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February 4 2015
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Exhibition a moving tribute by Kent Caddick
West Melton artist Bridget Carr is dedicating her latest exhibition to her niece who lost a brief battle with a rare and aggressive form of cancer just over a year ago.
Fire cause to be investigated
The Selwyn District Council will investigate the cause of a fire which raged alongside SH1 …
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Aquatic staff support cancer fundraiser Around 60 staff from the Selwyn Aquatic Centre in Rolleston are swimming to raise funds …
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Lake Crichton Series kicks off The Selwyn Sports Trust’s 2015 Lake Crichton triathlon and duathlon series got underway on Friday evening …
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Bridget Carr in her West Melton studio with some of her work which is part of her ‘To Lucy with Love’ exhibition to be held at the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield
Carr is one of the featured artists in the first exhibition of the year to be held at the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield. Her works along with that of self-taught oil painter Charles Pickworth will feature in the exhibition of landscape paintings. Carr said her works for the exhibition, which she has entitled ‘To Lucy with Love’, reflect the North Canterbury landscape around Scargill where she and her niece Lucy Mosley were raised. “The focus and inspiration for these paintings came from memories of my niece Lucy who loved and grew up in the Scargill landscape. Producing the work from revisiting North Canterbury,
and in particular Scargill, was a bit of a spiritual journey. “Reliving my own childhood of growing up in the beautiful countryside and remembering Lucy, who did the same, and always called it home.” Lucy, 29, passed away in London in November 2013 just five weeks after being diagnosed with internal melanoma and just two months before her scheduled wedding. Carr said she began painting at high school with School Certificate art her best subject. “I didn’t go on to study art at university as I was concerned that
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being a part of that environment would stifle individuality.” Instead she developed her craft by attending art classes and workshops, learning from a variety of wellknown artists. She said she has been influenced by New Zealand artists such as Sydney Thompson, Frank Gross, Toss Woolaston, Philip Trusttum and Alan Pearson as well as overseas artists James Gahagan (United States) and Patrick Heron (England). One reviewer made the comparison that her work lay “somewhere continued on page 4 …