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Todays post is about an Australian artist Margaret Olley who just passed away not long ago.
Margaret Olley 24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011. Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of Joseph Olley and Grace (née Temperley). She attended Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years and was so focused on art that she dropped one French class in order to take another art lesson. In 1941, Margaret commenced classes at Brisbane Central Technical College and then moved to Sydney in 1943 to enroll in an Art Diploma course at East Sydney Technical College where she graduated with A-class honours in 1945. 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Olley
IF Margaret Olley was not Australia's greatest artist she was certainly the most loved. Her close friendships were legion and ranged from her cleaning woman to the highest in the land. In addition, she was an artist of the people and in 1997 was officially designated a national treasure.
Olley's greatest human passions were for her fellow artists, peers (sadly all dead now) who included Sidney Nolan, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Lloyd Rees, Donald Friend, Margaret Preston and Ian Fairweather. Her admiration was based on respect for their work and their courageous industry.
She was - at least in her work - in no way egotistical and never sought to emulate those revered artistic figures of the second half of the 20th century. She held her first exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1948 and exhibited at least annually in all main cities in the country for more than 60 years.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/margaret-olley-an-artist-of-the-people/story-e6frg8n6-1226102339358





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