Welcome

Introduction

Studio pan

Artists in family

Family influence

Grandfather's African artifacts

Tribal art in the shed

Becoming interested in tribal art

Started something in me

Studying art with Jon Molvig

The Younger Artist Group

Seeds of abstract expressionism

Everything is part of what you become

The National Art School

Loved art school

Got so much out of art school

Response to Abstract Expressionism

Did not mix with male artists

Visiting New York

New York then France

First solo exhibition

Invited to have exhibition

Impact of Two Decades of American Art

Teacher at SCEGGS

Paintings could be big

Preliminary sketches

Don't use in a normal way

Pier 7

Scores of small works on studio wall

Allusions to ponds or escarpments

Offer something for the imagination

Going into the outback

Where could I hide

Drawing and thinking

Go in a bunch of artists

Like company

Apres work

Snooping around

Who was involved

Seeing the Bradshaw paintings

Painting over painting

Friendhips with Aboriginal artists

Hardly saw aboriginal people

When is a painting finished

The painting tells me

Time between starting and finishing

Taking chances and exploring with your work

Always going onward

Second generation abstract expressionist

Never thought I am

Taking it in your own personal direction

Being a woman makes us trail behind

Importance of living in a big city

Not wanting to be isolated

Residency at the Cité International des Arts

Loved living in Paris

A feast of people out of the Metro

Comeradeship with the Cité community

Loved meeting the people

Totally different cultures

Find things and use them

The great French artists

Arthur Boyd's house residency in Italy

On a bicycle to save my sanity

Boyd's paintings

Boyd's paints

A female sensitivity

Can now use pink

Difficulties as a woman artist

Being an artist as an artist

Pioneered my way through

Being an artist isn't being in a man's world

Closest friends

Elizabeth Cummings

Taking different paths

Different backgrounds

Intellectual or bookish

Everything becomes part of what you are

Margaret Olley as a child

Advice from Margaret Olley

Stop push and shove

Ian Fairweather

The best artist in Australia

Did his interest in abstraction rub off on you

The way he painted

Inspired by his life as a painter

That's what you had to do

Pertinent and sharp advice that modified your work

Wonderful criticism

Any phrase that was dead right

Appreciate it when a critic can really understand what you're doing

Talking about feeling and the painting takes off itself

Entire life's career documented

Interesting to see it unfolding

Recurring threads

Not enough to show connection between painting and scultpure

Parallels between paintings and sculptures

Painting comes out of the sculpture

An idea that grows

The approach to printmaking

Always a creative process

What the devil's going on here

Parallel with tribal art

Art made from soul

Destroy work

Don't like to keep what I don't like

Sculpture from palms

Zen and existentialism

Don't paint ideas

Any decisions that would be different

Life is a series of mistakes

Anything untouched in understanding your work

How do you do that

Thank you

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