Nancy Tichborne is a New Zealand watercolour artist with an international following. Born in Levin in 1942, she received a scholarship from Otago Girls High School to train in the United Kingdom - at the St Martins School of Art in London. After this she lived and worked in Great Britain and Hong Kong. Coming back to New Zealand in 1969, she spent several happy years working as a landscape designer in Rotorua. Currently Nancy lives on a 4 hectare (11 acre) rural property on Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand, where she and her husband Bryan have a large garden. In 2011 the New Zealand Gardens Trust designated this garden a Garden of Significance. Nancy is probably best known for the annual calendars she and Bryan published for 25 years. These featured mainly floral and cat subjects but also included fly fishing and vineyard themes. Nancy has put out three instructional dvds/video tapes on watercolours and has been involved in ten books, both as illustrator and writer. Over 500 people have attended the watercolour workshops she ran for some years. In addition she has illustrated four stamp issues - commissioned by the postal authorities of Bhutan, Pitcairn Islands and New Zealand. Nancys style of watercolours is unique... Her uncompromising technical ability and the way she captures the effects of light on her subjects, has made her one of the worlds leading watercolorists. Her work has universal appeal and has found favour in many countries. In May 2007, Nancy was appointed Patron of Watercolour New Zealand... a post she was honoured to accept. I cant find a link that shows a thumbnail, but heres a link you can click: watercolours.co.nz/irises.htm
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