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Bayliss, Joan Janet, b. 1925
Bayliss pioneered use of art in psychology for treating children with behavioural problems. She also raised money for Alzheimer's research via her artwork.
Bennett, Portia Mary, b. 1898
Portia Bennett trained at the Royal Art Society School under Dattilo Rubbo and then at the Julian Ashton Art school where she was friendly with ...
Chambers, Judith May, b. 1937
Printmaker and resident of Perth, Western Australia.
Clifton, Romola, b. 1935
Romola Clifton was born in 1935. She was educated at St Hilda's and the Slade School in London 1953-55. She became a full-time artist following ...
Currie, Betsey, b. 1905
Painter and teacher who had a long association with J. W. R. Linton and worked at the Linton Institute of Art. She changed her name ...
Erickson, Frederica Lucy, b. 1908
Wildflower painter, botanical illustrator, author, naturalist and teacher whose many honours included the Order of Australia (Gen Div.) for service to the arts and an ...
Forbes-Smith, Ira Eleanor Elizabeth, b. 1920
Designer of textiles, painter, china painter, leatherworker and art teacher. Forbes-Smith showed regularly with the Western Australian Women Painters and Applied Arts Society. In the ...
Fry, Ella J. Osborn, b. 1916
Ella Fry was painter, teacher, printmaker and pianist whose prints had a dark, almost surrealist quality reflecting the uncertain times in which she lived. She ...
Greenhalgh, Audrey, b. 1903
A largely self-taught artist best known for her oil paintings of natural subjects, most often the sea. Her interest in abstraction meant her work in ...
Grey-Smith, Helen Dorothy, b.
Successful Western Australian textile artist, designer and painter (and husband of artist Guy Grey-Smith) whose clients included the Perth Council Chambers and the Reserve Bank ...
Hammond, Mary, b. 1928
A painter, pastellist and sketcher, in 1992 the Age reported Hammond as saying, "I am not interested in painting decorative pictures. I always want to ...
Hawkins, Sheila, b. 1905
Mid 20th century painter, illustrator and author. War artist and children's book illustrator.
Lakides, Amy, b. 1919
Well known and influential china painter, painter on silk and interior designer. Her first lessons in porcelain painting were under Flora Landells.
Landells, Flora Annie Margaret, b. 1888
Flora Landells was born in 1888 in Adelaide. She was a successful painter and potter and did much to encourage an interest in pottery in ...
Lightly (nee Allen), Mavis Elizabeth, b. 1911
West Australian artist
Livesey, Alice Mary, b. 1928
Alice Mary Livesey was born in 1928. Sh was a china painter, potter, watercolorist, printmaker and teacher. She exhibited with the Western Australian Women's Society ...
McPherson, Rae Amelia, b.
Commercial artist and illustrator. She also became a noted miniaturist. Harris became a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, of ...
Miller, Marie
Weaver Marie Miller, who arrived from England in 1915, started weaving in 1945 and built up a network of clients all over Australia. She taught ...
Morrow, Dorothea Turner
Active member of the Western Australian Women's Society of Fine Arts and Crafts in the 1950s-1970s. Morrow wrote 'A Place by the River'.
O'Harris, Pixie, b. 1903
Pixie O'Harris was a mid 20th century painter, children's book illustrator, muralist, cartoonist and writer. It was the birth of her third daughter that prompted ...