The 49-year-old Stratford, New Zealand-born artist painted realist landscapes featuring beehives, with Lake Wakatipu, Shotover River, Bowen Peak, Malaghans Rd, Hogan's Gully Rd, Crown Range, Kingston and Fairlight as backdrops.
Hight will be on hand to talk informally about his eight oils on linens, all painted this year, in a free preview, which begins upstairs at the Church Lane gallery from 5.30pm.
The paintings range from $7000 to $18,500. The show runs until November 24.
The gallery is also launching its spring catalogue exhibition on the ground floor. A total of 39 paintings, glass works, sculptures and photographs by artists including Nigel Brown, Megan Huffadine, Luke Jacomb, Matt Palmer, Neal Palmer, Gary Waldrom and Leila Walter will be on display, also until November 24.
• A Swiss-born artist based in Kaikoura has brought to Queenstown not one, but three exhibitions.
Ruth Stirnimann is exhibiting her two key styles - abstract and geometric - in the resort for the first time, then in Cheviot, North Canterbury, from November 7.
Stirnimann's Wakatipu exhibitions are at the Queenstown Lakes District Council reception, Queenstown Events Centre and Wai Waterfront restaurant.
