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You
could only do one skim of paint. You couldnt cope with a heavily
painted canvas travelling around in jeeps. The conditions were tough
and your paintings almost went mildewed overnight up in that climate.
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
25 August 1994
Oral History Collection
 
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Cypher Officer (Section Officer Jean Ewing)
1945
pastel
with pencil; 55.2 x 33 cm
dated lower left
Collection: Australian War Memorial
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Everyone told me
about the colour in the tropics and there wasnt any colour. It was drab,
altogether drab. You might see a hibiscus flower every now and again.
But where was the colour?
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
25 August 1994
Oral History Collection
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