Queenstown
general, tasmania - No Comments » - Posted on February, 4 at 1:47 pm
I’m just back from a trip to Queenstown on the West Coast of Tasmania. It is a dramatic drive across the mountain ranges to get there, and made all the more dramatic by the bushfires that were dominating the news. The smoke enclosed the ranges and sank into the valleys.
One stop along the drive was the beautiful Nelson Falls. The forest of leatherwood trees mixed into the temperate rainforest were in full bloom and the air was filled with a hum of bees as they worked their magic amongst the spectacular white petals which were raining down in gentle drifts gathering on top of ferns and cast across the forest floor. Just beautiful!
What a contrast entering Queenstown! The hills surrounding this mining town were laid bare by the ravages of harsh past mining practices, but the regrowth is now establishing itself with a vengeance and it is possible to imagine the forest I had just left eventually covering the steep slopes.
More to come!
Kaye Green
artists, exhibitions, printmakers - No Comments » - Posted on January, 31 at 7:02 am
Kaye Green is an accomplished lithographer and following a recent residency at the Tamarind Institute she will be have an exhibition at the Long Gallery in Salamanca Arts Centre. Opening at 6pm on the 25th of February by Dr Rod Ewins, the show will feature lithographs and monotypes. The exhibition runs until the 9th of March.
There is an excellent interview with Kaye Green on the Art Re-Source website.
Locally global
general - Comments Off - Posted on January, 15 at 11:41 am
I must admit it is getting hard to find products that are locally made. From the biscuit I scoop up the dip with to the shirt on my back, there is barely an Australian product amongst it. Yet again, another item is struck off my purchasing list each time I shop.
It isn’t so much about the quality of the product (well not always) but the huge amount of resources that have been used to deliver the product to my local shop that makes me turn a bit wild. Why ship a fresh tomato across vast oceans when we can grow them here? It makes no sense, beyond the constant shove to buy cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. The race to the bottom; the bottom of the purse, the bottom of the well, the bottom of the mine, the bottom of quality food production and so on.
What is there when we reach the bottom? Emptiness, just plain straight empty – the bottom of the barrel.
So when I saw the cool climate seeds stuck to the front of the Burke’s Backyard magazine I just couldn’t resist. Now that to me makes sense. Finding a solution to a problem – growing tomatoes in our ‘off season’ or cooler months – instead of importing them from the Northern Hemisphere.
And so the experiment begins. I have planted my seeds now, which is past the mid point of our summer. I have a small hothouse which I have grown tomatoes in for summer, in large pots. So as they finish the hopefully sprouted and grown to a larger size plants will be ready to go in. The seeds have come from Russia, Siberia and Czechoslovakia where the summers are colder than our winters, so if all goes according to plan then they should grow! Yay – well fingers crossed anyway…
Website revamp
artists, ceramics, general, photography, tasmania, website design - Comments Off - Posted on January, 10 at 6:29 am
Well as you can probably see I have been playing about with the appearance of my website (blog) again! I think I have ironed out all the problems with the colour changes, but there may be something still lurking out there somewhere….
While I was at it I added a few things to my blogroll, like the black and white Flash website I built for my Dad’s sculptures, Sculptural Forms and the photo website Photomuse that was really about finding different ways to display a gallery of images in Flash.
I also did some appearance changes to Tania’s Golden Moments Massage website, which I haven’t told her about yet! See how long it takes for her to discover the new look? It is similar to the old one really, just a bit simpler.
So having familiarised myself with the old html code again it is time to move on to something else I guess! Ahh I know – time to work on my son Craig’s mechanical air-conditioning website, Duomec…
