When we call Yvonne Rust QSM a pioneering potter, it isn’t so much because she was one of the first potters, although she was certainly one of the early rush of potters in New Zealand to make the craft popular in the late 50s and 60s. She pioneered in another way and that was […]
Yvonne Rust, QSM, was more than a painter and a pioneering potter. She had the gift of human connection, so much so, that people invariably felt that she was their special friend, and this made them open to her. Once a student was open, Rust could create the space for extraordinary learning, and […]
A Time of Angels is one for the dreamers, the ones with an exquisite palate, who feel the taste of their food before touching it. It’s for the ones who know magic happens, that pain exists but love wins. And it’s for the ones who know that love might come in disguise, a shadow of […]
At Opua, in the Bay of Islands in Northern New Zealand, every Wednesday there were local yacht races and because Yvonne Rust lived in Opua, virtually on the waterfront (from 1986 until 1998), they became a subject for her painting very often. This painting is one of the Wednesday Night race series.
A Thousand Splendid Suns NOT…but a brilliantly written epic following two Afghan women’s lives. If you like your emotional pain to feel real, to sit like a swollen lump in your chest, and to get lots of it…read this book. It is utterly masterful. So much so that I’m reluctant to open the next […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
