Edith Rebecca Turnbull Ward was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, in 1888, which is where she studied art. In 1921 she married Richard Darton, who was killed in a riding accident shortly after their wedding.
After her husband’s death she moved to Perth, to live with her sister Ellen Hodgson. By 1931 she was a student of Flora Landells at her Maylands School of Art and exhibited in the 1931 exhibition organized by Landells in the Industries Hall in Barrack Street, Perth. When Lottie Lapsley, Mrs Irving died in 1936, Edith Darton taught china painting at the Young Women’s Christian Association. There is a lovely lustre compote/vase in a private collection in Perth. Her niece was Mattie Hodgson who ran a photographic studio.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2020
