Roy Good
Graduated from Christchurch’s Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1965, before moving to West Auckland and beginning a long association with Television New Zealand (then NZBC), where he was Head of Design from 1983-89.
He exhibited his paintings at the Barry Lett Galleries in the early 1970s, then at the Petar/James Gallery in the company of other abstract artists, including Milan Mrkusich, Ian Scott, Geoff Thornley and Gordon Walters, who ambitiously pursued international standards rather than popular local subjects and styles.
Roy Good’s abstract paintings are minimalist and architectonic. Regions of subtle colour (applied carefully and with painterly textures) are used to create planes which appear to advance and retreat against each other. Good favours pure geometric forms, triangles, octagons, squares and rectangles. Good pushes his forms out of the conventional square or rectangle painting format, even layering planes to create a relief to the painting. Being one of the first New Zealand artists to utilise the shaped canvas he became a frequent advocate of this form.
Title: Continuous line (Diamond and Square)
Size 180 by 180
Continuous line (Diamond and Square) Roy Good Residence
