Greer Clayton
Golden Years
Acrylic on Canvas
1200 x 1200 mm
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“In Golden Years, the title references both the literal colour palette and a significant phase in life, a shift into a new, exciting chapter, and a celebration of 50 years of the gallery. I considered earlier works and how my layered technique has evolved, reflecting on recurring themes and palettes, but with greater surface complexity and depth.
I wanted this piece to feel timeless and true to my style: authentic, resolved, and fully realised within my ongoing exploration of colour and form.” – Greer Clayton
Artist Bio
Contemporary painter Greer Clayton extracts the essence of New Zealand’s natural environment through large-scale immersive landscapes.
Drawing on retrospection and evocation, and conceptualised through the act of painting, Clayton’s atmospheric compositions present an abstracted impression of her chosen scene rather than a direct topographical representation. The resulting paintings exude a subliminal connectivity with the land itself, offering themselves as instruments with which to view beyond what the naked eye has previously submitted as fact when experiencing these familiar places ourselves. Moody, timeless, and ethereal, the paintings encourage introspection and a sense of halcyon solitude.