Bruce Treloar

A vibrant exhibition celebrating contemporary painting and the spirit of the season. Featuring new works by Simon Williams, James Watkins, Clare Barker, and Bruce Teloar, the exhibition brings together four distinctive voices in New Zealand and Australian art.

Small is beautiful - interesting, colourful, joyous and fabulous. This offering of over 100 artworks by leading New Zealand and overseas artists is currently on view in our gallery window. A small painting is the most meaningful of gifts, to family, friends and oneself.  

* Complimentary gift wrapping & vino with each purchase.

A silver lining to recent global events has been the gift of time. As the pace of life slowed, many of us found ourselves looking anew at the art upon our walls. With travel plans on hold, we were reminded of the visual value of art. A painting has the power to transport the viewer, elevate the spirits and give us pause for reflection. A painting can make us happy, and that in itself is no simple thing.

PATHWAYS is Bruce Treloar's first solo exhibition in eight years. Long known for works of vibrancy, texture and a highly recognisable style of his own, this offering embodies and extends familiar subject matter. Paintings of childhood summers, both past and present are captured in confident brushstrokes against impasto skies of turquoise blue. Coromandel shores and Pacific Island settings play their part.

From earliest times artists have been fascinated by the vital element of water. The water-bearer appears in the art of classical Greece and Rome signifying industry, abundance and beauty. Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci spent a life time drawing water in motion. The Impressionists, radically capturing the effects of light, gifted the world with paintings such as Renoir's Boating Party and Monet's Waterlillies.

In the midst of our mild southern hemisphere winter it has been a little like Christmas as paintings for this year's Winter Salon arrive at the gallery. Welcoming over sixty new works, by fifteen outstanding professional artists, is a cause celebre indeed.