Frances Hodgkins Retirement Village
Find your new home
Our retirement villages offer a range of care options - not as an add-on, but woven into the fabric of our villages.
Frances Hodgkins care centre offers the best of rest home care. Like all aspects of our villages, we constantly look for ways to improve both the care we provide and the innovation behind it. Care is customised using our myRyman Care app and residents love the food in our seasonal Delicious menu, which is prepared fresh on site by village chefs.
Frances Hodgkins is one of over 90 percent of established Ryman villages that have been awarded 4-year certification by the Ministry of Health. It’s recognised as the ‘gold standard’ in care.
Each Ryman village is named in honour of a Kiwi or Aussie trailblazer: Anthony Wilding, Lady Diana Isaac, Evelyn Page. They pushed further and set the bar high for others to aspire to. In creating communities that challenge the expectations of ageing, Ryman villages are also setting the bar high. They’re demonstrating that a retirement lifestyle brimming with new experiences, connections and fulfilment is something we should aspire to. Our Kiwi and Aussie namesakes represent the measure of inspiration, while Ryman villages represent the measure of retirement living.
Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947)
Frances Hodgkins is one of New Zealand’s finest expat artists and was considered one of Britain’s leading artists at the time of her death in 1947. A key figure in British Modernism in the later stages of her career and a highly considered member of Britain’s avant-garde society, Hodgkins lived and breathed experimental artistry.
In 1893, the 24-year-old painter began studying under Italian artist Girolamo Nerli. Two years later, she won the New Zealand Academy of Arts prize for her watercolour painting Head of an Old Woman. During her study and short art teaching career in New Zealand, Hodgkins developed a reputation as a passionate artist with a vivacious style.
Among her many accomplishments and recognitions, a University of Otago fellowship was established in her honour in 1962. Abroad, Hodgkins was the first woman to instruct at the Colarossi Academy in Paris where she also founded the School for Water Colour.
Letters of Frances Hodgkins by Linda Gill, published in 1993, sheds light on the inspiration, fortunes, people, and landscapes Hodgkins encountered in her life. The Penguin Modern Painters book series published in 1948 includes Frances Hodgkins by Myfanwy Evans. The two were the only female artist and author published in the series.
