A Review and New Information on Yvonne Rust, QSM

This combination of a review and an offering of information on the life and times of Yvonne Rust, recently recieved from John Ball, speaks for itself. The image shows detail of a large statue designed and created by Yvonne Rust with help in the construction from others, which stands at the entrance to the Quarry […]

Cape Reinga by Yvonne Rust, QSM

  Yvonne Rust, QSM, was raised in the 1920s as the only white child in Te Hapua, New Zealand’s northern most community. As a result she spent a great deal of time with Maori and absorbed the Maori way of seeing things and of understanding the natural world. Te Hapua is only 12 miles distant […]

Yvonne Rust, QSM – Pioneering Potter

  When we call Yvonne Rust QSM a pioneering potter, it isn’t so much because she was one of the first potters, although she was certainly one of the early rush of potters in New Zealand to make the craft popular in the late 50s and 60s. She pioneered in another way and that was […]

Yvonne Rust, QSM – Gift for human connection

    Yvonne Rust, QSM, was more than a painter and a pioneering potter. She had the gift of human connection, so much so, that people invariably felt that she was their special friend, and this made them open to her. Once a student was open, Rust could create the space for extraordinary learning, and […]

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.