Janine Matchitt, Viola Organics owner, and manufacturer of some of the most potent organic skincare products available on today’s market, took the business over in 2003 from her mother, Pam Blowers. Today Janine manufactures a hugely expanded range of high quality products and has recently overseen the opening of a Canadian branch in Prince George, […]
The History of Reyburn House Art gallery opens in 1840 with William Carruth, Whangarei’s first European settler. Carruth made a point of recording his experiences. “When we arrived at Whangarei, I found that a large raupo whare, but made of bulrushes, had been erected for me, so taking possession, I was duly installed as […]
Classically trained in art at Canterbury College of Art in Christchurch (today’s Ilam, a part of Canterbury University), Yvonne Rust, QSM, had strong sketching skills. Here is an image of a sketch she did of the Beehive (New Zealand’s parliamentary building), alongside a painting which incorporates the building.
This combination of a review and an offering of information on the life and times of Yvonne Rust, recently recieved from John Ball, speaks for itself. The image shows detail of a large statue designed and created by Yvonne Rust with help in the construction from others, which stands at the entrance to the Quarry […]
Yvonne Rust, QSM, was raised in the 1920s as the only white child in Te Hapua, New Zealand’s northern most community. As a result she spent a great deal of time with Maori and absorbed the Maori way of seeing things and of understanding the natural world. Te Hapua is only 12 miles distant […]
Theresa Sjoquist
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Theresa Sjoquist
