Exhibiting artist in oil, watercolour and drawing. She was born in Victoria, daughter of art teacher Walter Rowbotham and his wife Evelyn. She trained at Perth Technical College under her father and in 1944 obtained an Art Teachers Diploma and the following year a Diploma in Commercial Art.
In 1949 she submitted two oil paintings, Sunday Afternoon and Kelmscott, in the Claude Hotchin Art Prize. In 1950 she exhibited a watercolour, A Road in Denmark, in the Art Competition at Art Gallery of Western Australia. In the late1960s she attended Wimbledon School of Art London and graduated with the qualification NDD (National Diploma in Design).
She taught art for twenty-one years at Perth Technical College 1946-1967. She held two exhibitions in Perth with her father, known in the family as the Father and Daughter Shows.
After her retirement she exhibited in many regional exhibitions regularly winning prizes including; Albany Art Competition Painting Prize 1973, Drawing Prize 1973, Shire Prize 1975, Shire Prize 1976, Shire Prize 1978, Bunbury Art Competition – Painting 1973, Painting 1975. Manjimup Art Competition – Painting Prize 1973, Drawing Prize 1975, Portrait Prize 1979.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
