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Fog, Hawke’s Bay  1966-68	Sheds, Hawke’s Bay  1967	Taradale, Hawke’s Bay  1963-64
In Hawke’s Bay  circa 1968	Churches, Hawke’s Bay  1962-63	Scrub burning, Northern Hawke’s Bay  1965
Hawke’s Bay sketchbook  circa 1965	Fish V  1969	AD 1968  1968
Hawke’s Bay sketchbook  circa 1967	Napier aquarium and Hawke’s Bay sketchbook  circa 1968

Fish V

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In 1957, the construction company owned by Rita Angus’s father built a new aquarium in Napier. In the following years, she often visited it with her sketchbook, attracted by its colourful and often bizarre species.
 
Angus painted a series of ‘fish’ works in the late 1960s – carefully designed pictures in which every creature seems to have its own personality. She made some of these works in Napier while staying with her parents. Once, her mother pinned up blue curtain fabric to help her create a mysterious underwater effect in her picture.