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The life and work of NZ painter Frances Hodgkins. Reenactment of Hodgkins at work in her studio. “A painter of genius living in poverty” in London in 1942, aged 72. Letters reveal how she was torn between her career in Europe and her memories of home in New Zealand. Photographs of her and her family in New Zealand. Born 1869, she lived in Royal Terrace, Dunedin. Portraits of her family. Reenactment of an interview she gave to Vogue in 1944. Views of her paintings, and photographs of her life, as she tells her story.
Frances Hodgkins, like many other painters of her generation, left New Zealand and migrated to Europe in search of artistic fulfilment. Frances was trained at the Dunedin Art School and was later influenced by the Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli who introduced her to Impressionism. Her interest in light and its effects can be seen in many of her paintings.