This crazy $1.00 auction is for this eye catching and vibrant and highly collectable 'Home Coming' Print.

Title: "Home Coming" Artist: Peter Siddell Year:1976 Media: Print with original 1970's frame Vibrant colours, an all original print with no faults

Measurements: 88cm wide by 70cm high.

This is what Peter said about his original painting.

"Most of the time I paint what I know . . . usually from childhood recollections', says Peter Siddell who, as a boy, delivered newspapers in early-morning Auckland. The extreme clarity and detail of Siddell's paintings convince us that we are looking at a particular place - indeed we may be even familiar with this two-storied building and its distinctive cupola - but these places are filtered by memory. In spite of shifts in topography, we still recognise Auckland's terraced volcanic cones, 'strange monuments that speak of an older civilisation here', and the endless variations on the corrugated-iron-roofed wooden villa. Memory has a fundamental timelessness and the artist enhances this sense by rejecting narrative elements - there are no people, no distractions. Siddell's ambition is 'to achieve a stillness in my paintings. It's something to do with wanting to freeze a moment in time and regain a bit of the past'. As well as the view beyond the building we can also see inside, as if into a doll's house. Through the lace curtains and super-real reflections, we see other fragments of the past - formal photographs hung over ornate mantelpieces and iconic paintings from New Zealand's art history.

When this auction closes you will instantly receive an email from trademe titled "PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS." Please read and scroll down on these instructions BEFORE contacting me, as it has very clear details for collection and payment. I have set times for collection.On Saturday mornings BETWEEN 9-12 or Tues and Thurs evenings BETWEEN 2-8pm. Collection and viewing is from Northcote on the Northshore. Please pick up and pay promptly.