1st design for The Roycroft Trophy Poster, 2010, Oil on linen, 460 x 550mm
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In this exhibition, Richard McWhannell welds together two great loves of his life: painting and racing. McWhannell became a racing Boffin at fifteen, when be bought his first race car, a 1931 Saloon style, Austin 7. He sold the car when he took up a place at Ilam, Canterbury School of Fine Arts, but he never gave up the dream.
In 2003, McWhannell, now an established Auckland based artist, bought a 1929 A7 special and established friendships that led him to the racing circuit, and Hampton Downs.
Motor racing was a popular sport in Auckland , in the twenties and thirties and, for three generations, the Roycroft family have been a key part of that racing scene. In this collection, the Race Paintings celebrate the Roycroft Trophy, acknowledging the history and the rural glamour of those early races.
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In this exhibition, Richard McWhannell welds together two great loves of his life: painting and racing. McWhannell became a racing Boffin at fifteen, when be bought his first race car, a 1931 Saloon style, Austin 7. He sold the car when he took up a place at Ilam, Canterbury School of Fine Arts, but he never gave up the dream.
In 2003, McWhannell, now an established Auckland based artist, bought a 1929 A7 special and established friendships that led him to the racing circuit, and Hampton Downs.
Motor racing was a popular sport in Auckland , in the twenties and thirties and, for three generations, the Roycroft family have been a key part of that racing scene. In this collection, the Race Paintings celebrate the Roycroft Trophy, acknowledging the history and the rural glamour of those early races.
