Art and Garden Tour from 2010
The following is a sample of the Art and Garden tour held at the 2010 Greytown Arts Festival.
The House of Whimsical Painting - Tour Map # 1
Corner of Wood St & West St
Nestled blissfully amidst pretty cottage gardens, the Abbott’s residence was built in the early 1900s as a Dentist’s rooms and was moved from Main to Wood Street in 1982. Here, you can meet Mandy Emerson, whose emotive and lyrical mixed media paintings have earned her a devoted following in Wairarapa and beyond. Mandy is a regular exhibitor at the NZ Affordable Art Show, and was this year selected for the Melbourne Art Fair. Also featured are Elaine Gooding, well known as a tutor in folk art and decorative painting on wood, and Beverley Cameron, an exhibiting member of the NZAFA who depicts rural scenes and landscapes in a delightfully naïve style.
Corner of Wood St & West St
Nestled blissfully amidst pretty cottage gardens, the Abbott’s residence was built in the early 1900s as a Dentist’s rooms and was moved from Main to Wood Street in 1982. Here, you can meet Mandy Emerson, whose emotive and lyrical mixed media paintings have earned her a devoted following in Wairarapa and beyond. Mandy is a regular exhibitor at the NZ Affordable Art Show, and was this year selected for the Melbourne Art Fair. Also featured are Elaine Gooding, well known as a tutor in folk art and decorative painting on wood, and Beverley Cameron, an exhibiting member of the NZAFA who depicts rural scenes and landscapes in a delightfully naïve style.
Painting by Bev Cameron
The 1920s Home - Tour Map # 2
The Tod Home
19 Jellicoe St
This charming home, built in 1927, looks out on elegant, leafy gardens complete with dovecote and swimming pool. One of its beautifully proportioned rooms will be open for the Festival: Wairarapa jewellers including Anna Balasoglou, Francis Kirkham and Richard Hassall will be displaying pieces, along with Liz Bondy's reduction prints inspired by the local coastline & landscape. Outside on the large covered verandah, Jenni Lambert, owner of Cloth, has delightful, quirky children’s items from her Praire range. Greytown crafter Amy Williams is displaying quilts along with jewelry & hand dyed NZ wool items by Jane Ammundsen.
The Tod Home
19 Jellicoe St
This charming home, built in 1927, looks out on elegant, leafy gardens complete with dovecote and swimming pool. One of its beautifully proportioned rooms will be open for the Festival: Wairarapa jewellers including Anna Balasoglou, Francis Kirkham and Richard Hassall will be displaying pieces, along with Liz Bondy's reduction prints inspired by the local coastline & landscape. Outside on the large covered verandah, Jenni Lambert, owner of Cloth, has delightful, quirky children’s items from her Praire range. Greytown crafter Amy Williams is displaying quilts along with jewelry & hand dyed NZ wool items by Jane Ammundsen.
Bangle by Anna Balasoglou
Sentimental Journeys at Lavender Cottage - Tour Map # 3
192 Main Street
Step back in time at this delightful colonial cottage, and experience the pursuits of a gentler bygone era….watch bobbin lace being made by Alice Larsen; quilts by the Greytown Village Quilters; also nostalgic handwork by Jennifer Magnus & Donna Gray, of Sentimental Journeys, Masterton. Jennifer’s collection of exquisite handmade dolls will amaze! Lavender Cottage is also a lovely self contained accommodation, for information see www.lavendercottage.co.nz
192 Main Street
Step back in time at this delightful colonial cottage, and experience the pursuits of a gentler bygone era….watch bobbin lace being made by Alice Larsen; quilts by the Greytown Village Quilters; also nostalgic handwork by Jennifer Magnus & Donna Gray, of Sentimental Journeys, Masterton. Jennifer’s collection of exquisite handmade dolls will amaze! Lavender Cottage is also a lovely self contained accommodation, for information see www.lavendercottage.co.nz
Doll by Jennifer Magnus
The Joy of Yarn House - Tour Map # 4
143 Main Street
Scarlet Oak Cottage is home to super sock man James Herbison, his specialist sock wool boutique and the passionate group of wool enthusiasts who gather here on a regular basis to do what they love doing best. Find out what makes sock knitting so addictive, see spinners in action, and the gorgeous display of knitted creations inside. The Cottage is also the culmination of the Festival’s Graffiti Knitting Trail, so don’t miss the knitters’ spectacular display – you’ll never look at toadstools in the same way again! Scarlet Oak cottage will also be home to a number of knitter's workshops and events. Click here to download the Joy of Yarn newsletter of events during the Festival. Also see www.joyofyarn.co.nz for more information on what's available at the Joy of Yarn shop. Mushrooms by James Herbison.
