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Kath Bertrand Visual Artist
Kath Bertrand is a painter and ceramic artist. She completed her Diploma in Visual Arts at Tafe Queensland in Brisbane in 2019. She lives in Moreton Bay Queensland and enjoys making in her small studio by the sea.
Kath has always been interested in painting particularly watercolour, and has always been a keen maker. She was encouraged to paint by her grandmother on painting trips in the Blue Mountains and around Mosman Bay. She lived in a house of colour growing up where her mother loved to create interesting interiors.
After working as a social worker, Kath studied visual arts at Brisbane Tafe Southbank.
She lives in Moreton Bay outside Brisbane, and has been developing her skills in painting, and ceramics.
Kath is a current member of both the Redcliffe Art Society and the Redcliffe Pottery Group. Kath has been selected as a finalist a number of times for the RAS Exhibition of Excellence being 3rd overall in 2015, and was fi
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Ruth Collet 1909-2001
Painter, printer and illustrator Ruth Collet (née Salaman) was born into an Anglo-Jewish family of Ashkenazi descent (who had migrated to Britain from either Holland or the Rhineland in the early 18th century) in Barley, Hertfordshire, England in 1909. Her father was the botanist Redcliffe N. Salaman (1874-1955), and her mother was the Hebrew scholar Nina Ruth Davis (1877-1925). Following her mother's death, her father married Gertrude Solomon, niece of the painter Lily Delissa Joseph. Among Ruth Collet's cousins were the artists Michael Jonathan Salaman and Merula Salaman (later Guinness).
As Ruth Salaman, she studied drawing and painting at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks and Philip efternamn Steer (1927-30). Before her marriage to musician Robert Collet, Salaman was much associated with the East London Group, afterwards they lived for several years in Paris, where she studied etching at Atelier 17 beneath Stanley William Hayter (1932-
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Redcliffe Salaman
English botanist
Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (12 September 1874 – 12 June 1955) was a British physician, biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free potatoes, Jewish nationalist, race scientist and key figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century.[2][3] His groundbreaking 1949 book The History and Social Influence of the Potato established the history of nutrients as a new literary genre.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Salaman was born in Kensington, London, and was the ninth of fifteen children born to Sarah (née Solomon) and Myer Salaman. His father was a wealthy merchant who traded in ostrich feathers at the height of the plume trade.[4][5] The Salaman family were Ashkenazi Jews,[6] who according to Salaman, migrated to Britain from either Holland or the Rhineland in the early 18th century.[7]
He was educated at St Paul's School, London, where he studied