(b. 1951)
La Moana (Ocean Current) 1974
Oil on canvas
545mm x 550mm (framed)
Elizabeth Grainger grew up in Katikati, attended Tauranga Girls’ High School and graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Elam Art School, University of Auckland in 1972. After many years painting and owning galleries in Australia, she returned to New Zealand in 2016. Zeus Gallery, Tauranga, hosted a fifty year retrospective exhibition, “The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Kyle Grainger” in 2018.
Of European descent, Grainger was inspired by Maori traditions and between 1971-1983, created paintings that referenced Maori motifs and iconography. In 1983 she shifted focus and began to explore her own ancestral connections, adopting Celtic signs and symbols in her art.
Artwork purchased from the Treasured Art Auction, Tauranga