Cardinal blesses wartime artwork

Friday, May 1st, 2015

Rare watercolour paintings and pen and ink sketches by four WW1 servicemen have been unveiled in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul.

The ninety works are by Lieutenant Esmond Atkinson and his brother Lieutenant Hal Atkinson of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Corporal Ernest Casey and Sapper Sydney Higgs of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

The Dean of Wellington The Very Reverend Digby Wilkinson and John A Cardinal Dew Archbishop of Wellington blessed the artworks in the presence of the artists’ families and senior students of St Patrick’s College and Wellington College.

The artists were acknowledged as Old Boys of these colleges by the draping of school scarves over their works.
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