Born in Hastings, Hawkes Bay, Troy Waring currently lives in the inspirational Marlborough Sounds.
“My artwork is what I would call 'evolving abstract'. I have only ever used oils and currently work on board as I found that my technique was too rough for canvas. I love the challenge of working with oil paint. It is so unforgiving yet so rewarding.
More often than not my paintings have a habit of changing on me so I never quite know what I'm going to get. Each one is truly unique; I doubt very much I could ever repeat the same painting twice and to be honest that suits me just fine.
Being a painter, a potter and a sculptor of timber, there is just never enough time in the day to use up all that creativity. Like many others, the Covid lockdown unleashed a whole new way of looking at the world and how we live in it. My art was born from that time of reflection and there is no stopping it now.”