Native
Native

Author: Kate Herd

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781760760809

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Native offers planting palettes and design themes, gardening techniques and inspiration for an original and exciting perspective on the very best of Australian local flora. When Kate Herd started experimenting with how she pruned and trained the native plants in her riverside garden in Melbourne, she made some amazing discoveries. A eucalyptus shrub she had cut right back to the ground reappeared as the most beautiful sprawling ground cover. Westringia was shaped to impersonate perfect English Box balls. And she found that Tasmanian beech trees could grow as a copse in small city courtyards. Jela had similar experiences in her own garden design practice and together Kate and Jela have explored the unique beauty and resilience of Australia's native plants. Known for their absolute versatility and hardiness in the garden, native plants also offer up original forms for cut flowers and sculpture. Garden designers Fiona Brockhoff and Sue Barnsley, Sculptor Tracey Deep and Artist Janet Lawrence all share their own love of Australian plants and how they incorporate them into their work. Chapters cover topics such as: Feature Foliage, Sculptural Forms, Pliability, Shady Spaces and Flowering Meadows.

Lighthouse
Lighthouse

Author: Ron Southern

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-05-18

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1105746038

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Poems by Ron Southern and Paul Kloppenborg, with illustrations by Morgan Simpson.

Matisse: Life and Spirit
Matisse: Life and Spirit

Author: Aurélie Verdier

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781741741537

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Spanning six decades of the artist?s work, Matisse: Life & Spirit presents an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world?s most beloved, innovative and influential artists. The works reach from his early adventures in colour as a Fauvist through to the serene and distilled designs for his chapel in Vence in the south of France. Through paintings, drawings, sculptures and a compelling presentation of his triumphant cut-outs, it reveals how Matisse renewed his vision time and again over his long career, seeking new ways of celebrating the seen world and expressing the energy he felt in it. Highlights include the especially important early work Le luxe I 1907; the mid-career masterpiece Decorative figure on an ornamental ground 1925; and the majestic self-portrait, The sorrow of the king 1952, one of the largest of the famous cut-outs that the artist created in his late career. Filled with brilliant colour, dynamic energy, visual joy and emotional power, Matisse: Life & Spirit offers an inspirational journey through the life and art of this ceaselessly inventive and life-affirming painter. Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist, Matisse: Life & Spirit is the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney.

Rocks in the Belly
Rocks in the Belly

Author: Jon Bauer

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1921640677

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How far can you push a child before he snaps? Rocks in the Belly tells the story of an eight-year-old boy and the adult he becomes. When he is young his mother fosters boys, despite the jealous turmoil it arouses in her son: jealousy that reaches unmanageable proportions when she fosters Robert, a child she can't help bonding with. As the connection between them grows, the son's envy triggers an event that profoundly changes everyone. Especially Robert. At twenty-eight, still haunted by his childhood, the son returns to face his mother, who is now chronically ill. He hasn't forgiven her for what happened to Robert, and yet she isn't the same domineering woman anymore. Now she's the dependent one and he the dominant force — a power he can't help but abuse. Written in two startlingly original voices, Rocks in the Belly is about the effortless destruction we wreak on one another in the simple pursuit of our own happiness, and a reminder that we never leave our childhood behind. A fast-paced, powerful, yet often beautiful and funny novel.

How Much is Enough?
How Much is Enough?

Author: Arun Abey

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780980374919

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The 2nd Edition of this popular title features an entirely new chapter on the relationship between Kids, Money and Happiness, based on requests from parents for help in this complex area. It's also fully updated to include reader feedback plus new research insights and examples. Why do happy people make better investors? Why are lottery winners no happier than the rest of us? What makes mature women better investors than young men? Why do we let the Joneses next door determine what car we buy and where we take holidays? How can we help our kids achieve emotional resilience and wealth? And why, if we're so rich, aren't we so happy? How we think has a huge effect on our success in life and the financial markets. We're richer, live longer, and have more choices than ever. Yet many of us fail to choose the things that will make us happy. Drawing on research in psychology and behavioural finance plus their years of practical experience, Arun Abey and Andrew Ford show how to identify your real values, set goals for each stage of your life and arrange your finances to achieve them. This practical, accessible guide will not only challenge the way you think about money and happiness, it may well inspire you to change your life

Strange Country
Strange Country

Author: Patrick McCaughey

Publisher: Miegunyah Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780522861204

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'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer.