Hawkesbury Regional Gallery will be closed for re-painting from 21 to 31 August, and will re-open at 6pm on Friday 1 September. With 10 exhibitions, a number of functions and events and approximately ten thousand visitors since its opening in June 2005, the gallery is in need of minor refurbishment in order to continue to meet the high standards required of a Regional Gallery.

Once the re-painting is completed the major exhibition 'The Windsor Group' will open. In the 1930s and 40s, these Sydney-based artists painted in and around Windsor, which by then offered a different kind of landscape to the pastoral scenes that characterised the work of many of their predecessors.

According to Curator, Kathleen von Witt, identifying themselves as The Windsor Group also gave the young artists a marketing advantage. 'There were fewer galleries and opportunities to sell paintings back then,' said Kath. 'By giving themselves a brand, they helped to promote themselves and their art.'

At the same time, they also helped to brand and promote Windsor, which still prides itself on its number of heritage buildings and rural vistas set against the backdrop of the Hawkesbury River.

Also coming to Hawkesbury Regional Gallery is Fifty Years of Hawkesbury Historical Society, and a range of events and public programs, including a two-day workshop with Patrick Shirvington, who recently completed a residency at Arthur Boyd's former home, Bundanon. The workshop will be held in the Stan Stevens Studio on the last weekend in September.