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'Afterlight'
Paintings from the forest
by
Annette van Betlehem

We have just opened a wonderful exhibition of paintings at our gallery by talented West Coast artist Annette van Betlehem.  The exhibition will be open at the Goulburn Street Gallery till 22nd December 2009.

Annette's palette and her intimate understanding and insight into the Tasmanian forests enable her to create stunning oil paintings that anyone who is familiar with the West Coast will immediately identify with.

Come and see her work before she packs up on the 22nd and heads to Paris to take up a residency at the Cite' Internationale des Arts.

     

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Afterlight.zip (976 KB)

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We've hired a van and it is now packed full of framed prints ready to drive to Cradle Mountain for my latest exhibition.

This show is titled 'Sussurations' and is themed around the mystery and beauty of Tasmania as it may have been viewed by early settlers.

The Tasmanian Wilderness Gallery has allocated me 3 rooms of their magnificent space and this will be my largest show ever.

           

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Cradle_Mountain_Exhibition.zip (1243 KB)

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I have just spent the past week assisting the curator, Tracy Thomas, at the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery to prepare the exhibition 'Strata' as part of the Ten Days on the Island arts festival.

 It has been a wonderful week in excellent company at an outstanding gallery.

  
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Last weekend Bellerive Yacht Club once again hosted the Crown Series Regatta. A fleet of 230 yachts ranging through centreboard dinghies, skiffs, catamarans and keelboats contested the highly successful regatta in perfect summer conditions on the Derwent River.

 My involvement was to produce 60 framed prints as prizes for the winners and placegetters. It is always exciting photographing yachts and despite the gloomy weather on Friday evening and mirror like conditions on Saturday morning there were still plenty of great photos to be taken. A stiff sea breeze in the afternoon provided more excitement.

 The challenge was to obtain good quality pictures of every competitor and to then sort, print and frame the 60 best performers within 2 hours of the final race results being posted. Yep, it was impossible! I managed to do it 2 years ago with a smaller fleet but time was against me this year. Another hour and they were completed but an hour too late, the prize giving was over.

 Nonetheless, I am happy with the result and feel I have produced some good memories of a great event. Next year we will rethink our approach and the amount of manpower required.

       

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Crown_Series_Regatta_2009.zip (482 KB)

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Wow! I just discovered WriteRoom and am using it on my Mac to write this to my iPhone. I can then post from there to my blog on Posterous ... apparently! So, the gains are: a real keyboard for my iPhone by using my laptop and an easy way to post to my blog from anywhere.

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