This exhibition features work with a rich local element to it.
There are 15 watercolours in the exhibition from the Adams Collection, currently on loan to the Tauranga Heritage Collection.
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley (1840 - 1930) was a British soldier and amateur artist. He travelled to New Zealand in 1864, and immediately showed an interest in learning Maori customs and language.
In 1865 he brought his regiment to Tauranga to join forces attacking Gate Pa, and made detailed sketches of Maori defences, wounded, surrenders, and other scenes. Despite his high rank, he became known as 'the soldier with the pencil'.