Queens Birthday Weekend

Holiday weekends are a special time in the gallery for us because we are the only gallery open on the day of the holiday. We see all sorts of different people. The first long weekend after we opened, Labour Day, October 2007, a lovely woman from Sydney walked up from Queen Street to find we were the only gallery open and bought the first of dad's Maori paintings, "Our Time", as well as prints and drawings. "Our Time" is Pukaki, the great Maori chief from Ngati Whakaue Rotorua, lying in the sand dunes. He was carved around 1820 and has been returned to his home in Rotorua.