An essay on ‘Portrait of R Judkins’. Egg Tempera on Gesso. 775 x 595mm. 2002. Private Collection. An extract from ‘New Zealand Portraits’ by Richard Wolfe. Penguin Group 2008. Download PDF at bottom of this page. Grahame Sydney’s rise to prominence as a realist painter followed a successful first exhibition in Auckland in 1975.  Since … Read more