Michael Hight

"The beehive paintings involve extensive travel throughout New Zealand and an element of chance. Several key ideas are at work—the idea that the paintings are a literal recovery of found scuptural installations on the landscape, notions of transformation and the electric connections between light and dark, stillness and movement, order and chaos.

My later dark paintings delve into personal history, national history along with the abstract. These paintings may be viewed as tableaux of memory; as a conveyor belt of memory that promotes mysterious and, at times surprising, links between various objects and landscapes". - Micheal Hight, 2014