Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand’s most internationally famous author. She was a writer of short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews, and changed the way the short story was written in the English language. She was a rebel and a modernist who lived her short life of 34 years to the full.

‘’The distant mountains are silver and blue, and the sky first faint rose, then shaded into pale amber’’

Kaye Donachie Sighs of Amber , 2018 oil on linen