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Page 16 Templer Record 739 – June 2011
It was appropriate and pleasing to have both Gisela Bulach and Doris Katz
share in the occasion. Sonnwendfeier – on Saturday 18 th June – will be the
next community event at which our Blaskapelle will be contributing. Many
thanks, gentlemen!
ART EXHIBITION in Roseville NSW
Mini Profile – Rolf Beck
Mark Herrmann, Regional Head
With my wife Marjorie, I enjoy exploring Australia’s Outback, the arid and
semi-arid regions and anywhere my beloved persoonias (or geebungs) may
be growing.
Over the last eight years, I have become increasingly obsessed with native
Australian plants and with trying to capture their sheer beauty by
photographing them. As a terrible photographer (shaky hands due to
excitement and being over 25), I needed to improve my images and the
computer appeared to be the best means to do this.
But I found myself progressively and more dramatically ‘modifying’ (not
‘improving’) my images, and developing a range of styles, forms and strong
colours to best suit my interpretation of, and emotional response to, my
chosen subjects. Initially my images were still recognisable as objects in
nature, but are increasingly abstractions, my response to what delights me
in the bush. I like to imagine that I can call my work Digital Image
Impressions and that it will contribute to an appreciation, a heightened
awareness of the unique – and threatened – bushland flowers we need to
conserve.
Rather than my ambushing every visitor to our home with ‘Have you seen
my latest?’, Marjorie urged me to have an exhibition. So you are invited to
come and see The Three of Us at Impression Framing and Gallery on Pacific