First a disclaimer. I know the author. We’re Facebook friends and we’ve even met in unpixellated life. We worked on a common project without knowing each other, and met subsequently. Her coffee is great, and was it pecan pie? Something magnificent. Aotearoa New Zealand is a small country. So small. Years ago I worked in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Review by Peter Jackson of the Northern Age – published 24 November 2011 Yvonne Rust was undoubtedly a Northland icon. Prodigiously talented, she was synonymous with artistic expression, particularly as far as the non-arts community was concerned, thanks to the Quarry in Whangarei in her later life. But there was much, much more to this […]
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