Toss Woollaston, Brown acre (Mt. Campbell) (From Riwaka), 1990, Watercolour on paper. 450 x 525mm (framed)

Estimate $8000 – 10,000 

For Toss Woollaston, watercolour was “a rapid medium for striking quickly – while the iron is hot, so to speak – and so I like it best in summer, when what is put down dries at once and can take more, almost as fast as I can think” (Barnett, 1991, p.77). The Riwaka–Motueka landscape also offered him a satisfying terrain of orchards, hills, light and weather that he could explore through colour, structure and gesture.