Creative People of Taroona
We are proud of our many talented artists, writers and creatives based in Taroona.
ARTISTS AND CRAFTS PEOPLE
Robyn Hopcroft
Robyn is a fine artist (her preferred medium is oil), ceramicist and children’s book author and illustrator.
Joan Humble
Joan Humble is a Tasmanian Landscape Painter who loves to capture the beauty of Australia’s island State, its mountains, its waters and its weather at all times of year.
Her oil paintings range in size from miniatures just 5 cm x 10 cm up to large works 120 cm x 180 cm.
Joan is happy to take commissions for landscapes and waterscapes from any part of the world and also teaches Oil Painting, including Miniatures.
Patricia Martin
Patricia is an artist and printmaker who trained in printmaking at the University of Tasmania’s School of the Creative Arts.
She specialises in intaglio printing, especially drypoint and also prints using linocut, woodcut, solar-plate, and cyangraph techniques.
Patricia loves to spend time in nature and much of her artwork is devoted to the flora and flora encountered there.
Duncan Meerding
Duncan is a furniture and lighting designer who works with a range of materials.
His designs draw heavily from the vast natural beauty of the Tasmanian wilderness with a focus on form and texture. Much of Duncan’s work features organic curving lines inspired by the local landscape.
Many of his designs highlight the highly tactile nature of the materials used, embracing their natural characteristics, such as the bark that still clings to the objects in the Cracked Log series.
Catherine Stringer
Catherine Stringer is a Tasmanian artist based in Hobart who has a lifelong love of water and the sea. She is particularly attracted to islands, being surrounded as they are by water, and she is a keen swimmer and scuba diver.
Catherine is drawn to the visual and sensual nature of water, and the feeling of weightlessness when underwater. She is also fascinated by the symbolism of water, its ability to conjure narrative and metaphor, and its connection to the mysterious vast unknown.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Award winning photographer Mike Calder captures the heart and soul of Tasmania’s beauty with photography an Tasmanian gifts.
AUTHORS
Genevieve Gates and David Ratkowsky
A comprehensive guide relevant to the whole of southern Australia, with over 600 species of fungi superbly illustrated and described.
The second edition has been reprinted due to popular demand.
Paperback, A5, 250 pages
Simon Grove
Seasons in the South, a Tasmanian Naturalist’s journey of discovery – and recovery.
Illustrations by accomplished nature artist Keith Davis reveal the intricate beauty of many of the landscapes and species described.
Simon Grove
How different are winkles and whelks, scallops and oysters, cockles and mussels? Are all those limpets on the rocks the same species? Is that screw-shell native? Are all abalones the same?
This book will help you find out and much more.
Paperback, 81 pages and 30 colour plates
Katherine Scholes
Katherine Scholes is an internationally bestselling author, with over two million books sold.
Many of her novels are set in Tanzania, where she was born. She now lives in Tasmania, Australia, but makes regular trips back to her first homeland to research her stories.
