b.1910
Canterbury School of Art
King Edward Technical College, Dunedin
In Nelson Landscape, Toss Woollaston creates a soaring view of coastal lowlands (in the front), brawny hills (centre stage), and shadowy buckled mountains (at the back), which are half-lost in a sky alive with flying clouds
Dimensions: 2000x1300mm
Toss Woollaston’s career as a painter spanned almost 60 years. In the 1970s and 1980s he started working on large, panoramic-scale canvases. The move had an expansive effect on his painting. On these big canvases – the biggest, Above Wellington (1986) measured 1760x2740mm – there is so much vitality that it is easy to forget that the artist was in his 70s when he painted them.
Dimensions: 1818x1210mm
