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Remembering New Zealand Artist Rei Hamon

American art blogger, Garrick Infanger, wrote about New Zealand artist Rei Hamon (1919-2008) recently on his blog. 

Mr Infanger wrote: "Rei Hamon is one of the most accomplished artists in Church history, but also one of the least known. 

"He was born in 1919 the son of a white mother and a part-Maori father and grew up in Gisborne, on New Zealand’s North Island. He passed away in 2008. 

"Hamon was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to art in 1981."

Read more at Garrick Infanger's blog and at Hamon Arts NZ.

Image courtesy of Hamon Arts NZ.

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