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 […]
This review was written by Peter Gibbs and published in the Nelson Mail on 7 September 2011 Complete account of a potter who touched hundreds of lives. In 1973 I was a young maths teacher at Glenfield College in Auckland, moonlighting as a pottery night class teacher at Rangitoto College. My enthusiasm wasn’t quite matched […]
The Quarry Arts Centre based in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, was founded by Yvonne Rust, and is famous for its Summer Do. Whangarei’s Arts Resource Centre since 1980 The Quarry Arts Centre in Whangarei was begun against all odds, during the economic recession of 1980, by Yvonne Rust, QSM. At the time, New Zealand was […]
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 […]
Interview with Jan Mitchell, past Secretary of the New Zealand Donkey Society. How to look after donkeys and what to expect from these gentle animals. Jan Mitchell recently lost Benjamin — a much-loved donkey and family friend of over 20 years — to leukemia. He was 30 years old. “I could see he was on […]
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