BIOGRAPHY.
Nancy Margaret Tichborne (née
Keedwell; 27 August 1942 ? 10 February 2023) was a New Zealand watercolour artist. She specialised in paintings of flowers; her work has appeared on calendars, diaries, cards and postage stamps in New Zealand and internationally.
Nancy was born in Levin on 27 August 1942 to Peggy (née Watkins) and Harvey Keedwell, and grew up in Hawera. She was the second of three daughters; her sisters were Mary Browne, a cookbook writer, and the food anthropologist Helen Leach. In 1952, the family moved to Dunedin and Nancy attended Otago Girls' High School. On leaving high school, she went to London on a scholarship and studied art at St Martin's School of Art from 1960 to 1962. In 1964, she returned to Dunedin for a short time and her work was included in an exhibition there. She then went on to work in Hong Kong as a fashion illustrator for the
South China Morning Post and a fashion designer for an American fashion house between 1964 and 1965, before spending the next five years in England and Wales.
In 1963, Nancy met Bryan Tichborne ? at that time a soldier undertaking officer training at Sandhurst ? in Killarney, Ireland, and the couple married in Hong Kong in 1965. They had three sons.
In 1970, the Tichborne family returned to New Zealand and settled in Rotorua. Nancy worked part-time as an art teacher and collaborated with her sisters Helen Leach and Mary Browne on a series of cookbooks, providing the watercolour artwork for them. In 1984, Nancy and her husband Bryan founded the New Zealand Calendar Company, and started producing calendars with a New Zealand focus. Their first calendar featured fishing flies, and later titles featured flowers and cats. Their 39th and last calendar was produced in 2010.
In 1994, the couple moved to a property at French Farm, near Akaroa in Canterbury. Nancy established a garden there that in 2011 was designated a Garden of Significance by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. The couple subsequently moved to a smaller property in Akaroa. In 1997, Nancy designed a series of postage stamps and a first day cover for New Zealand Post depicting vineyards of New Zealand. Her artwork was also used on stamps of Bhutan and the Pitcairn Islands. In the 1990s, Nancy released a series of DVDs on watercolour technique.In 2007, Nancy Tichborne was appointed patron of Watercolour New Zealand. She remained in that position for 12 years.
Nancy died at her home in Akaroa on 10 February 2023, at the age of 80.
Source: Wikipedia,
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Chris Korte's New Zealand Genealogy Project
1942 - 2023 (80 years)
Has 24 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
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