Selwyn Times: May 10, 2016

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Tuesday May 10 2016
SELWYN TIMES
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Planting and nurturing native forest
Rolleston Christian School pupils started a native plant forest at their school and last week they added 150
more to the collection. The whole school got involved with many of the younger pupils getting help and
learning from the older ones. The children learnt gardening skills and how to interact with the other year
groups.
GOOD EFFORT:
West Melton
School held its
cross-country
last Tuesday at
Preston Downs
subdivision. Year 8
pupil Eva ran 3km
and won the heat
for her age group.
PLANTING: With the help from
teachers, pupils planted 150 plants in
their native forest.
LEARNING: The pupils
learnt how to plant and
how to look after the 350
existing plants.
New entrants
If your child started school recently send their photo to caitlin.miles@starmedia.kiwi
Joe, Sam, Jessie, Hailey, Charlie and Rueben all started West Melton
Primary School last week.
Dylan Tullett started at Templeton
Primary School recently.
Ruby Bain had her first day at
Springston School last week.
Liam, April, Ethan, Izzy, Eleanor
and Mckenzie started at West
Rolleston Primary School last
week.
“I live and paint in a beautiful
rural Bay on Banks Peninsula,
surrounded by the ruggedness of
the landscape and the constant
and ever changing rhythm of the
sea.
Change is constant, something you
can either embrace or ignore. Either
way, change challenges us all.
This exhibition is entitled ‘Tipping
Point’, inspired by that point of
change that drives us all, to try
new things and to let others go, to
change the way we think and act.
My paintings express this
excitement, the doubt and
apprehension that change forces
on us all, urging me to try new
things and to let others go.
In ‘Mad as a March Hare’, we have
a lady suspended, her thoughts in
the cloud, searching to find where
her next step in life in will take her,
while below normality exists.
For the Hare, March means
madness, no fear, a month of
change and a new era begins and
the excitement of the unknown.
Like the Hare, when I am in ‘My
Zone’ as an artist in my studio in
Port Levy, my imagination takes me
to places unknown, experiences
and thoughts unheard of, and it
is through my paintings that I can
truly express these feelings.
Where they will lead me is unknown,
but just like the Hare, that is what
inspires me.”
Jacqui is an artist of figurative
subjects with life and energy. Jacqui
lives and paints on an isolated farm
in Port Levy, Banks Peninsula with
her husband and daughter Phoebe.
While Jacqui’s subject matter is
invariably the human form, it is
secondary to her exploring form,
structure, movement, colour and
texture. In her recent body of work,
there is a translucent feel which
gives the paintings a whole new
interest.
She has been painting and
exhibiting for a long time. Jacqui
is also a past winner of the annual
CoCa award.
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