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Review – Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Helen Martin

Theresa Sjoquist

  Published in the Helensville Community News – Issue 108 – November 2018 Helensville has many artists, as we see by the fabulous variety of work on display each year during Labour Weekend’s Arts in the Ville. Ask any of them about the source of their inspiration and one thing they’ll talk about is the […]

Review Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – Michael Godfrey

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 […]

Review – The Clapperton Diaries by John Clapperton with Crispin Caldicott

A charming story right from the beginning, The Clapperton Diaries is at once gentle, good-humoured, and quintessentially New Zealand. Written virtually as a monologue with judicious editing by Crispin Caldicott, the well-paced story starts with a transcription of the original journal of John (Jack) Clapperton’s grandfather, William Nicol Clapperton. Eloquent, witty, observant, and an excellent […]

Yvonne Rust, QSM – Painter

  At Opua, in the Bay of Islands in Northern New Zealand, every Wednesday there were local yacht races and because Yvonne Rust lived in Opua, virtually on the waterfront (from 1986 until 1998), they became a subject for her painting very often. This painting is one of the Wednesday Night race series.

Pitfalls to Avoid in Writing Biographies

A brief summary of the experiences that can be encountered by the unsuspecting biographer – forewarned is forearmed. When you undertake writing a biography, actually writing it is in some ways the easiest part of your task. What you’re attempting to do is to collect as much information as possible about your subject from as […]