Watercolour and oils painter who had been a student at Perth Technical School from about 1914. She took the five year art course under J. W. R. Linton and David Edgar. In 1921 she stood in as art teacher at Perth Technical School when Linton was on leave. She taught at Claremont Technical School when Cecil Ross married in 1927 until the classes were closed in the 1930s. She also taught at St Hilda’s Girls School, for five years.
In 1924 Sanders exhibited four pieces of china painting with the West Australian Society of Arts. She married and later took up her art work again, exhibiting with the Perth Society of Artists. In 1947 her entries were Still Morning and Trees, in 1948 Anemones and in 1949 Autumn Morning. She and Amy Harvey had a joint exhibition at the Claude Hotchin Art Gallery in 1947. In 1949 she also submitted the oil paintings The Brook, National Park and The Maltings to the Claude Hotchin Art Prize. Her 1952 entries were watercolours Longreach Bay, Rottnest and Seafront Rottnest. In 1953 she left Perth to live in Launceston where she joined the art society and exhibited. She moved to Melbourne eighteen months later and joined the Victorian Art Society and exhibited with them.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
