Provenance:

Private Collection USA Purchased directly from the artist 1970s

Illustrated plate 38 My Kind of Painting, Douglas Badcock, Whitcoulls publishing 1978

Born in 1922 Douglas Badcock had a highly successful professional art career. Preferring to paint en plein-air, mostly in oil, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Zealand's leading landscape painters. His paintings are included in the Queen of England's collection and King of Thailand's collection. Douglas was a Kelliher Art Award winner, coming second in the 1959 competition and third in the 1962 award. He produced at least three publications: My Kind Of Country then later My Kind of Painting and A Painter in Fiji.

In a 2004 Listener article, Mr Badcock said: I paint seas, skies, mountains. I paint the world I know, as it appears to me. I have an image that is there and I have to record it. When I'm painting I let the subject reveal itself. Picasso said I don't seek, I find. And finding is a revelation - intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. The primary motivation is self-expression, but if there's no vision, if we don't see beauty in nature any more, then we're nowhere. Badcock died in 2009.