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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

LE MONT PEEL  PEINT PAR  AUSTEN DEAN



AUSTEEN DEAN (1915-2011) Mount Peel (1,743 m ) Nouvelle-Zélande

AUSTEN DEAN (1915-2011)
Mount Peel (1,743 m )
Nouvelle-Zélande


La montagne
Le mont Peel, souvent appelé Big Mount Peel (1 743 m , est une montagne située dans le sud de Canterbury, en Nouvelle-Zélande. Il se compose de trois sommets : Big Mt Peel (1 743m ), Middle Mt Peel (1 83 m) et Little Mt Peel/Huatekerekere (1 311m ). Le mont Peel appartient au ministère de la Conservation et à la station du mont Peel. Il se trouve juste au sud de la rivière Rangitata et à 22 kilomètres au nord-ouest de Géraldine.
La réserve panoramique du parc forestier Peel est la plus grande de la région de Geraldine, couvrant 769 hectares autour de Little Mt Peel/Huatekerekere.
La forêt voisine a été nommée par Francis Jollie, qui s'est installé dans la région à la fin de 1853. Jollie avait nommé la forêt en l'honneur de Sir Robert Peel, le Premier ministre britannique du Royaume-Uni décédé en 1850, l'année de la fondation de Cantorbéry. La montagne et la communauté voisine de Peel Forest ont également pris le nom de Peel.
Le mont Peel et la forêt Peel environnante contiennent de nombreux sentiers de randonnée bien entretenus et populaires.
La faune et la flore. La forêt Peel regorge d’une flore et d’une faune uniques. Les trois plus grands arbres de la forêt Peel appartiennent à la famille des Podocarpaceae, une famille très ancienne remontant à plus de 100 millions d'années. Les trois grands arbres sont le kahikatea (pin blanc), le tōtara et le matai (pin noir).

 Le peintre
Alister Austen Deans était un peintre néo-zélandais, connu pour ses paysages et pour son travail d' artiste de guerre pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Né à Christchurch dans une famille d'agriculteurs bien connue, Deans s'est intéressé à l'art dès l'adolescence. Il a étudié les beaux-arts à la Canterbury College School of Art avant de retourner travailler dans la ferme familiale. Il s'est porté volontaire pour le 2e corps expéditionnaire néo-zélandais au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et a été affecté au 20e bataillon. En 1941, il est nommé assistant artiste de guerre, sous la direction de Peter McIntyre. Cependant, il a été blessé lors de la bataille de Crète et est devenu prisonnier de guerre. Autorisé à peindre pendant sa captivité, son travail était un témoignage utile de la vie d'un prisonnier de guerre. Après la guerre, il étudie la peinture à Sir John Cass Technical Institute en Angleterre avant de s'installer à Canterbury. Il fut un peintre prolifique de la région des collines de Canterbury. Il a été fait Officier de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique en 1995. Au cours de sa carrière de peintre.



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Sunday, February 24, 2019

MOUNT PEEL BY EDWYN TEMPLE


EDWYN TEMPLE (1835-1921)
Mount Peel   (1,743 m  - 5,719 ft) 
 New Zealand 
 
In Canterbury plain, New Zealand ( Mt Peel)
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetū

The mountain 
Mount Peel  often refered as Big Mount Peel   (1,743 m  - 5,719 ft) is a mountain located in South Canterbury, New Zealand. It consists of three peaks :  Big Mt Peel,  (1,743 m  - 5,719 ft),  Middle Mt Peel (1,583 m or 5,194 ft) and Little Mt Peel/Huatekerekere (1,311 m or 4,301 ft).
Mt Peel is  owned by the Department of Conservation and Mt Peel Station. It lies just south of the Rangitata river and is 22 kilometres (14 mi) north-west of Geraldine.
The Peel Forest Park Scenic Reserve is the largest in the Geraldine area, covering 769 hectares (1,900 acres) around Little Mt Peel/Huatekerekere.
The nearby forest was named by Francis Jollie, who settled in the area in late 1853. Jollie had named the forest after Sir Robert Peel, the British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who had died in 1850, the year that Canterbury was founded. The mountain and the nearby community of Peel Forest also took Peel's name.
Mt Peel and the surrounding Peel Forest contain many well maintained and popular walking tracks.
Flora and fauna. There is lots of unique flora and fauna in Peel Forest. The three largest trees in Peel Forest belong to the family Podocarpaceae, a very ancient family going back in time more than 100 million years. The three large trees are kahikatea (white pine), tōtara, and mataī (black pine).
There are at least ten species of native bird occur in the forest including bellbird, silvereye, tomtit, rifleman, grey warbler, kererū, fantail, silvereye, shining cuckoo and longtailed cuckoo. There are also many lizards including the jeweled gecko and McCann's skink.

