Teacher wins award

Press, 16 August 1980, Page 6

Teacher wins award

The winner of the 1980' Canterbury Society of Arts Guthrey Travel Award, Mrs Margaret Hudson-Ware, of Merivale, said yesterday she was astonished when told of her success. Mrs Hudson-Ware, who isi '.head of the art department! i at Christchurch Boys’ High I School, first heard of her win when a reporter from “The Press” telephoned her. ' ;■ “I have my three children; 'gathered around, and it is ithe best news I have heard 'all day,” she said. ’ | i Applying for the award,; iMrs Hudson-Ware submitted I a “rough” itinerary of what

she would do with an $800; trip to Australia, photo-, graphs of her recent work, and a “simple” statement. i ; In her five-week trip,! which she plans to take next May if she can get leave ofj absence from her job, she' : will visit the main centres' Jin Australia. j ' Mrs Hudson-Ware said she was interested in studying ' contemporary art, "political” I ■ art, and sculpture. I I “Being a New Zealander, L want to see how Australia is! developing a’national identi-, ity and how they make use, of Aboriginal art,” she said. Mrs Hudson-Ware, who: graduated with a diploma of!

i fine arts in painting from ; the School of Fine. Arts at the University of Canterbury jin 1959, said thatJuntil about 18 months ago ' she;jhad painted formal abstracts. “I had had atsuccessful run, but I felt I was turning it out like tins of spaghetti. I might as well have been knitting. So I started with portraiture, working first with members of my family. It is not fashionable, but I enjoy it,” she said. With a full-time job and three children, Mrs HudsonWare said, she could paint only in the late evening: when everyone else had gone to bed.