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Rei HamonCBE
Born	Francis Rei Paul Hamon (1919-12-17)17 December 1919 Gisborne, New Zealand
Died	16 August 2008(2008-08-16) (aged 88) Thames, New Zealand
Occupation	Painter
Style	Pointillism
Spouse	Maia Pohoiwi Weti
Parent(s)	Henry Hixon Hamon Edith Violet Osborne

Francis Rei Paul Hamon CBE (17 December 1919 – 16 August 2008) was a New Zealand landscape artist. In 1976, his lithograph Jewels of Okarito was presented to Queen Elizabeth II by the New Zealand Government on the occasion of a state visit.

Hamon was born in 1919 the son of a white mother and a part-Maori father and grew up in Gisborne, New Zealand.

Career

Utilizing a self-taught style of pointillism, Hamon's familiarity with the flora and fauna of the bush grew from the time that he worked splitting posts for sheep pens in the forests of the Urewera area.

Hamon was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to art, in the 1981 New Year Honours. In 2010, a documentary on Hamon premiered, Rei Hamon: Man of Nature.

Personal life

Hamon was the oldest of fourteen children and the father of fourteen more. Hamon was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

See also

• Chuck Close
• Henri-Edmond Cross

References

1. Infanger, Garrick. "Rei Hamon: Pointillism in the New Zealand Bush", The Krakens, 26 June 2015. Retrieved on 9 April 2021.
2. "No. 48469". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1980. p. 40.
3. Haddock, Sharon. "LDS Film Fest organizer is expecting thousands", Deseret News, 1979. Retrieved on 9 April 2021.
4. Oman, Richard G. "Rei Hamon", Church News, 22 September 2021. Retrieved on 9 April 2021.

Further reading

• Rei Hamon, Artist of the New Zealand Bush, p. 164.
• Rei Hamon, "Jewels of Okarito," printed by The Thames Star Co., Ltd., Thames, New Zealand.
• "Francis Rei Paul Hamon - Obituary". The Dominion Post. 21 August 2008. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017.
• Oman, Richard G. (1992), "Artists, Visual", in Ludlow, Daniel H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 70–73, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140

External links

• James C. Christensen Greenwich Workshop Biography

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