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These observations are transformed into pieces like A lemon tree is a wonderful thing<\/em>, a print Gorring regards as particularly special.<\/p>\n \u201cThe story goes way back to about the 90s and it\u2019s a picture that I\u2019ve made up from memory of my husband sitting in a chair and his godfather,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re just chewing the fat and they\u2019re both smoking and in the background is a little old slab hut.<\/p>\n \u201cOut of the blue the godfather would say things like \u2018a lemon tree is a wonderful thing\u2019, just throw that into the conversation randomly and the two people in it are both gone from this world now so it\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n Although she\u2019s been printing and sculpting since the 1970s, Gorring only moved to Allendale seven years ago, aptly naming her studio to reflect the fun, unique pieces within.<\/p>\n \u201cIt also comes from my love of na\u00efve, raw, outsider art,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a bit of an outsider on the fringe and I always have been in terms of making the things I make. They\u2019re not mainstream and I didn\u2019t want a mainstream name.\u201d<\/p>\n The Palace of Wonder and Creative Abandon is open from 11.30am to 5pm Friday to Sunday. For more information, search @palace_of_wonder on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE ordinary becomes art at Allendale based creative Jackie Gorring\u2019s Palace of Wonder and Creative Abandon. Taking inspiration from the quiet, natural world around her, Gorring specialises in relief printmaking and sculpting. \u201cI also do a lot of drawing, I sew, I knit. I\u2019m just a maker and that\u2019s what I do, that\u2019s what I […]<\/p>\n