Making art of it in Arrowtown
Mountain Scene July 18, 2021 In her happy place: Arrowtown artist Jenny Mehrtens amongst her works. PICTURE: SAM MEHRTENS Jenny Mehrtens jokes that art is her golf. In her comfortable Arrowtown gallery she tells PHILIP CHANDLER why she took up the brush, why she yearned to live here and why she has a globe, while also singing the praises of her family Hardly anyone better illustrates the joys of living and working in Arrowtown than successful artist Jenny Mehrtens. A painter whose signature work employs — appropriately for a town ‘born of gold’ — gold metal leaf, s...
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