McCormack Studio Gallery is the workspace of the Wellington landscape painter Michael McCormack. He trained in oil painting with a BFA, and his paintings focus on the light and composition of Wellington and its coast, along with the experience of tramping trips. The studio sold his giclee prints and original artworks from Island Bay for more than twenty years, but the website says earthquake strengthening made the Island Bay building no longer viable. The website gives the current studio as 104 Vivian Street, with visitors welcome by prior arrangement, Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm.
Customers say the prints capture the essence of Wellington, and that Michael's paintings of the city and Auckland are well known. One visitor says the artist is happy to chat about his work in the studio. Another praises the paintings of Wellington's coast as beautiful. The website lists limited-edition prints, notebooks, calendars, diaries and coasters, with courier or regular mail shipping and a higher fee for the United States. Customers can also see his mural on the side of his gallery, painted to mark ten years in New Zealand. For someone who wants a Wellington landscape to hang at home, the artist's studio is the place to see the work.