Write Cultural Context for Biographies

Useful tips to help provide a credible social context and cultural context for the subject of your biography One of the most important considerations for your biography is to establish it in the chronological era in which it occurred. Your research must cover much more than the person about whom you write if the biography […]

Zing-Zing Beetroot, Rocket and Feta Salad

Zing-Zing Beetroot, rocket & Feta Salad - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

Zing-Zing Beetroot, Rocket (Arugula) and Feta Salad is easy, elegant and nutritious. Serve alone as a meal or alongside a plate of smoked fish or cold cut. Zing-Zing Beetroot, Rocket (Arugula) and Feta Salad looks wonderful on a plate with cold smoked fish or cold cuts. If you reserve the feta until just before serving, […]

Michael Browne – NZ Abstractionist Painter

Shag and Wild Water by Michael Browne - 301x401

Michael Browne, a New Zealand abstractionist painter, trained at the Royal College and went on to teach at Hammersmith, and Chelsea School of Art. Michael Browne was conceived in an alpine hut on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand, but he was born in Wigan, Lancashire, in the UK. In 1930 his mother, Ruth D […]

Grant Hudson – West Coast New Zealand Watercolourist

West Coast watercolour by Grant Hudson

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 […]

Whitebait Farming in New Zealand

Charles Mitchell, Scientist, Whitebait and Eel farmer - Photo Theresa Sjoquist

An interview with research scientist, Charles Mitchell, who has managed and built up whitebait populations and is now turning to marine polyculture. Charles Mitchell, a research scientist, says the complaint about whitebait in New Zealand in the 70s was that there wasn’t enough, so he started research into the management and enhancement of whitebait stocks. […]