Whanganui artist Pauline Allomes is delighted to win the Peoples' Choice category in the Waimarino Art Awards.
Allomes' painting Ohakune Magic sold for $1800 and is currently on display at the Whanganui Fine Arts Gallery at 17 Taupo Quay.
"It is an Ohakune scene," says Allomes. "It is a scene from Jubilee Park behind the info centre there."
Allomes often embeds environmental messages into her paintings and graphite works using a technique called micrography.
"For this one I just wanted to capture the beauty of the bush and the light and shade.