Kate Broadfoot S Australian Folk Art Animals

Part of a teach-yourself series on Australian folk art specialising in Australian native flowers. Includes easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to paint the flowers and foliage. Contains 12 colour plates with six complete designs. An outline of each design is given with a complete description of colour, techniques, brush strokes and instructions on how to proceed. Author is a teacher of folk art and has an art and craft shop in Sydney.

Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) was a highly regarded Australian artist whose assemblages of found materials embraced landscape, still life, minimalism, arte povera and installations. She was 57 when she had her first exhibition. Behind this late coming-out lay a long and unusual preparation in looking at nature for its aesthetic qualities, collecting found objects, making flower arrangements and practising ikebana. Her art found an appreciative audience from the start. She was a people person, and it pleased her that through her exhibiting career of 25 years, her works were acquired by people of all ages, interests and backgrounds, as well as by the major public institutions on both sides of the Tasman Sea.

Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.