Painter Karl Maughan’s 2024 favourites and his Pōhutukawa fringed paintings of summer

The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with their stunning gold tipped crimson blooms remain synonymous with summer on the Northern East Coast.  They are there, at the end of the garden, before the vivid blues of sea and sky in East Coast, a new body of paintings from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most beloved painters, Karl Maughan. East Coast is at Gow Langsford Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland until 24 December