Beech

Bernadette Parsons says of her work, “Watercolour is my passion; it has the ability to showcase my experiences and emotional response to what I see around me, in particular when painting en plein air. Over the years my aim has been not to challenge the medium but to work in a partnership with it to celebrate its spontaneity, transparency and excitement. I have successfully exhibited overseas and throughout New Zealand; a positive sign that watercolour has retained a strong place in today’s art world from our early NZ topographical painters to now, and something that, through my art, I am trying to encourage.”