Two Lakes on World Water Day
Here are two paintings of New Zealand Lakes for World Water Day.
The first is Lake Rotomahana made from a photograph taken in
1865, and before the massive Tarawera Eruption which took place on the 10th of June 1886.
Several villages were buried and 150 people died.
There were some portents of the forth coming eruption and I have tried
to capture the foreboding atmosphere.
The second one is of Lake Tarawera from Wairoa in 1873. Before the eruption a ghost
canoe was seen on the lake by one of the tour guides and bubbles of very fine
glass floated to the surface.
Both of these paintings were made from historic photographs, Mt Tarawera was blown
apart from the force of the eruption and the Pink and White Terraces which were an
important tourist attraction were destroyed.
All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2018
