Felicity West
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Felicity West was born in Auckland in 1945 and trained at ElamSchool of Fine Arts in the 1960's. She has had a prolific career asa printmaker, exhibiting both internationally and within NewZealand, and working with psychodrama and related art therapies.West has lectured in printmaking at the ASA and AUT art schools formany years, and has lived in Helensville since 1969.
West works in both oil painting and etching, and the West Coastenvironment - with its windswept landscapes, tidal flats and the shifting sands of the Kaipara - has long been the core of her work.It is through the dramatic skylines and the harmonious forms ofthese landscapes that West communicates the strength andtimelessness of her environment to the viewer.