The artist 
 Edwyn Temple, or 'The Captain' as he was referred to by his friends and family, was born in England in 1835, the son of Lieutenant Colonel John Temple and the grandson of Grenville Temple-Temple 9th Baronet of Stowe.  Educated at Rugby School, he entered the military services in 1853. During a brief period in Italy a relative, Princess Pondalfina, recognised his ability and engaged a tutor to teach him the rudiments of painting.
Temple was ensigned in 1854 and became a Captain in the 55th Foot (Westmoreland) Regiment in 1858. He later served in the Crimea and in India from 1864 to 1866. By that time he had married and the first of a family of nine children had been born. It was more than nine years after retiring from the army that he decided to emigrate with his wife and family to New Zealand, arriving in Lyttelton on 25 October 1879.
Within a very short time of his arrival, he was established and developed a network of ex-military friends in Christchurch. Some of these were among the group that got together in June 1880 to form the Canterbury Society of Arts. Temple's role in its formation cannot be overstated and, in acknowledgment of this, he was elected to the key role of Secretary/Treasurer of the Society.
In 1882 he moved to Geraldine to a property, 'Castlewood', which he had purchased the previous year. There he lived and farmed for almost three decades, a Justice of the Peace from 1883, but mostly concentrating on painting before retiring to live in Timaru in the 1900s.
There is no question that Temple had an inner drive. He was a compulsive sketcher who drew on any piece of paper readily at hand as the mood took him; letters, ledgers, telegrams, envelopes, even wrapping paper were all targets for his pen, pencil or brush. His imagination was fertile and, coupled with a sardonic wit, resulted in many lively and amusing drawings and paintings. Though he was not considered to be a professional artist in the accepted sense, he was serious in his endeavours with painting and his approach was nothing short of professional. To have spent the time to produce such a quantity of work, of which those in this exhibition are only a small representation, shows that he was not just engaged in a diverting pastime.
Between 1880 and 1892, which was his most active period as an artist in New Zealand, Temple made many trips over the South Island with his relative and friend James Dupré Lance of Horsley Down Station. He also travelled with the government Surveyor John H. Baker. It was during these trips that he made sketches that were later developed into more major paintings, many of which he regularly showed at either the Canterbury Society of Arts, or the Otago Art Society annual exhibitions where they often received favourable notice from contemporary reviewers.
Temple also exhibited beyond New Zealand, first in 1880 in Melbourne, then in 1886 at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition London. He was also represented at the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition in Wellington in 1885 and the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held in Dunedin in 1889–90.
He made return trips to England in 1892 and 1909 during which he made many landscape paintings.
Although the landscape was dominant in Temple's work, it was the alpine region of the South Island that particularly interested him and made him recognised in Canterbury as a specialist in this genre. Lakes Wanaka and Wakatipu were of special interest and these locales formed the backdrop to his imagery. From an early age Temple had visited Switzerland and the Lake District where several of his uncles had established themselves as gentry around Lake Ullswater and, in a sense, he had found a New Zealand equivalent to this experience. At the time of his death in 1920 Temple had amassed a considerable body of work that included paintings and drawings from his imagination that were pure fantasy as well as landscape, caricature and narrative subjects. Today, many hundreds of works are held by Temple's descendants scattered throughout the world but he is also represented in collections held by the National Library of Australia, Canberra; Hocken Library, Dunedin; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; Centre of Contemporary Art (incorporating Canterbury Society of Arts) Christchurch; as well as the Robert McDougall Art Gallery.

