Between Seasons: NZ Art For Sale
Between Seasons - paint by Collette Fergus
She is not confused.
She is aware.
She stands in the space where seasons no longer behave as they once did, where spring arrives too early, autumn lingers too long, and the rhythm New Zealand once knew feels blurred at the edges.
On one side of her, warmth. Flowers bloom with urgency, colour spilling across the landscape as though trying to prove something. On the other side, cracked earth — cool, unsettled — yet from those fractures, fragile green shoots insist on rising.
The land cannot decide what it is anymore.
And neither can we.
In her arms, she holds a lamb, glowing softly, almost impossibly bright. The lamb is innocence. It is renewal. It is vulnerability. In Aotearoa, lambs once marked the certainty of spring. Now they appear at odd times, reminders that nature’s calendar is shifting.
The daffodils she grips tightly are hope pushing through grief. They bloom when they shouldn’t. They bloom anyway. Their yellow is defiant.
Around her, autumn leaves swirl in restless wind, forces beyond her control. Some leaves transform mid-air into butterflies, suggesting change, adaptation and fragile evolution. Not everything that falls is lost. Some things transform.
Her scarf unravels behind her, thread by thread, trailing yarn carried by the wind. It represents grief, the slow undoing of what once felt stable. Yet the unravelling is not destruction. It is released. Renewal and loss coexist. They always have.
She wears a floral summer dress against the cool air. The scarf wraps her neck. Warm and cold. Bloom and decay. Protection and exposure. The emotional mismatch mirrors the climate mismatch — a country that no longer settles fully into winter or summer, but hovers somewhere between spring and autumn.
She stands steady in the centre.
Not resisting either season.
Not denying the change.
Holding onto new life while the old season refuses to let go.
This piece is a reflection on climate change in New Zealand, where the seasons feel softer, confused and shortened. Where daffodils bloom unexpectedly. Where lambing shifts. Where it feels, at times, like we live in a perpetual in-between.
But it is also about resilience.
About the quiet strength required to hold both grief and hope in the same arms.
About acknowledging that transformation is happening, whether we are ready or not.
She does not look distressed.
She looks upward.
Aware.
Because the future of the seasons belongs to us as much as it belongs to the wind.
Buy Between Seasons
With its vibrant palette, playful distortion of form, and layered symbolism, Between Seasons is a statement piece about climate change in New Zealand and suited to collectors of contemporary, pop-surreal, and modern figurative art. This original painting is for sale and would make a distinctive addition to a curated art collection or creative interior space.
Available now – enquire to purchase.
$790.00 NZD
Measuring 710mm x 560mm
See another piece of NZ art for sale by Collette Fergus: The Art of Contemplation from this series.