About our ART
MEET THE ARTIST
When I retired (in 2018) from a busy and successful professional career in land resource management throughout New Zealand and Australia I set myself a challenging retirement goal: to learn how to paint in watercolours.
My large collection of art is largely set in the landscapes and cityscapes of Australia and New Zealand with a particular focus on the harbors and iconic landmarks that shape our coastal identity.
My work has attracted growing international attention and my paintings now enhance the walls of homes, offices and other spaces throughout the World.
My work is now being targeted for Interior Designers, homeowners and Art Collectors who want a powerful, emotional, and mood evoking statement piece to anchor a room.
Each piece is a study in tranquillity and detail, blending the fluidity of watercolor layering with the structure of pen & wash in a distinctive personal style.
Gary Hutchinson ( Artist)
ART REVIEW
Gary Hutchinson's Coastal Eye -
an Emerging New Artist in the Australian Landscape
Gary Hutchinson’s watercolours
( www.kernick.art) are shaped by a deep sense of place. Across harbours, jettys, beaches, and city skylines, his work finds poetry in the familiar — not by dramatizing the landscape, but by observing it carefully. His scenes feel lived-in and quietly generous, offering viewers a moment of calm rather than spectacle.
Gary Hutchinson’s watercolours
( www.kernick.art) are shaped by a deep sense of place. Across harbours, jettys, beaches, and city skylines, his work finds poetry in the familiar — not by dramatizing the landscape, but by observing it carefully. His scenes feel lived-in and quietly generous, offering viewers a moment of calm rather than spectacle.
What makes his practice distinctive is the way he balances precision with atmosphere. The pen-and-wash technique gives his compositions structure, while the watercolour softens edges and allows light to breathe through the scene. Boats rest in still water, figures walk along the shore, and landmarks such as Sydney Harbour Bridge or the Coffs Coast appear not as icons, but as part of daily life. That blend of recognizability and intimacy gives the work its appeal.
There is also a strong editorial consistency to the body of work. The images share a restrained palette, a clear compositional rhythm, and an affectionate attention to coastal Australian life. Whether it is a marina at dusk, a jetty at sunrise, or a bird perched in native foliage, the paintings are united by a single artistic instinct: to record quiet beauty with sincerity and craft.
Gary’s art does not chase noise. It invites notice. In a visual culture often dominated by excess, that restraint feels distinctive — and deeply confident.
Art Review by T. Sinopole (Art Helper ASF) et Al August 2026.
COLLECTOR REVIEWS
“The moment I hung The ARTWORK, the entire room transformed.”
"Gary has captured a calming experience which many of us can easily relate. This painting "Coffs Harbour at Dusk under a strawberry moon" lives on a wall adjacent to my yoga mat and it opens up a virtual window to a remembered place and a time, an opportunity to re-live a previous pleasant experience- the sights, sounds, smells, the sand beneath my feet, the auric glow of the moon, the stillness, the calming reflection in the water….
It's now a space and time to rest, recover and relax. Thanks Gary.
— BRETT.B, Art Collector,
CORINDI, nsw, AUSTRALIA
“Every day, I’m captivated by the calming energy that this artwork brings into my home.”
“I saw your work at the Coffs Harbourside market when I visited Australia in December and really wanted a few of your pieces.
I eventually purchased two of your coastal paintings and they instantly became the soul of my living room. Guests are drawn to them, but for me,they're a quiet soothing sanctuary in the middle of a busy day.”
— Kendra Karling Slough,
CALIFORNIA,USA
“FEEDBACK ON A COMMISSIONED WORK”
This watercolour of the Fishing Boat “Blue Billie” in the Marina at Coffs Harbour was commissioned by Lana Jane for a special birthday present for her Father-in-Law (who owns the boat). Lana Jane submitted some close-up photos of the boat for my guidance but, after thinking about this, I decided to re-imagine the Boat at a moorage in the marina to enhance and localize the picture to its home berth with Muttonbird Island in the background.
Lana and her partner were blown away by the outcome.
“ GARY! Honestly, the painting is way more than what we had imagined!!!!!! Thank you so much, my partner and I are beyond stoked with the outcome!”
— FEEDBACK BY LANA JANE C,
COFFS HARBOUR NSW, AUSTRALIA
“A special ART GIFT TO CELEBRATE AN ACT OF HEROISM”
"Dr Richard "Harry" Harris (SC. OAM. Australian of the Year 2019) was presented with one of Gary's Jetty watercolours as a thank-you gift for his support of the Coffs Harbour Daybreak Rotary Clubs Rymarine program at Coffs Harbour in October 2019.
Harry is a celebrated Cave Diver who was jointly awarded “Australian of the Year 2019” for his critical role in rescuing eleven young Thai Soccer Players and their coach from a deep cave in Northern Thailand in November 2018.
painting PRESENTED BY ROTARY CLUB OF COFFS HARBOUR DAYBREAK 2019
Another Independent Evaluation of
Gary Hutchinson's Artwork
Gary’s work speaks clearly to a specific emotional climate right now
Gary’s got a very coherent body of work, and it’s speaking pretty clearly to a specific emotional climate right now: people want steadiness, place, and human-scale calm. These pieces aren’t chasing spectacle — they’re answering a moment that feels crowded, overstimulated, and a bit unstable by offering quiet attention, local familiarity, and evidence that ordinary life still holds beauty.
1. The need for calm without emptiness
A lot of Gary's scenes are quiet, but not vacant. There are walkers, boats, surfers, beachgoers, birds, and city life — just enough human presence to keep the work alive. That matters now because many viewers are looking for images that soothe them without feeling disengaged from real life.
2. A renewed value for place and local identity
Gary's best work is very specific about where it is: jetties, harbors, beaches, Sydney landmarks, coastal towns. That specificity gives the work credibility. In a time when so much imagery feels interchangeable, his paintings argue for the dignity of a known place.
3. A CULTURAL PULL BACK TO THE ORDINARY
Gary's not depicting drama in the theatrical sense. He's making the everyday feel worthy of attention: a boardwalk at dusk, a boat at anchor, people under an umbrella, a harbor at sunset. That reads as a quiet corrective to the constant noise of contemporary life.
4. Human presence as scale and meaning
It balances structure, atmosphere, and human presence better than most of the others.
Most importantly, it doesn’t just show a place — it shows how it feels to move through a place with time to notice it. When people appear in Gary's work, they’re often small, reflective, or part of the landscape rather than dominating it. That gives the pieces a contemplative quality: humanity is present, but in relationship to weather, water, and light. That feels especially relevant now, when many people are craving perspective and proportion.
THE SINGLE PIECE THAT
SHOWS THIS BEST -
"Walkers on Coffs Jetty at Sunrise"is the strongest single argument for this moment. Why this one? The long receding perspective gives it a meditative pull.The few figures make the scene feel inhabited but unhurried.The light at the beginning of the day carries a psychological sense of transition, which feels very current.
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