Michael D Smither

CNZM Patron Artist

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Michael Duncan Smither, born 1939, a prominent and pivotal painter, emerging in the 1960's to lead contemporary New Zealand art in new directions.

Whether Smither expresses his observations through paintings, screen prints, sculptures, drawings, or music compositions, every art piece reveals, with clarity, his unique recognition of our everyday, and of his everyday observations.

Yet the range of his subject of study is very extensive. In this way we are, or some of us are, able to say "Oh, there’s a Smither landscape", or "oh, look at that Smither cloud".
With typical dedication to his everyday studies, Smither is guiding our unique cultural awareness forward, by securing it firmly amongst New Zealand contemporary art and in doing so, recording it historically for years to come.

Awarded in 2004 the CNZM for services to the arts and is the Mercury Bay Art Escape Patron Artist.

Over MBAE weekends join us to view and discuss Michael Smither work
at G J Gardner, Show home, 1 Vanita Drive, Whitianga.

Open 10am - 4pm

Michael Smither will be in attendance on MBAE studio weekends only - from 1pm to 2pm Saturday and Sunday.

Contact Christine Rabarts prior, to confirm Michael's attendance times.

Motuhua Otama - Oil on canvas	Orange in seagrass basket - Screen Print	Chintz - Oil on canvas
Sarah with the Yellow Ball Screen Print	The Colours of 12 Sounds - Screen Print	Harmonic Cube - Screen Print
Taranaki and Pouaka Range – screen print	Massage Towels and Blanket – screen print	Massage Towels and Blanket – screen print
Boy with Dolphin – Screen print	Self Portrait	Okahu Boats - Koromiko
Pleasure Boats II	Okahu Boats - Niagara	Self portrait
Into Perspective 2013	Eastern Tree 1