Mark Hutchins (1963 - )

This Scottish-born painter and printmaker came to New Zealand in 1966 and studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts. He travelled in Italy in 1993.

He is represented in the James Wallace Collection, Auckland.

Rangihoua at the mouth of the Bay of Islands is the site where Samuel Marsden held the first Christmas service in New Zealand in 1814. It was the first place in New Zealand where there was prolonged early contact between Maori and Pakeha before British colonisation. It was the earliest Maori trading post and a significant economic centre after the then-Governor of Norfolk Island sent technology and animals there. Rangihoua chief Te Pahi met the senior New South Wales chaplain, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, in Port Jackson, and his successor, Ruatara, lived with the Marsden family in Parramatta while learning about European agriculture. The first mission in New Zealand, established in 1815, became the first long-term Pakeha settlement in the country. Hongi Hika followed Ruatara and, under his patronage, the missionary society set up another mission station at Kerikeri near Hongi's pa, Kororipo. Rangihoua is one of the foundation sites of modern, bi-cultural New Zealand.

("The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists, Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors" by Kate McGahey)

Clearly signed at lower left.

Professionally framed.

Size:
Frame = 545 mm wide x 445 mm high
Image = 356 mm wide x 246 mm high