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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

Tree

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Rita Angus painted this watercolour while staying at her sister’s house in Greymouth on the West Coast. When it rained for several days, she sat at the front window and sketched the cherry tree in the garden.

Angus may have identified with this solitary tree, about to break into bud with the arrival of spring. In the same week, she wrote: ‘I am very fortunate, it is as though my life is in two, I am beginning the second half, with a little wisdom from experience and knowledge, and a little genius. I am free to flower, if only for a few years.’