Auckland artist wins Tauranga Art Gallery prize
Ayesha Green. Photo: Supplied.
Auckland artist Ayesha Green has won the 2021 Rydal Art Prize.
As the second recipient of the bi-annual award run by Tauranga Art Gallery in partnership with Seeds Trust, Ayesha receives $25,000 and an opportunity to develop an exhibition in Tauranga Art Gallery’s 2022 programme.
The Rydal Art Prize was established in 2019 to acknowledge an artist who has made a substantial contribution to contemporary painting.
A non-acquisitive award, the Rydal Art Prize seeks to celebrate the vitality that painting continues to have within the diverse contemporary art field in New Zealand.
Harvested tomatoes by Kat Ludlam
As the majority of gardeners in America are planting their seeds and enjoying time in their gardens, many of us are cooped up in our houses, snow falling outside, as we continue to pour over seed catalogs and dream of warm weather. Living in a short-season/cold climate might make you feel like you can’t grow tomatoes without a greenhouse. We used to think that ourselves. We live in the high-altitude Rockies, where we have a 10-12 week growing season frost-to-frost, and our nights during the summer regularly dip down to the 40s Fahrenheit. But over the years we have learned through trial and error, and ideas from others, that it is absolutely possible to grow and enjoy tomatoes from a short-season/cold climate garden without the use of a greenhouse.