Adrienne Wright - Painting Retrospective
214b Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa, Auckland
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Growing up in Takapuna, near Hauraki corner there was a lot of native bush and Adrienne spent many hours as a child playing there, this is where she developed her love of the bush. Her family moved to the country in Cuthill, south of Albany and brother, Adrienne and her sister enjoyed their five acre block of manuka. Adrienne has always had a fascination for Manuka ever since and many of her paintings feature manuka.
One of her earliest teachers was aunt Wintrop Bartleet, an accomplished watercolour artist who mixed blue, yellow and a touch of red and then said "there is the colour for a pine tree". This was the start of Adrienne's fascination with colour. Other significant tutors in her life were Toss Woollaston when her and her husband were living in Taranaki and actually lived in the house where Toss grew up. Later Adrienne attended art lessons at the Auckland Society of Arts where two of her tutors were Don Binney and Roy Delgano.
Adrienne is happiest painting and refers to De Kooning who said, "it is difficult to start and even more difficult to stop".
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