RHONA HASZARD
Rhona Haszard was born in Thames in 1901, and her family lived in Auckland, Christchurch, Hokitika and Invercargill before, at age eighteen, she enrolled at Canterbury College School of Art, to work with fellow students Ngaio Marsh, Evelyn Page, Rata Lovell-Smith and Olivia Spencer Bower, where she established a promising reputation.
Her marriage in 1922 to artist/teacher Ronald McKenzie, was ended by an elopement with Englishman Leslie Greener with whom she left for France in 1926, where her manner of painting changed. Her Post-Impressionist style rapidly brought international recognition. Her work was shown in the Paris Salon of 1927, and in London she participated in a number of significant exhibitions. In Cairo she was shown at the Galerie Paul, and in Alexandria she had a survey exhibition, and a final show that opened the night before her shocking death at the age of thirty.
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