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You could only do one skim of paint. You couldn’t 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
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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

Everyone told me about the colour in the tropics and there wasn’t 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