Catherine is manager and owner of Nelson’s Craig Potton Gallery. She first met Sonya behind the scenes at a fashion shoot for Wild Tomato magazine, where they discovered a mutual love for photography, fashion, and pixie crops…
“Today I am wearing my ‘gallery dress’. It is the perfect dress for work. I don’t want to compete in any way with the art, so understatement is important. It also is a kind of backdrop for the beautiful jewellery that we sell. I think that statement pieces like this necklace need to be framed simply. The dress is Juliette Hogan and it has become one of my favourites. The necklace is a Russian-jade fantail by Wellington jeweller and sculptor Joe Sheehan. I bought it on Christmas Eve! It was the last one left in the gallery and I just couldn’t see it being sold to anyone else. This bag also has a gallery story, actually. I won it at an auction fundraiser for the Suter Gallery. It was donated by Jane Palm of Palm Boutique”.
