G.G. Rowley

[Pa] was almost shy of his own daughter, now

[Pa] was almost shy of his own daughter, now that she was Mrs Archibald Campbell. When Archibald said something one day about a tutor for the child when the time came, Pa went quiet. You can wish for too much, I thought. You can want so much, you lose your own children and grandchildren. (p.164)

I was the only one dry-eyed. That was what it was to belong to a place. To be brought undone by the music of the land where you'd been born. The loss as sharp a pain as mourning a lover. Us currency lads and lasses [=born in the colony] had no feeling like that about the land we called ours. It had no voice that we could hear, no song we could sing. Nothing but a blank where the past was. Emptiness, like a closed room, at our backs. (p.197)

Since 1983, Campbel

Since 1983, Campbell has developed a unique printing technique combining drawing and painting.... She draws each image with lead pencil and carves the drawing to produce an outline. The carved block is then meticulously painted in layers of watercolour. This process may take weeks or months depending on the intricacy of the design and the painterly effects required. After the painted block dries, the surface is sprayed with water and a single print taken from the block. Both the print and the painted block are exhibited. [...] It creates a print surface which is textured and painterly, with modulated colors and speckled textures, unlike the surface of ukiyo-e prints, which are noted for areas of flat color. Nonetheless, her work is akin to the elaborate and meticulous production process of a Japanese woodblock print. (p.88)