“I did not hesitate to cross the stile when I found myself in a large fern clearing, the spot I stood on was high ground…” This is the last clear line of an entry from Sarah Harris’s notebook, as she describes getting lost in the forest. The next page is filled with cross-writing, the writing Read More…

Curator Sarah McClintock of the Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū has discovered a watercolour drawing that could be the latest-known work by Emily Harris. The drawing of pink-flowering mānuka with an artist’s palette and fern vines is part of  the Nelson Suter Art Society Gift Book for Mrs JA Topliss. The book contains Read More…

Nelson researcher Anne McFadgen got talking online to Harris descendant Owen Jones about his family tree. Owen forwarded images of a set of bound letters by Edwin and Sarah Harris, explaining that the letters were copies of lost originals written between 1844 and 1854. He also sent a PDF of transcriptions of the letters made Read More…