Timon Maxey shaping the land in cubist style

Timon Maxey explores the landscapes he likes to paint. Photo / Bevan Conley

Timon Maxey's prints and paintings in his Landshapes exhibition showing at Gallery 85 in Glasgow St are the works of an explorer.

He has been to the landscapes he has depicted and most are recognisable as local scenes.

Many are on un-stretched canvasses and the artist said it is a result of his many travels.

"I was always having to roll paintings up when I had to move and I came to like them like that."

Maxey works in the cubist style and has lifted shapes from some of his landscapes and painted them on board.

One of the board works has been fashioned into a wall clock and the painted wood has a ceramic look.

"I painted the pieces separately and glued them back together - it involved a lot of clamping and was quite time-consuming."

There is one landscape that stands out as an exotic location and Maxey said it is a scene of the Grand Canyon painted in 2008.

"I explored the Nankoweap caves above the canyon.

"They were once used as grain stores by the local Indians and they were fascinating."

Closer to home, there is a landscape of the Mangakowhai Stream on a rainy day and a scene of the Whanganui River seen from above Jerusalem.

"I know the Whanganui River is never blue but on that day it looked blue because it was reflecting the sky."

Landshapes - Sublime landscape paintings and prints by Timon Maxey is on show at Gallery 85 in Glasgow St. See arts diary for gallery hours.