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Well, we succumbed and have a new puppy from the litter across the road. Dora, the mother, is an Australian wire haired terrier cross and Casper, the dad, is a maltese, shitzu, poodle cross. So Mina is a new addition to the household. She’s white, thick fur, black eyes and the terrier body shape. And smart as a whip already. Bunya, our beloved nine year old Sydney silky terrier is not impressed and tried to ignore the intruder but there seems to now be a gradual thawing of relations. Biddi the cat is patient and calm with that disdainful air cats have.
I’m very thrilled to be invited to sit to have my portrait painted, along with my pal artist James guppy, for this years FEHVA Visual Arts Festival.
The Portrait Prize is hugely popular and raises funds for The Buttery Rehabilitation Centre near Bangalow. The competition encourages a variety of mediums including painting, works on paper, mixed media, photography and digital art. There’s $2000 prize money up for grabs. Auctioneer Robert Bleakley, the Founding Director of Sothebys Australia, puts art under the hammer and over the past five years, over $400,000 worth of artwork has been sold, of which half has been returned to the visual arts community and the other half to The Buttery.
The Buttery has been providing services for those seeking recovery from drug, alcohol and gambling addiction for nearly 30 years. It is a non-government and not-for-profit organisation. It aims to assist people to find their way out of addiction by supplying services including a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, an outpatient/outreach drug counselling and education service and an outreach/outpatient gambling counselling and education service. Sadly there’s currently a six-month waiting list to get in to The Buttery.
The Portrait competition is just one of the many exciting events included in this year’s FEHVA program May 23 and 24.
I’ll be sitting for the artists in Bangalow on April 18, so I hope lots will come along. Application forms from www.fehva.com or from Jetset in Byron or from the Buttery. I do hope Jenny, whose last name I’ve forgotten, an artist my late mum met in Lismore hospital and who later painted mum’s portrait, enters. She did a stunning painting, really captured my mother, so I have the picture in the sun room and I say hello to mum every time I pass it.
Cheers
Di’s latest book The Islands, published by Pan Macmillan, is now on sale.
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