Richard Ponder
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Richard Ponder creates rich and textural oil paintings that freely play with light and colour, using his distinctive knife painting technique.
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BIO
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Richard Ponder has been a leading figure in professional painting since the 1970s, known for his bold, tactile interpretations of landscapes, cityscapes, and flora.
He works with strong palette knife marks, energetic brushwork, and paint applied straight from the tube. This thick, layered approach creates rich surfaces that shift with the light, giving his subjects depth, atmosphere, and presence. Since the 1990s, Ponder has pushed Impressionist ideas toward a more expressive, gestural style. His work sits between abstraction and representation—both a field of colour and texture, and a recognisable sense of place. Influences include Monet, Van Gogh, Pollock, Affandi, and Sumadiyasa, alongside the forms and light of the New Zealand landscape. At its core, his painting is about feeling rather than exact depiction. As the artist says: “I never intend for a painting to be a view from one exact spot, but a composite picture… my imaginative view.” Exhibited widely in Wellington and Auckland, Ponder’s work is held in significant private and public collections in New Zealand and internationally. |
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