north east regional extra | May 1 - 7, 2019
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May 1 - 7, 2019
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write stuff By KYLIE WILSON
FROM her desk bathed in light at her peaceful Kiewa home, Marta Lett’s skills in calligraphy, built up over a lifetime, connect her to not only her forebears, but an age old skill practiced around the world. Her mother, Coralie, and Coralie’s own mother, affectionately known as Gran’ma Millie, noticed her enduring interest in decorative lettering and abstract drawings from an early age. “My mother enjoyed telling me stories of her time working in the NSW state library and about a facsimile of the 1200 year old Celtic manuscript ‘The Book of Kells’,” Marta said. “She also showed me an original family document from the 1800s of an indenture contract detailing the young woman’s conditions of employment. “Looking into history through the prism of beautifully hand written and decorated manuscripts began to take hold of me.”
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◆ FINE ART: Marta Letts painstakingly works on some calligraphy at her home studio.
GARDEN HINTS
PET CARE
WINE TALK
TECH & SCIENCE
with HELEN
with SPENCER
with ANITA
with CHRIS
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