“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 […]
Grant Hudson, a New Zealand ceramic artist based near Barrytown on the South Island’s West Coast has established himself as a watercolourist. In the late 1960’s, in New Zealand, Grant Hudson had the good fortune to find himself tucked under the wing of first one, and then another motivated female ceramicist. Ceramics as a First […]
Profile of New Zealand painter, John Madden, based on Auckland’s west coast. His mentors include Toss Woollaston, Barry Brickell, Yvonne Rust, John S Parker John Madden is a painter based at Karekare on Auckland’s western coast in New Zealand, but he started his art life as a potter. Mentors, Yvonne Rust, Barry Brickell and Toss […]
Brief profile of New Zealand painter, Stephanie Sheehan, who counts among her greatest influences, Yvonne Rust, Tony Fomison and Philip Clairemont Stephanie Sheehan is feisty enough to make you want to pick your words around her, and she doesn’t mince her own. Her paintings express some of that same quality. Challenging Works Usually frameless and […]
Beginning in August 2007, I started research for the biography, Yvonne Rust – Maverick Spirit. The completed work included the location and interview of 400 people, approximately 80 of them in depth. Yvonne’s great grandfather, John Stewart Rust, arrived in Whangarei when thirty-six houses constituted the township. His son, Gordon, Yvonne’s father, was a native schools headmaster. In 1928, when Yvonne was six, he […]
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