Geoffrey Notman’s paintings create an intense awareness of time and location. While they evoke a narrative and nostalgia for a past era, his paintings also make a prescient observation on political and cultural issues that are pertinent to New Zealand’s present state. The current foreshore debate is an obvious case in point. Notman sees “issues of coastal access, foreign ownership and the passing of time,” to be “a focus for these works.” (1)

1. Artist Statement.