Lines of Light (2002)
Lindis Pass, Central Otago
A2 digital colour print from
original colour slide
330 x 467 mm (image)
627 x 762 mm (matted)
Velvet Hills (2004)
Lindis Pass, Central Otago
A2 digital colour print
335 x 485 mm (image)
627 x 762 mm (matted)
Lindis Pass
A2 digital colour print
300 x 470 mm (image)
628 x 763 mm (matted)
Landscape at Tarras (2011)
Between Cromwell and Tarras
A3 digital colour print
215 x 340 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Cloud Cover - Ida Valley (2012)
Between Manuherikia Valley
& plains of Maniototo
Aged digital colour print
180 x 280 mm (image)
408 x 508 mm (matted)
Castle Rock
Aged digital colour print
182 x 272 mm (image)
405 x 507 mm (matted)
Central Otago
A3 digital colour print
232 x 348 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Hoar Frost at Ophir (1965)
Central Otago
A3 digital colour print from
original colour slide
242 x 353 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Autumn at Thurlby (1957)
Speargrass Flat, Central Otago
A2 digital colour print from
original colour slide
445 x 342 mm (image)
762 x 627 mm (matted)
Strath Taieri, Dunedin
A3 digital colour print
240 x 350 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
The Golden Hills
Maniototo
A3 digital colour print
238 x 360 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
(print with very large mat also available)
Two Trees (1954)
Maniototo
A3 digital B&W print from original
B&W historic photograph
233 x 340 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Lake Wakatipu (1952)
B&W digital print
(One of Matheson's favourite images.
Taken from the MV Earnslaw on its way
from Wakatipu towards greenstone Wharf
- the occasion - the first convention of the
South Island photographic societies.)
Autumn - Glendhu Bay (1989)
Wanaka, Central Otago
A2 digital print from
original colour slide
328 x 468 mm (image)
628 x 761 mm (matted)
Winter's Mantle (1995)
Lake Pearson, Canterbury
A2 digital colour print from
original colour slide
242 x 342 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Winter - Lake Pearson (1995)
Canterbury
A3 digital colourprint from
original colour slide
242 x 342 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Anchorage - Karitane (1948)
B&W limited edition digital print
No. 1 of 5, signed
378 x 282 mm (image)
568 x 470 mm (matted)
(this is Matheson's first professional
photograph and one of his personal favourites)
The Red Boat
From Carey's Bay, Dunedin
A3 digital colour print
244 x 351 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Fisherman's Wharf (1958)
Carey's Bay, Dunedin
A2 digital colour print from
original colour slide
330 x 467 mm (image)
627 x 762 mm (matted)
The Mooring, Deborah Bay
Dunedin
A3 B&W digital print
251 x 353 mm (image)
470 x 566 mm (matted)
Early Arrival
Harbour basin, Dunedin
A3 digital colour print
254 x 316 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
At First Light (1956)
Dunedin Harbour Basin
A3 digital colour print from
original colour transparency
228 x 347 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
(A2 matted print also available)
On the Esplanade (2010)
Saint Clair, Dunedin
A3 digital colour print
250 x 491 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Cargill's Castle (2003)
A2 digital colour print from
abstracted digital capture
307 x 454 mm (image)
392 x 510 mm (paper)
Autumn in the Woodlands (1995)
Town Belt Jubilee Park, Dunedin
A# & A2 Digital colour prints from
abstracted digital colour slide
A3 250 x 344 mm(image)
A2 335 x 482 mm (image)
Dance Macabre (2012)
Sandymount, Dunedin
A3 digital colour print
277 x 416 mm (image)
520 x 640 mm (matted)
Winter, Otago Peninsula
A3 digital colour print
252 x 378 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Departing Rain (2001)
Katiki North Otago (just N Shag Point)
A2 digital colour print
340 x 427 mm (image)
627 x 762 mm (matted)
(A3 print print also available)
Moeraki Boulder
Moeraki, North Otago
A2 digital colour print
300 x 470 mm (image)
627 x 760 mm (matted)
Sunflowers - Totara
North Otago
A3 digital colour print
257 x 274 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
(framed print also available)
The Birches (1995)
Tekapo, MacKenzie Country
A3 digital colour print from
original colour slilde
343 x 257 mm (image)
567 x 470 mm (matted)
Kahikatea - Forest Remnants
West Coast, South Island
A3 digital colour print
247 x 354 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
The Enchanted Forest (1995)
On the road to Milford Sound
A3 digital colour print from
abstracted original colour slide
358 x 278 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
(A2+ print also available)
West Coast Rain Forest (2004)
North of Haast
A3 digital colour print from
original colour slide
240 x 365 mm (image)
470 x 568 mm (matted)
Evening in Marlborough (1990)
Wither Hills, Marlborough
A2 digital colour print from
original colour slide
283 x 461 mm (image)
617 x 761 mm (matted)
Untitled
228 x 330 mm (image)
610 x 815 mm (matted)
MATHESON BEAUMONT
Landscapes
Long considered to be one of New Zealand’s leading landscape photographers, Matheson Beaumont has been photographing the landscapes of the South Island of New Zealand for the past 40 years and making photographs for over 68 years. During this time he has built up a body of work that is recognised for its integrity and sense of place.
His photographs are held in public collections in the USA, Brazil, Singapore, China and in the UK in the National Museum of Photography Film & Television, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Hocken Collection of the University of Otago. Privately his work is held in collections in the UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Canada and Japan.
In 2006 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to photography and the community. He is an Hon. Fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and was elected a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America in 1974.
In 1975 he was presented with the Otago Visual Arts Award by the City of Dunedin and, is the only Australasian photographer to be awarded the prestigious Fenton Medal from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. In 2005 he was elected an Hon Life Member of the Royal Photographic Society.
An Optometrist by profession, he has practiced photography as an avocation and since retiring in 2001 has given himself completely to the medium which has been his love since he was a high school student.
A few of the institutions which have exhibited his photography include:
- The Royal Photographic Society (Bath, UK)
- The Australian Photographic Society
- The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
- The Otago Museum
His work has been published in many books and magazines and a retrospective collection of his landscapes entitled Chasing the Southern Light was published by Longacre Press in 2006.
