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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 29 May 2012 13:08:50 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Press</title><subtitle>Press</subtitle><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/atom.xml"/><updated>2011-09-20T18:54:05Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>everyONEcounts - art gives hope to abandoned newborns</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2011/9/5/everyonecounts-art-gives-hope-to-abandoned-newborns.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2011/9/5/everyonecounts-art-gives-hope-to-abandoned-newborns.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2011-09-05T12:37:35Z</published><updated>2011-09-05T12:37:35Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[Lara Mellon’s passion for life, her love of people and the earth, and her generosity of spirit is evident within moments of chatting with her. What sets her apart, however, are two things: a commitment to channel this passion constructively and refusing to be overwhelmed and incapacitated in the face of constant tragedy.

So when Michael Sutcliffe, city manager of Durban, stated that if even 1 000 sex workers fell pregnant during the World Cup it would be a minor problem in a city of four to five million, Lara knew she had to do something.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Our New Beginnings</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2010/9/2/our-new-beginnings.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2010/9/2/our-new-beginnings.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2010-09-02T12:52:00Z</published><updated>2010-09-02T12:52:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[When my paintings were exhibited overseas, I felt a wonderful sense of accomplishment

Artist LARA MELLON, 41, lives in Durban North, KZN with her husband, Patrick, and their two children, Andrea, 20, and James, 16.

I started painting 10 years ago and I’ve never looked back. I have always been an artist in my heart but never had the time to pick up a paintbrush and start painting. But in 2000, after giving a complex answer to one of the directors at work, he eyeballed me from over his glasses and said slowly, “Paint. Paint. Paint.” I understood exactly what he meant. I had to stop overcomplicating things and get on with it. So that is what I did.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Link between humans and earth</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/5/1/link-between-humans-and-earth.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/5/1/link-between-humans-and-earth.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2009-05-01T12:59:00Z</published><updated>2009-05-01T12:59:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[The intimate connection between humans and the earth is the foundation stone of all Lara Mellon’s work. “I grew up on a small farm [outside Springs on the East Rand] hence my strong connection to the earth, which is also a strong focus of my work at the moment,” the artist tells me when we meet at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Durban. “My work is all about connections between the earth and people.” Mellon, who lives in Durban North with her husband, Patrick, and children, Andrea and James, works mainly in mixed media and oil on canvas, although right now she’s concentrating on photo collages on an oil painted landscape base. “The people in the pictures are placed in such a way that it appears that they are emerging from the paint,” she explains. “The mood that comes across in Africa in all its uniqueness, its vibrancy.”]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Communication through Art at Kizo Gallery Gateway</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/3/27/communication-through-art-at-kizo-gallery-gateway.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/3/27/communication-through-art-at-kizo-gallery-gateway.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2009-03-27T13:00:00Z</published><updated>2009-03-27T13:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[Kizo at the Gateway mall is abuzz with artists, art lovers, socialites, friends and family. People hover in front of the diverse works of the five participating local artists - Lara Mellon, Maggie Strachan, Joan Martin, Lesley Magwood-Fraser and Rene Leslie – chat, exchange opinions, sip wine and debate the issues of the day.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Scratching the Surface</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/3/26/scratching-the-surface.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2009/3/26/scratching-the-surface.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2009-03-26T13:40:00Z</published><updated>2009-03-26T13:40:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[FIVE respected Durban artists show their latest works at the KlZO Gallery at Gateway in an exhibition titled Scratching the Surface which will be opened at 6pm today.

It's strange that these artists are respected by Durban art-lovers, and that many collectors buy their work, yet they are not represented in nationally important public collections, or national galleries or museums. 'To get there, they perhaps have to extend themselves to go beyond scratching the surface.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Shadow and light art exhibition</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/12/shadow-and-light-art-exhibition.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/12/shadow-and-light-art-exhibition.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2007-10-12T13:59:00Z</published><updated>2007-10-12T13:59:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[EARTH, Light and Spirit, an exhibition of works by Durban-based artists Maggie Strachan, Lara Mellon and Roz Cryer, recently opened at artSPACE Durban and will run until Saturday 13 October 

The three artists work together regularly sharing ideas, feedback, support and encouragement from each other.

"We are each, in our individual ways, inspired by our perceptions of the Earth, by the way it is transformed by Light and Shadow, and by the Spirit which infuses it." said Lara Mellon.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Artists explore light and shadow</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/12/artists-explore-light-and-shadow.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/12/artists-explore-light-and-shadow.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2007-10-12T13:45:00Z</published><updated>2007-10-12T13:45:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[EARTH, Light and Spirit, an exhibition of works by Durban-based artists Maggie Strachan, Roz Cryer, and Lara Mellon (from Durban North), recently opened at artSPACE Durban and runs to Saturday, 13 October.

The three artists work together regularly sharing ideas, feedback, support and encouragement with each other.

"We are each, in our individual ways, inspired by our perceptions of the earth, by the way it is transformed by light and shadow, and by the spirit which infuses it, " agree the artists.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>An interesting three-way</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/5/an-interesting-three-way.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/10/5/an-interesting-three-way.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2007-10-05T14:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-10-05T14:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[Combining industrial grit with conceptual gusto is artSPACE durban, the first gallery in town in a long while to eschew the suburbs and defy convention by setting up shop in the industrial surrounds of Umgeni Road, next door to landmark establishment Waste Centre.

The bold move has paid off handsomely - the gallery has rapidly built a reputation for its stalwart championing of iconoclastic contemporary art and maintains an impressive turnover of quality exhibitions.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Great artists do us proud</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/9/5/great-artists-do-us-proud.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/9/5/great-artists-do-us-proud.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2007-09-05T14:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-09-05T14:00:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[Says Lara: "For as long as I can remember, I have sketched, drawn, painted and been involved in the creative process. Although not coming from a creative family, at the loss of my baby sister I was said not to have left my mother's side. Pen in hand and armed with whatever was available to draw on, I sketched first in church where I was not allowed to make a peep ... and haven't stopped since.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Gallery glimpses</title><id>http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/9/2/gallery-glimpses.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.laramellon.co.za/press/2007/9/2/gallery-glimpses.html"/><author><name>Owner</name></author><published>2007-09-02T14:10:00Z</published><updated>2007-09-02T14:10:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-ZA"><![CDATA[DURBAN has a wide range of fine and varied art on view and among the more exciting exhibitions currently to be seen is that at Gallery 415.

Situated at 415 Umgeni Road, the gallery presents 777, an exhibition of work by seven of Durban's best young illustrators.]]></summary></entry></feed>
