Things Paua Tairua Rugby Celebrates 125 Years Kiwi Christmas Gift Guide
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
SPRING ISSUE 2012 All Things PAuA TAiruA rugby CelebrATes 125 yeArs Kiwi ChrisTmAs gifT guide PAUA by JoAnne MAhoney PAUANUI RestauRants // Cafes // BaR // takeaways // BakeRy & Pizza suPeRmaRket // Real estate // HomewaRes & Gifts // ClotHinG SERVICE HaiR salon // liBRaRy // mediCal // Video // suRf sHoP // liquoR CENTRE stoRaGe sHeds // maRine & lPG // CaR & Boat seRViCinG MARINE • MECHANICAL • TYRES • WOF 24 HOUR TOWING • SERVICE & REPAIRS A2Z TIMBER CREATIONS Wooden hurt to give us as call for decks, trellis, fences, handyman services & other outdoor jobs. Simon Williams m 021 023 881 86 a/h 07 864 8786 f 07 8648 785 e [email protected] Cafe - Restaurant & Bar Pauanui ViV Attwell : photo Ice - Bait - Tackle Shop 1, Pauanui Shopping Centre, Dive Gear - Dive Fills Jubilee Drive, Pauanui. Bottle Hire - LPG Refills Chandlery Phone: 864 7692. Outdoor Furniture & BBQs Open 8am - 6pm daily. Call in & view our great range Behind the Pauanui Shopping Centre Allpress Coffee - Breakfast Lunch Dinner Shop 3 - Ph 07 864 8825 P 07 864 9882 F 07 864 9881 E [email protected] Local, convenient & friendly Visit this store For A Fabulous Selection of Homewares & Gifts Let the successful teams at Richardsons look after you. Glassware • Cooking Utensils • Small Appliances & Large • Games Pauanui: 07 864 8607 Cards For All Occasions • Handbags • Picture Frames Tairua: 07 864 8968 Serving Dishes • Candles • Cookware • and More... View all of our listings online at www.richardsons.co.nz Open 7 Days- ph 07 864 8871 For all of your Real Estate needs, Peninsula wide Great labels - Plenty of bargains - Warm welcome and friendly service Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 - Understanding the Coromandel Since 1960 Open 7 days - Shop 4, Village Centre, Pauanui - Phone 07 864 8977 PAUANUI RestauRants // Cafes // BaR // takeaways // BakeRy & Pizza suPeRmaRket // Real estate // HomewaRes & Gifts // ClotHinG SERVICE HaiR salon // liBRaRy // mediCal // Video // suRf sHoP // liquoR CENTRE stoRaGe sHeds // maRine & lPG // CaR & Boat seRViCinG MARINE • MECHANICAL • TYRES • WOF 24 HOUR TOWING • SERVICE & REPAIRS A2Z TIMBER CREATIONS Wooden hurt to give us as call for decks, trellis, fences, handyman services & other outdoor jobs. Simon Williams m 021 023 881 86 a/h 07 864 8786 f 07 8648 785 e [email protected] Cafe - Restaurant & Bar Pauanui ViV Attwell : photo Ice - Bait - Tackle Shop 1, Pauanui Shopping Centre, Dive Gear - Dive Fills Jubilee Drive, Pauanui. Bottle Hire - LPG Refills Chandlery Phone: 864 7692. Outdoor Furniture & BBQs Open 8am - 6pm daily. Call in & view our great range Behind the Pauanui Shopping Centre Allpress Coffee - Breakfast Lunch Dinner Shop 3 - Ph 07 864 8825 P 07 864 9882 F 07 864 9881 E [email protected] Local, convenient & friendly Visit this store For A Fabulous Selection of Homewares & Gifts Let the successful teams at Richardsons look after you. Glassware • Cooking Utensils • Small Appliances & Large • Games Pauanui: 07 864 8607 Cards For All Occasions • Handbags • Picture Frames Tairua: 07 864 8968 Serving Dishes • Candles • Cookware • and More... View all of our listings online at www.richardsons.co.nz Open 7 Days- ph 07 864 8871 For all of your Real Estate needs, Peninsula wide Great labels - Plenty of bargains - Warm welcome and friendly service Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 - Understanding the Coromandel Since 1960 Open 7 days - Shop 4, Village Centre, Pauanui - Phone 07 864 8977 228 Main Road, Tairua • Gallery 07 864 7204 • Andrea 027 2013 061 • www.thelittlegalleryoffinearts.co.nz A must see experience... “Its reputation as the destination for art has grown quickly, “Walk to Pumpkin Hill...” with discerning buyers and collectors of fine arts agreeing that the ‘Little Gallery’ is one of the best on the Coromandel”. “Toast Rack” “Fantail on Fanta Bottle” “Ford Slash” Prints now available 07 8663705 [email protected] “Girl Walking Upstream...” Paula McNeill “Slice of Paradise” www.airdriehamilton.daportfolio.com Painter Airdrie Hamilton Mercury Bay Art Escape Participant Oil painter 2013 and Winner MBAE Michael Smither People’s Choice Winner Souzie Speerstra Selected Artist Award 2011 Mercury Bay Art Escape 2011 Acrylic, gold & silver leaf MBAE Participant 2013 07 8648821 • www.paulamcneill.vc.net.nz Rachel Olsen Artist 07 867 1144 Liz Hart [email protected] Mixed media www.rachelolsen.co.nz Mercury Bay “Summer Bach” Art Escape Participant 2013 Mercury Bay Art Escape Participant 2013 “Tuscan Morning” “View from Pumpkin Hill” 07 864 7969 027 369 3607 “Coastline Kaka” [email protected] [email protected] “Beach Bach Mindset” www.souziespeerstra.co.nz “Ginger Jar” “Paua and Pohutukawa” Mercury Bay Kate Hill Art Escape Mixed media Participant 80mm95 2013 021 034 8776 [email protected] Mercury Bay Art Escape Joanne Mahoney “Dingy, Ferry Landing” Participant 2013 Watercolour & mixed media artist Mercury Bay Art Escape Participant 2013 “Stop” “Cabbage Patch” 07 865 7355 • [email