Gretchen Albrecht: The grande dame of NZ art on her legacy – and ‘selling her children’

Gretchen Albrecht at Piha in West Auckland: “Painting is an essential part of me being a human.” Photo / Nikki Barrett

When the artist Gretchen Albrecht was at Auckland’s Mt Roskill Primary School, “There were great end-of-the-year sort of grand marches and fancy dress things. And I went as a daffodil.” Her “darling” mother made her a costume out of yellow and green crêpe paper, “with petals and a little cap

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