Gabrielle Hope

Gabrielle Valerie Hyacinthe Hope (formerly Yeats, née Allan; 4 February 1916 – 9 September 1962) was a New Zealand painter known for her watercolours and drawings. Her work consists of still lives, landscapes, portraits, and works featuring animals. She preferred to sign her works simply as "GABRIELLE." Much of her early life was spent at her family's farm near Putāruru. She rode ponies to school, worked with cattle for the agricultural & pastoral shows, and helped with animal care, hay-making and food preservation. This knowledge of animals and farm landscape would later come into play in her work.

After a family move to Rotorua, she attended high school at the Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland. Though often reprimanded for "scribbling" in her books and drawing instead of studying, she completed her studies and graduated in 1932. After her work was displayed at a solo gallery exhibition at Peter Webb's gallery in 1957, Imric Porsolt described her as having an "engaging lack of discipline, and no pretensions to deliver a message." He said her paintings "delight more by healthy colour than by firm composition, and by directness rather than by elaboration."