Pauline Bellamy

Pauline Bellamy is a committed artist with over fifty years of experience. Her confident, prolific practice has seen her work shown widely and held in numerous collections.  She began her career while living in Queenstown, after moving there in the 1970’s.

Influenced by earlier New Zealand landscape painters like Toss Woollaston and inspired by the German expressionist landscape paintings she saw while travelling in Europe. She has continued this tradition in her own way, working off drawings from numerous trips to the mountains of the southern regions, developing a passion for the landforms of this unique area.

Pauline also works with etching mediums using architectural and figurative subjects, including etchings of musicians, skiers, street life and wildlife always preferring to work in a loose gestural style.

She has gained a reputation as an expressive painter of South Island landscape, figures, portraits and etchings. Bellamy celebrates the unassuming, lesser-known side of the New Zealand character with a light, observational perspective that is distinctly hers.  In 2018 she ventured on a tour of Alaska and was struck by the beauty and juxtaposition of the buildings in the towns, and vastness of the glaciers.