Garden Tours with Florence Weir, Aotearoa Art Fair
The Cloud, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2 - 5 March 2023










Exhibiting in Booth C1, Sanderson Contemporary showcased works by Julia Holderness, Josephine Cachemaille, Kate van der Drift, Liam Gerrard and Simon Kaan. Holderness presented a series of watercolours titled Garden Tours with Florence Weir. These small paintings continue Florence Weir’s presence in the Mediterranean with imagined garden views and landscape scenes.
“In 1936, during a holiday in the South of France with a group of English artists and writers, Florence Weir created a series called Mediterranean. Inspired by coastal flora and landscapes and the vertical gardens that made their way up the cliffs behind Menton, they consisted of small, overlapping brush marks in a vibrant array of colours: turquoise, oranges, lemons, aquamarine and dark pinks.”