‘It is about the emotional nature of landscape painting, even though some knowledge about geology, history and ecology is also necessary. I’m a bit of a tourist in these paintings. The feeling of being “a stranger in a strange land” haunts them. So I clutch at things that I can hold onto.
‘These paintings range from thinking about Anna Caselberg at the mouth of the Grey river, to a highway in Oklahoma where wild sunflowers grow towards Amarillo and Dallas. The romanticism of a wayfaring Van Gogh stalks the work. A painting crosses bloodied water where Cook met Māori. I look at the oddness of the Canterbury landscape and think back to old times when someone would call out and the sky would meet above and say: “I can hear you”.’
– Wayne Seyb, March 2020
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