Bruce Luxford
Bruce Luxford is a self taught visual artist working full time out of his own studio in Seatoun, Wellington.
Bruce has a background working in Advertising Agencies and was self employed in allied activities, including visual content for marketing campaigns and promotions. He is now working mostly in oils on canvas.
As an observer of behaviour and events he is ‘drawn’ to figurative, surrealistic work with equivocal content that may encourage conversation. There is also a journey, utilising the familiar and unfamiliar within the boundless fields of scale, space and illusion.
Works have sold to NZ buyers as well as to collectors in the USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
United Lakes
Oil on canvas
Artist’s response to wealthy Americans buying valuable, uniquely scenic Central Otago land after obtaining for somewhat dubious motivations, NZ citizenship.
Power Play
Oil on canvas
Wealth power and land acquisition represented metaphorically as a great game of chess.
Last Stand
Oil on canvas
Many seldom, but now increasingly told stories of significant events through the colonisation
of Aotearoa New Zealand that swirl around land confiscations from Maori – first nation people.
This swiftly gave rise to resistance to armed force with force.
Caravel
Oil on canvas
The caravel that features in ‘The Helmet’ shown here in the Tasman Sea before coming to
grief upon a Northland west coast beach. Was painted as a preface to the ‘Helmet’.
Bolt On Deities
Oil on canvas
Using spiritual references for personal gain.
Mystic Renovations
Oil on canvas
Material prosperity in home renovation and extensions to meet physical needs and wants.
Land End Revisited
Oil on canvas
Planet earth’s most consistently dynamic regions – the power of water against land/earth.
The Helmet
Oil on canvas
Based on a Northland (NZ) ‘mystery’ of the remains of an old timber hulled wreck that used to appear and disappear under the constantly shifting sands of a west coast ocean beach…
One in Six
Oil on canvas
The play of statistics. The predictability of behaviour in the constructs of our being.
Iron Poppies Too
Oil on canvas
An example of nature’s innocent, beautiful creation used as a symbol for the victims of a less than innocent activity of man – war and conflict.
Golden Promise
Oil on canvas
This painting references urban expansion into rural and scenic areas, being promoted as
lifestyle/escape opportunities. The developers always offer the ‘golden promise’.
Temple Guards
Oil on canvas
Guarding the treasures of cultural knowledge – within the ‘temple’ of mind-memory.
Valley of Extinction
Oil on canvas
A thematic work on the extinction of species that are linked to the arrival and occupation of New Zealand’s islands by humans.
Retinue
Oil on canvas
The roll of guarding the wellbeing of a society/culture – support for minding the treasures of cultural knowledge.
Outpost
Oil on canvas
Safeguarding – Taking protection to the furthermost reaches of the dominant power.
Dery Dell Direct Flow
Oil on canvas
Imagining AI robotics in corporate dairy farming – portrayed with steampunk sensibilities.