Patricia France
An immensely subtle painter of the human figure, Patricia France did not begin painting seriously until she was in her 50s and had moved from Auckland to Dunedin, where she was encouraged by many of the country’s leading painters. France used her art to explore the emotional space that exists around and within the human form. The paintings celebrate friendship and family bonds while hinting at the loss and sadness those relationships invariably contain. She said the paintings evolved ‘out of a vague and fluid background of my past experiences and feelings’.
Figures in a Landscape - 1983
Rita Angus
Dennis Knight Turner
Tony Fomison
Neil Driver
Other artists in the collection
- Billy Apple
- Annie Baird
- Stephen Bambury
- Charles Barraud
- Brian Baxter
- Peter Black
- Albert E Bollard
- Nigel Brown
- Fassett Burnett
- Tom Burnett
- Debra Bustin
- George Chance
- Raymond Ching
- Colin Coke
- Derek Cowie
- Perry Davies
- Margaret Dawson
- Austen A Deans
- Claudia Pond Eyley
- Joan Fanning
- Jacqueline Fraser
- Rudolf Gopas
- Brendan Hartwell
- Louise Henderson
- Roland Hipkins
- Ralph Hotere
- Stephen Howard
- Raymond Jennings
- William Moore
- Peter Moriarty
- Pauline Morse
- Milan Mrkusich
- Don R Neilson
- Phillip O'Sullivan
- Evelyn Page
- Fiona Pardington
- Don Peebles
- Peter Peryer
- Claudia Eyley Pond
- Owen R Lee
- Peter Ransom
- Lynette Rawlingson
- John Reynolds
- Marie Shannon
- Mary Shephard
- Eion Stevens
- Elizabeth Stevens
- Helen Stewart
- Terry Stringer
- Llewelyn Summers
- Cynthia Taylor
- Pauline Thompson
- Gary Tricker
- John B Turner
- Gordon Walters
- Malcolm Warr
- Marilynn Webb
- Ans Westra
- Robin White
- A Lois White
- William Laurence Wilson
- Brent Wong
- Adele Younghusband