The summer exhibition opening on December 8 will display eight large abstract Antonia Haege landscapes from her 'On the Larapinta Trail' series, watercolours and graphite drawings by Mount Kembla’s Liz Jeneid and ceramic kangaroo studies by Braidwood sculptor Gwenna Green.

Ms Haege’s series was inspired by a trip with friends to the Larapinta Trail, 200 kilometres west of Alice Springs.

“The way I work is I don’t realistically portray what I see in front of me, I let the landscape speak to me,” Ms Haege said of the series from her home studio in Darling Point.

“The painting has to tell me what I am doing.”

Ms Green expresses her fascination with kangaroos by recreating them in clay inside her Monga Forest studio.

“When I first started drawing them I became even more curious,” she says in the exhibition’s catalogue.

“I started to build them in clay and loved the process.

“I needed to know more about how they function.”

Ms Green quickly became fascinated by their physiology.

“They don’t, or rarely burp or fart,” she says. 

“They convert these gases into acetate which is then used to provide further energy. Amazing.”

Ms Jeneid is inspired by travel and cross-cultural experiences, and sees her studio as a place of refuge and chaos.

“The lines between art, life and work are blurred - art connects to life experiences,” she says in her bio.

“My work is influenced by previous “lives” I’ve had, places I’ve been to and people I’ve met.”

Some of the artists will be visiting the gallery on Saturday, December 10 from 5pm.