RETURN OF N.Z. PAINTER
Douglas McDiarmid
On Visit
“The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, Feb. fl Ten years' residence in Paris has effectively removed the New Zealand painter, Douglas Mac Diarmid, from his native environment. Now back in the Dominion for a short visit, he will return to Paris at the end of March. "My work in France has opened certain doors to me and I cannot with profit turn my back on them," Mr MacDiarmid said in Wellington. “A painter must live with the light he knows best, under the influences he needs and near the market he has developed.” Mr Mac Diarmid has brought 25 of his paintings with him and will show 20 of them at the Centre Gallery, Lambton quay, early in March. They were mostly French landscapes, he said, with a few still lifes and figure studies. Though he was a representational painter, he did not go for the photographic aspect of a landscape. He was more interested in the visual rhythm that would be obtained. “In Paris my work is classified in the big salons as expressionist,” he added. Mr Mac Diarmid has had several shows in France and recently staged one in London as part of Commonwealth Week in the city.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 8
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