Earthly Visions places Rita Angus and four of her most mystical Hawke’s Bay landscapes at the centre of an exhibition which registers the significance of her late radical realist style.

Unseen paintings by her old friend Leo Bensemann, who like Angus made strangely fantastical paintings of his childhood landscape, are shown for the first time at Auckland Art Gallery.

In this exhibition, pink clouds and pieces of masonry float up above earth and unreal visions are depicted with hawk-like precision.