Crossroads
Measures 89 x 60cm.
Proofed and hand-signed in pencil by Grahame.
Printed on a premium heavy 250gsm satin artboard and offfset printed for high colour accuracy.
Purchase through the team at Fishmob. $99.00 including postage (NZ).
‘Crossroads’. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1220mm. 2000. Private Collection. “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
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‘Last Man Standing’. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1220mm. 2019. Private Collection. “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
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Auripo Road
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‘Auripo Road’. Egg Tempera. 420 x 748mm. 1979. Private Collection. “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
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July on the Maniototo
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‘July on the Maniototo’. Egg Tempera. 585 x 750mm. 1975. Private Collection. “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
