Queenstown Art Society aims to introduce thousands of Winter Festival visitors to the talents of Wakatipu artists with an exhibition opening on Friday.
"Postcards of the Wakatipu" will feature about 50 original, almost pocket-sized, artworks by 15 artists, who depict what the basin means to them.
They include Alan Waters, Marilyn Palmer-Story, Jeri Elliot, Noeline Murch, society members, president Barbara Glass and Cloakroom Gallery manager Sue Wademan.
Everything from lake vistas and forest scenes to countryside letter boxes caught the artists' imagination.
Seasonal worker and artist Eddie Barnhart (22) arrived in Queenstown from Portland, Oregon, on June 10 and submitted his first impressions of the resort.
Mr Barnhart said he chose to depict "the social connection of being in a town full of people from all over the world. The busyness and the craziness, sometimes."
Ms Wademan said the pieces offered visitors a memento of their time in the Wakatipu.
Prices ranged from $20 to $500.
"Postcards of the Wakatipu" opens at the Cloakroom Gallery, on the corner of Stanley and Ballarat Sts, on Friday, June 25, at 5pm.
The gallery is open daily from 11am to 5pm and the show runs until July 3.
