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Elizabeth Kempthorne was a long-standing member of the Otago art community now resident in the Hawkes Bay. Hills in North Otago, Hakataramea Valley 1977 was exhibited at the Otago Art Society and shows the dry Hakataramea Valley in a style now very reminiscent of that period. The painting contrasts the geomorphology of the hills and the rectilinear constructions imposed on the landscape by human intervention. Look carefully at its finely modulated colouring. “Very early on I knew the painting for me, was not about putting a photographic image on a canvas, but rather about a painting’s ability to communicate an emotion or a feeling — (my first exhibition Red Roads, was an amateurish but passionate expression of frustration). Also that inspiration came from other stimuli than, as well as, the surrounding landscape – its forms and brilliant intense colours absorbed consciously and unconsciously.” https://www.lizkempthorne.com/