Quiet Achiever

H&G DOMESTIC BLISS

- Anna Johnson

When you are the daughter of a famous artist, the apple does not in our history for women who painted. fall far from the tree. In the case, The chauvinism of art schools locally was of Nora Heysen, a devotion to realism, tonal supplanted by a generation of women who subtlety and the Australian landscape weds went to Europe to paint and be mentored. her to the well-known paintings of her father Many came back blazing. Although Nora Hans. However, unlike dear Dad, Nora had an was no Modernist in the vein of Proctor's eye for strangely haunting portraits and still or Preston, she was a stayer. lives that leaned into contemporary life.