A story of a lake through time - Toi MAHARA gallery for the Kāpiti Coast

14 December, 2024–30 March, 2025

Ringa Toi | Artists’ Gallery

above: Gerda Leenards, Pastoral bloodlines, 2023–2024

Lake Horowhenua is shamefully polluted, affecting the food source and health of local iwi Muaupoko. Gerda Leenards’ paintings of the lake remind us to consider how we use land and water.

Watch: Beneath the Surface, A film by Susan Harvey and Nicki Atkinson about Lake Horowhenua.

Gerda Leenards exhibition — left to right: Gerda Leenards,
*Stripped bare,* 2023-2024
*Pale of the moon,* 2024
*Pastoral bloodline,* 2023–2024
*The eye of the fish,* 2023–2024
*Into the future—the Taueki whanau in the Waimarama canoe,* 2022–2024
*Before time,* 2024
*Makere in the Hamaria canoe,* 2024
Credit: Ryan McCauley

Two landscape paintings by Gerda Leenards depicting canoe in Lake Horowhenua. — above: Gerda Leenards, *Before time,* 2024
below: Gerda Leenards, *Makere in the Hamaria canoe,* 2024
Credit: Ryan McCauley

Selected works are for sale. For more information, please visit the gallery or email us on info@toimahara.nz.