A sixth generation New Zealander, Adele Earnshaw was born in Hastings and lived in Warkworth before immigrating with her family to the U.S. where she lived for more than 35 years.   Making Sedona her home away from home, Adele worked as an artist from the East Coast to the West as she painted landscapes, wildlife, especially birds, as well as animal portraits.  Adele returned to New Zealand where she is now painting not only water scenes on location, but paintings from her love of  the land and the wildlife she has grown to know so well. 

 

Adele’s paintings have been exhibited at the Natural History Museum in New York and have toured Japan and Sweden with museum exhibitions. The artist was selected to design the first three stamps for the New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Stamp Program. In 2000 she was invited to participate in the Ecoart Conference and Exhibition in Taiwan where her work was exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in Taipei. In 2003, Adele was selected as a judge for the prestigious Federal Duck Stamp Competition held at the Department of Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service in Washington D.C.

 

Adele is represented by Mountain Trails Gallery Sedona as well as galleries across the U.S. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Her book, ‘Painting the Things You Love in Watercolor’ was released by North Light Publications in 2002.

 

Although her subject matter still includes wildlife, landscapes, often from memory, have become a major focus.