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OUR TOWN KAIAPOI 8 The North Canterbury News, June 29, 2023 2587021 Dine In & Takeaway INDIANFOOD COURT DELICIOUS DISHES CabinetFood Buffet Hot Food Breakfast Lunch Dinner Ph 03 327 4139 77 Williams St, Kaiapoi www.indianfoodcourt.co.nz Mon 4pm - 9pm Tues - Fri 9am –9pm Sat-Sun 10am –9pm PLASTERER Matt Smith PAINT FINISH • CORNICE • GIB COVE New Homes, Renovations and Extensions FREE QUOTES Ph 027 436 1112 www.mattsmithplastering.co.nz 2324007 SHOWROOM NOW OPEN Monday to Thursday 9am -3pm, Closed Friday Contact us for afree consultation for Curtains, Romans, Rollers and more Phone 03 327 4919 Mauds Soft Furnishings 88 Williams Street, Kaiapoi (up long driveway) www.mauds.co.nz 2484095v6 Planting aforest ... Some of the many volunteers who joined forces with the Waimakariri District Council Greenspace team and Honda Motor Company representatives last Saturday morning for the final community planting day at the Honda Forest in Kaiapoi. PHOTO: SHELLEYTOPP Red-zoned land transformed By SHELLEY TOPP The transformation of 3.2 hectares of Kaiapoi’s redzoned land into the Honda Forest, has been completed with the final community planting day. The new forest, which is situated on Charles Street, surrounding the wetlands of the Beswick Stormwater Management area, has now become an integral part of the Kaiapoi community. It is the result of acollaboration TheAuctioneers Auctions everyThursday at 11am Specialists in Antiques and General Goods Items for Auction accepted on Friday 38 Charles Street,Kaiapoi • Ph: 03 327 8875 www.bellsauctions.co.nz 1965434 between the Waimakariri District Council, the Honda Motor Company and community volunteers. Four hundred native seedlings and 25 totara trees were planted last Saturday morning by alarge group of volunteers who joined members of the Waimakariri District Council, its Greenspace team and Honda Motor Company representatives. The forest began life on May 25, 2019, with acommunity planting day attended by then Waimakariri Mayor David Ayers, the managing director of Honda NZ, Nobuya Sonoda and alarge crowd of volunteers who helped with the planting. It was not part of the council’s initial postearthquake regeneration plan, says the forest’s designer, Oxford landscape architect Kevin Dwyer who worked for the council at that time as amember of its Greenspace team. The council initially asked Honda for $20,000 from its Honda TreeFund to help supply trees for the regeneration of redzoned land in the Kaiapoi East Area. However, Mr Sonoda wanted to do more and decided to support the Kaiapoi Regeneration Project from 2019 to 2022, by committing to apartnership with the Waimakariri District Council to establish the Honda Forest. So far the company has invested $165,000 in the forest but is expecting to eventually spend $210,000 from the Honda TreeFund on the project. ‘‘We have managed to plant over 10,000 of the 15,400 planned seedlings, and we are hoping to meet that target this year,’’ says Honda New Zealand’s customer experience manager, Rohit D’Cunha. ‘‘We have been monitoring the progress of the Honda Forest and are very proud of the community asset that has been created for the locals of Kaiapoi.’’ The extra funding Honda provided, far and above what had been asked for was, pretty exciting,’' Kevin says. ‘‘Their generosity was amazing.’’ Being able to establish anew forest created awhole amenity feature for the regeneration project. ‘‘It really changed everything because in the initial plan there was no forest as such at all, just afew trees, but now the forest is agreat community asset,’’ he said. The Honda TreeFund was established in 2004 and since then it has funded 750,000 trees to be planted throughout New Zealand. It is aNew Zealand initiative inspired by the Blue Skies for our Children philosophy of the company’s founder Soichiro Honda. ‘‘This initiative aims at reducing carbon emissions by putting back oxygen into our atmosphere and restoring our natural ecosystems. ‘‘It will restore and enhance our native biodiversity across multiple locations in Aotearoa including the Kaiapoi Honda Forest,’’ Rohit says. PAINTERS Reg Tradesman • Interior, exterior. North Canterbury Painters specialising in decorating for over 65. Discounts for Seniors Free quotes. Covering North Canty, Oxford, Kaiapoi, Rangiora. Ph Rob 03 327 7899 or 027 432 3520 2581068
