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Catalogue Interview for ‘Hawkdun Moon’. Oil on Canvas. 500 x 550 mm. 2004; ‘Drying Hair’. Oil on Linen. 300 x 300mm. 1988; ‘Fats’. Oil on Panel. 600 x 350mm. 1972. Extract from Webbs Auction Catalogue 2021. Interview by Julian McKinnon. Download PDF at bottom of this page. Grahame Sydney’s paintings are much loved and have … Read more
Essay on ‘2.40 Mailbag (Maniototo Plain, Naseby)’. Egg Tempera on Gesso. 440 x 600 mm. 1974. Private Collection, London. Extract from Webbs Auction Catalogue 2021. Essay by Neil Talbot. Download PDF at bottom of this page. Grahame Sydney is one of New Zealand’s greatest living painters. His distinctive images of southern landscapes are widely admired; … Read more
The Short List for “NZ Booklovers Awards 2021” has been announced, with 6 in the Lifestyle section, including “Landmarks.” The Judges comments about Landmarks by Grahame Sydney, Brian Turner, and Owen Marshall are: “Any book containing the work of either Grahame Sydney, Brian Turner or Owen Marshall is sure to be a spine-tingler. A book … Read more
Instagram Post: ‘A Love Letter to my Wife’. Egg Tempera on Gesso. I have been saving up the excitement of returning to my beloved egg tempera medium for more than 16 years. This painting is one of what will be a series of figure studies planned for a long time. I find the challenge of … Read more
Instagram Post: Minus seven, a hoar frost and hours spent exploring the winter wonderland with my Canon camera. ‘Hoar Frost, Lauder Back Road’. Available as a photograph. Return to News Page
Instagram Post: The metaphor of crossroads crops up again in this latest oil painting. I love the minimalism and mystery fog brings – such reductions, so much only suggested, unknown, unseen. This painting sat unfinished for nearly a year, until on a walk with our dog Teddy one all fog day I noticed a watery … Read more
Instagram Post: In the Ida Valley a farmer banks the bales from a productive Spring, aware of what Winter will bring. ‘Winter Feed’. Oil on Linen 500 x 760 mm. Private Collection Return to News Page
Instagram Post: On a cracker ‘bluebird’ Central Otago winter day like today it seems appropriate to post ‘Ramp’. Pushing watercolour as far as it will go with over a dozen successive washes on that sky. Watercolour and Gouache 530 x 730mm 2017. Private Collection. Return to News Page
Essay on ‘Hinterland’. Oil on Linen. 710 x 1375mm. 1998. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection. Extract from DPAG Quarterly Magazine March – May 2020. Essay by Carolyn Guytonbeck. Download PDF at bottom of this page. One of my most memorable DPAG experiences was the 1999 Grahame Sydney retrospective. I found myself surrounded … Read more
Instagram Post: The latest painting: a crossroads metaphor on the Maniototo Plains, high summer. A hard one to pull off. Why I set up such difficult subjects I will never know. ‘Crossroads’. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1220 mm. 2020. Private Collection. Return to News Page