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About Iris and her Art, her Creative Journey:
"I have dabbled in a variety of art, some time ago even pottery
was part of my life and some pieces made it to Wanaka from Leysin
in Switzerland... but my passion for painting rekindled when settling
in New Zealand towards the end of the last century. For a while,
the study of native plants, a newly discovered passion, took precedence
over art. Also, my body was still in alpine climbing mode and time
for painting was not so much available just yet.
During the Millennium year, we relocated from Aoraki Mt Cook village
to Wanaka to start our adventure biz.
ArtyIris has come out of the closet during Covid 2020 when more
paintings were created than ever before.
Greeting cards from some of my paintings got printed. A year later,
three of the original paintings are sold and therefore, the remaining
cards have become 'limited edition'.
My creations are mostly watercolour paintings though occasionally
I venture into mixed media, having dabbled in oil and acrylics.
The subjects of my paintings, drawings and sketches range from botanical
native plants through to landscapes and abstract, the rare structural
and a few bird paintings.
I have always wanted to create ‘Affordable Art’ and
sometimes I enjoy creating the frames for the paintings too. Second
hand frames are fun to find and I love using them as well, motto
reuse/recycle.
In particular, I love the pleinair painting excursions around beautiful
Wanaka and further afield and this media of watercolour suits me
perfectly for such excursions.
The 2020 covid year provided the exact chemical mixture needed to
catapult me into my new career as artist and I'm loving it."