SHOWN IN ENGLAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20283, 5 December 1935, Page 6

SHOWN IN ENGLAND

NEW ZEALAND SKETCHES LONDON, November 9. Miss Anne Hazledine is exhibiting about 100 of her sketches of New Zealand at “Mrs Brown’s Little Tea Shop,” the establishment of a New Zealander, frequented much by New Zealanders. Miss Hazledine’s great-grandfather. Mr George Clarke, arrived in the Bay of Islands as a C.M.S. missionary in 1824. Her grandfather. Mr Samuel Clarke, was born in the old Mission House at Kerikeri, and her mother remembers escaping from Gisborne, and again from Tauranga during the Te Kooti disturbances. During her recent three years’ residence in New Zealand it was natural that Miss Hazledine should make many coloured sketches of the historical places associated with her family. Waitangi, Waimate North, Bay of Islands, Doubtless Bay, are among the places illustrated. It must have been particularly interesting for the artist to paint the grove of English and native trees which were planted by her grandfather. New Zealanders in London have been visiting the exhibition throughout the week, and doubtless some have been pleased to obtain souvenirs of their native country. Miss Hazledine’s paintings of the kauri trees are especially good. In the landscapes and seacapes she has been true to Nature and has saorified none of the clearlydefined lines and the vivid colouring. This is what a New Zealander would prefer.