Meet three Corcoran French Kaiapoi Art Expo Artists Twoartists who have been exhibiting with the Corcoran French Kaiapoi Art Expo in recent years are Moya Deacon Radley and John Brotheridge. John is looking forward to atimewhen there are more outlets for emerging artists in the district butuntil then he is very happy to take the opportunity the event offers to showcase his work. “The Kaiapoi Art Expo, I feel, gives emerging artists the freedom to showcase their work, that other groups don’t and is amust visit date in the calendar.Itisafter all the premier art exhibition in the Waimakariri district,” he says. In thenot too distant future he would like to see afree to display and sell Waimakariri ArtWebsite,not justfor those established artists but for everyone out there. Aretired architectural designer,John hasbeen drawing and painting allhis life. “I was encouraged by my parents, schools and particularly in the UK as part of my architectural training before CAD (Computer aided design) became the norm.” With thechanges in technology he feels sad that some things have been lost. “Freehand drawing was encouraged and formally taught as adiscipline to understand scale, proportion, light and dark in the design process. “I feel that has been overtaken in recent years by computer generated imagery,” he says. “Ialsofound freehand work was agreat way to relax and get my thoughts and ideas downonpaper, simply and quickly. “As adesign tool, it has served me well and I am inspired by colour, light and shade,shadow-casting, and reflections.” He thinks students of all ages should start with penciland paper despite the fabulous design software available now,ashebelieves that this is where the basics of design begin. Johnsays, ”I feel schools should encourage children to drawand paint more, understand light and dark, size and scale before they experiment with graphic technologies which have opened up awhole new drawing perspective but Hidden 2, pencil by John Brotheridge. “Gnomeo’sPlanting”, Oil, by Moya Deacon somehow, lost the personal touch.” One of his entry pieces this year is apencil portrait, titled Hidden 2, that John thinks is typical of his work and he hopes viewing it will encourage all ages to pick up apencil and just draw. Moya has been practicing her art for about five years. Like John, it is the pencil that has held her attention. She started with artist pencils, learning the technicalities of the medium, which she now teaches her students. Having moved on to oils Moya has discovered the joy in still life painting, but also often heads out with her small painting group on plein air excursions, painting in the outdoors. Moya has not had any formal art education but is currently aprotege of multi-award winning American artist, Stefan Baumann. She will be joining Stefan in Las Vegas in October to attend an annual in person three-day workshop with him. Through Stefan’s guidance, her work has moved from strength to strength, as she masters painting in oils and discovering the principles of capturing light in her paintings. “I am inspired bythe natural world and flowers from my garden often feature in my paintings,” she says. Through her work with Stefan, Moya has discovered the joy in describing everyday objects using light. She, like John, would also like more opportunities to exhibit her work but is very pleased that Corcoran French Kaiapoi Art Expo is an annual event that draws huge crowds and a large number of artists. Sarah Beal is well known in North Canterbury, amember of the Rangiora Art Group and Arts Canterbury she has been exhibiting for years with the Corcoran French Kaiapoi Art Expo. In recent years her ‘When the Weather runs Deep’ by Sarah Beal. work has taken on amore abstract approach. “I’ve been painting for 17 years, though only recently focussing on abstract land and seascapes for about the last four years,” she says. “It is now my favourite way to create art.” Sarah often uses vivid colours to create dramatic landscapes that have been well received by the public. She is completely selftaught and her paintings come entirely from her own imagination. She always paints in oils and often works on several at the same time to allow for drying time while working on another. “Ilove stormy skies and creating areal feeling of atmosphere, and that seems to be what my public like too,” she says. These three artists are just asmall sample of what the public can expect from this year’s event.
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