Lovely modernist watercolour painting by top NZ watercolour artist Brian Carmody. 1930 - 2016

Signed lower right undated.

Looks to be an earlier work with a mid century feel to it.

Offered in original vintage oak frame behind glass. Matt board showing foxing but image looks to be clean.

Brian Carmody is one of New Zealands finest watercolourists. A long-serving president of both the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and the Wellington Society of Watercolour Painters, he won the National Bank Watercolour Award in 1980 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1984. In the Queens Birthday Honours list of 2007, Brian was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts. In 2012, the NZAFA recognised his achievements with an exhibition entitled Brian Carmody: a Tribute.

Brian believes it is essential for children to grow up expressing their ideas in paint. He spent his working life as a teacher, first as an Art & Craft Advisor to the Department of Education and later as Senior Lecturer in Art at Wellington Teachers College. In my own time I painted, he recalls.

In the 1950s, Brian began exhibiting at the Academy and later with the Watercolour Society. He found he needed an incentive like an exhibition to get him started on a painting.

https://auctions.dunbarsloane.co.nz/1764/catalogue/0111

54 cm x 52 cm

If you want it freighted I’m willing to post at buyers risk and expense. I can remove painting from frame and put card between image and glass in case of glass breakage. When you receive you can just pop it back in frame and tape it back up.