TRENWITH, MARJORIE (1903-2000)

“Mixed Bunch” (c.1940)
Watercolour & gouache
47 x 38cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Trenwith was a respected New Zealand Modernist & Silversmith. She was born in Cambridge (N.Z.) and during the war studied at the Otahuhu Technical Institute. She studied painting with Sydney Goldsmith and silversmithing with his wife Millicent. Following the family's move from Otahuhu to Paritai drive, Marjorie turned the back porch into her workshop where she produced pieces for her family and as wedding gifts for friends. Even though she exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts, she was never interested in exhibiting or selling but in the 1950s her work was featured in an exhibition at the Auckland Art gallery. The London Guild of silver issued her with her own stamp and sterling mark.