Oil + Water. A New Exhibition

Oil + Water is a new Exhibition Running from Tuesday 12th April until Sunday 8th May. The two artists, Raewyn Smith and Sally O'Grady will be in the gallery all day for the Tuesday opening to talk about their work and their inspirations. Please feel free to come and see their beautiful artwork and ask your questions.

SALLY O'GRADY, originally from England, settled in Northland nearly 40 years ago. Living on the Northland Coast and extended periods in South Island have provided her with an abundance of land and seascape images to represent using watercolour paint.

Sally paints 'en plein air' and in her home studio with the assistance of sketches, photographs, memory and imagination.

'Oil + Water' displays a selection of Sally's Northland, South Island and imaginary paintings. RAEWYN SMITH , a Northlander, has been exhibiting since 2007. She has a piece in The James
Wallace Collection, and has been a finalist for the Adams Portraiture Awards 2014 and 2018.
She continues to paint from her home studio in Whangarei.

These are New and Previously Shown Work. The landscapes shown range from tiny vignettes of
oil on aluminium, to very large oils on canvas These are often of places once visited, explored
and imagined.

More recent works of 2020, are addressing ideas around absence.