143 Main Street
Scarlet Oak Cottage is home to super sock man James Herbison, his specialist sock wool boutique and the passionate group of wool enthusiasts who gather here on a regular basis to do what they love doing best. Find out what makes sock knitting so addictive, see spinners in action, and the gorgeous display of knitted creations inside. The Cottage is also the culmination of the Festival’s Graffiti Knitting Trail, so don’t miss the knitters’ spectacular display – you’ll never look at toadstools in the same way again! Scarlet Oak cottage will also be home to a number of knitter's workshops and events. Click here to download the Joy of Yarn newsletter of events during the Festival. Also see www.joyofyarn.co.nz for more information on what's available at the Joy of Yarn shop. Mushrooms by James Herbison.
The Oil Painting Cottage - Tour Map # 5
24 Main Street
Highly expressive, sensuously coloured oil paintings will be on display at Victoria Cassells' charming colonial villa & studio. Here, Victoria teams up with friend and fellow artist Jan Eagle. Both painters exhibit widely in New Zealand and Wairarapa. Jan is on the MainARTery Wairarapa Art Trail, and is usually based at her home studio in Carterton. Victoria’s work can be seen at The Village Art Shop, Greytown. Paintings on display here range from portraits and landscapes to still life and domestic scenes, all rendered in a vivid and emotional way.
24 Main Street
Highly expressive, sensuously coloured oil paintings will be on display at Victoria Cassells' charming colonial villa & studio. Here, Victoria teams up with friend and fellow artist Jan Eagle. Both painters exhibit widely in New Zealand and Wairarapa. Jan is on the MainARTery Wairarapa Art Trail, and is usually based at her home studio in Carterton. Victoria’s work can be seen at The Village Art Shop, Greytown. Paintings on display here range from portraits and landscapes to still life and domestic scenes, all rendered in a vivid and emotional way.
Painting by Jan Eagle
Hard edges – Soft edges at Westwood Country House - Tour Map # 6
82 Kemp St
Unseen from the street, this luxurious home and the accompanying gardens are truly a revelation. Designed by local architect Max Edridge, Westwood won a national ‘House of the Year’ award, and is both a family home and luxury accommodation. As you wander through the various ‘garden rooms’, from the large Italianate Herb Garden, along waterways to the orchard and paddock adjoining the swimming pool, you’ll see surprising and beautiful creations by three practitioners of the ‘hard 3D edge’: Niko Thomsen, Brett Harman, and Sean Crawford. At the house, ‘soft edges’ come into play in the work of felting expert Victoria Te Tau and the Bambinos craft group. Alison Norris - Baber displays handcrafted and sewn accessories made from French antique linens, natural fabrics, forgotten snippets and ephemera, from her Agnes Coy range. Leanne Taylor’s teacosies, brooches and cushions are inspired by Kiwiana and the crafts of days gone by. Ceramicist Janet Green will be showing handmade pots and brooches, along with quirky ‘bird scarers’ created especially for the Festival. Working in the grounds of Westwood will be painters Jane Sinclair, Anna-Marie Kingsley & Paulette Harris from Wai Art; and the members of the Masterton Art Society. For more information on Westwood House see www.westwood.greytown.co.nz
82 Kemp St
Unseen from the street, this luxurious home and the accompanying gardens are truly a revelation. Designed by local architect Max Edridge, Westwood won a national ‘House of the Year’ award, and is both a family home and luxury accommodation. As you wander through the various ‘garden rooms’, from the large Italianate Herb Garden, along waterways to the orchard and paddock adjoining the swimming pool, you’ll see surprising and beautiful creations by three practitioners of the ‘hard 3D edge’: Niko Thomsen, Brett Harman, and Sean Crawford. At the house, ‘soft edges’ come into play in the work of felting expert Victoria Te Tau and the Bambinos craft group. Alison Norris - Baber displays handcrafted and sewn accessories made from French antique linens, natural fabrics, forgotten snippets and ephemera, from her Agnes Coy range. Leanne Taylor’s teacosies, brooches and cushions are inspired by Kiwiana and the crafts of days gone by. Ceramicist Janet Green will be showing handmade pots and brooches, along with quirky ‘bird scarers’ created especially for the Festival. Working in the grounds of Westwood will be painters Jane Sinclair, Anna-Marie Kingsley & Paulette Harris from Wai Art; and the members of the Masterton Art Society. For more information on Westwood House see www.westwood.greytown.co.nz
Brooch by Alison Norris - Baber
Sculpture by Brett Harman
Contemporary art at the Old Goods Shed - Tour Map # 7
End of Cotter Street
Up until the 1950s, the ‘Old Goods Shed’ was in use as a dropping off point for trains coming up to Greytown from Woodside station. It has now been renovated as a stylish contemporary home, and the comings and goings are of an artistic kind. Owner Donna Rush has started running painting groups here, and her funky prints and mixed media paintings will hang alongside work by Wairarapa artists Janie Nott, Sandra Wong, Roze Doherty, Linda Te Rakau Tilyard, Monica Moreno, Tina-Rae Carter, Shannon Gibbs and T.K. Sassa. Lisa Harman will be showing her work on the patio, including her recycled corrugated iron pieces, and stunning ‘Wall Jewelry’.
