Canvassing the artists
The Geraldine district has long enticed artists to paint - not surprising, given its superb setting near the foothills of the Southern Alps and its proximity to the mountains themselves. The area is now home to several award-winning artists whose work encompasses a wide range of artistic styles.
Among the best known and best loved is landscape artist Austen Deans, who was a Second World War artist and is still painting regularly more than 50 years later. Deans, a member of Canterbury’s pioneering Deans family, has painted in locations as remote as Antarctica, and his New Zealand landscape paintings are still in huge demand. The Deans family (and there are several other artists in the family) are based at Peel Forest, a tiny settlement famed for its native forest and waterfalls.
In Geraldine itself are artists John Badcock, whose ever-changing painting styles have encompassed landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, botanicals and nudes, and Ben Woolcombe, yet another award-winning artist with a passion for paintings interpreting the land around him.
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