New Zealand: Ourangi and Pukeokahu

Central New Zealand Landscape

Ourangi (the flat blue hill to the left) and Pukeokahu to the right with the eastern Central North Island landscape in the foreground.

Painting #3141
Size: 101 x 76 cm
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

This Watercolour sketch of Ourangi and Pukeokahu was painted from the road to Pukeokahu and is a much loved view from my childhood.

As children we often climbed Pukeokahu with the family who lived there. My mother took sultana cake and a thermos flask with tea. Every time we climbed Pukeokahu Hill we decided that this was the ‘best sultana cake we had ever eaten’.