Sky Ocean Earth Roots

Paint, Mixed Media 2025–2026

Fresh visions that question how we measure and value nature. Celebrations of landscapes and horizons where raw beauty meets the sacred.

The Coastline Paradox

2026
Sands collected from various beaches over 30 years, pigments, charcoal and acrylic on wooden board
70 × 70 cm

Sands collected from various beaches over 30 years, from volcanic blacks to ochre golds, on a deep blue field reminiscent of sea and sky. A coastline that is, on examination, immeasurable edges and undefinable borders.

Exhibited at Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Auckland, October–November 2026

The Coastline Paradox by Sarah Edgehill, black and gold beach sands on a deep blue field

Sunbaked Viaduct

2025
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
41 × 31 cm

Abstract study of the light just before sunset at the Viaduct Basin, Downtown Auckland. From a bird’s-eye view, the wharves, buildings and boats where water meets land are exaggerated with gold, copper and silver pigments, painted in a fast-paced urban swish without detail.

Exhibited at Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Auckland, October–November 2026

Sunbaked Viaduct by Sarah Edgehill, abstract painting in gold, copper and deep red

BOAT: Big Old Ancient Tree

Great Grand Omana Pōhutukawa
2026
Gold copper bronze grün mud charcoal pigments and acrylics on canvas
177 × 132 cm

Pōhutukawa and their aerial roots nourished by wind rain and light provide shade and shelter for birds and insects. They grow in an unpredictable way, chaotically balanced on clifftops and precipices, governed by gravity defenceless to the elements of erosion. When the mind follows the lines of the tree, it is led on a wild journey where reality can fuse with illusion of direction. This painting represents the obscurity of detail and dimension upon visual recall of memory to mind. Except until the human arborist chops off aerial roots to cut and reshape branches, leaving ghastly gashes that catch the mind’s eye. With the sole purpose of hindering human headbumps from dangerously beautiful designs by Mother Nature.

BOAT: Big Old Ancient Tree, large painting of a tree in ochre and pale green by Sarah Edgehill

Pōhutukawa Shapeshifting

2025
Portion of an aerial root from a pōhutukawa in a stained wood frame
47 × 66 cm

Portion of an aerial root collected with permission and acknowledgement to the Tangata Whenua of Omana Headland. Shaped, formed and fed by the elements since eternity, then cut to measure and fitted into a wooden frame — humans’ obsession with denomination and control over nature.

Exhibited at Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Auckland, October–November 2026