Rick Edmonds
“Growing up as a child in the headwaters of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds, filled me with the longing to follow seagulls and out going tide to the open sea. Huge logs from the Pelorus River would float past our house and I would leap upon them in the hope they would carry me to a far-off sparkling sea with islands, pirates and treasure. My hopes were always thwarted by distraught parents who would pluck me safely before rising seas or nightfall overcame me.
Eventually I acquired both the boat and the companions to make many voyages of discovery and adventure in the Narnia-like world that is the Marlborough Sounds.
There is nowhere else that so compels me. This sense of longing, and of belonging, motivates my art. It is an attempt to celebrate a unique combination of light, land, wind, and ocean. In this sense my paintings are not “scenes”, though they are of recognizable features, but of rather a statement, each in its own way monumental, of what is the Marlborough Sounds.
In many paintings my own presence is acknowledged by the ripples of my passing vessel. It is my signature upon the sea.
I paint full-time, and either work in oils, or acrylic and airbrush. My work is represented in many public and private collections in New Zealand an d around the world. As well as gallery paintings, I produce work on commission, and undertake many large format murals. I live and work from Moenui, on the Queen Charlotte Drive, Marlborough.”
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