Aaron Scythe was born in Auckland in 1971, the year of the wild boar according to Japanese astrology. His wife, Saori, says he is exactly like a boar, running full steam ahead without looking around. Dad is a horse-racing journalist and his mother was a fashion designer who owned boutiques, and the Hadney 5 […]
The Wild Green Yonder is a gentle read, spiced occasionally with self-deprecating humour, and sometimes, downright ironic NZ wit. Philippa takes us on a two and half year tour with her as she WWOOFs her way around New Zealand. WWOOFing is the participation in a scheme (Worldwide Opportunities On Organic Farms)to stay with and experience […]
People who were regarded as “Arty” and/or eccentric by the locals in the Whangarei Heads area were pretty well tolerated from at least as far back as the 1950s; sometimes with bemusement, but often as wise people in their own fields. Though there wasn’t much interest in those particular fields, the eyes of the locals […]
“Painting,” says Arwen Flowers, “is for me about capturing the transient moment between states, the border between one moment and the next, one place and another.” The intense examination of life and the environment draws Flowers to respond to edges, in-between places, and to changes in state, both evanescent and physical. Until recently she […]
“Ikons point to something which can’t otherwise be easily articulated,” says painter, David Sarich. “They’re a way to talk about deeper concerns. Ikon painting fitted my internal language.” Early and High Renaissance artists, particularly Giotto, Masaccio, and Michelangelo inspired Sarich, but the ideas behind icon painting have always featured […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
