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Kōrero: Light

‘Taranaki’

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‘Taranaki’

In 1929 an English immigrant to New Zealand, Christopher Perkins, saw the ‘marvellous light’ as the key to painting in the country. Two years later he used this approach in his oil painting of Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont) with a dairy factory in the foreground.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

by Christopher Edward Perkins

Permission of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Light – Light and the arts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/7702/taranaki (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.