A Christchurch artist will show a special exhibition of dedicated works at the Wai on Steamer Wharf next week.
The exhibition, which opens on December 24, will feature the New Zealand landscape works of Lisa Wisse.
Wisse has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom and also has her paintings among private collections in New York, Australia and the UK.
Recently, she held an exhibition at the Arthouse in Sydney using elements of the land - fertile vineyards, flowing foothills and urns moulded from clay.
"I included cracks and scarred land patterns, representing the Christchurch earthquake of September 4, which I lived through.
"The aftershocks instilled fear on a daily basis," she said.
After the Pike River mining tragedy last month, she gave Grey district Mayor Tony Kokshoorn a painting as homage to the miners and others affected by the disaster.
Wisse said she wanted the painting to be hung publicly as a memorial to the tragedy so visitors to Greymouth could pay their respects.
A special edition of 500 high-quality prints of her original Pike River 29 painting is being offered to the public to help raise funds for the West Coast mining disaster appeal.
"I used the symbolic form of a strong, weathered mature tree, silhouetted against the early dawn light to represent your strong fathers, sons and husbands who left early to work deep in the earth on November 19," she says in a note to the victims' families attached to the painting.
