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Painter Simon Edwards has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts. He was finalist in the 1997 Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award and he has exhibited regularly since 1998. His work features in private and public collections throughout New Zealand, including Christchurch Art Gallery. 

He says of his work: "The landscape has been the source of my work ... The work places itself somewhere between a modernistic reliance on the essential qualities (of the materials and methods of painting) and an awareness of traditional forms of the landscape. I use this as a departure point, entering into a process of layering and rubbing back, setting up a dialogue between the medium, the landscape, and myself. The work becomes a result of reacting to what is happening on the surface at the time, and building on chance effects that present themselves, contributing to a sense of space, distance and movement."

Meet Lydia Baxendell at Chambers@241 Gallery (241 Moorehouse Ave) at 10.20am.