Eleanor Hughes, Mona Vale to Chyangweal
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Curator, Ken Hall, presents an illustrated lecture on Christchurch-born expatriate artist Eleanor Hughes.
This lecture focuses on Eleanor Hughes who established herself in an art colony in Cornwall, befriending leading artists and making a distinctive contribution to British art.
Eleanor and her sister Alice, daughters of Frederick and Alice Waymouth, who built Karewa, later renamed Mona Vale, from 1899 to 1900, both trained in art in Christchurch and then in England, where they married and remained.
Eleanor, a watercolour painter and printmaker, continued to exhibit her work in New Zealand and came to be regarded as one of New Zealand’s success stories abroad in the 1920s. Her sister Alice (aka Biddy) became a superb Arts and Crafts jeweller.
Find out about these two interesting artists, their careers, teachers and direct influences in a beautifully illustrated presentation.
Image: Untitled (Towards Lamorna Cove), c. 1920.
This lecture focuses on Eleanor Hughes who established herself in an art colony in Cornwall, befriending leading artists and making a distinctive contribution to British art.
Eleanor and her sister Alice, daughters of Frederick and Alice Waymouth, who built Karewa, later renamed Mona Vale, from 1899 to 1900, both trained in art in Christchurch and then in England, where they married and remained.
Eleanor, a watercolour painter and printmaker, continued to exhibit her work in New Zealand and came to be regarded as one of New Zealand’s success stories abroad in the 1920s. Her sister Alice (aka Biddy) became a superb Arts and Crafts jeweller.
Find out about these two interesting artists, their careers, teachers and direct influences in a beautifully illustrated presentation.
Image: Untitled (Towards Lamorna Cove), c. 1920.
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