FRANCES HODGKINS

 

SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

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Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) was a New Zealand-based Landscape painter. She had art education in the local Dunedin School of Art. She also became an art teacher in England for a while. She frequently visited Europe and her stay in England remained most important one.

Frances  was a modernist drawing simple abstract forms. She used the forms to build up the space and than exploited them with contracting colours. She, in her painting handled many different subjects. Her handling of people (including local Maoris) in groups and as single portraits are remarkable.

Frances had a professional life spanning fifty-six years, and she was a prolific artist. She used oil paints, charcoal and watercolour. She mixed the conventions of still life painting landscape painting.

 

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