Pam Vernon | Landscape Painter & Photographer

I'm a fine art acrylic landscape artist and photographer, living in Northland NZ.  

From Whanganui, NZ, I am of Māori, English and Scottish descent (Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Maru Taranaki, Clan Ross). These cultures all inform my work.

My work features landscapes, referencing issues of identity, in particular assimilation and the reality of standing between two cultures. With land being integral to survival, this inevitably leads one to the NZ Land Wars, the subsequent destruction of environment via colonization processes, and the effects of the latter on indigenous peoples both in NZ and globally. I endeavour to weave all of these issues together. They are all, in reality, interrelated.

I graduated from Massey University's Toioho Ki Āpiti School of Māori Visual Arts program in 2018 (Hons) and the Post Graduate Diploma of MVA in 2020. In 1993 I received a Bachelor of Social Work and Social Policy at the same University.

Due to a prolonged period of health issues I've only just begun to paint again.