Varied fare attracts crowd

Press, 2 September 1983, Page 7

Varied fare attracts crowd

If crowd numbers were anything to go by, Count Homogenised was the highlight of Smiths City Market’s special family night held on Wednesday evening in the Colombo Street store.

A close runner-up to Count Homogenised’s popularity was the television entertainer, Oily Ohlson, well known by children for his “After School” television programme.

Mr Ohlson sang and played a guitar while children sat in rows at the front of the crowd, and joined in when called on. Others less fortunate strained to see from behind adults who in turn had children on their shoulders.

The Canterbury Radio Control Car Club’s oneeighth scale racing cars also drew a big crowd on the second deck of the parking building. Small Formula One, Can-Am and saloon

cars repeated a circuit delighting the audience with crashes and near misses. Mr Robin Loader, winner of the International Carved Leather Pictures competition in the United States in 1981-82, demonstrated his skill. On display were several finished works of western scenes carved in leather, and a carved leather bottle-holder.

An Invercargill porcelain artist, Mrs Lyn Johnstone, transformed a bare white plate into something like Royal Worcester in five minutes using a “wipe out” technique. She also painted a bunch of tulips on to a plate by putting paint on both brush and fingers. Mrs Johnstone said she used to paint on canvas before taking up china painting four years ago. Portraits are her specialty but she takes a sketch book with her to Kew Gardens in Invercargill to get ideas for her other works.