Glorious in partnership with The Walters Estate offers a limited edition of 12 NFTs of Gordon Walters’ Maho. Walters’ immediately recognisable style, with its respectful modernist allusion to Māori koru and pitau motifs, has gone on to define how the world sees Aotearoa. Maho is a very special painting among all the works of Gordon Walters. It’s the painting Walters refused to sell. He exhibited it in dealer galleries in Auckland and Wellington in 1974 and 1976, but in both cases withdrew it, and eventually gave it as a love token to Orbell. Dr Margaret Orbell, Walters' wife, defined Maho’ as meaning ‘quiet, undisturbed … a poetic word, which can be used in a mystical sense,’ that ‘conveys something of the stillness and calm which this painting communicates’. Walters’ koru-forms are presented vertically rather than his more familiar horizontals, the reflected and inverted shapes, black and white, yin and yang, have acquired the romantic legend of representing Walters’ and Orbell’s relationship in perfect balance.