Painting

• Painting 200x200mm
• Framed 385x385mm

This painting is part of the Ngā Puke o Aotearoa exhibition that opened at Comber Street Studios in Paddington, Sydney on 31 March 2023.

Ngā Puke o Aotearoa, The Hills of New Zealand in Māori, continued the exploration of attachment to the New Zealand landscape and was made all the more personal by the discovery of Guy’s Māori heritage during the time these works were being produced.

A landscape oil painting based on the New Zealand hills in ornate gold frame.

• Landscape 02-058, 2013 Oil on Canvas
• The painting is 200x200mm square
• Total framed size is 360x360mm square

The is from a series of six works and has a deliberate romantic misty representational style that invites the viewer in to an imagined landscape and place whereas works in later series take a more gestural, even abstract, approach.

A landscape oil painting based on the New Zealand hills in ornate gold frame.

• Landscape 15-097, 2013 Oil on Canvas
• The painting is 200x200mm square
• Total framed size is 440x440mm square

This series pushed the collection towards the abstract end of the scale for the sixty-something works included in that show. This was a deliberate conversation with the viewers to pull them out of reading all the works as misty, romantic and representation paintings – with these ones you need to address the mark making.

All the works in the exhibition were painted across numerous sessions in layers of oil paint glazes. With these ones, brighter colours of the underpainting are exposed by scraping and sanding back the top layers. This frame is about 50mm deep and 440mm square which is larger than some of the other works showing in the shop.