T'Arts August 2020 Newsletter

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Debby Haskard-Strauss and Catherine Hewitt

Some very exciting

new works by returning T'Arts Artist Debby Haskard-Strauss,
and new member Catherine Hewitt

Above: Moonlight Glow, Debby Haskard-Strauss

“Night Sky”
Paintings by Debby Haskard-Strauss

"I had never seen the moon so big, I am mesmerized by its size and colour. Since moving to the Adelaide Hills the night sky has become something I admire more than ever before. I am engulfed and find myself staring, watching, waiting; listening.
The paintings are done in metallic paints, using colours that shimmer, marks and textures to reflect the change of season, a change in mood". Debby Haskard- Stauss

Catherine Hewitt- Works in Paper

"I have always had an attraction to our landscape, its formation, what lies beneath its surface.
Rock formations and aerial topography invite investigation. Investigation leads to interpretation and design.
During the last 4 years I have been making paper - recycling art papers and mount board to create both 2D and 3D works.
This current body of work is in response to my artist residency at Curtin Springs earlier this year. Curtin Springs is a very large cattle station in Yulara NT. They also make paper from the native grasses having converted an old abattoir into a papermaking workshop. I have used some of this paper in combination with my own in some of this new work.
This landscape is rich and extraordinary in all that is visible and not! Colours, shapes and textures; rock and landscape formations; gorgeous animal tracks and the complete absence of surface water. All was inspiring".
Catherine Hewitt 2020

Below : An example of a Work in Paper by Catherine Hewitt

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Ivana DiStasio and Emma Young
Glass Art

Emma Young
Aussie Flower Vases
"The bottlebrush tree in the Youngs' Enfield front yard was always present in the background of photos through my childhood. Wanting to pay homage to that, I designed a 'bud vase' with a 'roller wrap' of colour, spun onto the glass while it's a small bubble. The red lines represent the bottlebrush flower. Wanting to expand on this idea, I've considered other iconic and common plants to represent with these vases. The yellow wrap illustrates a banksia, green is eucalyptus, purple is lavender, and white is a daisy. Yellow dots portray wattle, red dots depict the waratah, green dots are jade, purple is jacaranda, and white is agapanthus. The dots are chips of glass colour applied to the outside of the fresh gather of hot glass".
Below: Aussie Flora Vases, Emma Young

Penny Pincher
"This original design actually happened by accident while I was a university student. A round shape I was making dropped off the metal rod, onto the floor, while the opening was still quite hot. The mouth sagged and the 'pinched' top look was the result. Harnessing this idea later in my career, I designed a more polished 'squished sphere' as a place to store spare change. And, no, you don't need to smash it to retrieve your coins, the piece can simply be turned upside-down and shaken, coins and notes alike should fall out easily.

My colour choices and engraved names are based on the bright and unique Australian bank notes, along with some slang nicknames for our cash: $5 pink 'prawn,' $10 blue 'heeler,' $20 red 'lobster,' $50 yellow 'pineapple,' and $100 green 'Melba.' I remember learning about Dame Nelly Melba in school and thinking about how cool it was for a woman to be on the $100 bill. I think the bright colours of our money are a big talking point for tourists and it would enrich their experience to know more about the people on the notes along with some Aussie nicknames for our currency".

Above : Emma Young at Work.
Penny Pincher in the making 12cm x 12cm x 12cm Blown glass Photo by Andre C