Port Chalmers painter Eliza Glyn is in Gore this afternoon to talk about the work in her exhibition Perpetual Motion, which has two weeks left to run at the Eastern Southland Gallery.

The free floor talk starts at 3pm on Sunday 1 November at the gallery on Hokonui Drive. Glyn will discuss her life as an artist, how she works, and the paintings on the walls, which run until 15 November.

Perpetual Motion marks a shift from the west harbour landscapes Glyn is best known for. The gallery describes the new work as more experiential, mystical and domestic, using Catlins riverscapes and recent still lifes to explore perception and how differently each of us sees.

Much of it is rooted in family life. Glyn's still lifes have a restless energy, and the gallery says they trace the way the line between parenting and making art blurs. Glyn herself has described the show as coming out of what she calls a "clashing together" of parenthood and her art life, and says she wants it to carry the joy and rhythm of a busy household where work, life and painting run into each other.

Glyn's schooling was at Steiner and Krishnamurti schools in Hampshire, England. Her degree, from Bennington College in Vermont, combined contemporary dance with visual art. Since moving to New Zealand in 2008 she has shown widely in solo exhibitions; Art New Zealand has reviewed her work, and Landfall Tauraka: Aotearoa Art and Writing has published it.

Perpetual Motion opened on 19 September and shares the gallery's temporary exhibition programme with Faces & Flowers, which pairs canvases by the Dunedin painter Patricia France with poems from Dinah Hawken, the Paekākāriki poet. Vicki Robson and Greg O'Brien curated that show, with support from Toi MAHARA, the Kāpiti Coast district gallery; it also closes on 15 November.

The gallery's October fundraiser, 50 Fish, wrapped up with its auction at the Māruawai Centre on Friday night.

The Eastern Southland Gallery is at 14 Hokonui Drive, Gore, in the former public library building. It is open Monday to Friday 10am to 4.30pm, Saturdays 10.30am to 4pm and Sundays and public holidays 1pm to 4pm. Admission is free, with donations welcome. Today's floor talk is free and no booking is needed.