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The woman who smelled beauty in the Yarra valley.
All it began during the latter years of the 19th century, when many Australian landscape painters sought out areas close to Melbourne, in which to paint the Australian bush. Among them, landscape artist Clara Southern. With her husband they settled in cottage ‘Blythe Bank’, just on the hill above a river. From that distant time, Warrandyte has also become famous as a tourist destination. Here she lived when life was not easy for a woman that was a real pioneer of our past. The name ‘Bertha’s Cottage’ comes from that original tenant who lived in the cottage, from 1924 until her death in 1979. Her new home lord look forward to welcoming you, to enjoy Bertha’s Cottage (335 Warrandyte-Ringwood Rd, Warrandyte, VIC – 3113).
In 1907, landscapes of this beauty with reddish fair hair were awarded a prize in the fine arts section of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work. She was born on a October day at Kyneton (Victoria). Third child of a farmer, CLARA SOUTHERN attended the Minerva Academy for girls, showing special aptitude for drawing. She also enrolled in Melbourne at Madame Mouchette’s studio and during four years studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.
Her subjects were mainly still life and landscapes. With her husband they lived at Blythe Bank (Warrandyte), along the Yarra valley, where they built a cottage and a studio. Her sisters (also a painter), both lived near by. In this special land she produced work full of charm. Looking her paintings, you to can admire the area where she remained until her dead. An Old Bee Farm (held by the National Gallery of Victoria), is one of her better works. Where you can see her work? National Gallery of Victoria and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
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