Margaret Olley...add flowers to my life

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I thought I would share with you the works of the later Margaret Olley, a prolific Australian artist who mainly painted still life. She was an Australian National Treasure who had a colourful personality.

She is one of he many inspirations to my Life List Challenge #38: 'Add flowers to my life'.


At her final exhibition she summed up her life:

''Everyone has a thing they love to do in life - playing bridge, gardening, having children.

Mine is painting, where I celebrate life.''



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LOVE LOVE her paintings of flannel flowers. They remind me so much of the Edelweiss flowers I used to pick when I was a child on holidays in Austria.

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Margaret Olley and a portrait of herself by William Dobell which won the Archibald Prize in 1948.
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