Gallery

Guitar paintings

The guitar was Paul Radford's most enduring subject — a form he returned to across four decades of painting. From bold, flat-colour compositions to the layered, weathered surfaces of his later paired-guitar works, the shape gave him a vehicle for colour, texture, and variation that he never exhausted. Many of these paintings were shown at The Venus Guitar Club (Space Art Gallery, Auckland, 2013) and through the gallery in the years that followed.

Paired guitars in yellow and red on white ground

Guitar in white and dark forms on teal and red split background

White guitar with red strings on yellow and blue background

Blue guitar with f-holes on lavender and blue background

Paired guitar forms in red, grey and blue with hatched texture

Paired guitars on warm-toned weathered board surface

Grey guitar on yellow, red and lavender background

White guitar with red fretboard and orange bridge on ochre ground

Cream guitar with dark green interior on red and yellow background

Pale blue abstracted guitar on yellow and sage split background

Paired guitars on cool-toned weathered board surface

White guitar with red strings on teal and green split background

Pale blue guitar with pink sound hole on lavender ground

Lavender and purple split guitar on grey-green background

Photographs from the estate of Paul Radford. If you own a work by Paul Radford and would like it included, please get in touch.