The Duvauchelle Pub and Hills 1933

Rita Angus painted "The Duvauchelle Pub and Hills" with watercolour on paper. It is so delicate, like a memory of a place. You know, sometimes I start a painting, and I get into this push-and-pull with the image where things shift and emerge through trial, error, and intuition. I wonder if it was like that for Angus, too? Look at how she’s laid down these thin washes of color—blues and greens that make up the hills. They’re almost translucent! And how the buildings are rendered with such clean lines, anchoring the composition. I can imagine her standing there, brush in hand, trying to capture the light, the quiet, the essence of this scene. This piece, it's like a little poem, a quiet conversation across time. It's a reminder that painting is an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.