Makaro

In <em>Makaro</em>, Gordon Walters has used a much more subtle colour combination than the stark black and white of his best-known koru paintings.

Almost a decade after creating this painting, Walters declared that his koru works were ‘best in black and white or in one colour on white, and I am limiting all my new ones to this range’. In fact, he never stopped experimenting with colour.

In the 1980s, he applied the subtle tonal contrasts of <em>Makaro</em> to several works, including Kura.