Brendan Wilkinson is a Masterton-based sculptor and painter. He is most well-known for his intricate architectural models, while his delicate watercolour paintings mix surrealism and science fiction.

Wilkinson is interested in depicting non-linear narrative scenes, which are left open to the viewer’s interpretation. Like mysterious scenarios from a Netherworld, his images often include sculptural elements: a landscape inside a tin can, scenes painted on beer bottles, a map drawn on a tabletop in spilled tea.

"Painting is like a window into something other, another place ... inner space," he says.