Painter and art student at Perth Technical School under J. W. R. Linton. She exhibited an oil painting titled A Suburban Entrance in 1903 and a design for a frieze with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1908. These students of the early years appeared to have had quite a lot of social interaction. Many were young adults. The School’s 1903 annual report notes the following: “On the social side, the year has been as successful as in schoolwork proper, unbroken harmony being maintained between staff and students, and all working strenuously to maintain and increase the prestige of the school. The crowning social function was the Second School Dinner, held at the Fountain Caf_, when his Lordship the Bishop of Perth took the chair.” In 1912 Beel’s exhibit was described as “faithfully and artistically portrayed her house in South Perth and [she] has given her trees and shrubs that typical Australian colouring that is so often discarded in favour of more vivid shades.” Beel exhibited watercolours in the 1913 exhibition of the West Australian Society of Arts. She does not figure in later exhibitions, which suggests that she may have married and changed names or moved.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
