Acrylic on board - framed in black

770mm x 770mm

Awa Iti follows the quiet movement of water through land that feels close and familiar. The river becomes less a destination and more a passage — a gentle line drawing the eye forward while holding the stillness around it.
There is a sense of shelter in the surrounding hills, a landscape that allows space to pause rather than move on. It reflects the quieter paths we follow — the ones that unfold slowly, without urgency, yet carry us exactly where we need to go.

Linda McFetridge has a long professional background in the arts, with a practice shaped by a strong interest in how people navigate space, presence, and change. Her paintings explore relationships and belonging through landscape, and the visual ways we orient ourselves to place, to one another, and to uncertainty. She is drawn to environments that hold a sense of pause, such as rivers, valleys, and coastal structures like lighthouses that offer guidance simply by their presence. Linda's work reflects an ongoing interest in how experience is processed through space, and how stillness can become a foundation from which confidence, direction, and possibility emerge.