Painter in oils and watercolours who had studied at Perth Technical School under J. W. R. Linton after her marriage and exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in the 1920s. Coghill’s entry in 1920 was commented upon as “a fine head of a typical Scot and a number of landscapes.” The landscapes were twenty-one watercolours of scenes and studies around Perth suburbs.
In 1922 Coghill’s entry was a single watercolour. Many of her subjects were drawn from around North Beach and Balcatta though in 1927 she must have visited South Africa as scenes in Johannesburg were exhibited that year. She was a council member in the 1920s and made a life member by the 1950s.
Coghill continued to exhibit showing with the Western Australian Women’s Society of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1939 in which year Charles Hamilton remarked that her watercolours were among the pictures he noticed. She exhibited oil paintings Tranquillity, Cannington and Calm Before the Storm in the Claude Hotchin Art Prize in 1949 and also exhibited watercolours in the Art Competition at the Art Gallery in 1950.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
