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
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
Instagram Post: ‘Night House II’ Oil on Linen, 1995, 760 x 1215 mm. Private Collection. Last week a relation of my wife, unexpectedly, took her own life. So tonight we post a painting ‘Night House II’ in her memory. And we ask if you have a moment this weekend call and check in on a mate, … Read more
Instagram Post: Great result by International Art Centre this week. We love that ‘Rock of Ages, Rough Ridge’ has come full circle from its home in Europe back to our shores. Oil on Linen. 915 x 1220 mm. 2009. Private Collection. See below for auction catalogue description. Return to News Page