AND...

these green tourmaline, citrine and Rhodolite garnet rocks from Kobi Bosshard that arrived in at AVID yesterday are pretty stunning too!

Rainer Beneke's 1/4 carat, solitaire diamond is far less battered...

Diamonds...

mmm...AMAZING, but our artists' diamonds aren't as battered as this beauty!

Rough diamond hints at vast quantities of water inside Earth...

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/12/rough-diamond-water-earth-wet-zone

The diamond is pitted from its violent journey, which ended with the stone shooting up through the Earth's crust at around 70km/h. Photograph: University of Alberta

Tuesday exhibitions opening...

A celebration of wonderful new work by three of our artists; Stephen Bradbourne and Lyndsay Patterson's GlassGlass and Helen Holmes' Cult of the Kauri jewellery collection.

If you're on the lookout for something special this work is well worth a visit. The exhibitions will run until the 18th March.

opening night guests

Don Abbott (ART NZ),  Stephen Bradbourne, William Dart (Art NZ)