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Central Otago  1940	Marjorie Marshall  1938-39/1943	Self-portrait (Wanaka)  1939
Central Otago landscape  1940	Landscape (Wanaka)  1939	Landscape  1939
Winter, Wanaka  1939	Lake Wanaka  1938	Untitled landscape  1939
Mountains and Foothills  1939	Mount Maud  1938	Waipara Gorge, North Canterbury  1939
Hop kilns, Motueka  1941	Wainui, Mid-Summer, Banks Peninsula  1943	Haycocks, Wainui  1943
The artist’s cottage, Clifton  circa 1945	Willow tree  1940	Tree  1943
Tree in blossom  1946	Storm  1945	Passionflower  1943
Irises  1942	Nasturtiums  1939	Crocusses  1944
Aquilegia  1953	Carnations  1945	Karaka berries  1945
Irises  1945

Lake Wanaka

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Rita Angus painted this tranquil watercolour on her first trip to Wanaka. It shows the influence of the Japanese art that she admired – in the clear outlines, blocks of colour, and graceful brushwork of the willow tree.

Angus painted her watercolours of Central Otago with great sensitivity and skill. She remembered the period as one of almost effortless work, remarking eight years later, ‘My vitality and strength then astonish me now.’