENCE 1945 - 1984 Edited by Gilles Jacob and Claude de Givray Forward by Jean-Luc Godard Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. 1989. Translation and copyright 1989 by Gilbert Adair First published by Faber Faber London. Published simultaneously in Canada by Harper Collins, Toronto. First American edition. 1990.