Nature’s Canvas: Central Otago Edition

FotoFest Hawkes Bay
19 September – 3 October 2025

Location

  • CAN Gallery, 16 Byron Street, Napier

  • Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10am-4pm

About the Exhibition

I’m very excited to be exhibiting some of my photography in my home region of Hawkes Bay in NZ as part of FotoFest Hawkes Bay. My images are on display at CAN Gallery Napier for the next two weeks.

Many thanks to FotoFest and Creative Arts Napier for this opportunity to share my work.

Biography

Sally Paterson is a Melbourne-based photographer who grew up Hawkes Bay and has a strong connection to the lands of Aotearoa. She enjoys capturing images of the natural and urban environment, as well as creating abstract and vibrant imagery using various in-camera creative techniques. Alongside a busy corporate career, she balances her passion for photography, regularly exhibiting images in art shows and competitions in Australia, New Zealand and internationally.

Artist Statement

Sally explores both natural environments and built structures within the landscape, often brought together through in-camera creative techniques. Her work is defined by unique compositions that layer elements of the man-made and organic. Through this gentle merging of forms, her images invite the viewer to consider the relationship between place, memory, and perception.

These creative landscape images are part of a limited-edition collection: Nature’s Canvas: Central Otago Edition – unveiling the beauty of the region through her lens while visiting the region in 2023.

Exhibition Images

‘Lakeside Memories, Rose’ Edition 4/15

  • NZ$625 including frame

  • Frame size: 62cm wide x 45cm high

  • Frame style: Light natural oak slim-line timber frame, locally made in New Zealand. The frame is ready to hang with D-rings and string.

  • Delivery and timing: Framed prints will be delivered after the exhibition closes, early October 2025. Free postage within NZ

  • Unframed prints and other sizes available, please email Sally to enquire sally@sallypatersonphotography.com

‘Timeless Tapestry’ Edition 4/15

  • NZ$625 including frame

  • Frame size: 62cm wide x 45cm high

  • Frame style: Light natural oak slim-line timber frame, locally made in New Zealand. The frame is ready to hang with D-rings and string.

  • Delivery and timing: Framed prints will be delivered after the exhibition closes, early October 2025. Free postage within NZ

  • Unframed prints and other sizes available, please email Sally to enquire sally@sallypatersonphotography.com

‘Tranquil Butterfly’ Edition 3/15

  • NZ$625 including frame

  • Frame size: 62cm wide x 45cm high

  • Frame style: Light natural oak slim-line timber frame, locally made in New Zealand. The frame is ready to hang with D-rings and string.

  • Delivery and timing: Framed prints will be delivered after the exhibition closes, early October 2025. Free postage within NZ

  • Unframed prints and other sizes available, please email Sally to enquire sally@sallypatersonphotography.com

‘Window Views’ Edition 6/15

  • NZ$625 including frame

  • Frame size: 62cm wide x 45cm high

  • Frame style: Light natural oak slim-line timber frame, locally made in New Zealand. The frame is ready to hang with D-rings and string.

  • Delivery and timing: Framed prints will be delivered after the exhibition closes, early October 2025. Free postage within NZ

  • Unframed prints and other sizes available, please email Sally to enquire sally@sallypatersonphotography.com

‘Contours of Central Otago’ Edition 3/15

  • NZ$625 including frame

  • Frame size: 45cm wide x 45cm high

  • Frame style: Light natural oak slim-line timber frame, locally made in New Zealand. The frame is ready to hang with D-rings and string.

  • Delivery and timing: Framed prints will be delivered after the exhibition closes, early October 2025. Free postage within NZ

  • Unframed prints and other sizes available, please email Sally to enquire sally@sallypatersonphotography.com