The Book of Tales Painting

A painter, illustrator, and writer, Prinn has been self-taught and passionate about art, nature, and storytelling from a young age. Loving to draw from life and the imagination, she studied both masters and alongside painters whom she admired. Awarded a generous scholarship, she went on to complete a B.F.A. in Painting at The Savannah College of Art & Design. Prinn moved her professional career to her ancestral home of New Zealand, finding success exhibiting in group and solo shows alongside portrait commissions and book illustration. Here she was selected finalist for the prestigious Adam Portrait Award two years consecutively, going on to tour nationally through The New Zealand Portrait Gallery. Having distinguished herself in portraiture, she extended her work to Europe, engaging with clients in Germany, Italy, and Spain. Alongside her realist work, Prinn executes symbolic, uniquely stylized drawings in pen and ink that have become an index to her mythological world 'The Islands of Niljora', which she slowly publishes and reveals. Most recently her work in this style was shortlisted for The Parkin Drawing Prize presented with The New Zealand Academy of Fine Art. Her first illustrated book of 'Niljora' is held in The National Library of New Zealand and The Otago University Libraries.