For the three years before sculptor Peter Nicholls' death last year, he worked with his friend and editor Don Hunter on a biography charting his 60 years of creating often monumental work from found materials.
While he didn't live to see the finished book, which he titled Dynamics / Memory / Grace: Peter Nicholls, he did proof a colour draft of it a fortnight before he died, in his 80s.
Most of his sculptures, crafted mainly from 'found' native wood and steel, were designed for outdoor settings. But many are also in galleries and homes around the country.
Peter shared his expertise with the next generation of artists as a lecturer in Sculpture at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic from 1979 until 2001.
That's where Don Hunter first met Peter, as he explains to Lynn Freeman.
