The Welcome Swallow Gallery will be celebrating the 150th year since the birth of New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins by featuring one of her important water colour paintings from the 1930s. The piece is entitled The Croft: House in the Countryside that is known to be the Geoffrey Gorer Cottage in Bradford-on-Tone in Somerset, UK where Hodgkins used to stay during this period. This important Hodgkins painting is made available to the Gallery from a private collection.