Debbi Thyne, lecturer in art at the Waiariki Institute of Technology, will discuss Charles Blomfield and other colonial painters at a public talk at the Rotorua Museum today.
Landscape art has played an important part in our history, particularly with the promotion of New Zealand as an idyllic tourist destination.
PICTURESQUE: Charles Blomfield's painting of the Pink and White Terraces, Rotomahana - A Pair, 1883, which is part of the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust Heritage Collection.
Ms Thyne will examine why landscape painting was such a dominant style in early New Zealand art and how our picturesque surroundings have been perceived by generations of artists.
