The China Sea, Hong Kong

Batch 6
Written By Jonathan Gooderham

Watercolour

52 x 70 cm

Signed lower right

 
 

EXHIBITED 

Jonathan Grant Galleries, Peter McIntyre Exhibition, 2009

Jonathan Grant Galleries, Peter McIntyre, Hong Kong - The Exotic Harbour, 2013

ILLUSTRATED

(2009) Peter McIntyre [Exhibition Catalogue]. Auckland, New Zealand: Jonathan Grant Galleries

(2013) Peter McIntyre Hong Kong - The Exotic Harbour [Exhibition Catalogue]. Auckland, New Zealand: Jonathan Grant Galleries

“We were old hands here and were soon involved in that round of drinks at the Mandarin and dinner parties on the Peak that is a part of life in Hong Kong. 

Much has changed in Hong Kong; but if you go to Cheoung Chow Island or to Tolo Harbour it is still as Oriental as old China.  We hired a sampan at Castle Peak and were rowed out among the big fishing junks that lie like large butterflies with their patched sails drying in the sun.  We explored the streets of Cheoung Chow Island, so narrow that you can shake hands across them, and we sailed from island to island in Tolo Harbour watching the teeming life of the villages, the crowded sampans. 

Yet such is in Hong Kong that we could return from a day on Tolo Harbour to a cocktail party and not feel strange.  Old friend Major Harry Stanley made Hong Kong like home after months of travelling.  Yet added was that excitement, the shopping, the peculiar mixture that makes Hong Kong the headiest, the most seductive city of them all.”

McIntyre, Peter. Peter McIntyre’s Pacific. 1966

 
Jonathan Gooderham

Jonathan Gooderham established his first Gallery, Jonathan Grant Gallery, in 1984. Jonathan has dealt in traditional and contemporary paintings of the highest quality from the 18th through to the 21st Century. He assists collectors to select quality art pieces, providing a scholarly background to each painting, advising on framing, hanging, insurance and all other aspects of collecting.

In 1989 Jonathan purchased ARTIS Gallery and moved both galleries to their current location at 280 Parnell Road, Parnell, right in the heart of the Creative Quarter of Auckland City. Today Jonathan Grant Gallery & ARTIS Gallery sit side by side offering clients a selection of both classical and contemporary art. In 2012 a third gallery space was developed to exhibit the gallery’s sculpture collection. The Basement Gallery offers clients the opportunity to view large scale sculptures and paintings from the stockroom.

Jonathan has also undertaken extensive research on the works of New Zealand expatriate artist, Frances Hodgkins.

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