=> Courstesy Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetū


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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 


Saturday, January 28, 2023

MITRE PEAK ET MONT PEMBROKE PEINTS PAR LAURENCE WILLIAM WILSON


LAURENCE WILLIAM WILSON (1850-1912) Mitre Peak / Rahotu (1,683m - 5,522 ft) Mont Pembroke ( 2,015m) Nouvelle-Zélande   In Milford Sound with Mount Pembroke Peak and Mitre Peak/Rahotu 1901, watercolor on Bristol board- South Coast Antiques & Gallery

 

LAURENCE WILLIAM WILSON (1850-1912)
Mitre Peak / Rahotu (1,683m - 5,522 ft)
Mont Pembroke ( 2,015m)
Nouvelle-Zélande


In Milford Sound with Mount Pembroke Peak and Mitre Peak/Rahotu 1901, watercolor on Bristol board- South Coast Antiques & Gallery


Les montagnes
Mitre Peak/ Rahotu (1 683 m) est une montagne emblématique de Nouvelle-Zélande, située sur la rive du Milford Sound (South Island). C'est l'un des sommets les plus photographiés du pays. C'est la forme particulière évoquant un couvre chef d'évêque chrétien, la mitre, qui a donné son nom à ce sommet. Il a été nommé ainsi par le capitaine John Lort Stokes du HMS Acheron. Le sommet jaillit  du rivage de Milford Sound, dans le parc national de Fiordland, au sud-ouest de l'île du Sud, offrant un spectacle époustouflant. La montagne s'élève presque verticalement à partir de la surface de l'eau qui est en réalité un fjord. Le pic est un ensemble étroitement groupé de cinq pics, Mitre Peak n'étant même pas le plus haut. Selon le point de vue ou l'on se place, Mitre Peak  peut apparaître comme un seul pic. Milford Sound fait partie de Te Wahipounamu, un site inscrit du patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO. Le seul accès routier à Milford Sound se fait par la State Highway 94,  l'une des routes les plus pittoresques de Nouvelle-Zélande. Mitre Peak est difficile à gravir et peu de gens le font. La première tentative a été faite en 1883, mais a été avortée en raison du mauvais temps. La tentative suivante eut lieu le 13 mars 1911 par JR Dennistoun de Peel Forest. Il y a six voies jusqu'à Mitre Peak, et la plupart des grimpeurs commencent par prendre un bateau pour Sinbad Bay. 

Le mont Pembroke, ou Mount Pembroke en anglais, est un sommet de Nouvelle-Zélande.  Il culmine à 2 015 mètres d'altitude au nord de Milford Sound, un fjord du parc national de Fiordland qui baigne sa base.

Le peintre
Laurence William Wilson émigre à Auckland en 1877 puis voyage beaucoup avant de s'installer à Dunedin en 1884. Il peint à la fois à l'huile et à l'aquarelle, devient compagnon de peinture de George O'Brien puis  professeur. L'un de ses élèves fut 'artiste Dunedin Alfred O'Keefe. En 1895, LW Wilson avec Grace Joel, Alfred O'Keefe, Jane Wimperis et Girolami Nerli formnt le Easel Club, émanation artistique de  l'établissement de Dunedin, qui offrait un programme de cours spéciaux et l'introduction d'une femme modèle professionnelle pour le nu.  En 1904, LW Wilson quitta Dunedin pour Melbourne où il passa 5 mois sur une peinture commandée de la ville avant de partir pour l'Angleterre, retournant finalement en Nouvelle-Zélande via l'Inde et l'Afrique. Il a exposé avec la Canterbury Society of Arts en 1882 et l'Otago Art Society entre 1994 et 1904. Son travail a été inclus dans l'exposition NZ and South Seas Dunedin 1889-90 et à l'exposition St Louis en 1904. LW Wilson est représenté dans le collections de toutes les grandes galeries publiques de Nouvelle-Zélande.

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