End of Cotter Street
Up until the 1950s, the ‘Old Goods Shed’ was in use as a dropping off point for trains coming up to Greytown from Woodside station. It has now been renovated as a stylish contemporary home, and the comings and goings are of an artistic kind. Owner Donna Rush has started running painting groups here, and her funky prints and mixed media paintings will hang alongside work by Wairarapa artists Janie Nott, Sandra Wong, Roze Doherty, Linda Te Rakau Tilyard, Monica Moreno, Tina-Rae Carter, Shannon Gibbs and T.K. Sassa. Lisa Harman will be showing her work on the patio, including her recycled corrugated iron pieces, and stunning ‘Wall Jewelry’.
Clay work by Monica Moreno
Made by Men at Kahikatea Gardens - Tour Map # 8
60 Wilkie Street
Beneath a towering 900 year-old Kahikatea is the five acre rustic garden owned by Greg & Neil Montgomerie-Crowe, where climbing roses cover vintage farm equipment & a sense of country life as it was years ago is all around. In a true celebration of the male creative impulse, Kahikatea Gardens will feature art by Wairarapa men - Jeremy Bicknell (fine wood furniture); Mark Dimock (painter/sculptor) Barry Sears (stained glass craftsman); and Greg Simpson (fascinating miscellanies). Also on sale - Greg & Neil’s own Rexworthy Cottage brand of Fine Jams, Chutneys & Cold Pressed Walnut Oil, made from their homegrown fruit, nuts & vegetables This is a rare chance to see this lovely garden which (apart from private functions) is only occasionally open to the wider public. There will also be music in the gardens, on Saturday harpist Anna Altabas will be playing from 1 - 4pm and on Sunday cellist Joanne Bath will provide music on and off through the afternoon. For more information on Kahikatea Gardens see www.kahikateagardens.co.nz
60 Wilkie Street
Beneath a towering 900 year-old Kahikatea is the five acre rustic garden owned by Greg & Neil Montgomerie-Crowe, where climbing roses cover vintage farm equipment & a sense of country life as it was years ago is all around. In a true celebration of the male creative impulse, Kahikatea Gardens will feature art by Wairarapa men - Jeremy Bicknell (fine wood furniture); Mark Dimock (painter/sculptor) Barry Sears (stained glass craftsman); and Greg Simpson (fascinating miscellanies). Also on sale - Greg & Neil’s own Rexworthy Cottage brand of Fine Jams, Chutneys & Cold Pressed Walnut Oil, made from their homegrown fruit, nuts & vegetables This is a rare chance to see this lovely garden which (apart from private functions) is only occasionally open to the wider public. There will also be music in the gardens, on Saturday harpist Anna Altabas will be playing from 1 - 4pm and on Sunday cellist Joanne Bath will provide music on and off through the afternoon. For more information on Kahikatea Gardens see www.kahikateagardens.co.nz
Angel by Barry Sears
The New Century House - Tour Map # 9
Bidwill / Banks House
172 Underhill Rd
Owners Sophie Bidwill & Nick Banks
The owners of this dynamic eco-home envisaged it emerging naturally from the remnant native forest that surrounds it, when they started building five years ago. They’ve realized this vision and the home, facing the Tararuas and set on a 4.6 acre block of land, has become a haven for painter and designer Sophie Bidwill, and artist and curator Nick Banks. Their studios will be open for the Festival, and visitors can also enjoy outdoor sculpture from their collection of contemporary art. www.thunderpants.co.nz . Directions: Follow Woodside Rd to Woodside Station. Continue straight ahead over the railway tracks, and turn left into Underhill Rd. The home is approx. 1km south of the sign.
Bidwill / Banks House
172 Underhill Rd
Owners Sophie Bidwill & Nick Banks
The owners of this dynamic eco-home envisaged it emerging naturally from the remnant native forest that surrounds it, when they started building five years ago. They’ve realized this vision and the home, facing the Tararuas and set on a 4.6 acre block of land, has become a haven for painter and designer Sophie Bidwill, and artist and curator Nick Banks. Their studios will be open for the Festival, and visitors can also enjoy outdoor sculpture from their collection of contemporary art. www.thunderpants.co.nz . Directions: Follow Woodside Rd to Woodside Station. Continue straight ahead over the railway tracks, and turn left into Underhill Rd. The home is approx. 1km south of the sign.
Artwork by Nick Banks
