Helen Stewart
Helen Stewart studied art in Australia during the 1920's and 1930's and her formative influences were the Sydney painters Grace Crossington-Smith and Roland Wakelin. Stewarts work is marked by an adventurous handling of planes and a distinctive use of colour.
If painters like Colin McCahon and M. T. Woollaston painted the New Zealand landscape as a tough, existential arena in which issues of individual and national identity were confronted, for Helen Stewart the landscape was a more lyrical and therapeutic setting. Her landscapes are personable and full of light, colour and gently undulating forms. As in the paintings of Frances Hodgkins, buildings and fences merge into the landscape, adding to the harmonious feeling.
An interesting fact; Helen Stewart's brother Gordon Stewart, was a Deputy Chairman of the Bank of New Zealand.
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The Horse Paddock - c1980
Oil on Hardboard 750 x 920 mm -
Hanmer Riverbed - c1970
Oil on Hardboard 750 x 920mm -
The Studio
Oil on Hardboard -
Stable and Woolshed - c1970
Oil on Hardboard 755 x 925mm




Other artists in the collection
- Billy Apple
- Annie Baird
- Stephen Bambury
- Charles Barraud
- Brian Baxter
- Peter Black
- Albert E Bollard
- Nigel Brown
- Fassett Burnett
- Tom Burnett
- Debra Bustin
- George Chance
- Raymond Ching
- Colin Coke
- Derek Cowie
- Perry Davies
- Margaret Dawson
- Austen A Deans
- Claudia Pond Eyley
- Joan Fanning
- Jacqueline Fraser
- Rudolf Gopas
- Brendan Hartwell
- Louise Henderson
- Roland Hipkins
- Ralph Hotere
- Stephen Howard
- Raymond Jennings
- William Moore
- Peter Moriarty
- Pauline Morse
- Milan Mrkusich
- Don R Neilson
- Phillip O'Sullivan
- Evelyn Page
- Fiona Pardington
- Don Peebles
- Peter Peryer
- Claudia Eyley Pond
- Owen R Lee
- Peter Ransom
- Lynette Rawlingson
- John Reynolds
- Marie Shannon
- Mary Shephard
- Elizabeth Stevens
- Eion Stevens
- Helen Stewart
- Terry Stringer
- Llewelyn Summers
- Cynthia Taylor
- Pauline Thompson
- Gary Tricker
- John B Turner
- Gordon Walters
- Malcolm Warr
- Marilynn Webb
- Ans Westra
- A Lois White
- Robin White
- William Laurence Wilson
- Brent Wong
- Adele Younghusband