2025 Winners
2025 Supreme Winner
Sponsored By: Craigs Investment Partners
Gus Milne – Sperm Whale Hunt
2025 Runner-Up
Sponsored By: Craig Myles - Colliers Wānaka
Anne Baldock - The Stakeholders
2025 Best Landscape
Sponsored By: Peak Accommodation
Sean Beldon - Remarkables
2025 Best Work Under $1,000
Sponsored By: Calder Group
Lisa Banks - Leaving Takaka
2025 People’s Choice Award
Sponsored by: Nanny Goat Vineyards
Nelle Paton - Return to Lake Hāwea
2025 Merit Award
Sponsored By: Wanaka Self Storage
Katie Robinson - Tulip Season
2025 Best Small Work
Sponsored By: Wanaka Siteworks
Lee-Ann Toyokawa - No progress for Oliver
2024 Winners
2024 Supreme Winner
Sponsored By: Craigs Investment Partners
Zoë Marsden - The Lookout
2024 Runner-Up
Sponsored By: Craig Myles - Colliers Wānaka
Philip Maxwell - Composition #6 (detail of something bigger)
2024 Best Landscape
Sponsored By: Peak Accommodation
Angus Collis - Obsession
2024 Merit Award
Sponsored By: Wanaka Self Storage
Brett a'Court - Ihu Karaiti (The Prince of Peace)
2024 Best Work Under $1,000
Sponsored By: Calder Group
Nicola Jackson - Soft Thoughts
2024 People’s Choice $1,000
Sponsored By: Nanny Goat Vineyard
Sierra Roberts - Wall Flower
2024 Best Round
Sponsored By: McElrea Consulting
Nyle Major - The Great Escape
2023 Winners
2023 Supreme Winner
Sponsored By: Craigs Investment Partners
Marc Blake - Happy Birthday
2023 Runner-Up
Sponsored By: Colliers Wānaka
Philip Madill - The Screen Test
2023 Merit Award
Sponsored By: Wanaka Self Storage
Suzan Kostanich - Fasi Lalaga
2023 Best Landscape
Sponsored By: Peak Accommodation
Kelly Pearce - Down At The Farm Looking West
2023 Runner-Up Landscape
Sponsored By: John Charrington & Pam McBride
Claire Beynon - Forest Walk, Forest Talk
2023 Best Work Under $1,000
Sponsored By: Universal Developments
Aaron Potaka - The Blessed Virgin Mary
2023 40cm Round
Angela Rowe - Golden Oyster (On the smallness of things)
2022 Overall Winners
Supreme Winner - Craigs Investment Partners Prize - $10,000
Deborah Moss - Glowing Again
Runner-up - Craig Myles NZ Sotheby's Prize - $2,000
Eliza Glyn - Sunrise From Quarantine Island
Best Landscape - Peak Accomodation Prize - $2,000
Mehrdad Tahan - Serenity
Best Work Under $1,000 - $1,000
Ulemj Glamuzina - Journey
People's Choice - Nanny Goat Prize - $1,000
John Toomer - View Across Lake Angelus
Best Round - Wanaka Storage Prize - $500
Hayley Landreth - View Across Lake Angelus
2021 Overall Winners
Supreme Winner - Craigs Investment Partners Prize - $10,000
Philip Maxwell - Boat Study (view from Deborah Bay)
Oil (86cm x 86cm)
Runner-up - Craig Myles NZ Sotheby's Prize - $2,000
Sophie Melville - Winter Shadows Over The Lindis Pass
Watercolour (120cm x 95cm)
Best Landscape - Peak Accomodation Prize - $2,000
Sarah Adam - Sundown Evening Gown
Oil (30cm x 25cm)
People's Choice - Nanny Goat Prize - $1,000
Mark Cowden - Diamond In Yellow
Mixed Media (85cm x 105cm) Framed
Best Work Under $1,000 - $1,000
Ruth Mitchener - Ngā Manu Sanctuary
Oil (18.5cm x 22.5cm)
Best Round - Wanaka Storage Prize - $500
Sandy Rodgers - Loved to Death
Mixed Media (40cm Round)
2020 Overall Winners
Supreme Winner - Craigs Investment Partners Prize - $10,000
P. Williams - Class Precariat
Class Precariat is an artwork comprised of a graphite drawing inserted into a sheet of cardboard.
Runner-up - Craig Myles NZ Sotheby's Prize - $2,000
Ki Hyun Kim - Morning on Sunday Market
Oil on canvas/paper/board
Best Landscape - Peak Accomodation Prize - $2,000
Priscilla Clare - Matukituki 2
Matukituki 2 belongs to a pair of small oil paintings made of the landscape near the confluence of the east and west branches of the river. Reference images from an overnight tramp in the area in early 2019 were used to create the painting in the studio.
Best Work Under $1,000 - $1,000
Gavin Chai - Interior no.7 (Hotel room in Greymouth)
Oil on canvas/paper/board
People's Choice Prize - $1,000
Natalya Doudell - Lost moments
Oil on canvas/paper/board