Hideaway

Price: $950
Framed Dimensions: 330 x 450mm x 40mm
Medium: Acrylic on 6mm custom wood framed in a rich walnut stained shadow frame.

Description Painted after a long weekend spent in Martinborough, we went for a drive down to Cape Palliser. A stunning sunset over the ocean first caught our attention. We stopped to watch the sun go down, and as I headed back to the car, this little beach hut was tucked away with the last rays enriching the colours to warm golden yellows. A glimpse into someone else's private world, I felt a sense of wonder thinking how much they would enjoy waking up to the big ocean only steps away from them. And the cherry on the cake was the full moon hanging low in the sky. It felt a bit like a Rene Magritte scene. 

Artist Statement & Bio

The Terra collection explores memory, structure, and place through layered, intuitive processes. Working across painting and assemblage, these works are constructed surfaces where fragments are cut, repositioned, and reassembled—reflecting the way place is experienced and remembered.
Through the use of reverse glass, board, and collage, the work develops a quiet physical depth. Layered forms suggest shifting landscapes and interior structures, where memory is held, altered, and continuously unfolding.

Santie Cronje is a South African–born artist based in the South Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her practice explores memory, structure, and place through painting and assemblage, using layered, intuitive processes shaped by migration and lived experience. Her work navigates the space between abstraction and representation, drawing on landscapes, structures, and fragments of place.

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