“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 explored these concepts using colour, and texture represented by layers of torn canvas, each individually painted and then reassembled so
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Excerpt from Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit (originally from an audio-taped interview by Christine Leov-Lealand)
I had a friend who told me in quarter of an hour at the railway station how to build a kiln. How you interlock the bricks to make them strong. So the first one I built on the West Coast was all in red brick, because I thought it was only ever going to go up to a thousand (degrees) to bisque-fire and the red bricks wouldn't melt.
But that wasn't true.
You have to
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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 Line
Margaret Milne, well-known in the nascent potting circles of 1960s Auckland was the mother of a schoolfriend. She took 17 year old Hudson with
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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 Woollaston
He was 20 when he first seriously embraced clay in 1973 at a pottery school run by Yvonne Rust. Rust had been his art teacher at Greymouth
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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 often in unexpected shapes; triangles, diamonds, ovals, mandalas, this work is not chocolate-box pretty. Many challenge societal memes,
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