Artist and china painter who was a student at Perth Technical School under J. W. R. Linton and also of Flora Landells at her Maylands School of Art. Cotton was a member of the West Australian Society of Arts exhibiting: a batik shawl, watercolours of hovea, kangaroo paws, templetonia and donkey orchids and four pieces of china painting in 1927. A critic wrote, “[a]lthough rather crowded, the display of china was good and particularly as all the artists chose flowers or birds as their motifs.”
In the 1928 annual exhibition Cotton exhibited figure studies in charcoal, two brooches and two dishes with china painting of roses and waratahs. In 1931 she took part in the exhibition of pottery and china painting organised by Landells in the Industries Hall in Perth. Cotton also exhibited with the Western Australian Women’s Society of Fine Arts and Crafts. In a report of the annual exhibition in 1944 the reviewer wrote, “[t]here is not so much china painting as usual but two lovely examples are a plate by Mrs G. A. Nicholls and a bowl by E. Cotton.”
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
