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Ballet Tree, Becks

grahamesydney-editor — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:22:37 +0000

‘Ballet Tree, Becks’. Oil on Linen. 605 x 910mm. 2022. Private Collection.

Image measures 85cm W x 60cm H. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

Nighthouse II

grahamesydney-editor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:18:19 +0000

‘Night House II’. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1215mm. 1995. Private Collection.

Image measures 82cm W x 61cm H. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat rate $12 within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

“This painting depicts a lonely weatherboard house lit by a single external light, with the last room in the house, marking the end of a long day.” GCS

Moonrise at the Shearers’ Quarters

grahamesydney-editor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:13:08 +0000

‘Moonrise at Shearer’s Quarters’. Oil on Linen. 840 x 1215mm. 2014. Private Collection.

Image measures 72cm W x 53cm H. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

“Used only once each year for the shearing gang and home to a vast coal range (no power there). The setting sun behind me reflects on the window panes as the Hawkduns are slowly swallowed by shadow.” GCS

Crossroads

grahamesydney-editor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:03:06 +0000

'Crossroads'. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1020 mm. 2020. Private Collection.

Image measures 89cm W x 60cm H. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"Out on Barney’s Lane West, on the Maniototo, with a few of my usual rearrangements and omissions, trying to get to the heart of it. The painting has demands all its own, so removed from the truth.” GCS.

Cookhouse

grahamesydney-editor — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:15:47 +0000

'Cookhouse'. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1020 mm. 2001. Private Collection.

Image measures 635 x 483 mm. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

Night Approaches Beattie Road

grahamesydney-editor — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 04:13:43 +0000

'Night Approaches Beattie Road'. Watercolour and Gouache. 545mm x 730mm. 2017. Private Collection.

Measures 72 x 56cm. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"Close to our home, and part of my ritual mountain bike circuit along the St. Bathans Downs, I’ve painted Beattie Road several times. I find minimal subjects often the most appealing: when little is offered, everything there is more meaningful. Here the story is in what remains - tracks tell where the sheep have been, that a tractor or farmer’s ute must have been here recently, a willow once flourished, but no longer. And the sky confirms another bone-chilling winter’s day is about to end.” GCS

Auripo Road

grahamesydney-editor — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:34:56 +0000

'Auripo Road'. Egg Tempera. 420 x 748mm. 1979. Private Collection.

Measures 72 x 45cm. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"This painting came about as a direct result of my car breaking down and me finding myself alone at the roadside, waiting for a passing vehicle to give me a hand. Nearby was a gravel intersection with an assembly of rural mail boxes for the properties down Auripo Road; each with its own private story and character, all hoping - as I was - for some life and relief from the silence and the boredom. As I waited I began to realise there was a subject for me." GCS

July on the Maniototo

grahamesydney-editor — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:22:14 +0000

'July on the Maniototo'. Egg Tempera. 585 x 750mm. 1975. Private Collection.

Measures 66 x 46cm. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"In the initial drawings, the railway goods shed was sheltering a wagon covered in an orange tarpaulin, and I painted it that way; but after some unsettled weeks wondering why it didn't seem to work, I took it out. Instantly the feel changed from one of 'shelter from the storm' to a far more bleak and lonely notion, and much the better for it. A perfect example of trusting painterly instinct over truth and reality. My paintings are so often exercises in dishonesty." GCS

Silent Spring, Falls Dam

grahamesydney-editor — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:14:55 +0000

'Silent Spring, Falls Dam'. Oil on Linen. 710 x 1010 mm. 2019. Private Collection.

Measures 82 x 61cm. Proofed and hand-signed in pencil by Grahame, printed on premium heavy 250gsm satin artboard and offfset printed for high colour accuracy. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"Falls Dam village is a collection of fishermen's squatter huts at the foot of the Hawkdun Range. No electricity, no water supply – its simple, primitive living. The dam was a 1930's make-work irrigation scheme project to keep Depression-era men employed". GCS

Last Man Standing

grahamesydney-editor — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:58:19 +0000

'Last Man Standing'. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1220mm. 2019. Private Collection.

Measures 89 x 61cm. Hand signed by Grahame and offset printed on high quality paper. Flat $12 rate within NZ. Please email for international rates: grahame@grahamesydney.co.nz

"So often my decision to use something in a painting rings a death knell. In this case the tree, on a plateau between Becks and Lauder, was felled by the farmer soon after I drew it." GCS