Serious After 1958
David Graham. the first prize-winner in Hay's, Ltd. art competition, is aged 38, the father of six children, and a teacher at the Mount Pleasant ! Primary School. He has exhibited regularly at the Canterbury Society of Arts, in particular in the group one-man shows, and in the New Zealand Contemporary Painting Exhibition. “Painting was my first vocational preference, but my parents weren’t very keen on it,” Mr Graham said last evening. “I painted quite well at school, but it was not until I met Tom Woollaaton in 1958
! when I was teaching on the West Coast that I started ■ painting in a serious way.” Mr Graham said he believed a painting should have a thought content as well as evoking a sensuous response. Attention to the structure of his painting gave him the opportunity to fulfil this. “I place a great deal of importance on the ordering of i parts. I feel a painter should be able to give a logical argument for what he does, although this in itself is not enough. “My entry is the most complete realisation of my thoughts. This painting shows best what I am trying to impart,” Mr Graham said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 1
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199Serious After 1958 Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 1
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