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The New Zealand Landscapes

Awe inspiring - Life changing - this was Vanessa's description of her first visit to New Zealand's South Island. Travelling from Christchurch to Wanaka the sheer scale and unspoilt grandeur of the landscape prepared her somewhat for the dynamic strength and sparkling colour of the Wanaka mountains, lakes, and surrounds. Here Vanessa began a series of paintings which have since been completed at her home studio. click here to view

In addition to painting Vanessa enjoyed an exciting week teaching during the 07 Wanaka Autumn Art School, meeting a talented group of adult students. She hopes to return to the South Island to complete a further collection of work.

The New Zealand paintings are for sale from £600.00 - £2200.There is also a Limited edition of prints available from £100 - £250

She will be exhibiting the paintings in the planned show 'Mountain range' over the next year.

Painting at Motatupo
Painting at Wanaka	The class at Wanaka Autumn Art School
Sketching in the Mount Cook National Park

Herefordshire artist Vanessa Pomeroy plans a creative
venture in New Zealand

Vanessa Pomeroy, painter and sculptor trained in Fine art at Newcastle University, and subsequently at the University of Bologna having won an Italian government postgraduate scholarship. She has exhibited widely, nationally, in London, and in Italy, and in Herefordshire. Her much sought after work is in private collections nationally, and in the United States.

Landscape Paintings of broad panoramas are a celebration of vital colour, dynamic sculptural perspective, and carefully considered design. Her paintings range from well considered compositions expressing poise and stature, to dramatic passionate scenes, employing vibrant light and colour.

Her most recent paintings, fuse dark storm clouds with bright light driving down on the black mountain range. This border country of Herefordshire has been Vanessa's chosen subject for paintings emphasizing expansive space and the changing atmosphere of this dramatic area. This subject matter has acted as a catalyst for Vanessa, in her desire to travel to the South Island of New Zealand, in search of a wider and even more mountainous landscape.

Having seen only photographs of New Zealand, she became particularly attracted with an image of Wanaka lake and mountains, and felt specifically drawn to that region.

Later that month while exhibiting as an independent artist within the Hay Festival, she met a trustee of the 'Festival of Colour,' an arts festival centred in Wanaka itself. Subsequently the director of the Autumn Art school, an associate of the festival, engaged Vanessa to teach within the school for a period and exhibit a selection of her paintings, while there. She will set off on this creative venture in April '07. Having had a vast background in teaching and lecturing in the field of Fine art, including lecturing in Italy with the UCLA, this will be a stimulating teaching experience. Vanessa will be taking her students out to what will be for her the new landscape territory of Wanaka's lakes and mountains.

This week will form the centre of a four week period of research, drawing, and painting the dramatic landscape on the South Island.

Small paintings will be finished on the spot, but larger work will be worked on in the studio on her return.

A solo exhibition is planned in '08 to show the completed work, entitled 'mountain ranges,' and will include the work from the New Zealand period as well as work from the black mountains showing both the similarities and diversities of these incredible landscapes.