Theis stoneware pieces by local artist Margaret Ryley conveys the colour and movement of the windswept Waitaha Canterbury landscape. Talking about Hill Country 2, the artist has said: I didn’t think my work reflected the earth at all until I moved out here to Rangiora again […] from Picton coming back before you get to Kaikōura you’re looking at the rolling hills and suddenly you’re back in Canterbury and the tawny colours of the grasses and the way the wind catches them on the hillsides and then perhaps with a little bit of the sea on the left. I was absolutely captivated by them and at the same time I came to live under six walnut trees and I burnt the branches and the ash from the walnut trees [which] gave exactly the effect that I wanted.

He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)