One Moment Please - Still Life in Contemporary New Zealand Art

Kirstin Carlin's paintings are musical. They are full of rhythm and colour. Their brushstrokes, like the conductors baton ark through fields of colour, describing form, enhancing texture, offering moments of contrast here and there. In other words, they bring about the right visual pitch. Carlin's subjects are often humble - found pictures of flowers and thriftshop landscapes - and sometimes they are quite grand - the works of Francis Hodgkins for example. But always she brings to this material her formal rigour and energy: a discipine in painting; a love of paint; and the desire, the drive to make better paintings, more paintings out in her Mt Roskill studio each day.