Kooky kind of love
Oct 20, 2021
5 minutes
Text Fleur Guthrie
Photography
Gina Fabish
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“As soon as I walked in I fell in love with the golden afternoon light streaming in through the windows.”
FLEUR WICKES
Whanganui-based artist Fleur Wickes has always been a great believer in writing down what you want. So, when she found herself outgrowing a tiny 1950s caravan that she used as a painting studio in her backyard, she wrote a list about her dream workspace and left it on her bedside table.
“I wanted five things,” tells Fleur. “Gentle light, room to breathe and an entrance that was unremarkable, leading to an upstairs area with good bones.”
Months later, while searching Trade Me, her manifesting paid off. After finding a 100sqm space for rent on the second floor of the heritage-listed Trinity Buildings’ in
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