Jeffrey Harris

Paintings, drawings and etchings by Jeffrey Harris from the Collections of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 

(Photograph by Nicole Page-Smith)

"The delicate beauty of the thin multi-layered paint reveals the texture of the wood underneath, infusing the figures with a sense of lightness and life, while the luminous colours and the balance of lightness and weight of the figures recall Sassetta's altarpieces and church frescos."

Art at Te Papa

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves, by Nicole Page-Smith

'Fall, leaves, fall'

by 

Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow; 

I shall sing when night's decay

Ushers in a drearier day.