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I was one of a large family, eight children, and we all used to settle down in father’s studio and lie on our tummies and draw … how we must have annoyed him, I hate to think now, always asking for more paint or ‘Is this all right?’ or ‘Is that all right?’

From an interview with Nora Heysen,
8 November 1965
Oral History Collection

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Eggs 1927
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Eggs 1927
oil on canvas; 36.6 x 52.5 cm
signed and dated lower right
Gift of Howard Hinton 1934
The Howard Hinton Collection
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW

I remember painting eggs at one time because Lambert had painted one egg and everyone was trying to do eggs. I thought I’d paint a whole bowl of eggs, not just one egg but I’d do a whole lot of eggs.

From an interview with Nora Heysen,
8 November 1965
Oral History Collection