Respectfully yours

"Good art is often not easy to understand immediately. The four finalist works in the Walters Prize at Auckland Art Gallery are enigmatic, to say the least, and their format makes them difficult to approach."
T J McNamara's review of Auckland Art Gallery's Walters Prize in the NZH

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“small, perfectly formed, potent”
Roger Blackley describing a Rita Angus painting in the Listener

Ask the expert: Number 1

Q: What do you think of convicted double murderer Scott Watson’s paintings?

A: “A reasonable sense of colour.” “Some skills in manipulating the paint.”

Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn Professor of Art History University of Canterbury quoted in this morning’s Dominion Post. Dr Nunn’s research interests are: women artists and issues of gender, 19th Century art, European art and Pre-Raphaelitism.