Moray Gallery

Marilynn Webb (1937-2021)

An outstanding artist and art educator, Marilynn Webb gained international stature as a print-maker early in her career. Working as an art adviser in Northland and Auckland she created memorable images that were instantly recognisable as coming from her hand.

Less well-known are her pastel drawings, a development in her work after she moved to Dunedin in 1974 to take up a Frances Hodgkin Fellowship. She has created several brilliant series based on New Zealand's southern wilderness areas: Lake Mahinerangi, the Ida Valley, Fiordland and Stewart Island in particular. Her work makes us aware that we are always in the landscape, and draws us into the environmental and social issues surrounding it.

Webb's work has been exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and internationally in Australia, United States, India, Japan, Yugoslavia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. She has lectured in printmaking at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art since 1988 and her students include many of New Zealand's interesting new artists. In 2000 she became an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for her contribution to printmaking in New Zealand.

(from Otago University Press).

Works

Doubtful Sound, 2018 $2150.00 Going Through Fiordland, Doubtful Sound, 2018 $2150.00 Doubtful Sound, 2018 $2150.00 Summer Storm, Lake Mahinerangi, 2006 $910.00