Katherine Airini VANE

Mrs Katherine Airini VANE The Hon
aka Kitty, K. AIRINI VANE
1891
1965

The only daughter of Captain Gilbert Mair, Kitty Vane came to England from New Zealand to study painting in London, and with Lamorna BIRCH in Cornwall before the outbreak of WWI, remaining until the 1930s. During that stay she exhibited at NAG in December of 1926.

She travelled widely, returning many times to New Zealand before settling at Matapouri, near Whangarei, becoming best known for landscape paintings. She specialised in South Island mountain and snow scenes, elements of which can be seen in her films. Signed : Hon Mrs Katherine Airini Vane

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Painter of landscapes

works and access

 

exhibitions

NAG December 1926

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misc further info

 

references

Cornishman 8th Dec 1926

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p289)

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