Category Archives: Visual Art

Enga Washbourn

Working almost entirely in watercolours, Enga Washbourn painted landscapes, historical buildings and a few portraits. She depicted scenes in Nelson, Golden Bay, Canterbury and the West Coast. Unique in style, her paintings became known for their clarity, simplicity, colour, light and movement.

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Patricia Payne

Dunedin-born mezzo-soprano Patricia Payne had a brilliant career from the early 1970s, singing on many of the world’s great stages – Barcelona, Covent Garden, Bayreuth (including Patrice Chéreau’s Ring cycle alongside Donald McIntyre), San Francisco, Geneva, and La Scala in Milan.

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Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson

Caroline Atkinson was a keen student of natural history and an accomplished botanical illustrator. She was also a populariser of science and published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Horticultural Magazine”. Over 800 of Atkinson’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.

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