Viewing 1-4pm, doors open 5pm, auction 6pm

Viewing by gold coin donation
Event ticket $15, door sales $20.

Tickets from the Information Centre
19 Kitchener Street, Martinborough
or phone 06 308 8575

Jane Blackmore

As an Artist, Jane Blackmore has an innate understanding that what not rendered is as important as what is, and within her works the viewer is constantly challenged to interpret and reinterpret what they see. There is a narrative beneath the surface of all her works.

Both enticing and remote, we are reminded that our role as viewers of Blackmores landscapes is emotional rather than physical. It is this emotional content to the works that makes them surprisingly unsettling; often they trouble the viewer with a tangible sense of loss or absence, as though something has just happened but we are seconds too late to see it.

The artist shows us the ocean just before or after the sunrise, or reflecting the brilliant light of an absent moon; we see the tremulous wake of a ship, but never the burst of energy created by the ships engine; Slivers of light appear o the horizon alluding to a future we can only imagine.

These are landscapes of the mind. Both deeply personal, yet candidly frank. We get the sense that we know these places, that they are somehow part of more than the artists vision, but of our own too.