BOOK FOR BERYL Mrs Kitching, my friend and mentor, Beryl is an artist with amazing ability to record in her work the details that most miss. A traveler who over many years has ventured far and near around Australia collecting as she travels, small items, namely seed pods, plants and unusual objects. Consider an niveve artist, she avoids the over stated tritadional abroach to her work, surrendering to the essentials only. Over the years she has educated myself and other to the smallest of details about plants and their incredible history and at times pointed out the other sides of beauty, some plants can kill. I can honestly say with her my world would be boring. Through out our long relationship we have made paper from rags, visited galleries where most of the time we were asked to leave, Beryl s enthusiasm for analysing art often led to us being asked to leave for touching. Not familiar with printmaking Beryl’s desires to learn never wavered, she approached each work shop with the sam...