I am a New Zealand artist who has sketched and painted since childhood, entering Whitecliffe Art School, Auckland in mid-life after some 30 years in a nursing career and bringing up a family. Since then I have painted and exhibited from studios in Auckland, and now in the Waikato. The Waikato Countryside and Gardens
Waikato Farmland with Mount Kakapuku in the background
My work has been exhibited successfully in Art by the Sea and Art of this World Galleries in Devonport, and The Studio of Contemporary Art, Newmarket, Auckland - see Previous Series
'Grafted to this Land' - a Mixed Media Narrative Painting
However a new series of Mixed Media Work on 700mm diameter round canvases is now emerging in the studio and follows on from the earlier Narrative Series in technique.
'A Bird in the Hand', Mixed Media, 700mm diam
INFLUENCES:
J.M.W.Turner is very influential in my vision of the landscape. Other artists whose work I enjoy are the American artists Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer, the French Impressionists, the Australian Heidelberg group and the New Zealanders James Nairn and Toss Woolaston. I have always found Wassily Kandinsky's work very exciting too!
AWARDS:
Finalist Telecom Art Awards 1992
- Finalist NSC Art Award 1994, and work accepted for same nearly every year since.
- NZ Sugar Company Award at Pumphouse Competition for Seascape- 1995 and 1998, Merit Award 2003.
- Oil Painting Award, Mairangi Arts Centre Members Exhibition 2004
- Paintings in private and corporate collections in N.Z. and Overseas in past 25 years, including Carter Holt Harvey, New York; Telecom NZ; Dennis Conner, Stars and Stripes Syndicate, and the Prada Syndicate.
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