Born in Christchurch in 1975, Simon Edwards graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1997. He has exhibited regularly throughout New Zealand since 1998 and is represented by Milford Galleries Queenstown and The Central, Christchurch. Edwards' paintings explore the experience of landscape through memory, observation, and the interplay between intention and chance. Kekerengu Dreamtime Kekerengu is located in the Kaikōura region and is also the name of the prominent fault line that runs through the area. These oil paintings on aluminium composite panel are based on sketches and collage studies developed during a journey from Kekerengu to south of Kaikōura township and back. With the Kaikōura Ranges rising on one side and the Pacific Ocean stretching along the other, the landscape evokes a profound sense of the Sublime—a concept that has long informed the tradition of landscape painting and remains central to my practice. Through scale, layered painting techniques, and the transformation of observed forms, these works seek to convey feelings of awe, wonder, and our own insignificance within the natural world.