Grant Whibley

Whibley was awarded a Master of Fine Arts, with first class honours, from Elam School of Art in Auckland. He has exhibited widely and been the recipient of several awards for his art. One regularly painted image of Whibley is of a single bird head, painted in oils from DOC taxidermy birds, which he prefers. His focus is on their gaze. Whibley explains he “likes to create a liquid sense of form using subtle lighting effect and painterly mark making, which further enhances their new sense of life”. ...”I know it (the bird portrait) will influence the outcome of my landscape and figurative painting. It seems to do so in some mysterious way.” Whibley adds “They are interrelated image narratives with their own autonomous hierarchy and existing as independent works with connected meanings”.

(Work above)

Title: Kea $NZD POA Size: 120 x 95cm

Medium: Oil on panel