INSIGHTN
ola Clark is best known to
our readers as a devoted
pastel artist with previous
demonstrations having been published
in issues 45 and 58 of Artist’s Palette.
After 30 years at her Heathmont home
in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs she has
taken her pastel box, pets and husband
Alan to the peaceful regional town of
Trafalgar in Victoria’s West Gippsland.
The tree change has motivated her to
rearrange her priorities in front of the
easel. A dramatic reduction in teaching,
demonstrating and workshops along
with other activities has widened her
scope to enjoy and participate more
often with other mediums.
Pastel still remains top of the list but
scratch boarding has moved rapidly into
second place. Recently she has revisited
her love of drawing and enjoys the idea
of beginning and completing a work
with charcoal as the vehicle. In this
issue of Artist’s Palette she presents
two charcoal demonstrations and we
also present a selection of other worksdepicting her versatility in all mediums
and diverse subjects.
Her first subject is “Christian the
Lion” who may well be the best
recognised lion in the world following
massive exposure in a sensational
YouTube video along with many
television documentaries and the
book “A Lion Called Christian” by
two Australians Anthony Bourke and
John Rendall. The book is beautifully
illustrated with a “Collection of
London UK images taken in 1970 by