FINDING MARG NICOLL'S CARDS

Please follow the link below to see the work done by Marg Nicoll which are now available in cards.


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Instructions to view the link:-
1. Click on the link

2. Open the file name called "CARDS OF MARG NICOLL'S PAINTINGS"

This will enable you to see the cards which are available for sale at $2.50 ea ( They come with a coloured envelope in a plastic cover).

To purchase these cards please email the card numbers on following email address:-

macmarg@optusnet.com.au

Contact Person:- Mac Nicoll

Note:- The postage and handling is included in the cost said above.

A SUNDAY MORNING IN EARLY SPRING

A Spring Sunday in September

 

September the eighth, the second Sunday in September, the liturgical season of Creation…… a special day at Church of All Nations, a Uniting Church in Carlton, in the inner city of Melbourne.

It so happens that our church building is under renovation and this fact, when applied to the season, led the worship planners to organize a service outdoors.

Picture the scene….a quintessential early Spring  morning, calm, warm, peaceful. Our church is physically part of the Carlton Housing Estate, the home of several thousand people, and the second Sunday is the time when we open the drop-in centre to welcome locals to a barbecue meal in the large room with double doors which opens directly on to the Estate.

Worship ….a table with a cross, a sand tray in which to receive our gleanings from the flower beds nearby, seagulls hovering about, a lovely paved setting partly shaded by the casuarinas, readings from scripture and modern poetry, the sounds of people gathering for the barbecue, a powerful yet gentle sense of being in and of the community of Carlton.

Part of the service was an invitation to turn our hands to the garden around the church building….so we set off, gathering gloves, spades, secateurs and black garbage bags for 20 minutes of gardening….not a break from worship but an expression of worship.

In my small group consisting of an historian, a former politician and a retired teacher, there was some lovely reflecting on weeds, cannas, vegetable gardens, old Methodist hymns, the discovery of an old set of car keys, rotten potatoes, and a warning from one of the locals to watch out for needles! Creation indeed!

Returning to the worship space, now joined by still more seagulls, we sang, unaccompanied, that beautiful hymn of Shirley Murray’s

Let there be greening,
birth from the burning,
water that blesses and air that is sweet,
health in God's garden,
hope in God's children,
regeneration that peace will complete.

                                                          [Together in Song   668] 

We have been using a small resource booklet on Creation, produced within the congregation, and one of the extracts was included in our Church bulletin, an appropriate thought to ponder for the day…..

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pick blackberries.
                                   
                                           Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A CHANCE TO SEE AND BUY MARGARET'S PAINTINGS AND CARDS

On February 16, 2013, the local parish church, St. Michael's, North Carlton, is holding its annual day to celebrate the creativity of people in the community. It is a Saturday and the exhibition will run  from 10.00 in the morning until 3.00 in the afternoon.

Marg will be exhibiting half a dozen of her smaller works, including some early paintings of local shops and cafes, a seascape and one of her wellknown fruit paintings.

I have been re-printing a number of Marg's paintings on cards. We now have over 150 different cards of these  paintings and many of these will be available for purchase on the day.

Speaking of cards, they are also available throughout the year ar the following local places...
Art Stems , at 1018 Lygon Street, North Carlton
Artastic Gallery at 781 Nicholson Street, North Carlton
Alice's Bookshop , 629 Rathdowne Street, North Carlton 

Below you can see a couple of the cards which are now available.

                                                                        Passing Storm

                                                                     Art Stems

Alice's Bookshop

                                                                         Cosmos

Tatong Road in Autumn

                                                   
                                                                     Stillness

We hope you may be able to get to the St. Michael's exhibition. There will be food available for sustenance.
Otherwise , feel free to drop in at one of those local shops if you would like some more cards.

MORE PAINTINGS FOR SALE

               At Margaret's October- November exhibition, thirty three paintings were purchased by friends and other visitors to Artastic Gallery, where proprietor Kate Carns had presented Margaret's work so attractively.

                  We still have over thirty paintings from the exhibition which are available for sale. Here are some of them. The first is the Old Greendale Pub. located in Western Victria on the way to Ballarat. This is a watercolour painting and its price is $  250   .

          This painting is one of a pair painted  in Spring, the time when freesias are appeasring in our gardens. It is priced also at $ 500  and it is titled Freesias Freshly Picked.           
                   

      
            Painted in 2010, this absract painting was the first of a new series which Marg tackled in that year. It is titled Created.and it is available for  $ 400.

           For more information about these or other paintings, we can be   contacted by email at                                           macmarg@optusnet.com.au
                                                                       

THE END OF AN EXHIBITION

Last Sunday was the official finish of Marg's 2012 exhibition at Artastic Gallery in North Carlton.
How do you assess an exhibition?
An opening on a Sunday afternoon, 100 people crammed into the Gallery, guitar music from Bob Pollock to set the scene, an moving opening speech from Marg's oncologist, Deborah Neesham, a sense of excitement and affirmation, lots of cards sold, red dots appearing on a number of the paintings, a deep feeling of relief for us that it was off the ground and running!

Marg's recent paintings , of a more abstract nature, proved to be very popular, and the majority of these are now finding their way to the walls of buyers old and new.  Beneath are some of those paintings.

PAINTINGS AT AN EXHIBITION

Here are some of Marg's paintings on show from October 28th.