‘Heavily researched’: Spike Wademan by his painting The Photographer — based on an 1888 photo by American Martha Harvey of trawlers in Gloucester Harbour, Massachusetts — which featured in an international marine art exhibition near Boston in 2011Thirty paintings by renowned Queenstown-based marine and aviation artist Spike Wademan feature in an exhibition opening next Thursday at Arrowtown’s Lakes District Museum. Wallace says her dad also painted a lot of historic American ships after befriending an American from Boston who holidayed here. Queenstown landscapes also inspired a lot of Wademan’s art, and over his career he was frequently commissioned to produce artworks for collectors across the globe. ‘‘Each of Spike’s works is heavily researched and captures a moment in time, vividly and skilfully brought to life by the artist’s hand,’’ Wallace says. All works at the Arrowtown exhibition — running from next Thursday, 5.30pm, till March 1 — will be for sale.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 01, 2026 03:03 UTC