Doris Lusk, 'Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula' - Print - wholesale Gallipoli respectable approach

respectable approach

neither her distinctive voice nor her almost 200 surviving images have been heard or seen in any quantity outside of archival or online spaces

in places you would never think to look

and they also shared an unusually wide-ranging interest in art

About the illustrator

Doris Lusk, 'Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula' - Print - wholesale Gallipoli respectable approachIn the late 1940s Doris Lusk rented a disused farmhouse at Duvauchelle. Located at the head of Akaroa Harbour on Banks Peninsula, the house was a destination at holiday times and weekends for Lusk, her husband Dermott Holland and their young family, as well as a gathering place for artistic and literary friends. Lusk took the distinctive forms of the Banks Peninsula landscape as her subject matter in a number of works over the next few years,