Taranaki Stories
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by Rhonda Bartle on 04 November 2009
Coastal artist Margaret Scott sits in her custom-built studio in Oakura, which includes a light, bright space where she teaches art to willing students, surrounded by blue rock pools and iconic paua shells.
On another wall hangs her new autumn-toned work - a series of luminous beach paintings that catch the mood of the old wreck that rests on rocks in the curve of Timaru Bay.
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by Sorrel Hoskin on 04 November 2009
Harry Fryer's art studio is barely big enough to wield a paintbrush - never mind swinging a cat. So when a local women's group wanted to come and view where the New Plymouth artist worked - he had to put them off. "Can you imagine 20 women in here?" he laughs, drawing aside the curtain to his cubby hole and revealing just enough space for a small desk, a multitude of paint brushes, a few pictures,...
by Rhonda Bartle on 03 November 2009
When Tom Priest was aged around 14 and living in New Plymouth, he took a stroll through Pukekura Park, where he chanced upon a man painting by the lake.
The man, whom Priest describes as 'not a big chap' was standing in front of the band rotunda with a brush in his hand, applying paint to a square of hardboard on an easel.
”He was a very pleasant little man,” Priest says from...
by Rhonda Bartle on 03 November 2009
Bernard Aris was said to be rich in spirit and humble in a way that lifted him above the common man. He poured out a steady stream of paintings that graced many New Zealand homes.
Born in Sussex, England, Aris came to New Zealand in his early 20s in 1908, after a doctor told him his heart was twice the size it should be and warned him he was unlikely to live much longer.
“I...