Rod Eales

Rod Eales is an artist based in Dunedin. Along with working on her art, Rod works as an early childhood teacher. She has been painting and exhibiting since 1980 when she completed a Diploma in Fine Arts at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.

Rod has tutored in painting and life drawing for many years and has been guest speaker/artist at various local art events. She has great success in both solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand and has been the recipient of the Fred O'Neil Medallion (Otago Art Society) and the Macallister Art Award (Anderson Park Gallery, Invercargill).

Rod's works are characteristically local landscapes - portrayed in delicately worked acrylics on board, or highly detailed ink on paper. She manages to capture the essence of the landscape and the atmosphere of the surrounding environment.

Gallery De Novo is proud to represent Rod's work which have a very strong following and sell to clients throughout New Zealand as well as to international buyers. A British client who traveled widely through out New Zealand purchased one of Rod's works and described it as "the best work [she had] seen that sums up the beauty and feeling of the unique New Zealand landscape".