MRS. JOHN McINDOE (MISS MARKL HILL).

Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 21 (Supplement)

MRS. JOHN McINDOE (MISS MARKL HILL).

This lady is a native of New Zealand, and was bora in Auckland. In the year 1886 she entered the Wellington Technical School, where she studied hard for five years, and passed through a course of instruction in every branch of art, ?nd obtaining a first-class teacher s certificate from the Science and Art Department, London, and also several prizes in the National Competitions held annually in South Kensington. In 1891 she was appointed assistant art instructor in the Wellington Technical School, a position which she occupied till her marriage, in 1897. During the past 10 years " Mabel Hill " has exhibited in all the centres of New Zealand, and her work is generally well-known and admired. On several occasions examples of her skill have been shown in Sydney, and have lost nothing by comparison with the work of the greatest artists of Australia, having met with a ready and friendly acceptance. At an exhibition of Australasian art, held in the Graf ton Galleries, London, 1898, her one picture (a small water colour) was most favourably criticised, and found a purchaser. Mrs M'lndoe is now settled in Dunedin, and continues to devote considerable time to the pursuit of art, and it may bo safely anticipated that the high standard of her work will maintain for her the leading place she has already gained among colonial artists

we catch a glimpse of him and his friend, Mr Richmond, ex- j changing art ci'iticisms and suggestions in their respective , studios in Nelson until they were quite old men, proving I conclusively the truth of Wordsworth's immortal aphorism: — j " Nature never did, and never will, betray the heart that trusted her." '