protected] • www.joannemahoney.vc.net.nz 228 Main Road, Tairua • Gallery 07 864 7204 • Andrea 027 2013 061 • www.thelittlegalleryoffinearts.co.nz Our Cover Artist A must see experience... “Its reputation as the destination for art has grown quickly, “Walk to Pumpkin Hill...” with discerning buyers and collectors of fine arts agreeing that the ‘Little Gallery’ Joanne Mahoney is one of the best on the Coromandel”. Paua Shell “When I started painting, one of the first things I wanted to paint was the paua”, shares Joanne Mahoney, a master of capturing the iridescent vibrance and dramatic colours of our paua shell. “Toast Rack” Born and raised in the Wairarapa region, Joanne re- calls, “My childhood holidays were spent at Ngawai, on the southern Wairarapa Coast. We found paua by just “Fantail on Fanta Bottle” turning over rocks in knee deep water. They are much “Ford Slash” Prints now available 07 8663705 harder to find now”. [email protected] “Girl Walking Upstream...” Paula McNeill “Slice of Paradise” www.airdriehamilton.daportfolio.com Joanne married in 1969. “My husband was a very keen Painter surfer”, she shares, “and I was taken to many amazing Airdrie Hamilton and isolated surf spots”. While he was on the water for Oil painter hours, Joanne combed the beach, looking for shells or Mercury Bay Art Escape Participant The nervous groom-to-be got up early and placed the 2013 and Winner MBAE Michael Smither whatever else might have washed ashore. “The more People’s Choice Winner Souzie Speerstra beaches we visited—South Africa, Asia, the Pacific shell upside down on the beach, hoping no one else Selected Artist Award 2011 Mercury Bay Art Escape 2011 Acrylic, gold & silver leaf Islands—the more my shell collection grew”. would find it! When the two set off for their morning MBAE Participant 2013 walk, she did pick up the paua, and when she turned it Joanne has been painting paua and other coastal life 07 8648821 • www.paulamcneill.vc.net.nz over to look at the beautiful colours inside, she saw since 1983. These landscapes have inspired a passion those very special words. for colours and patterns that Joanne now immortalises in paint. Although she works in mixed media, her pre- Mythic Paua Helps Cancer Patients Rachel Olsen ferred medium is watercolour, which allows her to bring A health worker, who uses the paua image to help those Artist out the very delicate nature of her seaside subjects. suffering from cancer treatments, told Joanne that so 07 867 1144 Early encouragement to follow her interest in painting often the people she worked with felt unhappy with their Liz Hart appearance. “She wanted a way to counsel them that [email protected] came from gallery hops with her aunt and later, learn- Mixed media ing Chinese brush painting techniques while living in would encourage looking inside to see their true inner www.rachelolsen.co.nz Singapore. “This encouraged me to experiment with my beauty”. talents and a journey in painting began,” she says. (You can still find the Asian influence surfacing in such works And just like with Joanne, the paua spoke to this wom- Mercury Bay “Summer Bach” as Ginger Jar and Walking My Line.) an. “She had been walking along a beach and saw an Art Escape upside down paua and thought, ‘how ugly’, but then, Participant Joanne now shares some of her images on greeting when she picked it up and looked inside was taken with 2013 cards and prints. “These have been very successful all how beautiful it really was. The paua would provide the over New Zealand and in the UK” Mercury Bay inspiration to communicate and help her clients”. Paua Proposal Art Escape See page 6 to read the Maori legend of how the paua “A few years ago a young couple contacted me to buy Participant got its beautiful shell. 2013 cards with the paua image to use for invitations to their wedding in the UK”. When they came to pick up the Joanne’s artwork can be seen at her home studio “Tuscan Morning” cards, the Kiwi and his British fiancée shared the story in Whangamata. The Little Gallery of Fine Arts in of his proposal. Tairua and online at http://joannemahoney.vc.net. The young man had the inside of a paua shell carved nz/ or www.thelittlegalleryoffinearts.co.nz. “View from Pumpkin Hill” with Maori motifs by a Maori carver and then engraved Contact her on 07 865 7355, 02102264471 ”Will you marry me?” on the inside. or email [email protected]. 07 864 7969 027 369 3607 “Coastline Kaka” [email protected] [email protected] “Beach Bach Mindset” www.souziespeerstra.co.nz “Ginger Jar” “Paua and Pohutukawa” Mercury Bay Kate Hill Art Escape Mixed media Participant 80mm95 2013 021 034 8776 [email protected] Tairua 078647464 Mercury Bay Thames 078689063 Art Escape Joanne Mahoney “Dingy, Ferry Landing” Participant 2013 Watercolour & mixed media artist Mercury Bay Art Escape Participant 2013 “Stop” “Cabbage Patch” 07 865 7355 • [email protected] • www.joannemahoney.vc.net.nz WWW.PAKUVIEWS.CO.NZ 3 WhAt’S InSIde have never experienced a more beautiful Spring Our investigative digging into the history of rugby in SPRInG 2012 Ithan those we have here in the Coromandel.