Introduction

Her father

Influence in visual arts

Father sympathetic to career in art

Studying at the National Art School

Brisbane to the National Art School

Good mood of parents

Opening up a whole new world

Influential teachers

Godfrey Miller

Dorothy Thornhill

Seriousness of being a painter

Other good teachers

NSW Travelling Art Scholarship

The portfolio

Finishing Tech

Where did scholarship take her

Italy and Florence

Studying with Oskar Kokoschka

The School of Vision in Salzburg

Work from the models

Lolly and OK

Getting a lolly

Expressionist demeanour

Australian structured formal

A new approach

Formal study

Forence and the Academia

Working in Paris

Old master's influence

To Milan

Contemporary painters

All new contemporary art

Return to Australia

Different work to that in Sydney

Influence of the Field exhbition

Starting teaching

Wedderburn

The Australian bush

Looking for abush situation

Land for artists to build studios

A gift

How much land is there

Only own the house and studio

Other artists who share

The original artists

Interaction with neighbours

Social but separate

In the company of good artists

The growth of a community

The 1994 bushfire

Loss of a studio

Lasting the distance

Tours into the outback

The Kimberley

Singly and in groups

Painters interested in landscapes

Nourshing the work

A number of trips

The Pilbara

Absorbing the landscape

A day's timetable

Some work long hours

Working extremely hard

Pace less intense

End of day

Fowlers Gap

Commenting on each other's work

Painting on site or in studio

Studies first then studio

Usualy smaller paintings

Quintessentially Australian landscapes

Strong European influences

The first retrospective

A stock-take

Not good at making big jumps

Increasing degree of abstraction

The visual world

Memories of stuff seen

Anything different

Procrastination

Disciplined but not easy

Thank you

Credits