Olive Pink Botanic Garden Visitor Centre
Opening: 6 pm Saturday 11th September 2010
Exhibition finishes on Sunday 3rd October
Opening hours 10am – 4pm daily

An exhibition of hand-printed artworks at Olive Pink Botanic Garden. Recent etchings and linoprints exploring dry and arid zone flora, fauna and landscape by Helen Clarke, fine art printmaker.

Helen is returning to Alice Springs to exhibit at Olive Pink Botanic Garden following her successful exhibition last year.

Helen Clarke is a West Australian printmaker who has travelled all around Australia. She grew up in a farming area of WA surrounded by Australian plants which flourish in a relatively dry climate. As an adult she was drawn to the art of printmaking, both for the repetition of the image and the variety of techniques which produce unique marks. Her botanical interpretations are widely collected and acclaimed.

Helen Clarke’s reduction linocuts are noted for their lustrous, textured surfaces and strong colours. She uses only one piece of lino to create the limited edition of prints with up to twenty colours on each print. As the edition is created, the lino is slowly destroyed through the reduction process. She keeps the editions small, with less than twenty prints when using this complicated medium.

The etchings depict parts of plants and landscapes arranged to suit her sense of design. Her works are not scientific botanical drawings, rather an interpretation of the variety of Australian plants from drier areas that fascinate her including, species of plants found around Central Australia.

 Further information:

Ben Convery
8952 2154
0422 920 125

Helen Clarke
08 99233613,
0407 440 616,
fineart@woodypear.com

‘ The Red Centre through Cold Country Eyes ‘

by

Margaret Shepherd

 Exhibiting at

The Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Tuncks Road, Alice Springs 0871

From

13^th August – 5th of September

Opening 6:30pm Friday the 19^th of March – Sunday the 4^th of April at Olive Pink Botanic Garden

My involvement in photography is varied. I have extensive experience as a photographer, photographic technician both in digital and analogue as well as tutoring in photography. This passion has been with me for over 30 years. My interest crosses over to Commercial and Fine Art Photography.

Photography is a way of life, a way that I can express what I feel about my world. It gives me a medium where I can give my opinion of the world around me. I have always approached it with passion and wonder. I love teaching photography and passing on the non verbal world the expression of ideas and emotion to others.

`Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees’        – Paul Strand.

The Olive Pink Botanic Gardens has a small gallery space that hosts 8-10 exhibitions each year. Our exhibitions focus on the Cenral Australian Environment as well 1-2 show’s from Alice Spring’s developing artists. All procedes raised go directly towards the development of the Gardens .