Please note: the Alpinism & Ski team is staying in NZ

For more info about alpine climbing, mountaineering instruction and guided alpinism adventures, please visit the other pages and/or Gary's blog

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for arty info click here

Iris Abächerli welcomes you into her arty world, based in Wanaka, a beautiful small town on the South Island of New Zealand, with her husband, Gaz, but more on him on all the other pages.

A visit to see Iris' creations, original paintings, prints and greeting cards can be arranged. Just get in touch for an easy going tour through the home based gallery, the somewhat pop up gallery Chez Iris. Newly established, the space was originally called "climbers bunkroom". Times have changed, and a developping gallery has recently been set up at the base of the Alpinism & Ski guiding operation, so Iris is basically taking over some of the mountaineers' quarters for her arty new post covid career. A for art but als for accommodation, and alpinism adventures.

If you would like to go on a plein air painting mission, are in need of an affordable art retreat, or both, just ask Iris.

She gets her inspirations from mother nature and her precious gems as well as the stunning scenery all around her.

When not busy with art, plants, herbs and alpinism adventures or assisting chief guide Gaz with his various mountain involvements from guiding, instructing via search and rescue..., things taking a bit of time in her life are Wanaka holiday accommodation options with the one and only Alpinism Studio and the management of the Alpinism & Ski base as facilitator.

Iris enjoys enormously the forever changing pleinair studio, or the shed studio on the property as well as an inside studio with a lake view, how spoilt is that!
She has extensively used the name AlpinismIris over the last couple of decades and very recently decided to stick with Alpin Iris Art for her new post Covid career.

Iris can be found online with #artyiris, #alpinismirisart and #alpinirisart on both instagram or facebook
For any purchases or inquiries, please contact her directly.

Last but not least, continuing with the A for

Abächerli, more on that another time...

Still a work in progress:

European Climbing Images