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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

Passionflower

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This work has the freshness of a spontaneous sketch but was planned and painted with extraordinary attention to detail. The passionflower is framed with leaves and fronds, and the plain background helps to intensify its brilliant colour.

Rita Angus loved flowers and felt a special affinity with nature. She once quoted the advice to painters of Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer:

‘The life in nature makes known the truth of all these things, therefore gaze upon her intently, and do not deviate from her to follow your own opinion.’