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The most popular of Preston’s works are probably her hand-coloured woodcuts of flowers, which gave a dramatic modern look to a traditional women’s subject; the most critically admired, modernist oils like Flying over the Shoalhaven River (1942); the most original – if least appreciated – her late naïve 'Aboriginal’ images that rejected both academic and modernist styles for an indigenous Australian modernism. In works like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (1950), Expulsion (1955) and The Superimposed Feet (1959) the biblical founders of the human race are Australian Aborigines (and the angel who expels them from Eden is white). She said: "My desire to keep running will never go away, but the coaching helps. I suppose I'm having their lived experience, when they get their marathon I think it’s amazing, but it also gives me a different sense of achievement - I'm doing it myself, they’re doing it and I'm getting some of their pleasure from that." Pita said: "He said he knew what he was doing and he knew if he had said that I couldn't, then I would actually get to the start line and do one again. I thought, you're a bugger for doing that." Visit Inspirations 10,000sq ft award-winning retail superstore, based at the Capitol Centre, Preston. Inspirations Craft Store, Preston (Craft Retailer of the Year – North West) supplies papercrafts, Hunkydory Crafts, stamps, Cricut and Cuttlebug merchandise. Inspirations were the winner of “Craft Retailer of the Year (North West)” at the Craft, Hobby & Stitch British Craft Awards 2013 and they now have a brand new fabric and knitting department that includes the latest quilting and patchwork goodies.

The pair went on to take on the Preston Guild races which take place every 20 years and completed a 5k, 10k, 10-mile and half marathon. Unfortunately our store having to close during the pandemic restrictions has meant a change in how people shop, with more and more people choosing to get their craft goodies online. The reduction in customers coming in store sadly means we are not able to continue to keep the shop open. I do have a disability now and I'll always have a disability because I have too much titanium keeping my leg together, on a daily basis if I'm sat down for too long, it's about managing the pain." Pita said. I stood on the start line and I thought - you’re a bloody bugger - because you know how much this is going to hurt," she said. After her accident in March 2019, Pita's next race was set for November that year. She recalled an 'amazing' consultant who told her she would 'never race again'.Her son, Jake, had recently finished school and the pair set themselves the target of completing a couch to 5k to lose weight, which they completed. She was often staying up until the early hours of the morning working and soon found herself two stone overweight. It brought lots and lots of people together," Pita said, "From there, you just naturally progress your running community, your experience with different people grows, you join running clubs and get involved with cross country."

It is with great sadness that we have made the difficult decision to close our much-loved Inspirations Store at the Capitol Centre, Preston. Property Sales Data For Inspirations Cardcraft Ltd, Unit 1-3, Capitol Trade Park, Winery Lane, Walton-le-Dale, PRESTON, PR5 4ARAt Inspirations Craft Store you will find papercrafts galore, including the complete range from Hunkydory Crafts. There are tons of stamps, the largest collection of Cricut and Cuttlebug merchandise, as well as a brand new fabric and knitting department that includes the latest quilting and patchwork goodies. The mum added: "Being able to put one foot in front of the other is something to be celebrated, it doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are, what matters is you carry on running." Out of all property types, Detached property has always been the most valued and flats are the lowest in valuation. We plan to close the store in late March and until then our usual business hours will continue. Please come and see us as we’ll be offering large discounts on all items and hope you will come take advantage of these savings.

Through fundraising, support from local councils and 'amazing' support and donations from the community, Cuerden Valley parkrun gained a lot of kudos and had over 33,000 registered runners that used the trail as their home run. Our shop has won many awards over the years and been a focal point for the craft community, with visitors coming from all over the country and beyond. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past 13 years and we are sincerely grateful for your custom and for making our jobs here at Inspirations incredibly enjoyable. We will miss chatting with you, seeing you at our popular workshops and demos, and most of all helping you with your craft projects. painter, printmaker and teacher, was born on 29 April 1875 at Port Adelaide, elder daughter of David McPherson (also spelt Macpherson), a marine engineer, and Prudence Cleverdon, née Lyle. In Sydney from 1884 Rose attended Fort Street Girls’ School and had private art classes with W. Lister Lister . At Melbourne in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery School, possibly after lessons from Berthe Mouchette [although the Miss Macpherson listed in a catalogue of Mouchette’s students’ work has been identified by Mary Eagle as another Miss Macpherson; nevertheless, Rose McPherson and Mouchette would later have studios in the same Adelaide building]. In 1894 her father was admitted to the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and Rose joined her sister and mother in Adelaide. She completed her Melbourne studies in 1896-98 then returned home, studied at the Adelaide School of Design, leased a studio and began teaching. In 1904 she left for Europe with a former student, Bessie Davidson , took classes at the Munich Government Art School for Women then moved to Paris. She had an academic still-life painting hung in the Old Salon in 1905.

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More recently, Pita took on a half marathon in North Yorkshire and hopes to get the personal best she's been working for at her third attempt at the Lakeland 50 next year. Pita started running after 'a real slog' studying for her Masters degree while working full-time as a child protection social worker. By then, Pita said running became "a really cathartic moment of the day" that she would look forward to as it allowed her to be in her own "headspace and helped process some really complicated work things".

Some people run to lose weight, some people run to push themselves, others run to look after their mental health; while many of us tend to look at people running in the rain and think 'how on earth can you do that?'

Preston died at Mosman on 28 May 1963. Her reputation was high in her lifetime and has remained so. She is still the only woman artist most Australians know.