Weekend back for seventh edition

LODDON artists will be part of the seventh running of the Tiny Towns Arts Trail next month.

Creatives in Tarnagulla, Eddiginton, Dunolly and Bealiba will join with artists across the goldfields opening their studios.

A special exhibition is also planned at Tarnagulla Community Centre for the ANZAC Day weekend.

Tarnagulla quilt maker Mel Young is among those taking part and said: “Now in its seventh year, this unique and quirky weekend of art, food and fun has grown from a small local arts trail to an

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ALL DAY PIZZA MENU incredible adventure that winds its way through more than 10 historic towns and spans five shires across the central Victorian goldfields.

“Every year, over three extraordinary days on the ANZAC long weekend, regional Victorian towns come to life as artists open their studios, galleries throw open their doors, and pop-up exhibitions take over local spaces.

“With new artists coming on board and others moving away, no two trails are ever the same. Even seasoned Arts Trail visitors will find something new.

“But one thing remains the same: the wonderful diversity of creative expression on show.”

The arts trail stretches over 240km, the spirit of the trail is one of discovery and the journey between towns part of the whole experience.

“Cruise along ribbons of asphalt edged by golden farmland, wind your way through ironbark forests and emerge into historic streets lined with gold-rush architecture,” she saiud.

“The Tiny Towns Art Trail is a smorgasbord of creativity and a wonderful excuse to explore the lesser-known corners of the central Goldfields.”

Greg revs creation with high-tech linocuts

GREG Holland pops up wherever there are people, armed with sketch pad and pencil taking inspiration from time, events and people.

His sketches have been charting life since sitting on the floor as a five-yearold sitting drawing motorcycles.

That fascination with two-wheeled transport continues in the high-tech age producing laser-engraved linocuts of classic motorcycles.

“I started just like everyone else ... just never stopped or gave up,” Greg said when recently having a pop-up shop outside his Inglewood home.

Greg has installed special engraving equipment to give his limited edition linocuts the modern treatment.

“Rather than cutting lino using knives, I create the artworks on the computer and use a laser engraver to burn the printing block,” he said.

“They can be single colour works or three-colour. I’ve been using this process for my art for the last couple of years and it’s quite efficient.

“I can reproduce sketches or photographs and make the separations for printing.”

He calls the process laslogramme, a term coined by Greg for the method which involves burning with a computer controller laser to create the printing blocks He also does linocuts of farm machinery but his artistic pursuits are still broader.

When not conducting art classes at the town hall once a week, Greg also paints and takes photographs.

Greg has been a regular exhibitor at Tiny Towns Arts Trail events and continues to capture the character through his works of people attending activities across the Loddon.

“I’m a man of many different artistic ways,” Greg said as he finished arranging a display of his works ready for visitors stopping in Brooke Street.

Jemima and Jeannine McNab (above) were in the audience when amateur actors from BBAC (Boort Buckrabanyule and Community) made their return to the stage in a two-night season God Goes to a Shrink at Yando Hall on the weekend.

They laughed along to the antics of Bradley Haw, Fiona Hall and Karen Haw (below) who played the role of Jasmine, God disguised as a supermarket delicatessen worker, taking advice from an antheist psychologist.

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