Colin Vernon Wheeler
ARTIST: Colin Vernon Wheeler (1919-2012) New Zealand
TITLE: “Gwavas Station, Hawkes Bay”
SIGNED: lower left
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 72cm x 61cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Born in Dunedin in 1919, Colin Vernon Wheeler studied at the Canterbury School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London. He moved to Oamaru, in the South Island, New Zealand in 1951 and taught art at Waitiki Boys’ High School, resigning in the late 1960s to paint and write full-time. Works by him are held in major New Zealand galleries and include paintings of the rural Otago landscape. Most renowned for his well known books chronicling the old sheep stations of South Island New Zealand which were commissioned by the publisher A H and A W Reed. The research for these became both a labour of love and an adoyysey with both he and his wife travelling for up to 12 months at a time, staying at the farms that he portrayed.
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