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It is rare to find an artist so committed to the discipline of figure studies as Neala Glass. Her technique primarily us...
01/06/2026

It is rare to find an artist so committed to the discipline of figure studies as Neala Glass. Her technique primarily uses traditional ink on paper and it speaks volumes about this artist that she is so intuitive with the brush. It’s possible to enjoy the abstract qualities of the ink as much as the pensive, almost melancholy nature of her figures, so reminiscent of Picasso’s turn-of-the century blue and rose periods.

You’ll find some beautiful examples of her work in the gallery right now or on our website, link in our bio.

Of all the works in Alexandra Tylee’s current show at Muse, none is more celebratory than the one the gives the show its...
29/05/2026

Of all the works in Alexandra Tylee’s current show at Muse, none is more celebratory than the one the gives the show its title - “Don’t Hesitate”. An almost impossibly perfect bunch of pink roses erupt from a vase with (to quote Dylan Thomas) a “silent hullaballoo.”

Its got a welter of beautiful details that you can only appreciate when you get up close to this quite big painting - come in to Muse and experience the real thing.

Alexandra Tylee
Don't Hesitate
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm



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What a wonderful painter Aida Smith is. In her hands a view of the popular local swimming hole at Maraetotara Falls has ...
27/05/2026

What a wonderful painter Aida Smith is. In her hands a view of the popular local swimming hole at Maraetotara Falls has a dreamlike, distracted quality, where the boundaries between one object, one space, and another seem to be dissolving. Maybe that’s just down to the way she paints, but Aida Smith is also an artist who leans into ambiguity. Even individual things, like the landmark waterfalls, icily reflected at the far end of the pool, give rise to doubt. They look as motionless as marble - as frozen as Maraetotara’s notoriously cold water.

With the details of the scene reduced to gauzy shapes, the painting seems to ask more questions than it answers, like an eroded memory.

Aida Smith
The Pool
Oil on linen framed in Tasmanian oak
62.5 x 82.2 cm

You can view this piece either in the gallery or online under "Recent Arrivals" at museart.nz.

Balancing Act presents an acrobatic troupe of glowing oranges crowded onto a conspicuously pink fruit bowl. The whole th...
26/05/2026

Balancing Act presents an acrobatic troupe of glowing oranges crowded onto a conspicuously pink fruit bowl. The whole thing feels unstable and daredevil in the most joyous way. A metaphor for Alex’s life juggling the demands of a busy, much-loved (pink) restaurant? Come in to Muse, check it out, decide for yourself.

Alexandra Tylee
Balancing Act
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Chloe Streeter’s images often have that sense of faded photographs remade as paintings. The muted blues, faded pinks and...
22/05/2026

Chloe Streeter’s images often have that sense of faded photographs remade as paintings. The muted blues, faded pinks and burnt oranges play add to the dreamy, memory-vague vibe of the pictures. Chloe Streeter paints the New Zealand of the long moody, summer holiday of teenage memories.

As a painter, Streeter adopts an approach to painting that remains open and playful. “How would a child do it?” is the question she always considers. “I don’t’ think when I’m painting” she says, “I don’t plan much. It’s all very intuitive.”�

Come in and check out the four recent paintings we’ve received from this exciting new artist.

Recently arrived at Muse are three new paintings by Amanda Wilkinson. As sharp-edged and precise as the architecture tha...
19/05/2026

Recently arrived at Muse are three new paintings by Amanda Wilkinson. As sharp-edged and precise as the architecture that inspires her, these paintings are anything but clinical. Warm tones and textures are allowed to breathe through thin washes of subtle colours over the fine Belgian linen that Wilkinson uses.

When black makes an arrival in her compositions, it opens shadow-like pictorial depths in a picture that initially seemed so absolutely flat. Wilkinson’s modernist abstractions effortlessly balance a number of seeming opposites; surface and space, prefabrication and craft, strategy and improvisation.

View Amanda Wilkinsons collections online at www.museart.nz
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On our last trip to Auckland, we couldn’t resist slipping this beauty into the van after visiting Sean Beldon’s studio.L...
17/05/2026

On our last trip to Auckland, we couldn’t resist slipping this beauty into the van after visiting Sean Beldon’s studio.

Long Barn by the Trees (Otago) captures the distilled essence of place. Set within the expansive Otago landscape, the painting evokes a profound sense of stillness and solitude. Through his restrained use of light and atmosphere, Beldon creates a painting of subtle emotional power in a way that only he can.

Sean Beldon�
Long Barn by the Trees (Otago)�
Oil on canvas
122 x 122 cm

Sean Beldon

The principal subject of Alexandra Tylee’s still-life paintings is one of the most ubiquitous and conventional in art – ...
13/05/2026

The principal subject of Alexandra Tylee’s still-life paintings is one of the most ubiquitous and conventional in art – the flower. But in Alexandra’s hands, flowers become far more than beautiful objects. They are quiet meditations on colour, light, and form, inviting us to pause and appreciate the extraordinary within the everyday.



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Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums, grandmothers, stepmums and mother figures.May you be celebrated for every...
10/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums, grandmothers, stepmums and mother figures.

May you be celebrated for everything you do, both seen and, so often, unseen, guided by your unwavering motherly instinct, intuition and love.

Mickey Mouse Globe by Kate MacKenzie, from the exhibition MI v AI
Oil on canvas
103 x 123 cm

An opening by Alexandra Tylee is never a quiet little gathering, and last night proved that once again. The Poukawa stud...
09/05/2026

An opening by Alexandra Tylee is never a quiet little gathering, and last night proved that once again. The Poukawa studio has clearly been working overtime, because Don’t Hesitate arrived in full force and brought a very enthusiastic crowd with it.

Huge thanks to everyone who showed up, leaned in, lingered, and made it such a lively night. The exhibition is on now until 6 June.

If you missed it, you can always take a sneak peek online at www.museart.nz.

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