Still life

摘要

Hidden away behind a high hedge in Clyde, the hot heart of Central Otago, is a patched-up Edwardian villa that has provided inspiration for a lifetime of pai nting. Some of Neil Driver's most recognisable images show the Central Otago landscape, or anuninhabited seashore, as if glimpsed through a window or door frame in the house where he has lived with his wife Christine since 1974. "Neil's paintings concentrate on the doors and windows here; the chairs, tables and vases - things we've collected over the years," says Christine.