Two artist brothers have rented space in central Blenheim to open a pop-up art gallery with some of the proceeds from the exhibition going to Hospice Marlborough.
Michael and Richard Ponder will open the temporary gallery on Market St, next to Biddy Kate's Irish Bar, on Tuesday night. The gallery will be open to the public until April 7.
About 35 original works and some limited edition prints from both artists will be on show at the exhibition.
Michael Ponder, who lives in the Waihopai Valley and has exhibited his work around the world, said he was "particularly happy" with the space and believed turning it into a gallery made good use of the empty buildings in town.
Among the items in the exhibition is his water-colour painting The Drover which was used as a wine label for Ponder Estate winery in 2000.
Michael Ponder, who is also a writer and grows grapes and olives, last exhibited his work in Marlborough about 25 years ago. He said this exhibit was "to remind people I still live here and want to show where we're at and what we're doing".
The money was going to the hospice because he admired the work the organisation did, he said.
Richard Ponder, who lives in Wellington and has a gallery in Eastbourne, said the brothers have shown their works together irregularly in the past 30 years. "This is certainly not a usual event."
When the self-taught artists began painting they had a similar style and still favoured the palette knife over a paintbrush, he said. Many of their works are oil on canvas.
Richard Ponder said he was more of a colourist. He painted in the style of Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock while his brother's work was more in the Japanese and Chinese style – "very simple, but very precise and beautiful".
SIMON WONG
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