Barbara Strathdee Artist & Author
The Seventies
Painted in my Trieste studio during the 1970s, these are portraits of friends and family in New Zealand. By this time I had lived in London and Italy for ten years.
The portraits are an indication of homesickness. I was alternating between series of abstract paintings and my search for a way to paint figures, with influences ranging from Renaissance to English Pop Art.
All works are painted from photographs.
