Artist to stage Christchurch scenes at the George

Media release – January 5, 2009

NZ’s top landscape artist Hannah Riden to stage major Christchurch iconic scenes exhibition at the George in March

Christchurch’s top award-winning landscape artist Hannah Riden will stage a major Christchurch scenes exhibition at the George Hotel in March.

Her works will include Christ’s College, Cup day at Riccarton, Worcester Street and the Cathedral, the Port Hills, New Brighton, punting the Avon, Colombo Street, the Estuary, the CD brewery and Sol Square.

Riden was named the top landscape artist in New Zealand at the 2008 New Zealand Art Awards in Tauranga. This was a remarkable achievement for a young artist who had only been painting fulltime for three years. The award success at Tauranga has only increased her status and her works are becoming greatly sought after.

She earned a bachelor's degree at Oxford University, gained her Masters at Edinburgh and was halfway through her PhD thesis on molecular biology at Massey in Palmerston North when she dropped all her studies to focus on her brushes, paints and canvass.

Riden has been invited to become artist-in-residence at the plush George boutique hotel by the banks of the Avon on Hagley Park during the 2009 Ellerslie Flower Show. She and her works will begin residency at The George from March 6.

Later in the year Riden will launch a second major public exhibition with winery, hot pool and whale landscape scenes from the Alpine Pacific region of Waipara, Hanmer and Kaikoura.

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