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About this Artwork

For over five decades, John Walsh’s paintings have referenced critical subjects that have shaped New Zealand. Walsh blends topical social, political and ecological issues, with history, mythology, and the artist’s imagination to convey beauty, whimsy, menace, and implied calls to action.

Walsh’s ethereal figures traverse mythical landscapes, boats hover above the land, propelled by unseen forces, landscapes are threatened and healed. Walsh's long-held desire to reanimate the characters in his paintings led him to collaborate with Glorious, enabling a digital recreation that breathes life into his seminal painting, The Gardeners.

In this magnificent composition, guardians of the land