Drawing from its collection, the Ashburton Art Gallery’s Over the Range brings together familiar and favourite works, as well as eight recently gifted paintings from the collection of the Braided Rivers Community Trust, alongside works by artists that include Austen Deans.  The Trust’s gifting includes works by Michael Eaton, well-known for his paintings of the Craigieburn region, as well as Henry Lowen-Smith’s paintings of the South Island high country, and Margaret Rhodes’ landscapes of Central Otago and Rakaia Gorge.

Ashburton Art Gallery, Over the Range: Waitaha Canterbury Landscape Paintings from the Collection, 8 June – 27 August

IMAGE:  From left, paintings by Austen Deans, Jock Edward Fraser and Euan Macleod.  Courtesy of the Ashburton Art Gallery