Garrick Tremain
1941
born in Palmerston North
1957
left school to pursue a farming career in Hawkes Bay but a perceived artistic talent took him to the city to test his abilities in the commercial art world
1959
for ten years he worked in advertising agencies in New Zealand, Asia and Europe but always harboured a desire to return to the rural environment in which his working life had begun
1964
while travelling England, drawing country homes on commission, it became obvious that life as a landscape painter might offer the perfect work and lifestyle combination
1969
with his wife, Jill, he returned to New Zealand to pursue that ideal
In the past twenty years Garrick Tremain has become well known as a widely published political cartoonist but has earned his living as a professional painter for much longer
Garrick is best known for his work in the watercolour medium but occasional oils, acrylics and egg temperas find their way onto his gallery walls.
Opposite:
Jill and friends, Murano 2007. Oil on canvas, 32 x 52cm
Since 1971 home has been the Wakatipu Basin, with Central Otago and southern Westland providing much of the subject matter for his work.
Although he has in the past exhibited as far afield as Melbourne and Washington DC, his paintings now show almost exclusively in his own gallery between Queenstown and Arrowtown.
Above top:
Spring at Soho 2007 Oil on canvas, 32 x 46cm
Above:
Mill Creek 1986 Watercolour, 35 x 54cm
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