Introduction

Early life

British and French schools

Beggars

Wonderful contrast

Silk merchant

Silks for cheongsams

Paris of the Orient

Japanese invasion

Sent to camps

Coming to Australia

Mao's time

Drab Sydney

Sydney Girl's High School

Alone at school

Going to the US

Chasing GIs

The National Art School and Shellito

Escaping through the window

Expelled from NAS

Wanting to be an artist

In New York

By boat to New York

Sri Lanka

Influenced by art trends

Picasso's Guernica

Influential teachers

How long in New York

Meeting Jack

Go to Europe

Go to Israel

Whirlwind romance

Back to Australia

Marrying Jack

Fashion drawings in Sydney

Tanya

Working for Vogue Australia

Mark Foy's

The discipline of the illustrator

Visit to China

Bicycling around China

Trip to the Kimberleys

Well known but dead artist

Companions on first trip

The Bungle Bungle ranges

Impact of Australian landscape

Regular visits to outback Australia

Travel companions

Women are quieter

Guys' attitude

Girls make the tea

Looking for rock art

Travelling with the family

Always sketching

Drawing the portraits

Abstraction, representation or indigenous

Not crossing over

Can't be them

Alice Springs

Encaustic wax

Portrait of person in coffin

Many people use it now

Quarrelling with Jack

Making something of a bad one

Imagery and abstraction

Real landscapes

Tell me where I can go

Scratching into encaustic

A weathered effect

Can't bear bright colours

Where the colour palete comes from

Pigments

Rub into pigments

Landscape or portraiture

Portraits from fashion

The Emily Kame Kngwarreye portrait

Stalking subjects

Money under her bum

Almost missed Emily

Europeans buying aboriginal works

Flying with Germans

Locusts

The story tree

Drawings say everything

Signed whatever she told me

Rapport with subjects

Don't take commissions

Already a friendship

The Helen Garner portrait

The Irina Baronova portrait

The Ballets Russes

Irina's funeral

Very strong, independent women

Portrait process

Portrair starts with drawing

Irina's class in Melbourne

A cultural connection

Speak Russian

Favorite portrait

Painting of Jack

Working with Tanya

Tanya's husband

A self portrait

Margaret Olley

Each morning when I wake up I put on my mother's face

Painting yourself

My Tatar grandmother rarely gave me gifts

Late starter in painting

Prize finalist

Importance of awards

Most meaningful prize

Just like winning

The genre paintings

The predellas

Strongly pictorial work

The current work

Painting Tanya

Tanya's illness

Such an intimacy

Featuring Tanya in new work

Any particular field of work stand out

Surprises at drawing stage

Reinventing oneself

Passion for painting

Thank you

Credits